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  1. Hugh2
    Well, seeing how baseball starts today we are going to have that questioned answered pretty darn quickly
  2. Hugh2
    I have mixed feelings on this bullpen. I do have concerns about the lack of clearly defined roles, yet at the same time between the Boston team and the depth in Woo they may have more talent and depth in their pen than they've had in a long time. I won't be surprised if they've settled into a nice groove with a set up/closer/high leverage tandem that works great by June. Or not...
  3. Hugh2
    Lets just hope Chapman goes K/BB/K/BB/K and not BB/K/BB/K/H/K
  4. Hugh2
    While this may be true, a lot can change in a few years. Bregman can opt out. Maybe Story has a great year and opts out, maybe he has another injury riddled season and looks like shouldn't be in the starting player conversation again. Maybe Rafaela/Duran have serious regressions. Someone could get traded, a few guys could get traded, people get injured. ETC ETC.
  5. Hugh2
    Add: I know you weren't comparing Perales to Mata, but I think Luis has shown us more and given us a lot more hope than Mata ever has.
  6. Hugh2
    Yeah, I don't like giving up Perales, but the reality is he's the type of prospect you'd have to include in a basket of prospects so it's whatever. I didn't want to trade Teel, and Montgomery either but that's the price of admission and to be honest, I'm not even thinking about those guys right now.
  7. Hugh2
    So Campbell made the team before Mayer and Anthony just as I predicted. I poke at Notin, I had to have my fun. Honestly, a tad just a wee bit surprised. I agree with the last 4 sentences to a T. I figured the Sox may use Campbells struggles as a reason to give him just a little bit more seasoning in AAA and see if Hamilton/Grissom could figure things out. I was a little late to the Campbell bandwagon because I read into the scouting reports about his unorthodox swing and the pessimism that created. But last year he slowly turned all his doubters into believers and a lot of those concerns have been eased. Nothing is guaranteed in this life, and you're not a good mlb player until you're a good mlb player. But you have to love the trajectory this kid is on.
  8. Hugh2
    That's a lot of the pitching depth we've actually managed to start building up. I'd want to trade out one of those arms for a Mickey Romero
  9. Hugh2
    Good, trial by fire. Lets see if the kid can adjust. If he can, he's going to be stud.
  10. Hugh2
    I mean, if we were going with ST stats you'd think they 'd plug Mayer in at 2nd. But we might see a Campbell/Mayer infield at some point this year.
  11. Hugh2
    It's been obvious all offseason that the Sox wanted him to have the job, I thought he might be playing his way out early this spring. I think he will be fine, I'll be interested to see how he is performing come august, I won't complain if he Dustin Pedrioa's it out of the gate but I think he's going to be great once he settles in. Here's to hoping he nets them a pick amongst many other good things hopefully to come for the team.
  12. Hugh2
    The pitching in the system has taken a massively encouraging step forward this year so far.
  13. Hugh2
    ADD: I think I'm perhaps underselling the odds of a Thompson sighting in Boston this year. I can see a future scenario where due to health and/or performance someone like Anthony is already in the outfield and Campbell is in the infield and then when Refsnyder goes down Thompson comes up to be the RHH platoon outfielder. That's what he is. The back up platoon corner outfielder.
  14. Hugh2
    Thompson is the type of guy who sign to start the year in AAA, maybe you need him maybe you don't and he's likely DFA'd at some point mid to late season. You add guys to the bottom of your roster like that every year. I would not be surprised if he had zero at bats in Boston.
  15. Hugh2
    Base case, base. Best case would be Story Colorado shows up, Casas is a middle of the order bat, Bregman and Devers are all stars, Duran does not regress, Rafaela improves, and Campbell and Anthony are absolute studs.
  16. Hugh2
    I think base case scenario the lineup is marginally better than last year. Which if the defense and pitching can improve a little should be fine enough to make them a contender. Guys like Story and Casas who only got 94 and 212 at at bats could make the lineup look different if they are healthy this year. And if any of the youngsters step up with Bregman added the lineup could look very different by the end of the year than what we saw last.
  17. Hugh2
    I think Duran might regress a little with the bat, but his defense is legit.
  18. Hugh2
    No that's exactly what I mean, your 5th starter should be your 5th best starter. Perhaps a better way to say it is, you 5 best starting pitchers should be your #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 starter. We all know there's a spot open and guys are competing for it. I could care less if they actually end up being the 1st or 5th best starter. That's irrelevant. Whoever looks best between Priester/Fitts, assuming one of them looks capable, in a couple weeks from now should get the node.
  19. Hugh2
    Whoever looks like they're one of the best 5 starting pitchers on March 26th, that's who should be the 5th starter.
  20. Hugh2
    But did they say at what level? they may be looking for depth or even a guy to fill a spot in Worcester if Campbell or Anthony start the year in the bigs. At the very least, I find it hard to believe they're not looking for something lesser than a starting caliber player.
  21. Hugh2
    I'm all for defferals, but 25 million a year isn't a budget breaker for an ace. The years is a lot of risk, but if you sign a premium free agent at 30 you're likely paying him into his late 30's, rather than his mid 30's and getting his prime years. Given Crochetts thin track record for starting that may be too much of a risk for some to swallow, but it's the kind I would hope the Sox would make if they really really believed in a guy.
  22. Hugh2
    I was going to say an extension might come around the $225 number. That seems high, but if it was for 9 years, you'd be paying him 25 million a year until he's 34. That's a lot of risk. But he, and the Sox are probably looking at a much smaller window that allows him to hit FA again around 30 years old. Still, If they believe in him I'd take that big swing.
  23. Hugh2
    #1 Prospect in baseball holds a lot more value than the #4 prospect in your system. Kopech was also very highly regarded at the time, after he was traded after that year he was a top 25 prospect when the next set of rankings went out. This haul might work out better for Chicago, but at the time the Sale deal was a bigger package.
  24. Hugh2
    That's the way the game is played. A bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush, but it the open market of MLB baseball a high end talent like crochet is worth 3 birds in the bush. If all the prospects pan out, or even just two hit their ceiling it's going to look like the Sox got fleeced. But for a point of reference in Yoan Moncada, Luis Basabe and Michael Kopech all hit their ceiling that would have looked like an awful trade on our part, but in the end you don't complain if the guy you got does what he's supposed to do. In a fair trade, it hurts both sides, both sides have to feel like they're winning the trade.
  25. Hugh2
    This is also the time of year where everything is amplified in the media and teams are overcautious. It's kind of hard to tell at first glance if an injury is bad and concern is warranted or a team is just being cautious. I'd bet there are many times a guy walks into camp feeling a little off, a little sore, where they might play during the regular season but because it's spring training they're just shut down. It's very telling that he's taking BP and plans to play this Saturday, it might just be caution and nothing else. If he ends up not playing this weekend.....I'd start to be a little bit more concerned.
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