Hugh2
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It could be that, or it could just be them being cautious. They develop a plan with a player and stick to it the same way they waited and brought Sale up. Did they really need to pitch him one last game in the minors? or were they just following their plan. I think they're just following a plan with Schwarber. They don't want to throw too much at him at once.
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Postdeadline? they lost the series before the all-star break and have sucked ever since. They started this decline week before the deadline.
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I mean, effectively they're exactly that. I get that they're not and we can have that semantics battle if you want to? I will just concede and say you're right but here me out on this. A deadline acquisition is to acquire a player who you previously did not have. Chris Sale has not pitched one inning for the Sox up until recently. In terms of value-added, wins added, semantics aside, it's an acquisition.
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Hey Schwarber can catch???? lol
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I mean, the two biggest holes on the team were 1B/LF, you know he can play one.......and if they really want to they will just plug him at 1B. A lot can be said about that, but it happens, and it's more successful at 1B than anywhere else. Nothing is guaranteed in life but I think that was their mentality. They also traded for a bat first. If you can ignore the 2 weeks on the DL, he was a very significant offense upgrade. Schwarber OPS >> Cruz/Rizzo at the deadline and the Sox literally got him for peanuts. Sale/Houck = a more significant upgrade than any of our competitors. Honestly, I like what they did, staying under the cap and making sneakily significant upgrades.......it just hasn't worked out. The only thing I would have liked to have seen, and the criticism that I think may be well deserved is they could have put a little bit more effort into upgrading the pen. At this point, I'm not even sure they'd have ONE more win if they did so, but it will help them down the stretch.
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Normally I would agree with you, and I still think you may be right, but I'm not 100% sold on that. Dalbec was in one of his (one week month) hot streaks the past 14 days, and Schwarber had just returned from an injury. Plus Duran isn't hitting either so it made sense to just stick him in left. I still think we need to try him at 1st at some point. At this point, I'd rather give Duran some at bats for the next month and see if he can take a step forward rather than Dalbec.
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Bobby Dalbec is also due to turn back into a pumpkin, it's time to see what Schwarber can do at 1B.
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Yeah, 1st base is the least of my concern, at least....next to the offense overall. The team isn't scoring zero runs because of one position, the entire offense is slumping and slumping badly.
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In a year or two you will just need a guy behind the plate who can hit and throw the ball. I bet when Robo Umps arrive we will start to see the offensive value of the position rise.
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There’s also a difference between a guy who slumps for 5 days vs. 2 weeks. Yes, all hitters are generally streaky, but some much more than others. I miss watching Gwynn hit.
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Great points, I would like to defend Downs a bit. You can count on one hand how many pitchers he’s faced who are younger than him. He effectively skipped AA after missing a year. That was a huge leap and it’s obvious now the Sox Rushed him. If he started the year in Portland and mashed, everyone would be very high on him. I think some guys might have passed him with their performance, but I don’t think he’s done a lot to hurt his value. His value will really start to decline if he struggles next year, but it’s very easy to write this year off considering he lost a season to Covid, and got rushed up skipping a level.
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If we signed DR on August 1st people would be bitching and moaning. People just like to complain.
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Remember how horrible Devers defense was the first 5-6 weeks? He must have been a plus (slightly) defender since then to put up a .0 Dwar. This seems to pass the eye test two. After an ugly start Devers has looked much better at 3rd.
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That’s right, Mayer helps a lot too.
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Sandwiched in there is a .540 OPS for the month of July. Bobby went on a tear in the middle of June. Then he’s had one good week against bad pitching. I like Bobby, but I don’t think he’s completely turned the corner yet. He’s very streaky, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he slumps horribly for the rest of August. Hope Schwarber still has his 1B mitt ready.
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A lot of this has to do with the large amount of prospects the Yankees gave up. However, I think some of this is organic. Lots of depth and younger players starting to get some helium.
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Yeah, it’s insanely way too early to write of the Sox recent international acquisitions. Like you said the Sox lost two seasons to penalties then after the #2 ranked prospect died they still turn out two top ten prospects from the 2017-2018 class (Gilberto, and Bello). After they you have 16-19 year olds who have missed a full season. And the 2020/21 class looks pretty good. Way way way too early to come to these conclusions.
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They had all their top contracts voided in 2016 and were disallowed from signings in 2017. The next year in the 2017-2018. The big prize was Daniel Flores considered by many the top international prospect, he died at 17. However Gilberto Jiminez is a top ten prospect in the Sox system. Your next years class consists of kids that are currently 19 years old and missed a full season. You got three youngsters in the top 30 with some promise. https://soxprospects.com/players/paulino-eddinson.htm https://soxprospects.com/players/gonzalez-wilkelman.htm https://soxprospects.com/players/bonaci-brainer.htm So I wouldn’t say we used to be good at this. Sox are still very good at this.
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Yeah, IFA guys have a longer track because they’re being signed at 16/17 Devers was a phenom while reaching the majors at 20 years old had been in the system for 4 seasons prior. Losing money for cheating messed up our class for 2 years and now Covid has delayed guys. If you look at the long term track record, seemingly every year we end with at least one guy who turns into a stud, or a highly ranked prospect at some point. Moncada was the year after Devers, then came the penalty years. https://soxprospects.com/international.htm
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What I find encouraging is how well the starting rotation has been lately, and they picked it back up a whole week before Sale got back. The wine didn’t come because seemingly the entire offense was slumping. That appears to be over, yes it was against the Orioles, but we now guys like Xander, JDM, Renfroe, Verdugo are good hitter and we just added Schwarber. If the offense can score more runs and starters can start going 6+ consistently that’s going to rest your pen, and that may give them enough juice down the stretch. Big series coming up.
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But this has been Dalbec all season, you can actually look at his game logs and see the pattern. Goes on a tear for 1-2 weeks then disappears for 3-4. His defense has been subpar too. Last night was slightly different because for the first time all year he looked good vs RHP.
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Actually, you do. Sox bullpen is overstretched, and that's A HUGE HUGE factor into this team's struggles lately. Why burn through some arms in a game that you have in bag? you don't.
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No, you can't sell when you're in first place, you have to go for it. What I don't agree with though, is emptying out your entire farm, unloading all your cannons, and competing in an inflated market when you have fewer assets than everyone else. In a year in which you're obviously over-acheiving, you don't blow up your future for a chance at a smaller regression. They got a big-name bat who will be here soon (people keep saying we made no big deals), and we have Chris Sale coming back. In a year like this, you have to strike a balance. I'm sure some will never like that, but that's just smart business baseball.
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LOL if we are clamoring for Yairo Munoz to come up and save us then we should just throw the towel in on the season now.
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