Hugh2
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But the bullpen looks legit, and there’s depth, and bullpen talent coming up on the farm, and it could get a boost from the rotation of everyone stays healthy. Jansen still looks elite, and if he’s elite for us for two years that will be…:we’ll just awesome
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The starting rotation is looking much better now than those numbers
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And Miguel is 5 for 5 in stolen base attempts too.
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Keep in mind Bleis .719 ops comes with a .314 BA. Which alone doesn’t mean much but realize he’s hitting the ball and getting hits. As he physically matures and grows into some more power he could really start to move.
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2016 and 2018 respectively
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No. Espinoza topped out in BA/MLB at 19 and 39. Kopech topped out at 11 and 10.
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Dave was also handcuffed and effectively didn’t have an international class two years in a row. We also didn’t have a first round pick in 2019. Ours dropped 10 spots because the luxury tax limit was exceeded. But it was totally worth it because we had just won the World Series.
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Although Kopech is still only 27 and coming off of a good year. Off to a horrible start this year.
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Kopech and Moncada were blue chippers, they just never amounted to much. The Tigers wanted Devers and Dave said no. That worth like…50 WAR right there
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At this point you might have to send a prospect with him to get a team to take him or just swallow all the money. Maybe not if he can string together a few good starts. Not looking good
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You might be surprised how horrible the average catcher is offensively
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At the time Downs was the better prospect. You thought you might be getting a future short stop rather than a future relief pitcher. And the Sox have a better record bringing along starting position players than they do pitchers.
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Vaz wasn’t a bad defender, when he first came up he was an elite defender. That’s why he earned the job. His defense slipped over the years to average but his bat is a plus now for the position. He was still a plus defender in 2018
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Statcast for the last several years pretty has McGuire as a middle of the pact defender. He’s an average defender. I’m not sure what the stats are these days but if someone has a cognitive bias towards McGuire I can see how every little thing can be scrutinized and critiqued to the point that someone believes in their head that it is blatantly obvious McGuire is a bad catcher. All evidence points to the contrary. If he’s our backup, he’s shaping up to be a pretty darn good back up.
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Precisely, a starting catcher isn’t playing every game like a short stop or centerfielder. Wong actually didn’t convert and fully commit to catching until he joined the Sox Organization. So I think it’s reasonable to assume he can continue to get even better behind the plate. He might be an elite defender
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Wong and Verdugo, and for one 1/3 of a season for Betts. I wish they resigned Betts, but if it was true he wasn’t t resigning here then it’s nice to know he didn’t walk for nothing.
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I agree, I think they should keep him as a starter for now, but they should re-evaluate that late summer. Especially if they need a fresh arm or two down the stretch.
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The Rays have played almost all last-place teams, we have played almost all first-place teams. We're sitting at 11-10 and you can imagine an extra win or two in there if Sale and Whitlock hit the ground running. Duval looks good, Verdugo looks poised to have a breakout year, Yoshida and Casas see a lot of pitches if they break out the offense is going to scare people. There are reinforcements on the way, and Duran looks like he might have figured it out. How can you not at least be a little optimistic about this team right now>???
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I use the term zero-sum game as it is often applied in game-theory in which the benefit of one player results in the net loss of benefit to another player. Just because Wong may be the starting catcher, doesn't mean McGuire is a bad catcher. Someone has to take the lions share behind the dish.
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It's not a zero-sum game.
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Winkleman and certainly Perales have more time to figure it out being 21 and 20, high a low a. Mata is 23 much closer to the majors. Time is running out.
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Or it could be that we are using such small sample sizes (for everything) here. If that's all Chang then Chang wins you 34 more games. Chang is not the difference between 67 and 101 wins
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Maybe we should start a catcher thread? How man pages have we not been talking about the starting rotation now?
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If we started CHang on day 1 we'd win 101 games this year. This is preposterous.
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This was going to be part of a larger repsonse to Notins comment above. I think if the Sox made larger effort to resign Bogaerts a year or two sooner they could have had him for less than SD offered him, maybe not I do not know. But at the point in time his price tag went up I don't blame them from walking away either.