If Cy Young award was based soley on measurable numbers....bWAR, fWAR, PWARP, Deserved Run Average, WHY IN THE f*** DO WE EVEN HAVE PEOPLE
VOTE ON IT? Just give the damn thing to Kluber.
Okay, I'm losing my arguement.
Champman will not come to Red Sox for the simple reason he won't pitch anything but the 9th inning. My bad. He will want even more money to pitch in 'hold' situation. Got it.
If I'm the highest paid reliever in mlb, why would I care how I'm used? If my ego is that big, then I wouldn't sign me. It's not like the team is going to use me in low leverage situations.
There was a good article on how the spread between team revenue and luxury tax threashhold has widened over the last few years (obviously the TV revenue has skyrocketed).
It's time to put the limit to around $230M so we can sign Encarnacion and Chapman without luxury tax implications.
Great to see that we have two 'work horse' starters in Price and Porcello (200+ innings). I'm hoping E Rod joins the two next year. He is maturing in front of our eyes.
I'm not disparaging Porcello at all when I say he's the safe pick in my opinion.
His volume of work for 2016 is Cy Young worthy. I would be surprised if someone else wins it.
He's currently the highest paid at $11,325,000. Miller signed for 4 years @ $36M last year. $15M per year looks reasonable to me, especially for a reliever. I certainly wouldn't pay anymore for him.
Not very many teams can afford him and that should work in Sox's favor.
You are correct. I was just throwing out names.
I know that Moon has talked about Sox needing couple of relievers. We paid $13M for Koji and Tazawa. We need a bona fide left hander. Robbie Ross Jr and Robby Scott are decent #2 and #3 lefties. Why not just sign Chapman? That's who I would target.
I guess my question is do we have enough money AND tie up capital for Chapman (4 years @ $60M) and Encarnacion (5 years @ $100M) with pending FA looming in couple of years?
I'm not sure if Detroit can overtake the Orioles, they are 1 1/2 games back. Orioles also won the season series so they are 2 1/2 games back?
Detroit 4 vs Cleveland, 3 vs Atlanta
Baltimore 3 vs Toronto, 3 vs Yankees
Shaw simply has not hit since June. I think he is what he is doing right now. No more than a utility guy. He maybe of some value to a team like Oakland A's.
It appears Wright won't be back. There's really not much to say about him right now as we approach the playoffs.
I hope he recovers fully and gets back to 1st half performance next year. He really did struggle after the All Star break.
Well there's actually no thread titled A Realistic View at 2017....there's been numerous discussions about next year's roster. You can always just ignore.