Hugh2
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That same draft strategy game you Roman Anthony two years later, so it's really hard to hate on it overall.
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And then I find this. Apparently it's 68 million on the IL. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/_/year/2024/sort/cap_injured/dir/desc
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So roughly 1/3 of our salary is on the IL, seems like a lot but I wonder how that compares to other teams. Would also like to see what those numbers are across the league in a few months. It must be very fluid.
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Clearly seen by all and defined by one game.
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Alex Verdugo is having a good but not great year so far, very Alex Verdugo like. A .770 OPS vs. his .766 career OPS. He's notoriously been a fast starter and is in Yankee stadium which should be helping him. Weissert - 1.20 ERA 9.6 K/9 1.8 BB/9 he has been one of our better relievers. He also has 2 options remaining and 6 years of team control compared to Verdugos 1. (inlcluding this year) Richard Fitts - currently our top pitching prospect. #6 in the system has a 3.72 ERA down on the farm. Probably a back of the rotation starter, but you just don't know with pitchers. Crawford and Houck all had back end starter profiles coming up to, this is how you develop pitching. You get talented arms. 6 years of team control Nicholas Judice - Has yet to pitch a game, was just drafted last year, will start soon. 6 foot 8 and throws high 90's. High range of outcomes but the kind of arm you can dream on. Yankees got fleeced.
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They’re not exactly laying eggs either and all young for the level. Especially Anthony. None of them were expected to contribute in the bigs this year anyways.
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Snell left over $60 million on the table. It’s likely the other big free agents left more money on the table only to take lesser deals later on because teams moved on. Boras is good at his job, one bad offseason can’t change the narrative, but he obviously f***ed this offseason up.
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Players leave agents all the time, good and bad. But what happened this year with Boras and the big 4 was an historic failure on his part. Not enough to dethrone him as the best in the bizz, but defintely a blow to the Boras rep. Certainly, the teams who chose to wait out the free agent market this year generally ended up doing pretty well.
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LOL you should of just stopped right there.
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Remember when Jon Heyman was spot on with the Aaron Judge reporting????? so trustworthy, ESPECIALLY coming from NY.
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Some, as in pretty much every fan of every team who thought they might spend the money? but it turns out the Sox had no worse chance than every other team not called the Dodgers.
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I suppose if we WERE going to believe the Media when it comes to Boston we should belive the NEW YORK POST of all things hahaha
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Are these the same guys reporting all the "reported mutual interest" in every free agent. Just not sure when we should or should not believe the reports. This conversation has happened time and time again, for the most part, guys are going to who pays them. I'm fully confident Montgomery would have signed here had we offered him the most money.
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It's a little bitter sweet seeing Chris Sale succeed, don't get me wrong I'm happy for him but I always wanted that here. Still, he looked like a Cy Young candidate last year for a brief period of time before he got hurt. He is still yet to stay healthy for a full season in about a 1/2 a decade and he's 35 now. His arm injury was legit, but a lot of his injuries afterwards seemed a little fluky and unlucky. Would be a little ironic for him to be dominate for Atlanta for years. Still, he was never going to be here after 2024 no matter what, so getting 6 years of team control for a young guy was the right move. Especially seeing how well our young pitchers have started to perform this year. It's entirely possible for two teams to both win the trade. Still, got to get a look at Grissom.......who deserves a long term look. I hope people don't judge him if he doesn't light the world on fire the first week or two.
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There was also reported mutual interest between Monty and the Sox, AND he was one of the only higher end free agents you could sign and NOT have to give up a draft pick.
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Houck/Crawford/Bello
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I didn't notice with how awesome this mostly homegrown rotation has performed.
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Sox are going to try and piece together a first baseman, Smith/Cooper might actually end up making a nice platoon there. Not great, but certainly light years better than Bobby bombing.
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I just realized you don't hear anyone talk about how Jordan Montgomery, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Marchus Stroman, or Sonny Gray are doing.
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IDK, Given what Bailey has done with this staff how can we not be at least a little curious to see what he could have done with Giolito????
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4/30 SF Giants vs Red Hots @ Fenway 7:10 EDT
Hugh2 replied to vegasbob's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Cooper is definitively better than Bobby Dalbec -
Haha I meant to write $600k, thanks for pointing that out though.
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How many pitching bonuses over 500K have we given out over the past 10 years? both in the draft and IFA, it's not many, just 1-2 I BELIEVE. saving 500K on the first pick and tossing around 4 million dollars or so with you next 3 picks is a good strategy, especially when you consider how risky pitching is. Lets put 3 eggs in the baseket not 1. Some will complain, you will always find someone to complain about something no matter what happens. I doubt the Sox care about that.
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To be fair, at one point you could be Houck in that group. And I think Kopech could be excluded as well.
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Imagine how crazy this board is going to go when they draft a position player in the first round but still spend significantly more $$$ on pitching.