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  1. Hugh2
    Obviously no one wants a high draft pick, but with the way this season is going I'm going to have to really start paying attention to the 2027 Draft class.
  2. Hugh2
    I mean, he's been outperforming that contract. I believe me and Moon really really wanted him a few years back. But the no spenders had all their dreams come true with a Kike Hernandez & Christian Arroyo infield.
  3. Hugh2
    It's also such an unfair argument to make. ANyone can claim almost anything, and we can work it in reverse too but you notice how they never do that? they never say "Chris Sale wouldn't have done that here" or "Kyle Harrison never would have pitched like that here" When Red Sox players go elsewere and perform well it's a wrong on the organization for letting them go. When Red Sox players go elsewhere and perform bad, they would have been doing better here and it's a wrong on the organization. Although I can see the virtue in such an argument, anything I want to be true can always be hypothetically true.
  4. Hugh2
    IDK, his body language screams annoyed and he's walking away with his helmet up saying things into it. I thought I read somewhere that he slammed his helmet when he got into the dugout too. I don't think it was a language issue, Devers also understands English well, much better than he speaks it. I think this is just his behavior.
  5. Hugh2
    Unless my memory fails me I thought he was a polarizing prospect. Some had serious concerns about the swing while others thought he was going to great
  6. Hugh2
    Considering it's June 22nd that's a very interesting choice.
  7. Hugh2
    Agreed, there are plenty of teams who use Driveline who have had a ton of success. But something is very wrong in Boston right now.
  8. Hugh2
    That's fair, but it's still a part of him and tells a story. He's not some magic man with a crystal ball who will never trade away good prospects. He made some ballsy trades and the guys from Bostons system didn't pan out.
  9. Hugh2
    You can't go out and pitch for them. Dustin May, Walker Buehler, and Sean Newcomb have all been a TON better this year than they were last year in Boston. If they had pitched like that last year, those trades look a ton better. Just realizing Sean Newcomb was not a trade.
  10. Hugh2
    Campbell was a very polarizing prospect. There were many who believed his swing had a huge hole in it, and while he breezed through the minors it would be exposed at the MLB level. In hindsight, really feels like maybe they should have seen how it looked first. Also, if they were going to completely recreate his swing, maybe they should have demoted him a few levels and face off against worse pitching. If you're going to completely rebuild someone, do it from the beginning.
  11. Hugh2
    I'm not trying to knock Dave D, his record speaks for itself but his affinity of trading away prospects that don't hit is pure luck. That's certainly how we see it through the lens of a Sox fan.....it's easy to forget that he worked elsewhere before Boston and traded away top prospects who turned into. Randy Johnson Trevor Hoffman Mike Piazza Johan Santana and others. When you trade heavy in volume you're going to have good names go in and out. Sox caught a good run in him for a brief period of time. He didn't truly know who was going to pan out and who wasn't, he just had the balls to pull off big trades and won them.
  12. Hugh2
    And Bobby Dalbec can hit them 500 feet too. Power is useless if you don't have the hit tool to tap into it. If Jordan becomes a regular MLBer I'll be happy for him, it's a nice story. But he can't hit velocity and he can't hit righties, he was ranked low and still only 25th in STLC system. That's about on par with what you give up for a middle reliever. Jordan has hit righties better this year, in AAA who knows what he becomes but he's very far down on the list of guys I wish we'd have back.
  13. Hugh2
    Not a good look for Devers at all.
  14. Hugh2
    All this, to distract us from the point that 31 at bats is a small sample size
  15. Hugh2
    How? He has one more home run and worse defense. How, given what he’s done this year (here and now) has he done that gives credit to your claim that he’d make a difference. he certainly makes a difference, but no more than Contreras has to date. And I’d argue the defense is the big separator between the two right now
  16. Hugh2
    Calling your plays out loud while you move the goal posts I see???
  17. Hugh2
    Ranger is just the money spent. The “Con man” has been good. contreras is .286 with 16 home runs. Alonso is .245 with 17 home runs. So, what basis do you have that Alonso would make a big difference? I mean, don’t use last years stats here and now here and now. And let’s not talk about defense, which easily tips the scales to Wilson. here and now, Sox are better with Contreras than they would be with Alonso…here and now
  18. Hugh2
    If we sign Alonso we likely don’t sign Suarez and we don’t trade for Contreras and we are even worse right now.
  19. Hugh2
    Well If thats the case I’d trust him to sell them…..just not to turn around and flip them.
  20. Hugh2
    But here and now here and now….unless it’s here and then then it’s here and then.
  21. Hugh2
    Ryan Braiser played for the Dodgers after the Sox DFA’d him that made him a big league pitcher for the best team….so what?
  22. Hugh2
    Contreras has played better than Alonso too, but the here and now doesn’t matter here and now but rather the here in now back in early December. I suppose that would be the here and then?
  23. Hugh2
    he replied to your SSS comment with his “here and now” comment. I then baited him in with a completely different example and he took the bait and switched the goalposts. Here and now. When Jordan was traded the “here and now” was he was a lower ranked prospect who was seen as a right handed platoon at 1b with no speed and struggled against velocity. “The here and now” is he’s still only ranked 25th in the Cardinals system with the same profile but a decent batting line in only 31 at bats. somehow a different SSS reverses the logic. What a guy is doing now doesn’t change the history when it doesn’t make one’s point I suppose. I suppose some people just can’t appreciate the here and now of Caleb Durbin.
  24. Hugh2
    You don’t see the irony in this do you?
  25. Hugh2
    Contreras has been one of the best hitters in the AL but it’s a settle because of how he was perceived in the past? Does the same apply to a prospect who many scouts didn’t think would pan out and looks ok on just 30 at bats? im confused, is it a settle or a here and now?
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