Hugh2
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The farm is light years better, but marginally due to his trading which maybe added depth. Largely it’s been his drafting, IFA, and retention as well.
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Dear god…twice in one day? What is going on in the world. Hell yeah
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Then it will be a lot easier for the Sox to suck, this is the dice you roll in free agency, it can happen with MLB players too.
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Clear out payroll, rebuild the farm.
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Just remember, if Yoshida ever becomes the next Ichiro we can at least fall back on the “well he could of had him for less” argument. My guess is Yoshida had an asking price and the Sox met it cutting LA and SD out of the bidding, who knows what they would have paid for him. We will never know. But that’s not important, what is important is someone somewhere wrote that he was worth less than that. Now and forever.
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If that was the plan why not trade Bogey and Devers years ago when the return would have been much nicer? And her have his “own guys” in much sooner.
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Apparently the Blue Jays and the Dodgers were in on Yoshida as well.
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I suppose anything is possible, but as he smiling more than usual? I’m not sure I can tell the difference between a $90 million dollar smile and a $280 million dollar smile? Personally for me anything above the league minimum would make me smile just as big.
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I think the clients pay the agent not the team. Anyways I thought you were talking about the posting fee which I believe does to the team in Japan, no?
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P.s. I’ll donate another $100 to Jude’s if anyone can figure out my last reference.
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Wait a minute it was YOU? This was the thing that made me challenge you to name your starting outfield without Kike. Dude, why didn’t you just name drop Beni then? I would of happily donated $100 to St. Jude’s. Of note, I donated $375 last month anyways. I may be an ******* but I’m not a %100 dick
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Red Sox are paying Boras under the table?
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There’s also the point to be made that there’s reason to believe that Yoshida is much better. First of, Suzuki wasn’t bad, but Yoshida had better stats than him against better pitching. So shouldn’t we expect him to be better than .770? If he’s an .800 ops guy he’s worth it
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In a sense Red….you kind of just made the argument that Yoshida should be much better than Suzuki and his .770 ops. Which means he should be a great MLB player. Thank you
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Yoshida plays in a different league than Suzuki, same league Ichiro came from that is considered more advanced with much better pitching. Also wouldn’t discount that Suzuki could get better as rookies do sometimes. It’s also not like he was horrible, he put up a .770 OPS
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You effectively just made the same exact argument I made about Benintendi. Congratulations we agreed on something.
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Different market, Yoshida was a free agent. We’ve seen PLENTY of talent come over from Japan and succeed over the years, I listed pro guys too. Nomo, Tanaka, Ichiro, Ohtani. Should the Sox just ignore the international market because a guy might bust? Bogey has nothing to do with this conversation, he has no bearing on whether or not the international market should be pursued.
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Thought of the morning. It was argued back here some time ago, but I can’t remember who I had the disagreement with. That Kike Hernandez was a good extension, and he would have got substantially more if he went to free agency than 10/1 year. I think this years FA class has proven my point. Kike looks like a steal now.
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Should the Sox ignore international markets then? Surely the likes of Bogaerts, Devers, Bello, and others in the pipeline have been enough to excite the fans?
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I dont think it matters either way, our perception as fans doesn’t change the outcome.
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One could also say until Yoshida proves he can’t hit MLB pitching he’s Abreu? I suppose your cup is either half empty, or half full.
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I’m fairly certain professional scouts have a much better ideal how a players skill sets will transfer over to mlb better than we do
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So then we should just not trust our evaluators and sign anyone? Also, there’s been turn over in the organization since then, also…even the best scouts miss on guys and the worse get lucky. You’re literally trying to guess the future trajectory of a human being.
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Neither did Ichiro, Tanaka, Nomo, Ohtani, Matsui, Darvish, plus others. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t explore those markets. If your people believe in someone and you can get them at a price you’re comfortable with you do it.
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We are splitting hairs with a differential of 1 war or less. I’m not saying Beni stinks or I’ll be surprised if he has a year mirroring his 2018, I just wouldn’t be surprised if he trends downward either.