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I was making a point that most of our position players are Pre-Arb guys and cheap.
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For 2025, we are only committed to 4 players, Devers, Yoshida, Story and Whitlock totaling $75M. We are $144M under luxury tax threshhold. Not sure why everyone here is depressed. C Teel/Wong 1B Casas 2B Yorke SS Mayer/Story 3B Devers OF Rafaela OF Duran OF Abreu OF Anthony DH Yoshida Go buy some pitching. See how easy it is?
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I am talking about Casas on 10/4/22 vs Abreu on 10/4/23. Do u not see the stat line for each on Sept call up?
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Good read on Boston Globe as season winds down. Bello has been our most consistent starter, only pitcher to log 150+ innings. Obviously he's hit a wall. Globe pencils him in as #3 starter. Noting Sox needs to find #1 and #2 via free agency or trade. Globe thinks Pivetta is a keeper as our #5 noting his resurgence after getting demoted. His big plus is his ability to eat up innings. Globe thinks Verdugo will be gone. His lack of production after the All Atar break, his lack of effort on a consistence basis and finally the fact that he is set to become a free agent in 2025. Globe is very high on Abreu. Cora loves his swing and his hustle. Lastly Globe wants the team to figure out what they have in Houck. Starter or reliever. Cora thinks he knows the answer but no one has asked.
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Well if you put it that way....I think I remember Cora saying Kike will be fine at short.
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There's some crazy talk about Anthony making his major league debut in 2024. Pretty unreal but hope it happens.
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Yep
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I was going off what Cora said about Abreu in the spring. Maybe I'm bit too optimistic. I just don't see much difference (offensively) between Verdugo and Abreu.
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Smaller than Casas? We handed him the 1B job.
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No way I'm trading Duran. He's a keeper. His athleticism is off the charts.
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Well the 'color commentator' on NESN said "he looks like an everyday player to me" after his second dinger in September. I have no doubt Abreu will hit 20+ home runs. Just for comparison of September call up numbers; GP AB R Hits 2B HR RBI BA OPS 27 76 11 15 01 05 12 .197 .766 Casas 22 58 09 21 05 02 11 .362 .983 Abreu I can make a stronger case that Abreu belongs more than Casas as of 10/4 And he can't play much worse defense, no? Nice job by Bloom for getting Abreu from the Astros for 2 month rental of Vaz (he didn't even start for them)
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I know I know....many of you aren't enthralled with Abreu, yet but Can he exceed Verdugo's numbers and save the Sox $6-8M? 80 Runs 36 Doubles 13 HR 54 RBI .753 OPS (He's ranked 5th out of 9 eligible right fielders in AL. He's closer to bottom 4 than the top 3, all over .803 OPS) Again, for me, it's like watching Beni and I lost interest in Beni long ago.
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Suppose we get two top line pitchers for 2024. SP 1 FA SP 2 FA SP 3 Bello SP 4 Pivetta (yes he's back in my grace) SP 5 Sale, Crawford, Houck Clos. Jansen Setup Martin BP Winckowski, Whitlock, Schreiber, Bernardino, others Do you think this lineup will score enough runs? 1 Rafaela/Duran CF 2 Devers 3B 3 Duvall, LF 4 Casas 1B 5 Story SS 6 Abreu RF 7 Yoshida DH 8 Reyes 2B 9 Wong C Combination of players, LF, CF, RF, 1B, DH, 6 total from Rafaela, Abreu, Duran, Casas, Yoshida, Duvall
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2019 team was predicted to win 95 games, just 2 below the Yankees and 3 below the Astros. My recollection was that pitching staff faltered. Wasn't that the spring we held back the starters? Extra month of work in 2018 was the reason given.
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This is how I look at it. Despite all the knives thrown at our favorite Japanese whipping boy-son, our outfield improved greatly offensively. Don't forget that many of you didn't think much of Verdugo's defense in 2022. 2023 OF & DH Yoshida Turner Duvall 87 games Duran 102 games Verdugo 137 games, OPS of .753 I think this group for 2024 maybe better Duvall 140 games (previous Gold Glove winner) Rafaela 150 games (future Gold Glove winner) Abreu 150 games (I will leave this site if Abreu can't hit above .750 OPS, that's how confident I am) Duran 150 games (his D improves by refining the stuff between the ears) Yoshida -DH primarily (I will miss his short strides...any analysis on how many steps he takes to get to a routine flyball?) And we shed some payroll....our defense improves simply by not playing Yoshida in left field
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Verdugo doesn't interest me anymore. Year 6. $8M for 2024? I rather watch Abreu. He has more power potential. $1M for 2024. The difference will cover Pivetta's pay or close to it. Or throw on top of what we're going to offer the Japanese pitcher. That's how you manage payroll. Verdugo looks like he's following Beni career path. Some say he has no trade value so keep him? If he's as good as many here thinks, he should have some trade value, no?
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I still like Dalbec.
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Devers raise is taken care by getting rid of Kike. At least that's how think. (Oh no, who will play shortstop?)
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Max Scherzer will cost Texas $23M, not the entire $43M. Mets will eat the $20M. Verlander will cost Houston $18M, not the entire $43M. Mets will eat the $25M.
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No, it did not. (I am agreeing with you Notin) Despite having these offensive prowess: .940 JD Martinez .939 Xander .916 Devers .915 Betts Sox finished 84-78, 12 games back of Rays for the last wild card spot. (two teams) Despite having opening day starting rotation of 34 GS E Rod 32 GS Porcello 25 GS Sale 22 GS Price 12 GS Eovaldi How did that work out? I certainly didn't enjoy it. Not after what we did in 2018. 12 f***ING GAMES BACK. THINK ABOUT THAT. (We are 9 games back right now). Now I have enjoyed watching Bello, Casas (after April), Duran, Wong and now Rafaela and Abreu. Our future along with Devers. We have $79M to spend according to Cot's. That goes up to $90M if Turner opts out as many thinks he will. Pivetta and Verdugo may cost as much as $15M, reducing the 'available' to $75M. I would hope we spend $30M and $20M on two starting pitchers and trade for third.
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Again, we should have been selling not standing still at trade deadline. Paxton and Duvall should have fetched us a solid reliever or two. No?
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You may not care but having $90M invested in 3 offensive players probably means no money left over for starting pitching. You can't come up with fantasy baseball team without budget. Is that how your fantasy league works?
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Well, there's Pivetta.
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No No No.....are you freakin' serious? You are going to trade 5 years of team control of Duran for a one year rental? You have no idea what the ceiling is for Duran. Sure, he may be a bust. But my guess is Cora likes his speed, his bat and probably thinks his defense will improve. Let's be real. So in 2025, Ha-Seong Kim is no longer with the Sox. Meanwhile, Duran is going into his prime baseball years on the cheap in San Diego? No way, Jose. Go sign some freakin' free agent pitchers. We've waited too long to have our young players dismantled.
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$90M invested in 3 players and we would still suck? Fun team to watch in19? That was agonizing year. Again pitching imploded. Do you not see the common denominator with our World Series teams? I wouldn't watch 10-6 games that we lose day after day.
