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The minor league system is appropriately called the farm . There comes a time when you have to harvest the crops ( prospects ) . You keep what you need for sustainment and market the rest for the best deal you can make . You can't hold on to them indefinitely . We have done very well with that . Had much success . Then , you need to sow the field all over again . Grow the next crop . That is where we have some problems . MLB has made it increasingly difficult to replenish the farm if you have been successful . You need to find a way to deal with that without deliberately being unsuccessful , aka tanking .
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Good luck with the few more decades thing .
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Do we really want to save billionaire John Henry a little money and suffer through one or more seasons of dismal baseball ? I know I don't . A baseball season is a long time . A good chunk of our very limited time on this mortal coil .
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It doesn't matter how many 8 WAR seasons Betts has in him . He is the best player on the Sox , one of the very best in the game . A keeper if there ever was one . You don't let a guy like that get away .
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Yeah . I wouldn't go crazy with the spending , but I would definitely try to keep Betts and Martinez . Lose Porcello , and try Hernandez there . Lose Panda , Nunez , Moreland ,Pearce , Leon , Wright and possibly JBJ . Go with Chavis , Marco and possibly Dalbec . Just have to wait out Pedroia . Hope for the best with Sale , Price and Eovaldi . Pick up a couple of bullpen arms . Stay competitive and if you go slightly over the cap , live with it .
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The solution is to spend the money . Stop being scared of the luxury tax . Stop kidding people . Stay competitive . If need be , ride out the bad contracts . (Might just have to live with some of the mistakes .) Get rid of the easily replaceable dead wood and promote a couple of the youngsters , but you need to keep Betts and ( if possible ) Martinez . Don't gut the strength of the team . I wonder how much revenue will be lost by not making the post season this year ? We don't want a repeat of that . The Red Sox are a big market team . The goal always should be to make the post season .
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Training camp next year will be run differently . Pick whatever reason suits you , but things will not be done the same way again .
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Joey : " A lot of dark clouds up there . I think it's going to rain ." Jimmy : " Nah , your'e wrong . Often there are clouds and it doesn't rain . It will clear up . We'll be fine ." Later : It rained like hell . Joey : " I told you it would rain ." Jimmy : " Nah , you're still wrong . Sure it rained , but not because of the clouds . It was an unexpected cold front that came through . Nobody saw that coming . ". Joey : " Okay . Whatever . "
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There you go . Already we are seeing the alternate reasons for what we all know is coming .
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That's not the case at all . The fact is I was one of the very few who saw the storm clouds gathering way back in the off season . I mentioned both Dombrowski's complacency , the bullpen situation , and Cora's lackadaisical spring training regimen . I was shot down then on all points by the same ones who are now still grasping for answers . Where was I wrong ? There is enough blame to go around for both D.D. and Cora . The storm clouds back in February were real . Both Cora and D.D. were remiss . But only one was fired .
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Really ? Seriously ? Actually , the much maligned Pom had a terrific year in 2017 . He is now healthy , setting up for the Brewers and racking up the strikeouts . Where is Espinosa ? It is a major , major stretch to think we might have won without Sale and Kimbrel . Highly doubtful . And we actually won an unprecedented three straight A.L. East titles without our dear , departed prospects . I will concede that Thornburg was a bust .
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The results are there. Trading these guys paid off as hoped and expected. Could we have won without it ? While anything is possible , I seriously doubt it .
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
dgalehouse replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No offense to anybody , but ruling that three foul balls is a strikeout is one of the worst ideas to come along . Even a nimrod like Manfred would not propose something like that . -
Without a doubt , Cora will change the spring training program next year . But there will be those on here who will insist that there is a different reason for the change than this year's problems . That's S.O.P. around here .
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
dgalehouse replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
If MLB insisted on it , the umps would have no choice . -
The number of injuries in MLB this year is mind boggling . I have never seen anything like it . The MLB trade rumors site should be renamed The MLB injury report . The powers that be really need to look into this situation and look for causes and solutions . This is not good for the game .
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That is just being smart in evaluating these kids . You keep the ones that can truly help you . Trade the others.
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If Cora gets so much credit when we win , then he has to bear the onus when we don't. Simple as that .
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You don't want to trade them. And you don't want to hoard them . What would you do with them ?
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
dgalehouse replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
More strikeouts would not do much to create some action in the game . Bad idea . Make it the umpires responsibility to keep the pace of play moving quickly . It could be done . -
The White Sox moved Moncada off second base over to third . Evidently , he was not a good second baseman . But some people love to hug their prospects . Prospects are only good for two things : Filling the vacancies needed to win or dealing them for someone who can . Hoarding them is a disorder .
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
dgalehouse replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The simplest way to quicken the games is to give the umpire the authority to keep things moving . There is far too much dawdling permitted now . -
They had to include Kopech in the Sale deal . Not sure what that has to do with Espinosa . I don't know what the official rankings were , or who composes them . Or how much value they have . In my opinion , a kid with no track record beyond a brief stint in the Gulf Coast rookie league is not going to get you Sale . If you think it would , fine . There is no way to prove or disprove it .
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Just because somebody mentions an unproven kid in the same breath as Pedro Martinez is not reason to trade Chris Sale for the kid . He might trade a Pomeranz , but surely not a Sale . No way .
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The idea that Sale could have been had for Espinosa is highly doubtful . While he was greatly hyped , the " next Pedro " had no record of success beyond the rookie league . And he still doesn't . We have to be realistic . Espinosa willl never be another Sale , much less another Pedro . Heck , he will probably not even be another Pomeranz .
