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  1. Hugh2
    What a wild, weird, strange, and disappointing season that was. Never seen a team do such a 180 before To me, they were the most talented bad team ever. On paper they were really good, they just went out and got AGON and Crawford and still had Lester/Becket at the top of their rotation. They lost the first 6 games of the year and finished April 11-15 They went on to finish 7-20 in September, and miss the playoffs by 1 game. Everything in between? for 2/3 of the MLB season they were the most dominant team in MLB. For the majority of the MLB season they were on pace to easily be a 100 win team (106 wins). But they started off slow, and completely fell off a cliff in September. They looked like the 2025 Dodgers by the end of August, and by the end of the year they looked like the 2026 Athletics.
  2. Hugh2
    I set the poll to close on opening day, so people are free to change their minds as players get hurt or show up in BSOHL in ST.
  3. Hugh2
    Alright, time to place your hypothetical bets. The prize???? bragging rights.
  4. Hugh2
    Come on, everybody knows they traded Ruth for cold hard cash. don’t worry, Kyle Harrison isn’t Babe Ruth
  5. Hugh2
    Suggestions: we can put the poll up, but just have it closed before game 1
  6. Hugh2
    Quinn Priester vs. Kyle Harrison at the time of their trade. Age: QP: 24 KH: 24 IP: QP: 92 KH: 158 FWar QP: -.5 KH: .8 last Prospect ranking QP: 88 KH: 26 Kyle Harrison was a much better prospect than Quinn Priester was at the time of their trades.
  7. Hugh2
    Kyle Harrison is almost the same exact age Quinn Priester was when we traded him last year. When Priester was traded he was 24, coming off of 2 part time seasons where he put up a -1.0 WAR but was a highly regarded prospect who ranked between 58-88 the few years prior. The Brewers took him and got him right. Harrison, same age Preister was last year, .5 WAR the last few seasons, ranked between 26-38 the last few years. At this point in his career, Harrison is arguably a much better prospect than Preister was. If people are angry we traded Priester....they should be very angry we traded Harrison. But that's my horrible take, reality is this is what the Brewers do, they're great at developing guys like Preister.....there's a good chance they get Kyle right and he becomes a very good pitcher.
  8. Hugh2
    Who....in baseball has an "elite" staff?
  9. Hugh2
    Not really, the point was it was two entirely different trades. Here's another crude analogy. People need to think about what defines a "sunk cost" around here. Should the Sox NEVER trade Harrison until he becomes more valuable than Devers? That's exactly how traders who lose all their money in the stock market react when their assets go down. Mentally they don't lose the money until the actually trade an asset away.....so they hold onto it for even longer as it continues to depreciate.
  10. Hugh2
    You realize I was being extremely sarcastic? I like my $100 for $10 example better.
  11. Hugh2
    Alternate comp. Nomar led to O Cabrera, led to Jacoby Ellsbury, led to Michael Kopech, led to Chris Sale, led to Vaughn Grissom, who led to Isaiah Jackson. We have to closely follow Jackson this year to see if the Nomar trade was a good one.
  12. Hugh2
    At the end of the day these are people trying to predict the future. People are very poor predictors of the future. at 87.5 I'd take the over on the Red Sox. Call me a homer.....I'm going to full homer this year.
  13. Hugh2
    We trade Nomar Garciaparra for Orlando Cabrera, who we lost to FA, but with the compensation pick we drafted Jed Lowrie, we trade Lowrie for Joel Hanrahan. So we essentially trade Nomar for Joel Hanrahan.....what a disgrace.
  14. Hugh2
    Well HUGHCOTA has them at 95-67
  15. Hugh2
    It literally makes zero sense. Lets say I trade a $100 baseball card for a $1 dollar baseball card. That was a dumb trade, I made a dumb trade. Lets say I take that baseball card that is only worth $1 dollar and I find a guy who gives me a $10 card for it. I made a good trade, comparing that $10 to the $100 card is stupid, very stupid. You can say that initial trade was a bad trade all on it's own but it's just absurdly stupid. I shouldn't say stupid, a lot of people do it and the ones saying it aren't stupid, I'm not saying you're stupid just the comparison is. But I suppose us human beings have an evolutionary instinct for pattern recognition and a tendency to connect things that aren't or shouldn't always be connected. It's kept us alive for hundreds of thousands of years. But it's also why people see Jesus in the clouds, Elvis in a sweat stain, or think Durbin should be compared to Devers.
  16. Hugh2
    They would be projected to be 1st or 2nd in every division in baseball other than the A.L. East where they are 3rd. To hell with the projections, this team is going to win 95 games.
  17. Hugh2
    Comparing Devers to Durbin is literally the worst take ever....these types of takes really really really need to die.
  18. Hugh2
    This is what I want to know. Was the price really unreasonable? like were they asking for Roman Anthony? because then I don't blame them for hanging up the phone. But if the cost was reasonable but Breslow is just holding on then my opinion could change.
  19. Hugh2
    Neto Fwar the last 3 years: 3.1 3.5 1.1 (1/2 year) THat's really good......that's not great
  20. Hugh2
    Between IKF, Rodgers, Monasterio, and Seigler it's like the Sox were trying to corner the utility/back up infielder market. Obviously not the sexy move we've all been waiting for but not something to discount as well. Most teams are going to see other guys get playing time throughout the year due to injuries. To some extent all teams are going to have SOME injuries. I do think there is value in getting some guys that can put up .5-1.5 WAR from that group. Other teams, and this team in the past have seen bad negative war players take up those roles.
  21. Hugh2
    I think there starting asking price would be Mayer, but BTV accepts Abreu/Tolle/Valera
  22. Hugh2
    Durbins swing was made for Fenway, I expect Fenway to help his numbers out a lot. A sophmore slump is always possible with young guys but we could also see his numbers take a big step forward too.
  23. Hugh2
    Allegedly the asking price was too high......I'd be interested in knowing what "too high" was.
  24. Hugh2
    Yup
  25. Hugh2
    My only concern with Durbin is his arm isn't very strong and he's coming off of right elbow surgery, for such a small guy you wonder if 2B is a better fit long term. Then again, the surgery was very minor and his arm speed isn't slower than Mayers or Storys. So Maybe 3B is where he belongs. I hate to say it, I really do, I'm sure this will rub some people the wrong way and will say I'm saying it just because he's short, but in many ways he does resemble a young Jose Altuve. Altuve was a little guy, with very little bat speed and lower average exit velocities. But it just didn't seem to matter because he had good plate discipline, does not strike out, and squares up the baseball. Durbin could afford to walk a little bit more, but that's pretty much his exact profile.
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