Hugh2
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The long-term plan was to always move Whitlock into the rotation, I'm wondering if they've abandoned that plan. This seems pretty stupid to me because he didn't fail as a starter, rather the bullpen failed and he moved there due to necessity. Seems to me that the way to right the ship is to fix the bullpen....but Maybe the Sox really think a clean bill of health next year and Whitlock/Houck can be a lockdown 8th/9th tandem.
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No you're not. But if you're bringing in a TOTRS, somebody has to get booted from the rotation and I'd rather have him go than one of the younger promising arms coming up. 1. TOTRS (Degrom, Scherzer, Rodon, TRADE C) 2. Sale 3. Wacha 4. Eovaldi 5. Bello/Paxton/Whitlock/Houck
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You're also not getting much for those guys. And I'd rather trade a guy like Pivetta than Bello, and Pivetta has a ton more value than Wink. Pivetta plus a prospect in the Yorke category probably gets you a pretty good up-the-middle player. Not great but good.
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This is true, but I don’t see any of those guys being an ACE, I have faith that Mata and Bello will be good, but probably not TOTRS, most of the other guys will either fail or be relievers. The team is more flush with starters than they’ve been in a long time, this is true, but it’s all #3-#5 talent. Even if Chris Sale is healthy (which you can’t bank on) another ACE makes you a WS caliber team. This is why I kind of like the ideal of signing a Rodon and trading Pivetta for either 2nd/RF. Really like Degrom here as well but he’s asking for stupid money. Maybe he’s worth it. Still open to trade for a TOTRS
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The thing with me, and this my opinion, it’s seems like a huge waste to trade for a position player. The team has a much better history of developing and signing position players leaving me biased towards trading for pitching. Might make sense to trade for a guy if you’re bringing in a top tier FA pitcher like Rodon/DeGrom and then maybe you trade a guy like Pivetta for a 2nd basemen…..or a right fielder. I think it’s more probable than not they bring back Bogey, but certainly not a lock.
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Valdez is a hit first prospect with bad defense, and if he doesn't hit what does that make him at 2Nd? then who do you play if Arroyo goes down? or Maybe Arroyo isn't as great if he can become a 500 AT player for the first time ever. Jeter Downs? It makes zero sense to buy and up the middle defender this offseason. It's happening.
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Nah, player options are great, guy stays 8-9 years instead 6, has a few monster seasons and someone else pays them In their old years.
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Yes, but I’m talking about him opting out of what is much longer duration contract. I’m which case we end up with him for 2-3 years
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And those will be 2-3 of his best years. I’m all for signing Devers long term, but wouldn’t be completely dissatisfied with only 3 more years of him….better than 1
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You kind of have to care about payroll when you don’t have the same money coming in from ticket sales. If anything, the rays way of doing business shows they do care about winning, because they’re are efficient as one can be with what they have to work with.
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And I don’t want to see Duran on a MLB roster again unless he either vastly improves his defense or his bat takes off. A bat first position player who can’t hit doesn’t have a place on a team. Kid still has talent and shouldn’t be given up on but I’m not building a MLB team around him. I love Arroyo, but history has shown us we shouldn’t build a team around him being a starter. If this year has shown us anything, it’s how far you can when too many guys get hurt. So let’s shore up this lineup with some durable MLB talent and not platoon it with the same guys getting hurt who haven’t been consistently healthy or good year to year.
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Degrom has stated he wants to be the first 50 million dollar pitcher. Yeah, I’m good with that, let’s give Florida a call and see what they want for one of their cost controlled aces.
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I hate the ideal of free agent pitching, especially this class. There’s a lot of former aces who could turn out value or spend the whole season on the DL. Example, Clayton Kershaw. There’s some talent, but everyone is going to be competing for guys like Degrom, and now you’re signing an over 30 year old pitcher to a long term deal at 30 million plus. I wouldn’t mind taking a flyer on a guy like Syndergaard and trading for a TOTRS. Use the money to get a bullpen arm and build a WS caliber lineup.
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You could make an argument for a QO for both, the biggest risk is both accept. Oh no, we need starting pitchers anyways, we have about 1 solid guy who has shown he can stay health in this rotation the last several years and he's not great, not bad just not great. You can still upgrade the rotation and offer some QOs
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The great thing about QO's is even if you blow up your cap that's money you know is coming off the books next year. There's a difference between paying a guy 40/1 and 20 a year X2.
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My only concern is players like he are so volatile, he looks great this year but he could be garbage next year. Three years from now Franchy Cordero could be a good player helping some other team win a pennant. It's a crazy world....I know.
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If Bloom was given the mandate to tarde Betts and shed payroll, which I believe he was, he did well here.
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Some of those guys are fine depth options or might end up being a good platoon/4th outfielder type. But how many of those do you need on your roster? sure if a guy has options you can keep him in AAA, but this team obviously still needs another CF/RF type for next year.
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That's actually a fair point. It's easy to judge a trade in hindsight. You could make a deal that's good at the time and a guy doesn't pan out. Whitesox looked like they got a boatload from the Sox for Chris Sale, but in hindsight those guys did nothing. If anything the premium for 1/2 a year of a player has dropped, which you could argue was the boat the Sox were in looking at the 2020 season. Of course at the time I don't think anyone had an ideal that they would only be playing 1/3 of a season either.
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Seeing what 1 year of control gets you (Mookie Betts) I almost would rather have the draft pick. Maybe not. Regardless plan A SHOULD BE to resign him.
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That's not a horrible lineup. Not too different from what they have now and if they resign Bogey and are healthier it's BETTER....and they're currently 3rd in the AL in runs scored. Again, you assume the Sox aren't going to sign anyone. You really think they're going to pick up Phams option? or start Hosmer if Casas can play?
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They have his ceiling as a middle-of-the-rotation starter. I think they think pretty kindly of him.
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First off, saying he played a season and spent TWO weeks during that season the DL doesn't make the case you think it does. Also, for the majority of his career, he has been a super utility guy and spent a few of his younger seasons as a UP/Down guy and got at bats in the minors. He was never really viewed or used as a starter until very recently. So you're being very misleading, probably not on purpose.
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Catchers are also notorious for being late bloomers, McGuire might surprise people next year. I'm not getting my hopes up and my best guess is he's going to be a massive upgrade over Plawecki, but the Sox really like him. Him and Wong might make a great platoon.
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This is a lineup that consists of ZERO moves being made. Assuming Bogey opts out and the Sox don't pick up Phams option (they wont') they're close to 70-80 million under the cap, and JH always either goes over or comes up close to it. You're also assuming the worse case scenario for everyone and I don't know why you're not plugging Casas in at 1B.