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I call any situation where you have to DFA talent that might help you MLB ball club one day a crunch.

If he had a .900 OPS in low A last year he would still not be protected. Heck if he had a 1.000 OPS he wouldn't be. He was 20, in low A, extremely raw, and a position player. Position players are not pitchers, they need to play and face pitchers to develop and no team is going to burn a roster spot on a guy who is lightyears away from the big leagues.

How is he going to stay on a big-league club for a whole year? he'd be making the jump from low A. An .873 OPS in Low A is nice, but that doesn't scream promote him past 3 levels to the big leagues and plug him in the lineup. That would be pretty unprecedented.

A team 2 games shy of a world series is going to tweak their roster, they're going to sign free agents so there will be a roster crunch.

My problem with this statement is how do you know when someone's peak value is? your logic is 100% sound. But doesn't peak mean that value will go down? What information could you have about a guy that he's about to deteriorate that other teams would not have? aside from hiding medicals. We can guess, and sell prospects when their value is high, but to assume peak value would be to guess they're going to regress. If we did that with guys like Mookie, Bogaerts, Vazuez etc. The return would have been a fraction of the value they have provided for the Sox over the years. I think it's all about balance, the purpose of the farm system is to supplement the big club, and sometimes that means holding your chips and other times it means trading them away. I don't necessarily believe that trading a guy away means you believe you're trading him at peak value either (not saying you said that just saying it for conversational purposes). I think G.M.s sometimes trade away guys that they're legitimately sad to see leave their system but they traded from a position of strength for a team need. With that in mind, there is a hypothetical scenario where you trade one of and keep the other of Dalbec/Casas.

It will be interesting to see what they do with Ward, it doesn't help being a pitcher. It's a lot easier to stash an A ball pitcher in the back of a big league pen than it's to stash an A ball hitter on your bench. You can still develop a pitcher in the back of your pen, the hitter riding the bench will either stagnate by sitting or take a step back struggling worse than Downs did in AAA if he plays. I wouldn't worry about someone taking Gilberto.

Whoever has the money, that’s who.

It's amazing how down things seem right now because the Sox are only a game away from elimination, they're also only two away from a world series. been a great season, everyday hoping for one more game at this point.

If people love umpires so much they can just stand out there to look pretty. Let the game be called right. I want to see guys swing, run, dive, pitch throw.....I could care less about a man in a black vest pointing his finger.

We also don't need to throw 30 million dollars per annum contracts at players who are playing the position our best players/top prospects play at. Unless of course Devers or Casas is headling a package for a true TOTRS to pair with Sale, then it makes sense.

Agree. There's a huge difference between automating the officiating vs the actual play. I'll never understand what point people think they're making with such ridiculous comments. If anything, taking human error out of the game call makes the game 100% honest. To me, that's more fun. Seriously, when has anyone asked for an umpires jersey for christmas, or for their autograph? people just hear change and they get all hot and bothered.

Pablo was also known as a clutch playoff hitter too, not that I was ever a fan of his deal.

Before we signed Price, the narrative in Boston was that the Sox would no longer sign long term mega deals. With the 2013 world series still fresh in everyone's mind the philosophy was mid-term, mid-range talent. The Sox obviously reversed course when they signed Price (which is something I expected). Now, here's my point. If the Sox made that Pivot just one year earlier, and decided to go all in on the top pitcher in the market we would have had Max Scherzer. That's the risk you take when paying guys into their 30's for what they did in their 20's. You could be paying a future HOFer who will be just as good if not better, or you could be paying a guy who is about the take a step back in his value.

Absolutely!!!! I just wish every Sox fan could enjoy such competency and not continue to sulk in their failed opinions.

Not sure how I feel about Robles long-term, relief pitchers can be so volatile, especially middle guys. But he's been a great addition this season.

True, makes more sense against a lefty-heavy lineup, maybe force a team to either face a tough LOOGY, or take out a LH bat early in the game. Still, strategy involved but definitely less of a defined role.

Robles was great out of the bullpen down the stretch, I'd even put Austin Davis in there. Ignore the overall stat line, he was acquired to get lefties out and that's exactly what he did, he got lefties out. Wasn't his fault Cora left him in against righties and he got lit up.

Absolutely, excellent point.

Anthony Davis did his job in Boston, and Robles was good down the stretch. Iglesias was a great post-deadline pick-up that filled an obvious depth need and Schwarber was the best offensive pick up for 1/3 of the price as Rizzo and Cruz. Haters be damned.

FTR - I do not believe and I do not want my comments to get twisted to mean that I think NFL players are more likely to commit crimes. I just don't believe they're any less likely.

That's a far stretch from what I'm saying. I was very specific to say "dudes" and not NFL players to exemplify that there's a difference between being a convict and committing a crime and getting away with it. Do peopl actually think that there is 100% zero difference in the odds of going to jail for your crimes if you're a poor man vs. a millionaire who is well connected and can hire a lawyer?

Spare me the snide comment like I'm a flat earther, birds aren't real, anti-vaxxer. What I'm claiming isn't unreasonable and generally out in the open. Is it a conspiracy theory that the NFL hide its knowledge of Ray Rice beating women unconscious? There is literally Chris Carter on VIDEO telling people they need a "fall guy" to take the blame for actions they take. A 12 YEAR VETERAN of the NFL coaching up young players on staying out of trouble not by being role models but by taking manuevers to AVOID consequences. s*** like this happens all the time and it's systematic. I played sports in college, I've literally had coaches get me out of trouble and get me out of an arrest, you don't think this happens at the PRO level??? You don't think people with money who are connected and can hire good lawyers are less likely to face legal consequences? whether they're an athlete or not. Don't mock me like that's on par with some cookoo who thinks crab people murdered JFK. Want to have a conversation that's fine but get out of here with the weak A** bravado and make actual arguments.

Now might be a good time to look up what the latest rumors is instead of going off of what I read a few months ago, however.

Well, I think after the lower less penalizing threshold there would still be higher and harsher thresholds. I'm not going to pretend to know what is better for who, I just know the players union hates it.

It's been speculated that a lower tax line would come with fewer penalties and different thresholds. Supposedly the players union HATES this ideal, so theres a decent chance it doesn't make it in it.