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I doubt Bloom would trade someone like Downs. Not in his DNA. I can see him exchanging one young player for another as you said if the player is 'blocked'.
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You know I maybe a 6 handicapper at local municipal golf playing white tees but put me on a country club course with water and sand and I'm shooting in low 90's. My golf game doesn't travel. Casas maybe playing in AA, but my guess is his skill set will travel all the way to major leagues. You've all seen it.
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Crap....looks like rain for 3 straight days...not good with 100% capacity allowed this weekend...bummer for the fans...
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My bad...sounds like they need a new GM.
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Boston weather Looks like 60% chance of rain at 7 pm and gets worse. Probably will be postponed. I can't handle another night without Sox baseball. I don't need back to back days off.
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Yeah, I thought his contract was structured much like Sale's.
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Here you go Kimmi PLAYERS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS 2021 Tax Payroll M. Betts 40 162 26 40 15 0 5 17 25 30 5 2 .247 .359 .432 .792 $30, 416, 667 28 years old $365M commitment Verdugo 46 171 31 50 8 1 6 20 15 23 3 0 .292 .353 .456 .809 $ 649,500 25 years old Price $15,000,000 Red Sox picking up $16,000,000
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Yep on Betts... Trout is one superstar in a horrible position. Because of his contract, Angels can't get plethora of help elsewhere. It's kind of sad, yeah I know he makes tons of money. He's playing for money. His team has no chance to make the playoffs. How was your day today, honey? We suck. I'm not having any fun. I can't even remember the second baseman that went to play for Seattle for big contract. How did that workout? Is he relevant at all today?
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Rays win again. You have to give them credit. Luxury tax payroll of $83M. Highest paid player makes $8.9M, second highest $6.5M, third highest $4.0M. Is their payroll low due to lack of revenue? Is their attendance low due to lack of 'star' names? It will be interesting to watch Bloom navigate Red Sox player management. I would think he did couple of back flips when told payroll budget was near the luxury tax but you can go over it from time to time. Couple of roundoffs for that bit of news.
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I would at least be sergeant at arms for Dalbec fan club. That said, if we have chance to make the playoffs, I'm all for doing what's necessary (except trading big prospect for a rental). If he needs to be platooned, so be it.
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Per MassLive The Red Sox optioned outfielder Franchy Cordero to Triple-A Worcester after Wednesday’s game, the team announced Thursday morning. Boston will need to make a corresponding roster move before Friday’s series opener against the Marlins. Cordero, who came over from the Royals in the Andrew Benintendi trade in February, has hit .179 (17-for-95) with one homer, six doubles and a .501 OPS in 34 games with the Red Sox this season. The 26-year-old has only started four of the club’s last 11 games, so the move is likely to get him more regular at-bats in the minors. Position player seems unlikely. They just sent down Chavis. Cora saying he needs work. Probably a pitcher coming up.
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Thanks...I did not know about the one year no trade rule...
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I'm with you on him....I've read some good stuff on him. Another Yankee.....
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Baseball has always been intriguing from numbers sense. We know how Bloom will run this organization. I always come up with STUPID ideas. My latest..... Can you put a major league team without a minor league affiliates if the league rules permit? My idea is you have 40 man roster and say maybe have a team in the independent league or beg minor league teams to borrow your players for a fee. You build a 26 man roster strictly through free agency. Can you save any money by limiting personnel side? As an example you have no need for scouts other than ones that scout major league talent. Are there enough savings to have a major league budget of say $250M? You draft players and give them $10K bonus and then trade them for a veteran. $8M per player for 26 players works out to $208M. You're GM and basically you scour available talent in major leagues. Sign free agents and acquire players via trades. Anyone have any idea how much it costs a major league team to scout and operate minor league affiliates? (I'm assuming it's just payroll, everything else is paid by the minor league team).
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Not advocating mind you, but if you are playing the percentages, you probably come out ahead by trading away high draft picks before they fail. We can't get much for Groome right now but maybe we could have in the year he was drafted. I'm advocating trading Groome his first year for say 3-1 deal with younger players coming back, not a veteran. Expand the chances of success. Trey Ball, who?
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I'm just not willingly to dismiss any players right now. Looks like Oakimey has proven track record hitting versus right handed pitchers. Assuming he's on our 40 man roster, why the hell not? Look under every rock to find a gem. Sometimes you're surprised. Maybe we should have signed someone like Moreland, a left handed hitter costing $2M or less. I think we have 4 hitters struggling year to date, Codero, Dalbec, Marwin and Renfroe. I'm not really wowed by Arroyo's bat. They all have reason for being on the roster. Do we do something when our 2-6 hitters drop off? Not saying they will. They are carrying the offense.
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Where can I donate to save baby eels? Doing my part to keep Dalbec playing baseball.
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If the team was set, ie a top 3 team with younger talent, and luxury tax was not an issue, then yes I would have signed Betts. But he was not going to be the difference maker with this bunch RIGHT NOW. Building a team is all about timing, bringing in several players at the same time. You many only have a window of couple of years. We're not there.
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I understand....
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Dodgers can afford to carry him both financially and baseball wise. I rather build a team around Devers than Betts. Mostly due to age and power. If we must have a $30M position player, it's Devers. He'll only be 26 (?) when he turns free agent.
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I'm with you on this.....it's just simple math. Dalbec is hitting about .300 vs left handed pitching. I believe Santana can play 1B and he's a switch hitter. At some point, I'm very willing to move away from 'player development' to team first for this team. Dalbec hitting vs righty issue can be addressed at another time. I think he has all of June to figure this out before he's platooned. It's incredible to me both Dalbec and Chavis struggle (Cordero also) with pitch recognition. I'd like to see Dalbec become more aggressive with first pitch. All three of these guys seem dead in water with 2 strikes, pitchers can expand the strike zone knowing they'll chase it. Not sure how to develop pitch 'recognition'. It's one thing to show Chavis what the high fastball outside the zone looks like with a replay, I think what's needed is a video of those pitches from his perspective, ie have him wear a camera looking at the pitchers. Maybe this can be done during special batting practice. Have someone throw nothing but boarderline high strikes zone pitches. Just a thought.
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I'm on the bandwagon for Duran but I've not said a word about Cass. We're in the playoff chase (yeah its early) right now. My only point is you do everything you can to elevate the team. That is the angle I'm coming from. Why not look at Duran or hell I don't care anyone else that MAY, MAY help us. Nope I don't want a rental to gut out any of the younger kids in our system. One thing I never thought of and many of you have is who is on our 40 man roster. We have some names on it for 'protection' only and very unlikely to contribute. So the pool of available talent is much smaller than 40. Although longer you get into 2021, some of those may be candidate for DFA'd. Maybe Moon can take a deep dive into our 40 man roster.
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funny.....when the game resumed, I doubt there were more than 100 fans.....all beer drinkers I'm sure.
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I just woke up (4:26 am) and had to check the score. Almost a 3 hour delay. I know that rain is unpredictable but they surely saw this coming. Umpire ("Looks like rain is coming, we'll go as long as we can but once we stop play, you guys have 90 minutes to resume play or I'm calling it"....wouldn't that be better?)
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Would they consider sending down Andriese to fully stretch him out (start in 3A) for starting depth?
