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  1. Hugh2
    You’re right, but one could be forgiven last year for thinking such. This year was the first year they really broke the trend and went under two years in a row, before 2024 they’d dip under reset and then spend.
  2. Hugh2
    I was told they made a two year offer. But front office aside, there were many Sox fans who didn’t wants Teoscar and I did and I was and they were wrong. Petty, I know I know….stop raining on my Sunday morning thoughts darn it!!!!
  3. Hugh2
    Yes, but team aside many fans didn’t like the ideal because they said Teoscar was in serious decline. I was of the opinion he could have a huge comeback year to rebuild his value. I was right. however, I advocated the one year deal on the assumption that the Sox would continue their go over the cap two years and reset model. They broke that trend last year. Teoscar was never an option for them.
  4. Hugh2
    If you’re using two HOFer against the larger sample size of literally everyone else to try and disprove that physical skills decline with age you’re actually proving that physical skills do decline. If you have two guys on your list who are generational talents and decades apart. i get it, i do. But betting on Duran to age like Ricky Henderson would be an awful bet. Im pro not trading Duran, but I certainly can’t argue against trading him from a value perspective. Betting his value is at an all time high right now seems like a fairly safe bet.
  5. Hugh2
    That’s exactly what I said
  6. Hugh2
    LA offered 24 million for one year, now he’s hitting free agency as the best outfielder not name Juan Soto. If the Sox wanted him he could be had. But the Boston brass, like many in here didn’t value him at all.
  7. Hugh2
    Random Sunday morning thoughts. Yoshida trade talk should die, it’s very unlikely, unless you’re willing to pay it all down or trade a top prospect please stop with the proposals. Tyler O’Neill is the 3rd highest ranked free agent outfielder this year. That goes to show you how bad free agency has got. More and more teams are locking up their talent. i was 100% right about Teoscar Hernandez. I was a very strong advocate of giving him a 1 year deal to build his value and I was right. He had an outstanding year. I wish I can remember who argued against me so vehemently so I could rub it in your face. Oh well. Starting Today in a Cleveland fan for 1-2 weeks.
  8. Hugh2
    That's a pretty good way of putting it.
  9. Hugh2
    Do teams trade players based on their value 6 months ago?
  10. Hugh2
    Jud Fabian was once considered a consensus top ten pick before heading into his first draft year
  11. Hugh2
    Is this meant for someone else? I never suggested Yoshida would net a starting pitcher or Gausman.
  12. Hugh2
    I don't really think those guys are blocking anyone, and Abreu could be packaged up seperately for something of actual value (a good reliever). I think they should just do that and buy pitching.
  13. Hugh2
    They're of comparable value, but you're probably getting absolutely nothing in return in that scenario. A complete low level flier. Which is fine, but how many wins does this team gain by taking Yoshida and Abreu off the roster?
  14. Hugh2
    I do often say "there's more than one way to skin a cat" teams without the budget of the Dodgers can certainly have good seasons, but there's a correlation between spending and wins.
  15. Hugh2
    Who are you willing to trade with Yoshida to get another team to take on his salary?
  16. Hugh2
    That's a fair recap, however I'm not sure there's anything to figure out. Unless Brez puts a gun to someone's head and forces them to make an ill decision I think we're stuck with Yoshida, like I said in the absence of paying him to play somewhere else. I'm not there yet, but ask me again next year and see how I feel. At least Yoshida isn't mean, or a bad person, or any type of cancer in the club house. Nor is he a bad player, he's just not a very good one and is overpaid for what he does. I think we are just stuck with him.
  17. Hugh2
    10% is everything in baseball. It's the difference between a .300 hitter leading off and a guy who can't stay in the majors.
  18. Hugh2
    I know you didn't ask me but he did about as well as I expected, and I don't think playing SS affected his offense at all. He did at the plate what he was advertised to be, and he played some SS in the minors coming up as well. If anything, his best fit on this team might be a super utility player/late inning defensive replacement. And I think he can be a 2 WAR player in that role. extending him so early was very perplexing to me.
  19. Hugh2
    As a point of reference, the surplus value that Franklin Arias/Miguel Bleis give you equals out the negative value Yoshida has. EDIT: I'm not saying you have to trade those two guys to move him, only outlining it's going to sting if you move him, unless you're comfortable paying another team 14-18 million a year
  20. Hugh2
    Moving Masataka might make less sense than people think. He gets written off as a bad player, but he's not bad at all, he's just not good. If Yoshida was a young cost controlled piece he'd be playing on many teams. He's an MLB quality player, just not at $18 million dollars a year starting in the outfield. No team on earth is going to trade for him unless you're either A.) packaging up a prospect or B.) eating all or most of his money. A team that apparently is on a budget can't really afford to eat all his money, because that's money. I have a hard time seeing John Henry paying Yoshida 18 million to play somewhere else, he could easily end up being a 1-2 War player elsewhere and while that's not exactly a burn, it's not great either. Yoshida might be one of those sunk costs where it's either going to really sting moving him, or you just have to live with him as your 4th/5th outfielder and DH. Which he'd honestly be fine in that role aside from the fact that he's overpaid at $18 million a year and he's a lefty.
  21. Hugh2
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  22. Hugh2
    Good Afternoon, I agree, given this teams recent history a trade for a font line starter is more realistic than going into free agency. Still, they have all the resources in the world to do so, it all comes down to desire. It's a choice, and Henry has made the decision to not be very active at the top tier of the free agency market. I believe this to be a mistake, and I hope one day it changes. Not sure why I started this response with good afternoon, I suppose thats' what happens when I'm supposed to be working
  23. Hugh2
    You're adding a guy who is going to be the top pitcher in free agency and one of the top pitchers in baseball, then you're adding the #1 relief pitcher in FA and one of the best in baseball. Obviously the odds of Henry doing that are very unlikley, but something like that.......wouldn't be a sideways move. If the Sox need more than that, then it ain't happening. I'm not sure anyteam has ever had an offseason much bigger than that. Also, we aren't replacing Sale from this year but last. Sox starting pitchers were 7th in all of baseball in ERA. Adding a true ACE makes their rotation set. Adding one of the games top closers, and moving Whitlock to the bullpen is pretty darn good start.
  24. Hugh2
    Well, if they did just that, depending on how they did that they might just be fine. If they added three guys, and I get there are varying opinions between what the Sox should do, could do and will do but bare with me. Lets say the three are Corbin Burnes, Tanner Scott, and Danny Jensen. I think that makes next years team tremendously better. I'd still want another arm in that group though.
  25. Hugh2
    Techinically if the Sox went over the luxury tax limit this year they would be in the same boat they've been in for over a decade, rather than resetting for one year, it would have been two. Realistically, they're one year removed from the norm. But it's the rhetoric coming out of the front office that is very worrisome. They don't sound sincere, or terribly interested in increasing payroll
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