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Where do I sign up for the revolt against John Henry????
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This is the first year since 2006 I did not attend a game, I had been thinking about it the past few weeks; tonight might of been the date. i think I’ll bow out this year.
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Realistically the season is over. I would like to personally thank John Henry for another excellent season.
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That line alone didn’t concern me, spending money on the wrong people and on the wrong things can do more harm than good. addition by subtraction. no, what got me was the fact that they’re asking people to take pay cuts. That’s insane. WTF is going on with the Sox? It’s also not a good look that John Henry seemingly runs away from fans nowadays. how will he ever enjoy his new SoDaSoPa???
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I'm an optimist, but reality is how do we know they got rid of the right guys and kept the right guys? Again, I like that they're making changes and moving forward, but I wouldn't call it "bearing fruit" yet. Not until they actually start to look like a winning franchise again.
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As a general rule of thumb, I don't think it's good strategy to trade away a lot of high ceiling guys who are in A ball or lower. It's easier to project a player improving from A to AA than it is from the minors to majors. You're certainly selling low on this kid, whatever package he may bring. Arias has a better chance of developing into a blue chip trade piece by next year than he does a starting MLB SS. right now, Arias probably gets you a relief pitcher. If the kid develops into an all star caliber SS, no G.M. wants to be the guy who traded him for a middling reliever.
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Article: Fenway Park: The Greatest Place on Earth
Hugh2 replied to Dan Fraser's topic in Talk Sox Front Page News
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O’Neill has put up 2.7 WAR this year. Free agency pays that at about $21 million. $20 million a year is about right in line with his worth. but who in their right mind would sign Tyler to a long term deal paying $20 million per given his injury history? i dont believe anyone would. I certainly believe at his age and history hed take less money per to get a pay day but at 25/2 why wouldnt he just take the QO and go hit the market next year? he could certainly make more than $5 million. if you offer the QO its because you want him for one year. given this teams apparent budget restrictions, outfield depth, and desperate need for pitching it certainly seems like a vert irresponsible move to offer him a QO.
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I don’t full Agree Moon. I think the pitching in our system is marginally better. we have a few guys with upside, but we e had plenty of those fail over the years. i also think draft slots on pitchers in largely meaningless. It’s more about the money, most of these guys drafted are nothing more than filling out a milb roster. Great if they pop, but right now the Sox don’t really have any talent that has real starter upside other than Preister/Sandlin/Perales. And those guys all have serious questions. i think the Sox have moved in the right direction the last year, but they’re nowhere near the point of turning out mlb starting caliber pitching and probably won’t be for a few years if they started doing everything right this year
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You can have identical pitching/hitting stats and go 3-7 or 7-3 over a 10 game span. If you don’t hit when you pitch and vis versa it’s easy to lose more games than you should. To at least some extent, that’s bad luck. what isn’t bad luck is defense. The Sox suck on defense and it’s easily cost them at least several games this year.
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Let me start off by saying I like Rafaela and I believe in him being the everyday center fielder. teaching an approach is possibly the hardest tool to teach above all else. Players learn to identify pitches, their bodies grow into power and velocity, but rarely do they improve their chase percentage. It’s practically a physical extension of themselves. rafaela adds value in so many other ways, and his defense alone probably makes him a two War player. He’s perfectly fine stashed in the bottom of a lineup in even a WS caliber team. but a lot of the skills he has will wane over time, when he slows down a bit how will all his other skills translate? It’s for this reason that I believe he will have a good but not long MLB career. He’s exactly the type of player who will probably not be starting at age 30. im happy he’s our starting center fielder for years to come. But the decision to extend him is perhaps one of the most perplexing I’ve seen in a long time.
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suggested trade? when I posted the first thing I said was I often use BTV to show how ridiculous trades can be. I wasn't suggesting it. I mean, I'd make that trade but I don't believe another team would.
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Ok, I get it now. I don't disagree. What I mean in my original comment was that the future looks brigther today than it did a year ago. And I realize that's little consolation when everything sucks
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I get that you want to go by record alone, but I still feel this organization is in better place today than they were a year ago. They have work to do. But there is less to do between 2024-2025 than there was between 2023-2024. I get fan frustration, but that's not a scam that's my opinion.
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correct, but irrelevant. Sox didn't know that was going to happen at the time of the trade.
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When I hear people say "that trade is ridiculous" I think they mean no way that ever happens.
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Wheres the scam? everyone plays a 162 game schedule.
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I think this season will be the true testament if we are "setting the bar lower" Better than not chance they don't make the playoffs, but they have been playing meaningful baseball into september for the first time in a while with a younger roster and guys coming up. This is offseason would be the time to "raise the bar" I could justify them not spending after the 2022 season, but this year is a compltely different animal.
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Time to trade our talented young pitching for some hitters. We don't have anything coming up thru the pipeline!!!!!
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I never understood this. I get you NEED Raffy, but if resting him for one week did the trick then just sit the man. He's not helping the team with his .480 OPS. The team is better with a healthy Devers, but they would obviously be better with him resting up right now. Heck, they might have an extra win or two if they just gave him some time off.
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I don't believe this one bit, the Sox don't have to trade abreu, and the Sox have the leverage of going to any other suitor. If you have an asset, you can easily put it out to bid. I don't think Seattles abundance of pitching hurts their trade value one bit.
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I am of the assumption that any player that isn't a first round draft pick, or the top $$$ signing in IFA is purely or at least almost purely the work of the scouting department. A CBO often doesn't know most of these guys. Take Wilyer Abreu for example, Sox had a deal with him in 2016 in the international free agency system but they lost the ability to sign anyone that year due to penalties. Yes, Bloom traded for him, but the Sox scouting and developmental department obviouslly really liked him. It seems logical that they were the ones telling Bloom "this is the guy, this is the guy we think is going to be good" years after the fact. Bloom, Dave D, Theo, Breslow, whoever.....they all do the same thing. They're making decisions largely based off the scouting of others. What seperates them is their ability to swing a trade, negotiate, bring in the right personel to scout and develop guys etc etc etc.
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I know it was ridiculous. You could say the Yoshida and Castillo contracts cancel each other out and the $41 million is subsidizing Raffy for them by about $5 million a year. Not trying to justify a crazy trade here, but the $41 million alone isn't unrealistic. Perhaps THIS TRADE IS, but the money isnt'. Didn't the Sox send $48 million to LA to get David Price off the roster????
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I did say "in a pinch" I don't want him to be the everyday shortstop. I've seen him there, it's not elite defense but he's fine there too. Campbell seems to have the special ability of moving around the diamond and playing multiple positions. Usually a player with versatile defense has been taught to do so to add value because they can't do so with the bat. From what I gather 2nd seems to be his best position, but he can play at least average seemingly everywhere Could Campbell be our Ben Zobrist????
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Sometimes I like using BTV just to show how ridiculous it can be. For example: Seattle gets: $41 million cash/Tanner Houck/Rafael Devers/Masataka Yoshida/ Sox get: Luis Castillo and George Kirby. Sox go out and sign Burnes. Rotation: Burnes/Kirby/Bello/Castillo/Giolito Line up: C-Wong 1B-Casas 3B-Story SS-Mayer 2B-Campbell LF-Duran CF-Rafaela RF-Anthony DH Refsnyder/Abreu Your DH is also your 4th outfielder.
