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Please stop! Lets talk about the babe ruth trade.
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JBJ is definitely a keeper...but Xander will become FA AFTER 2019 season (3 yrs of arbitration coming up); Betts will become FA after 2020 season. JBJ will becomie FA after 2020 season but unlike Betts, he will have 4 yeas of arbitration beginning next year. Rick Porcello will also become FA after 2019 season. I'm not sure if the Sox can sign all of them. Both Hanley and Pablo will come off the books after 2019 season.
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I never understood why we didn't try to re-sign Beltre. He was the consummate baseball professional. Victor Martinez too. When can we start signing international players? July 1st?
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This is why I don't see DD making a play for White Sox pitchers. Now if they come to us with a reasonable player requests, then you'd have to listen. Even solidifying our bullpen looks not to be daunting as originally looked. We are in much better shape than last winter.
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http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/21/building-red-sox-bullpen-on-the-cheap-for-2017/ Here's a thought on how Sox can come up with a serviceable pen in 2017.
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Sox should be open to all options....the goal is to put 9 best players on the field, no? It maybe that we have 9 position players for 8 spots. DH could be handled by a committee at that point. Do I think that will happen? Probably not because DD in my opinion will take long hard look at EE. What we think really doesn't matter. We have fun with it. I try to listen carefully to what the management says and that's my starting point. I get the sense that Sox FO is pretty content with the starting rotation going into winter trades. Picking up the club option for Clay B appears certain based on what I've read so far. I just don't want to give up E Rod at this point in any trade proposals. FO does seem to be talking up Pablo's health. Are they talking themselves into thinking he can start at 3B? I just don't see it.
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Nope it's about Bogey + Moncada > Bogey + Iggy
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Only the Sox fans have no faith in #1 major league prospect. No one thinks he'll win the job in the spring training. He maybe a midyear call up. I'm okay with that because that means we will have him under team control for next 7 years. If you give me another $60M bust, I'd fire everyone that was responsible his signing.
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Thanks....
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Name a trade you would have made and let me know if you know for sure what you would had to give up..... Again the problem is DD lives in a real world.....you have no idea how may trades he looked at.....rest of us live in fantasy baseball world.....we just do.
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You will have to type slower so that I can understand what you just wrote.
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Yep, some fans would rather sacrifice the efforts of 24 players trying to win the Division. Love Monday morning quarterbacks. Let me say this. I don't give a f*** if Espinoza becomes a Hall of Famer. DD did what he had to do at the time to give 2016 Sox a chance to win the Division.
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As a 11 year old from Japan, Rico Petrocelli was my favorite American player.
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I like the long term potential of Moncada/Xander vs Iglesias/Xander left side of infield.....former won't cost us anything....Moncada with very minimum six more years of team control....BTW, isn't he #1 prospect in mlb?
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I'll pass on getting another Boras client...
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Tanaka has an opt out clause after 2017 season. Surely he can command better than his current salary of $22M. Yankees probably won't let that happen without a fight.
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Game 1 was a winnable game. We just didn't get the job done. It's a competition. One team wins, other loses. We won the Division. There will only be ONE happy team in the end. I'd like to think we accomplished a lot this year after two miserable years. I simply couldn't watch the team two years ago with exception of games when E Rod pitched. I watched almost every single game this year and I enjoyed it. I'm also thrilled that we have many young stars on this team and we still have pretty good farm system with future stars. How can you not be excited about Betts, Xander, Bradley, Beni? Our starting five is pretty well set for two more years. We maybe in a position to add an impact player without giving up much from current talent.
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Moon had the payroll pegged at $185M (including arbitration raises (which he thinks will be close to what is being predicted) and Clay's $13M option). We should have money to stack our bullpen. Say we sign a premium guy to go along with Kimbrel and re-sign Koji. That should give us pretty good pen.
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Porcello was better than both Sales and Quintana. Sox had two in top 13. Sox had three in top 40. (I think Pomeranz will be better next year after first full season as a starter) Sox had four in top 52 (would have been much higher if not for the injury) E Rod at 139 has a chance to crack top 50 next year in my opinion. He has good stuff. Our starting rotation looks pretty good. At some point, both Price and Porcello just needs to get through the playoff jinx. I'm beginning to wonder if its more prudent for us to not to resign Clay and use his $13M plus Tazawa's and Hanigan's money to sign a premium reliever.
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Xander and Bradley would be traded if they were playing for Tampa...
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I'm little confused as to what the Sox will do. My initial thought was when Moncada moves up, then Devers will also get a call up to AAA, thus replacing Moncada. I've read that Devers does not have to take backseat to Moncada defensively at 3B. His arm is just as strong and he may have better feet than Moncada. That said, many are projecting him to replace Hanley at 1B. I thought they were late pulling the trigger in moving Moncada to 3B. I have not read anything about Devers moving to 1B in a near future. Not from the club anyway.
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Rodriquez only had 130 days coming into 2016 so he'll be under team control for another 5 years. He'll be eligible for arbitration in 2018 and will have 4 years of arbitration, similar to JBJ. (one reason I have hard time thinking Sox will trade him) I would wait on Moncada until June of 2017 to call him up from minors (thus his service time will be less than 172 days at the end of 2017)....he will then be team controlled for 6 years beginning in 2018.
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Yep, that ones going to hurt for few more years as Cubs will be on the front page.
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Is the team good enough to stand pat and repeat? Probably That will give us another year to develop our young players in the minors. Swihart, Kopech, Groome, Moncada, Devers, Johnson, Owens, Dalbec, etc If we don't sign EE, we should have ample funds to acquire some bullpen help.
