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Now taking Houck doesn't look so good.
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What in the world did Whitlock think by walking a player in front of Judge?
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What's Abreau got?
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Vaz put us ahead.
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They call 2 seam fastballs sinkers down where the splitter is thrown with a different grip and just dives when it gets to the plate.
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I'd say Rafie didn't run his pop up out. What's with the lazy baserunning? So far, it probably didn't cost them but it could.
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Good hit by Bogie. Tie game. Another base running error at the end.
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They called a strike on Bogie that was 2 inches low.
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Both Renfroe and Schwaber were guilty of poor base running.
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Our catching situation looks questionable for 2022 and on with Vaz having an off year and no solid options in our minors. Is this the time to look for a FA and if so who: Catchers who qualify as 2022 FA's Alex Avila (35) Tucker Barnhart (31) — $7.5MM club option ($500K buyout) Robinson Chirinos (37) Travis d’Arnaud (33) Yan Gomes (34) Sandy Leon (33) Martin Maldonado (35) Jeff Mathis (39) Yadier Molina (39) Roberto Perez (33) — $7MM club option ($450K buyout) Manny Pina (34) Buster Posey (35) — $22MM club option ($3MM buyout) Wilson Ramos (34) Austin Romine (33) Kurt Suzuki (38) Christian Vazquez (31) — $7MM club option ($250K buyout) Mike Zunino (31) – $4MM club option ($1MM buyout)
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Wong is defense only guy and is being sent down even when we are relatively weak at catcher. It doesn't look like we have any other prospects that are likely to make the club at catcher either this year or next.
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Now he is on the active roster and Cordero is sent down. That should tell us what they think of Cordero.
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I hope he can keep his strikeout rate down. He has power but has to make contact against good pitching.
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The corner he turned may well have been Baltimore pitching. Lets see how he fares against the Yankees.
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I don't see Shaw at all unless we have an injury. I wouldn't demote anyone except Cordero and Arauz when we are back at full strength and that leaves no room for Shaw. Maybe when we move to 28 players but even then I would take Munoz over Shaw.
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I haven't commented on the entire team makeup at this point for 2022 other than I would like to see quality players at all field positions and up to 3 utility players that can sub in without substantially weakening the team. That wasn't the case this year. The idea of having one quality DH (fairly highly paid) in my view is to allow us to retain other quality position players while spending primarily on pitching. Neither JDM of Schwaber are either fast or particularly good defensive players. They would be there for both bat and senior leadership qualities. One could argue thee point that the Yankees are carrying a couple of players which are more like DH's and they fit it into their payroll but on the other hand, I don't favor the Yankee approach.
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We will have decisions to make relative to who will DH for the Sox next year. Both JDM and Schwaber are excellent candidates. JDM is having a very good year and may get a 2 or more year offer from another club or the $19 mil we are set to give him may be adequate for him. So, we have a choice to make. 1. Offer JDM a 2 year at around his current salary and keep him while letting Schwaber walk 2. Don't offer an extension to JDM and try to sign Schwaber to a 4 or 5 year contract. If JDM stays eat the cost and keep both. 3. Don't offer an extension to JDM and try to sign Schwaber to a 4 or 5 year contract and if JDM leaves we have one DH/PT left fielder. 4. I doubt we do this but the option is still on the table if neither JDM or Schwaber can be signed, find another FA quality DH.
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Taylor is now out on a Covid break. He is one of our top 5 so it thins us down a bit, at least until he returns.
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I was looking over our minor league and prospect player list and I see darn few who may be brought up in 2022. Duran and Houck are already up so in my view we have possibilities in the field of: Casas Munoz DeShields Yorke and Jimenez are very promising for 2023 while Mayer may be 2024. I don't see Downs making an impact as he doesn't hit minor league pitching As far as pitching is concerned we have Seabold with Ward, Winkowski (sp)and Bello possible Mata is out with TJ and Groome has been unimpressive Thats not a lot of talent so Bloom has to try to keep existing quality talent while looking to the FA market for 2022. Let us hope the purse strings open up a bit. We don't get rid of Price's contract until next year.
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There probably do need to be exceptions but they should be applied with great care.
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I think of Pedey's contract as having been driven by sentimentality. Some would disagree with me on that, but we took a long term contract on a guy with declining skills because he was a hero. We were also unlucky, in that he got hurt and couldn't play at all. This is the last year of paying the salary, which has hampered us to some degree.
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When Arroyo gets back we will be strong at every field position except catcher and in that we can be good part of the time unless Vaz can get it back together. I am for being as strong with depth as we can, including the bench so would bring Munoz up as well. Cordero can go down.
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At least in Boston, he started with the mess DD left and is still trying to repair our minors and get rid of dead money contracts. In TB he had a very low budget team. While I was disappointed witth the trade deadline, it is still not clear if he could compete for people we needed.
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Could also be a starter. He is learning right now and if he works on command to keep his pitch count down, he could easily do 5 superior innings. That's as much as many starters do these days.
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Great to see the bottom of the order produce. Triple and HR.