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  1. Hugh2
    Give. How are infield is a combination of aging and/or injury prone, it makes very little sense to trade our #1 prospect who is a SS
  2. Hugh2
    Well you’d like to get Duran going, he’s done a heck more in his career than Jones has and he certainly has better defense. Even at his worse he’s better against RHP than Jones. the team is pretty banged up, if they weren’t Duran might be seeing more time on the bench
  3. Hugh2
    At 50 IP Bennett should be graduated from most of the prospect lists
  4. Hugh2
    Jones is useless vs. RHP
  5. Hugh2
    Officially a game above .500 and in sole possession of a wildcard spot.
  6. Hugh2
    I a proponent of developing young players and bringing them up to be a part of your core. im also a proponent of trading away those guys you develop to bring in talent to be a part of your core. im also a supporter of signing free agents who can contribute and help your team win. i think a good winning strategy is to do all 3. You can’t win in today’s game by just employing one of those, and you certainly can’t sustain any type of success.
  7. Hugh2
    If you’re trading a MLB pitcher with multiple years of control you’re getting back a hitter with multiple years of control. That was the frame of comment.
  8. Hugh2
    It takes two to tango, unless you want to grossly overpay I don’t think you’re trading for a premium player for at least another week.
  9. Hugh2
    Well there trade value is much higher, you’d get a premium bat with multiple years of control for one of those guys, but if you want to trade for a premium bat with prospects you’re likely trading two from Eyanson/Witherspoon/Arias plus. you trade from your strengths to fill in your weaknesses. I’m not for trading away any of those guys but if you could tell me we could have the hitting equivalent of one of them coming back then I’d certainly consider it. I think of it like this, on this team would you trade a 4 WAR pitcher for a 4 war hitter? I don’t think that’s roster malpractice, I think that’s balancing the team out to be more competitive
  10. Hugh2
    So top quality young pitchers doesn’t include prospects.
  11. Hugh2
    Well, how else do you bring hitting in at the deadline?
  12. Hugh2
    Those guys won’t move until closer to the deadline, no deadline deals have happened right now. nones had an OPS vs LHP above .900 last year. He was DFA,d so the Sox traded for him because likely someone else would have if they did not. if this team is in a position to buy, he’s not your trade deadline move Breslow will make
  13. Hugh2
    I’m loving what they did in this draft. you can’t go by pipelines rankings. That’s one list, BA, PG, ESPN, MLB all have vastly different boards. After the top 15-25 picks those boards start to vary greatly. then every team has different boards too. One team could be ranking a guy top 40 while another team might not have them at all. Sox took the 8th lowest bonus and stretched that money out to get a lot more bang for their buck and sign a lot of guys providing the system with ceiling. And they pivoted back to hitting after improving the systems pitching. of course this all means nothing if no one pans out but at first glance bravo,
  14. Hugh2
    I don't think your, or my own experience is a relevant sample size. People are dicks, people get fired for insubordination all the time. Don't take this the wrong way, because this isn't meant to directly attack you but rather it's a general sense I get about everyone who blames Breslow for this. But it feels to me like people just don't like Breslow for a whole host of reasons and therefore it's easy for them to just blame Breslow here too. There's plenty of reasons to justly critisize him, but I think it was Cora's job, not just as manager, but as someone who could have done it in his native language and had an easier conversation to follow. Cora was the one who told the media Devers was "his 3B" while openly campaigning to bring Alex Bregman into town who was his boy. So he caused this mess. Raffy also had some choice comments about playing the outfield that sounded very rude in the midst of his teammate sustaining a seasons ending injury. He's not a team player. They are all to blame, but to me the order goes 1. Devers 2. Cora 3. Breslow
  15. Hugh2
    Arias is not a consensus top 10 prospect in all of baseball Ranking anywhere from #1 to #7 He's not getting traded, and if he was he would be part of a package for a cost controlled MLB stud.
  16. Hugh2
    "What's full buy mode mean to you"? It means getting a significant piece that might actually help this team win games and compete in October and not another Dustin May "Do you think they are WS contenders?" I believe I already answered this question in the rest of my statement. At this current exact moment. NO they are not. They are not contending for the world series right now.
  17. Hugh2
    In any given window a team can play much better or worse than who they are. The Sox were obviously not as bad as they played earlier this year and were a horribly unlucky team. They're probably also not as good as the 14-2 team we've seen. You're adding a player to what you think they really are, perhaps something inbetwee. Because other teams are going to have hot stretches, and you might have more cold stretches too but we are within striking distance and in contention. So there is urgency, and practicality to adding pieces now.
  18. Hugh2
    I'm almost at full buy mode, not yet....but getting very close. Gun to my head today and I'm selling, but I would seriously consider flipping the switch with a series win vs. TB. What I DON'T want to see is another straddle. I think they need to definitively buy. None of this selling a piece here and trading for a mid game bullpen arm crap. If they buy, they need a premium player or two. and if they sell, then sell and get some real assets to work with this offseason.
  19. Hugh2
    And shouldn't the spanish speaking manager be having these conversations with the players whose primary language is spanish? leaves a lot less to be misinterpreted. It means something coming from the guy you see every single day rather than someone you seldom see or talk to. I'm a little perplexed this is even up for debate to be honest.
  20. Hugh2
    I don't believe this to be true at all. We all have our own experiences. How can amount insubordination up to just bad management like bad, lazy and selfish people do not exist? I've seen bad employees in my time. And when I worked for someone else when I was younger I saw s***** employees all the time. They were usually miserable people who had all kinds of excuses when they'd get let go and would be angry and confused when someone like me would get a promotion over them. I own a company now, I've employed over a 60 people over the last 15 years and for the most part every single one of them have been amazing good people. People come and go for various reasons but my some of my core people have been with me for the entire way. I've had to fire two people for insubordination....it happens. Have you seen Breslow scream about his title and rank?
  21. Hugh2
    Dude, I totally didn’t mean that to be condescending at all I was making analogy. love or hate Breslow, he’s Cora’s boss. That level of conflict would inevitably lead to someone being fired (Cora or Breslow in Boston) in any organization. agree with Breslow or not, I think any organization, in sports or any business wants their people on the same page. I mean, you absolutely want fresh ideals, constructive criticism but you can’t have subordinates defying your decisions. It creates a toxic workplace environment. people get fired for insubordination every day.
  22. Hugh2
    The McDonald’s manager is Cora in this analogy
  23. Hugh2
    King of Talksox, I agree with you here. Some stuff may come out some day but I think were never really going to know. Whatever.....it will give us something to talk about on slow days and offseasons of the future.
  24. Hugh2
    That's absolutely 100% part of the job. If a player is being moved in the lineup, moved to the bullpen, or switching positions that should be 100% on the manager. If your schedule at McDonalds changes, I expect the manager to come talk to you....not the CEO of McDonalds.
  25. Hugh2
    I also want to know, aside from who the "they" are besides Breslow why Breslow is having that convo? If your bosses boss is coming to talk to you about something your boss SHOULD be talking to you about then something is wrong. I'm sure there's other options but often that is because. The boss doesn't want to do it (which is another problem) Of the boss already asked you to do it and you refused, so the issue moves up the management ladder. Perhaps this is the "they" who talked to Devers..
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