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It’s the biggest kept secret, and there’s precedent, from the Sox. With exception of the Dodgers this is what the top 1/4 of teams haves one for a while know. Go over, get under, repeat. Everything this management has shown us, from going over to resetting and then going back over indicates that’s in fact the directive. The Sox are not shy about spending money, but there’s a way they like to do it. They got under to reset and spend. That’s pretty much a forgone conclusion at this point.
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1. He took a last place team with a Historically horrible finish to a playoff contending team. 2. He had a budget, and a directive to get the team below the luxury tax threshold. 3. He’s spent the last year building up depth in the system, and has returned the minor league system to a top 10 system. 4. It’s wildly speculated that the Sox plan on going over the luxury tax after they reset it. This lines up with next year. A team, vastly improved from the year before adding payroll and improving the quality of the big club. There’s no need to change strategy next year, the strategy was a multi year plan all along.
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The baby is premature and still in NICO. Still plenty of life left and too soon to call it ugly.
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Bobby Dalbec is in track to make his mlb pitching debut tonight.
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BUT to be fair, many considered him a better pitching prospect than a hitting prospect. I remember the day he has drafted all the buzz surrounding whether he would pitch or hit and the story was he absolutely hated pitching and told teams he wanted to hit. He was actually considered a better prospect as a pitcher but he wanted to hit. I think that ship has sailed for him at this point however......
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LOL I'm just joking!!!
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I'm not the G.M. of any ballclub, but if he's worth something to us, he's worth something to someone else. He's a premium bat that can play multiple positions. I also have taken note that we as fans (myself included) are much much much more likely to underestimate how much a guy gets in FA rather than overestimate how much they get. Here's another way of looking at it. If JD knows he can get more than 22 and opts out...........why would it be hard to believe someone is going to give Kyle more than $15?
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Assuming JD opts out that would be saving 7 million, and that's assuming 15 million gets it done.
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Well it's true if you're the "first to sign" you don't have anything to compare yourself to, that year at least, but you still do have every other team bidding on you or at least the ability to do so.
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Bobby Dalbec, the guy is so hot he's ready to be our Ohtani. Put him in there!!!!
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I always view the people who sign before-the-free-agent market as people who either really want to stay or people who feel like they're getting market value now. Market value now as in....you're paying the "buy it now" price. Odds are if you're signing Schwarber to a deal before free agency he wants you to pay the "buy it now" price which doesn't necessarily mean it's that high of a price but I think we as fans have a tendency to all too often assume everyone is going to sign early and cut deals to play for us because we're so amazingly awesome and who wouldn't want to take less money to play here so we can sign more superstars and win the Superbowl every freaking year. This is just a very long way of saying it's much more likely than not he goes to free agency.
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At this point let’s just throw Bobby Dalbec there. The kid has a gun.
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People forget how young Arauz is. He’s the same age as some of our top Prospects in AA and below.
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Rays at Red Sox 1:10 PM
Hugh2 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
This is the day........this is the day we will look back on and realized it all turned around. -
9/05 Indians @ SOX 1:10PM
Hugh2 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Id prefer the Yankees either do not get the wildcard or they're tied for the second wildcard spot. Facing Cole in a one-game elimination series would be a tough hill to climb. -
The Sox are pitching Sale tomorrow and Erod to follow.
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You can offer any player a qualifying offer as long as they were not traded that year. So for example, Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo can’t be given qualifying offers, but Eduardo Rodriguez and JD Martinez can.
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Any year you reset the luxury tax with the plan of going over the next year, they next year is the most ideal time to overpay on short term contracts. If you’re planning on going over anyways then hypothetically you’re going to be trying to get back under in several years. Leaving the upside of a 1 year deal with anyone with upside like JDM well worth a QO. If JD opts out you take offer the QO and you don’t blink. He turns it down then you get a pick to waste by signing a FA who presumably is going to put you on the hook for big bucks several years down the line. He exercise his option.
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The Sox hold a $10 million dollar option on Richards. I think they exercise it, and like you said keep him in this role which I think replaces Whitlock if they still plan on moving him to the rotation.
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Why not offer him a QO then? Thats a gross overpay but next year might be the year to do it. the Sox are probably planning on going over the cap next year and you don’t blow it up long term with one year. He can fit that role Whitlock provided this year when the other Garrett moves to the rotation. If or when Barnes/Ottavino struggle or get injured he might end up SAVING a season for us as an elite late reliever. And this may be one of my dumbest posts yet. In my attempt to justify the gross overpay for one year deal I completely forgot Richards contract grants the Sox a club option for $10 million next year. This is why you get under the cap and reset, you can spend big next year and having shorter deals only makes it easier.
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Richards to me is just screaming, I could prolong my career and reinvent myself as a reliever. It’s only a 13.1 IP sample size this year but he’s been great I’m shorter stints.
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I mean, if you want to ruin the kid and the team why not.
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Not to toot my own horn here, well who am I kidding of course I am, my perspective of Schwarber staying in the OF so Bobby can stay at 1b is starting to look really good. Of course, one could say he should just be DHing with his atrocious defense but I don't think you take a guy like JDM out of the lineup just because he's been cold.
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If we had to split, I'd rather take the last two games than the first two. Leave on a high note against the best AL team and hopefully start a little tailspin for them. A boost of confidence for us going in against a decent team in Cleveland. It would be the most 2021 thing ever if this Covidsquad team started to right the ship for the Sox.
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I also remember he was absolutely obsessed with bashing players he thought were "soft" and for the longest time Jacoby Ellsbury was his primary target. We had to dump Jacoby and trade for Matt Kemp.