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Sox have the assets to get whoever they want. It all comes down to cost, and if they're willing to pay it.
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Here's to hoping Trevor Story is the offensive version of 2024 Chris Sale in 2025.
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If there's a "big need" for starting pitching, and there is, because there always is, even when you're good and having pitching there is. YOu need to aquire it, sign it, draft it, trade for it, and develop it. That means many eggs in many baskets. I expect the Sox to add to the starting pitching depth this offseason. Actually I don't expect it, I can gurantee it. Now, will that depth be at the top of the rotation, or at the bottom? that I can't gurantee. I don't think they traded for Preister thinking he would be ready by 2025 opening day, and I suspect even if he pitches well he starts the year in Wocester. I want the Sox to sign and trade for someone but at the same time, they need MORE deals like Yorke for Priester. More of it, actually that was the exact kind of deal some of us had been clamoring for for a while "Well you can trade your excess hitting for pitching" that until the never really came to fruition.
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Preister could certainly fight his way into consideration for the rotation, but I think it's blatantly obvious he's a project. And he was certianly traded for with that in mind.
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milb is just weird, the Yankees AA team made the playoffs over our AA team, but our AA team had a better record. But they had a stellar 2nd half performance.
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Portland also promoted most of their best players, if they had not they would have made the playoffs. The opposite happened in Wocester. They had one of the better records in the second half, but because of their first half showing they were ineligible to make the playoffs despite having the 3rd best overall record in the International league.
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As long as someone starts a "Lets go Red Sox, Let's go Red Sox" chant all is well in the world
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The interesting thing is that Oakland and CHW are both in eligible for a top ten pick and can't pick any higher than 11/12. So only two team stands between the Sox and a top ten pick again. One game seperates them and the Giants in the standings for the #9 pick.
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Soto is going to get between 500-600 million. He's getting paid 40 million plus a year. Book it. Imagine not being able to spend on pitching, but adding that when you have Duran/Rafaela/Abreu out there with the #1 prospect in the game arguably MLB ready? (and another guy who is arguably top ten and can play the outfield) I would cheer like a little school girl if the Sox sign Soto, but it just feels grossly irresponsible given this teams needs.
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What if I told you that no one is tradeable in the absence of sufficient value? And they made you moderator? I guess I have to start being nice to you now.
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It could be some more of the same old same old and be a "Kluber like, or Giolito like" signing, but I can almost gurantee you that is not their rotation and they add a starter or two this offseason.
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It's a great experience for some of these kids to get the experience of the playoff environment. Sure it's not the big leagues, but it's a step above what they've experienced and a great stepping stone in their development. Besides that, W/L record and playoffs mean little to me. The format in milb is weird, it's not end of season W/L record put what you did in each half separetly. Also, you can have an army of Bobby Dalbecs leading the way. If you had 3 future all stars on your AA roster and everyone else was a stinker and you finished with a losing record. You have more MLB talent on that team than most MLB clubs do.
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Is it tank time? Sox are one game away from having a top ten pick.
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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.
