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Pitchers use to throw 100 pitches or more in a single game. I'd figure 100 over 3 days is overall less wear and tear on the body than 100 in 1. I just don't think any 3 day span is going to injur a guy unless it's an acute injury, with Folke, it seemed to be chronic, which would point to years of overuse and wear and tear. Kind of like my heart attack example, the startling could be the cataclyst but it was the years after years of greasy hamburgers and ho hos that caused it.
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Won’t break character I see. Well played.
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I’m still sticking to my Theory that you and Moon are actually best friends in real life and this is all smoke and mirrors. Well played guys…..well played.
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That does seem a little weird, but maybe that’s just because I feel like if i told all my friends I spent all my time commenting on a baseball forum and I showered them with all the arguments I’m getting into they’d just make fun of me. But again, we are all different, and to be fair me and my friends will pretty much rank on each other for anything and everything
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I’ve tried blocking people on the past, the problem is you see the posts all the time when not logged in. Best to try to not let people get under your skin and realize not everyone thinks like you. Advice I need to take myself sometimes. In the end we are all here for the same general reason.
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The correlation is as strong as startling someone and giving them a heart attack. Did you give them one? Or did years of a s***** diet and leading a sedentary lifestyle lead to a slow build up of plaque inside the arteries. His arm was likely on the brink anyways, and if a three day span caused an acute Injury then that’s something. You get the surgery and rehabilitate yourself. If you’re young and dedicated to your rehab it’s very easy to come back strong. But he didn’t sustain an acute injury, he pitched the very next year in 37 games. Yes he was awful, but he still pitched. He may of had something building up brewing that should have been taken care of earlier. Sounds more chronic than acute. The doesnt happen in three days.
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I’m not arguing against that one bit. I’m saying there’s no 3 day span that can ever ruin a guys career. His arm was either shot from decades of wear and tear, or he never put the same level of effort into his training afterwards to get himself right
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I refuse to believe three days of over usage ruined a guys career. Three days of over usage may cause an acute injury. If you’re not coming back from that then it’s because you haven’t put the time and work in to rehabilitate yourself. I think people would be surprised at how much more durable a player can be, and how much longer their careers would be with proper diet and exercise.
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Sox have done deals like this in the past and it works out. But it’s always been to make a good team great and put them over the top. Never to make a bad team just good. I wouldn’t prematurely blow our load. This crap team isn’t worth it. I’d rather draft and develop guys, and spend money up to the tax limit. The type of move you’re talking about is something I can see in about two years. Would have been this year if maybe Bloom was better at his job.
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I dont care what BTV says, Cabrera offers more upside than Duran does. But I don’t think it’s a good match, and Cabrera wouldn’t be my first choice.
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If all it took to get Ecabrera was Duran, I’d literally drive him to the airport.
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An equivalent Sox package might look something like Wikelman Gonzalez/Ceddanne Rafeala. If he would have signed an extension, I would have been ok with that.
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Why not? he's one of the best in baseball, and has been a top 10 guy every single year for the past 4 years including a cy young. He will also be entering free agency four years later than Cole, so you have to factor 4 years of player salary inflation. Unless he falls off a cliff next season, he's probably commanding a contract around 275-300 million dollars.
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Why not? he's one of the best in baseball, and has been a top 10 guy every single year for the past 4 years including a cy young. He will also be entering free agency four years later than Cole, so you have to factor 4 years of player salary inflation. Unless he falls off a cliff next season, he's probably commanding a contract around 300 million dollars.
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Pffft, if you really want to. As long as the LOSER buys the first round when it's all over.
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100% although I don't think this team is too far away with the right leadership and right moves. I think they should be competing for playoffs again by 2025 if all goes well.
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I often wonder how personalities in here would clash in real life. Like, would Moon and Oldred have a fight to the death match? or, and I find this thought more flattering, do they unknowingly run into each other at bar and share drinks enthusiastically talking about the Red Sox all night.
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s*** man, I thought people just weren't ever banned here, because I thought for certain I was going to be a month ago when I completely lost my s***. Sorry about that.
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If THeo was given full authority he's not going out and making a ton of moves. He probably views the Sox as an organization that needs 2-3 years to fix. He's not going to sign Montgomery or SNell and trade for a guy. And if he was are they demoting Breslow before they really even let him have the job? is he a fake POBO? I don't know what the plan is, but I know what I would LIKE the plan to be. This is still Breslows team to run, but Theo is the guy he reports to now and not Henry. If he needs more money, or wants to over the cap for someone some year, or wants to hand out a franchise altering contract, it's going through Epstein. Epstein is given full power a owner would have with the forsight to know when it makes baseball sense and not just dollars and cents.
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In the absence of the Red Sox willing to invest in a competitive team, this would almost be a step back in the career of Theo. I don't think he would come back here if the Red Sox were turning themselves into the Pittsburgh Pirates. I'm hopeful
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Pretty much. Effectively John Henry is saying, I like the Red Sox, they're a big part of FSG, but I'm obviously an idiot and way to busy with this golf s*** and other s*** to do anything. Here's Theo, he knows something about baseball, let him manage the baseball side of FSG. Maybe this is wishful thinking, but if Theo goes to Henry at some point and says "now is the time to expand payroll, we have young guys to lock up and if we bring in these players the added revenue from being a playoff competitive team pays for itself" I think Henry would listen to him" Or at least in theory, that's how it should go.
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There's nothing Theo can do to add value to the W/L column in 2024, but I think he can be a vital asset moving forward and this move is overall good for the Red Sox.
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But was it? he just came off a season where he finished 2nd in Cy young voting two years in a row, top 6 for 5 of the last 6 years including a Cy Young, FWars of 4.8, 4.3, 4.0, 5.6, 6.7, 4.4 Very similiar numbers to Garrit Cole before he signed his 324 million dollar contract. The market isn't set by us fans. We just have a tendency to think everything is too much. If the Sox end up signing Montgomery and SNell, odds half the board will be upset (to varying degrees) and calling it a gross overpay.
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Odds are most people view it as a gross overpay. It very well may be an overpay, but to many fans (of all teams) market value is always a gross overpay. Those fans will only respond to results on the field at this, that’s the only thing that will turn around some perceptions. And I’m not arguing against that perception one bit.
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Oh I’d agree their perception is already screwed up. But money being even, I think the move now gets criticized more than it would if it was made in December. Which, as angry as I am at ownership….kind of does not make any sense.