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  1. Hugh2
    And that's before adding Teosar Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Jordan Montgomery and Lucas Giolito. They could be a 95 win team.
  2. Hugh2
    Teoscar could be a beast at Fenway, and O'Neil might hit 25-30 if he manages to stay healthy, but taking the medium and betting on 15 woulndn't be the worst bet. That trio is also a lot younger. I might be inclined to say: O'Neill/Teoscar/Drury > Verdugo/Turner/Duvall.
  3. Hugh2
    I'm never believing the line "so and so is holding up the market" again. This is just how the baseball offseason is, hurry up and wait, slow slow slow, false rumors, false hope.
  4. Hugh2
    This should also make the return for him a lot less for the Brewers, If this perserves the top of my farm system I'd still consider making a play for him. You're not just getting him for one year you're getting. 1 year of Burnes A draft pick when he almost certainly leaves. Despite his comments, a whole year to build rapport and possibly resign him. If you can get him without giving up too much, I'd still be calling on the Brew crew.
  5. Hugh2
    Not that I'm on board with this concept, but if the F.O. thinks a guy like Hader can be their shut down closer for years to come and they think they can cash in on Jansen it's not a bad move to go out and get a guy who can be just as good if not better and strengthen the farm.
  6. Hugh2
    Or this is what full throttle looks like on a scooter.
  7. Hugh2
    Breslow in 4 years to Henry after being fired. Henry "I thought you Yalies were supposed to be smart, why can't any of you build me a winner" Breslow "smart enough to convince a dummy like you to hire me"
  8. Hugh2
    Florida is the number one destination for fleeing New Yorkers, but Jersey plus CT surpasses that. People move for a whole host of reasons, but I certainly wouldnt' argue with your take here. Florida has always been a retirement destination.
  9. Hugh2
    Well I'm not going to pretend that the people I personally know of retirment age moving to CT are an accurate representation of the demographs. But overall, CT has seen a population increase and the largest in decades the last several years. That's well documented too, and most of those people are coming from NY, and we have higher taxes.
  10. Hugh2
    Maybe, I can take your word for it. But what do you, or I, or any of us really know about prospects in other peoples systems? Who was ranked higher at the time? At the time of the trade Downs was regarded across the industry as a better prosepct, and Gaterol had health concerns. Also, an above average regular up the middle in the infield would be about 1000000X more helpful to the 2024 team than another relief pitcher at this point. Of course, we're not even having this conversation if the Sox prioritzed extending homegrown star talent.
  11. Hugh2
    A category 5 shitstorm.
  12. Hugh2
    Hindsight is 20/20 Jeter Downs would have looked pretty good at SS last year or 2nd this year if he panned out.
  13. Hugh2
    Then why are more of them going to Connecticut/New Jersey than Florida?
  14. Hugh2
    Whether or not you're drafting pitchers high, it would still pay huge dividends to be able to scout, and develop them better. I don't believe they don't have a lot of pitching talent solely because they don't draft them high.
  15. Hugh2
    Yup, people move out of connecticut, but in recent years there's been a huge uptick in NYers moving here. I saw my property value double, I bought my house for $350,000 in 2018, and today it's worth over $700k. All the New Yorkers moved here, and they decided to stay because they can all work remotely now. The price of things tells all.
  16. Hugh2
    It looks very unlikely both those guys start in Boston. So it will probably have to be Abreu.
  17. Hugh2
    I'm not arguing against any of that, I just think the Sox inability to develop elite pitchers is multi-faceted. They don't draft them high, they don't draft them often, and they don't do a good job at developing guys either.
  18. Hugh2
    Is it even that much? I always thought the GM might get involved in the first pick and after that it's pretty much your scouting department.
  19. Hugh2
    Downs was the 44th best ranked prospect in all of baseball at the time of the trade, and before he lost his prospect status Verdugo was ranked even higher. No one can predict with precise accuracy a human beings future. YOu can be the best evaluators, best scouts, best predictionists in the market and still be wrong a lot. To this day, the biggest blunder was the decision to trade Mookie because of their unwillingness to extend him when he was younger and that may have been a possibility.
  20. Hugh2
    I'm sure a good relief pitcher is what would have put this team over the top last year.
  21. Hugh2
    Oh, that's well established. The good news is, that is a fixable problem.
  22. Hugh2
    Strider was also drafted in the 4th round. Proof that Boston can still draft high school short stops from California with their first pick and still get more pitching talent in the system in any given draft.
  23. Hugh2
    I won't argue against that, I do wonder if they would have let him walk or would have traded him if they were able to resign Bogaerts.
  24. Hugh2
    If this is all Breslow can do because of constraints, I'm optimistic that he can, but that is going to make me pretty bearish on this team the next couple years. They will need good health, and good luck to really compete. Which has happened, and can happen, but as I said earlier, 2022 seasons happen more often than 2021 when you go diving in the bin.
  25. Hugh2
    I'm going to stand outside Fenway this year and hand out paper bags for people to wear over their heads.
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