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  1. Hugh2
    IF the Sox end up signing Bregman it will certainly be interesting. I wonder how much more value he adds to the team playing 3B moving Devers to DH than he does just playing 2nd?
  2. Hugh2
    The Dodgers are trying to win like a cop tries to take out a bad guy by pumping em full with 567 bullets
  3. Hugh2
    I know, which is why I said "IF" I'm just purely going on their floor/ceiling grades. Soto is the 5th prospect in the system to have 7 grade on the ceiling. Now he can obviously climb a lot or fall based on how he performs this year....and next.
  4. Hugh2
    Except they did sign Soto
  5. Hugh2
    ALLEGEDLY they outbid LA for Scott but Tanner chose LA. Some might say that's what the front office is leaking to save face. I dunno, I'm not sure what they're saving from whom at this point. The common denominator is the same. Boston is no longer a destination place to sign for a lot of players. John Henry's apathy to winning and spending money has done horrible damage to the franchise in recent years. There's real value in winning, even if you don't have the best team in baseball. The thing that sucks, is even if we are lucky enough to build back and lets say we're blessed with a 2028 world series team. What are the odds John Henry rips apart that team too?
  6. Hugh2
    They have Soto at 30th
  7. Hugh2
    No he shouldn't, but Prices contract with inflation would be 255 million. While the truth is still cloudy, its' implied that Bregmans market is thin and he's probably going to be one of those guys who should have taken the extension. Even if that's not 100% accurate I doubt he's getting anything close to $255 million, I doubt he even comes very close to $200. Breslow knows the only other bidders out there are Detroit and Toronto. No one wants to go to Toronto, and Detroit is probably the worse ballpark for his bat. With Campbell waiting in the wings and other depth options such as Grissom, Hamilton, Rafaela, and Mayer I highly doubt Boston is going to bid against themselves. I'm not saying Boston is going to sign Bregman, but I feel fairly confident that if they do, it will be for significantly less than 200 million. Call it something in the 100-140 range.
  8. Hugh2
    their rankings, or most peoples rankings aren't exactly power rankings. I understand why a lot of people have a very hard time ranking anyone so young and unchallenged by any kind of pro ball so high. But I also get that some people may weigh upside more than others. If it was purely a ranking based on ceiling, one could extrapolate that Soto could be as high as 5th in the Sox system.
  9. Hugh2
    DD always seem to have a few other guys thrown into every trade. It's like the man was allergic to trading for a player with anything short of handing over at least 3 guys.
  10. Hugh2
    It's very plausible that Crochet and Buehler become our #1 and #2,
  11. Hugh2
    Oh wait you're goin by Moons ratings, my bad.
  12. Hugh2
    The talked about Soto on the latest podcast. They really really really like him and are high on him. Justin Gonzalez is ranked 25th.
  13. Hugh2
    You're 100% spot on, but nothing this team does anymore flabbergasts me.
  14. Hugh2
    If he was going to sign an extension, I don't think anyone would expect it to be announced until spring training.
  15. Hugh2
    Tanner Scott signs, with…..get this, the Dodgers.
  16. Hugh2
    Ah dude I’m with you there. And for the record my “sour grapes” comment was directed at those front offices not you. i admire the dodgers. They invest heavily in scouting, drafting and developing player AND THEN go out and are unafraid to spend the money.. the only thing that is going stop LA is if their ownership group comes down with John Henry disease
  17. Hugh2
    Sasaki is going to cost them nothing. $6 million bonus aside he’s going to cost what any good cost controlled player would cost any team. stopping deferred payments would do absolutely nothing to prevent the dodgers from signing someone Sasaki.
  18. Hugh2
    Super teams make a sport. It’s been proven that a sport does better when there’s a super team. the fans love it and their base grows exponentially, and the rest of the league needs a villain. how much sweeter was 2004 because we beat the New York Yankees? The Dodgers will become the villain baseball needs, and they’re in the N.L. in hope we get to beat them in the World Series again some day.
  19. Hugh2
    International draft
  20. Hugh2
    No, Jim Bowden is not reporting that. He said there are several front offices who believe there was a pre-cut deal and that there may be an investigation, there’s already been an investigation. sounds like sour grapes to me.
  21. Hugh2
    Well from that vantage point everyone has the exact kind of depth. They all got 40 men and a 165 domestic reserve. But point taken.
  22. Hugh2
    Not a point I ever refuted, but as you said the difference was injuries it was KEY injuries. Unless you have some kind of definitive proof that better players are more likely to be hurt in boston than guys who suck I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. My point stands, every team deals with injuries. Does it hurt more when you don't have depth? or hurt more when those are key players? of course. Never did I say the opposite of that. There's still an element of luck, and when you couple that with the additions they've made and the young talent coming up to the bigs AND you were to add a few more pieces (E.G. Bregman, Scott) I think the Sox have all the ingredients to be a contender next year.
  23. Hugh2
    Thank you for making my point.
  24. Hugh2
    Ok, let me officially state I'm not saying you explicitly said that but you did imply it, maybe not with intent but you did when say things like "The only legit reasons to have a shred of optimism about our 2025 offense are Anthony and Campbell." Which by the way......is one of the reasons I'm optimistic.
  25. Hugh2
    It was key players, but if it was anything real, and not just bad luck, the Sox would have a much much larger pool of players down than other teams. They lost 2 more players than the world series winners, negligible in my book. So that squashes that theory flat.
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