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  1. Hugh2
    Some players are going to dissapoint us next year Some players are going to surprise and outperform next year. I just hope more of the later our on our team.
  2. Hugh2
    The thing about career years is this. If people want to suggest regression after a career year, well think of it this way if a player never had a career year AFTER having a career year every single MLB player in the history of the game would have their best season their rookie year and it would be all regression from there. I think Crochet is showing us what he is capable of and baring injury should be/could be just as good to better. CHapman is an interesting case giving his age. Did he just have a really good year? or did the Sox pitching staff unlock something with him? because his control was definitively better last year.
  3. Hugh2
    I don't know about all that, and I'm not in love with bringing in Marte (although I certainly don't hate it) but he adds more value in other ways that Pete alonso does not, E.G. defense, speed on the bases. Higher OBP Higher AVG Higher walk rates lower K rate While Marte has had a few below average season he's either been average or plus at 2b most seasons while Alonos has been an absolute horrible defender. Literally the only thing Alonso is better at is hitting Home Runs, and it's not like Marte doesn't hit them as the last 3 seasons he's hit 28,36,25. Again I'm not the president of the Marte fan club but he's definitively more valuable than Pete Alonso.
  4. Hugh2
    I love how people assume that all of Duran/Rafaeal/Anthony///Narvaez/Story/Abreu/Crochett/Chapman could regress next year but. Tucker/Alonso/Marte/Schwarber/Bichette would all not or be better
  5. Hugh2
    Alonso is power, Marte (who still has good power) literally does everything else better and at a more important at position where we need more help.
  6. Hugh2
    Technically he took us for $35 million cash and around $31 million in AAV. But I’d say the biggest crime is losing draft picks for just one year of a guy.
  7. Hugh2
    I know this would never happen, but I'd love to see his market collapse and this happen. Not because I don't want Bregman to get paid but because......BORAS
  8. Hugh2
    At the end of the day it's the total money that matters more than the AAV. Bregman only got such a high AAV last year because he took less total money. He only took less total money because he thought he could come back this year and get more. All he really has to do is get more than $80 million dollars for it to be worth it. I'm sure he gets much more than that, but I'm not so sure he beats Schwarber or Alonso.
  9. Hugh2
    If I was a bookie I'd put the over/under on Bregman at $131 and I wouldn't feel terribly surprised if he lands somewhere above or below that.
  10. Hugh2
    No he didn't he opted out because he thought he could get more than 80 million. Any deal that is more than that makes it worth it for him. I think what he signs for is below what him and Boras think but above $80 million. So he'll make out inthe end, but that gap makes me think we will be waiting a while with him.......much like last year
  11. Hugh2
    VIOLENTLY AGREEING!!!! I didn't realize I had left my caps locks on but that seemed fitting. I'm going to use this term more, I like it.
  12. Hugh2
    And I was never talking about every oldie, rather specifically Polanco who is even riskier because of his profile. Poor bat speed, and poor exit velocites. I want to add guys around Mayer, Casas, Campbell, and Anthony......I'd just be very dissapointed if it was Polanco.
  13. Hugh2
    What could possibly of happened over the last 6 years to give you any kind of bad feeling about the moves this team will make?
  14. Hugh2
    Really? what are you going to tell me next? that Dante Bichette is actually Bo????
  15. Hugh2
    This is a great point, and honestly if Pipeline is saying Mayer was the #1 prospect in the draft and Al Leiter is the #2 prospect in the draft.....who's to say Texas didn't legit see Leiter as the #1 or #2 player in the draft and that's why they took him #2?
  16. Hugh2
    5/125 would be more than fair for Bregman. Maybe add in some vesting options if he stays healthy.
  17. Hugh2
    If John Henry did this and posted another photo of himself smoking a cigar shutting up his naysayers that would be awesome. I'd put the odds of that happening at slightly greater than zero. Then again the odds of every atom in your body aligning perfectly with the wall and allowing you to walk thru the wall are theoretically greater than 0 percent. It's about .0000000000000000000000000000001% I think the Odds of John Henry growing some balls is higher than that but not by much.
  18. Hugh2
    People seemed pissed, understandly so. Not that I have much faith in them doing anything significant BUT... If the Sox open up the year having signed Bregman/Okamoto. Bregman/Bellinger. Bichette/Ohamoto. Bichette/Bellinger. Marte/Bellinger. or Marte/Okamoto How would we feel overall about the offseason? I'll just pick one. Lets say we ended up adding Sonny Gray/Alex Bregman/Cody Bellinger. This team has the options out there to have the offseason we mostly want. But they have lost off goodwill with most fans. Until they do something, given their recent track record, I think they deserve the grief they get.
  19. Hugh2
    I mean, "passed over by three teams" is an interesting way to describe a guy who was the #4 pick overall" By that logic every guy who isn't drafted #1 is "passed over" 1052 players played in 2025, 8 of them were former #1 overall picks. So 99.2395437% of all MLB players are "passed over" Only the White Sox are going to get a non passed over player next year. ADD: I know what you meant red, I'm just having a little fun with numbers while I sip my morning coffee.
  20. Hugh2
    Even college guys who breeze thru the minors typically need a full season of development, putting his ETA at 2027. But that's usually top of the draft elite ready talent. If he hits, he probably still needs 2-3 years to cook min. Lets also never forgot. You can trade guys. If you knew your outfield was set for the next 10 years, and you knew a prospect was going to be stud you'd still draft him 100% of the time because you can always trade guys. If you see something in a guy, you like him, and you think you can develop him you are NEVER looking at current needs of the big league team when making most trades.
  21. Hugh2
    I'm stealing the spirit of this comment from another commentor in another online forum. The Sox received Isaiah Jackson for Vaughn Grissom The Sox received Vaugn Grissom for Chris Sale The Sox received Chris sale for Michael Kopech Michael Kopech was drafted with compensation pick received from losing Jacoby Ellsbury Jacoby Ellsbury was drafted with the compensation pick received from losing Orlando Cabrera Orlanda Cabrera was received from trading away Nomar Garciaparra. The return from Nomar lives on!!!!!!!
  22. Hugh2
    Bichette, Alonso, Bregman, Schwarber are all guys that could make this team better. im not so certain on the Japanese guys. Okamoto maybe but Murakami scares the crap out of me.
  23. Hugh2
    But the under 23 guy likely comes with 6 years of team control. So shouldn’t we really be looking at value from 23-28?
  24. Hugh2
    The problem with this is two fold. A.) I’m not comparing Polanco to any 23 year old nor am I saying we have to go out and get a youngster instead of him. B.) comparing a 23 year old to a 33 year old isn’t the same thing as comparing 23-28 vs. 33-38
  25. Hugh2
    I never once said guys can’t be good past that age, only that the vast majority of guys fall off a cliff before then. the fact that you are literally going back to the 1940’s and have such a small list of a lot of HOFers actually proves my point. how big is the list of the guys who were good and fell off a cliff by 35? That list would be the size of a book, Think about how insanely enormous that list would be.
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