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  1. Hugh2
    Yeah, what are you risking? 1-2 years? That's the type of risk you think REAL hard before making when you're the Pittsburgh pirates not the Boston Red Sox.
  2. Hugh2
    I really really think we shouldn't give up a pick for 32 year old Sean Manaea
  3. Hugh2
    Yeah the Kluber comp is really lazy and unjustified. Buehler is even younger than Paxton was when he pitched here, by about 4 years. The dude is probably going to only play here one year. I'm ok with spreading risk, we already traded away 2 of our top prospects for a pitcher, it really makes sense to spend money on someone, if they're trying to go pitcher and have money left over to sign a hitter someone like Buehler really makes sense. Unless they wanna go big and sign Burnes I don't really see a better move. With the lone caveat being to empty the farm.
  4. Hugh2
    Yes it is, but he's already back. It's not like he didn't make it back to pitching. Guys who don't recover from their second Tommy Johns don't find their way back to the majors with good velocity and pitching 75 innings. His stuff also worked its' way back by playoff time as well. That's also a big deal.
  5. Hugh2
    I forgot he did come back last year and he looked good......for 10 innings. It's always 10 innings with these guys.
  6. Hugh2
    How does one measure performance though? Buehlers velocity returned, and so did his spin rate by the time the playoffs came around. That would suggest the only thing stopping him from becoming an ACE again would be another injury. I'd be willing to bet if less guys recover from their 2nd they don't even come back a lot of the time. I'd also be willing to bet guys who don't succeed coming back from their 2nd and 1st don't see a return of velocity and other metrics. Odds are well that his elbow is fine for at least another 4-5 years. Now his shoulder and other injuries? who knows.
  7. Hugh2
    We will also find out soon how Jacob DeGrom fairs.
  8. Hugh2
    Is he different than any other guy that's had Tommy John other than he's had two? Nate Eovaldi seemed to recover from his second one just fine. 80-90% of people return to full performance.
  9. Hugh2
    Priester is a project. Buehler is a guy who if healthy is maybe just a tweak away from being an ACE again. Paxton also didn't have the luxury of pitching in 2022. Buehler already has that recovery year underneath his belt.
  10. Hugh2
    Yankees are old, they get too caught up tradition. Kind of nice to see them lose out that way.
  11. Hugh2
    One could argue that now. I wouldn't hate Buehler or Flaherty.....but Burnes is at the top of my Christmas Wish list. Burnes/Crochet/Houck/Giolito/Bello just screams playoffs.
  12. Hugh2
    Yeah.....I think the money is what did it. Any deal was bound to have opt outs, I would have been fine with 5 years of Soto and the Luxury Suite is whatever. That's great for the Mets. They have the power to walk away from that when Soto turns 30. And if he still looks like a HOF talent and $80 million is the new $50 million they just might exercise that option.
  13. Hugh2
    When a guy takes lesser money, it's usually with the caveat that he was actually getting the same AAV with one less year to move closer to home, or it was a year less but higher AAV. When it's not all about the money.....the money is very very very close.
  14. Hugh2
    Unfortunately Crochet may be enough to save off the fan base, and while that was a very very very nice addition.....the team needs to do more.
  15. Hugh2
    He very well may have for $765 million
  16. Hugh2
    Or maybe John Henry the Fenway Grinch grows some balls and actually wins a bid for a premium player
  17. Hugh2
    Agreed, my inner desires are a big name pitcher to augment with Crochet at the top of the rotation.
  18. Hugh2
    Yes, but they are in some trouble and are effectively being forced to spend money. Maybe we can convince them to take on Yoshida or Giolito. I'd imagine they might be having trouble attracting talent.
  19. Hugh2
    WE GOT SOTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  20. Hugh2
    I don't believe this at all, sounds ridiculous but I'd imagine the argument is we trade for him now because we can extend him. Because somehow we wouldn't be willing to win a bid on him but yet somehow he's going to sign a lesser extension to stay here. But yeah.....wait a year and sign him.
  21. Hugh2
    I'd rather trade Casas for pitching (not that I want to trade him) and just sign Vladdy next offseason.
  22. Hugh2
    Lets say the Mets and Yankees never increased their last offers and Soto decided he wanted to play in Boston for $700 million? what do you guys think would have happened? I think he would have signed in Boston for $700 million.
  23. Hugh2
    Healthy disagreement alone certainly isn't a bad thing, but I'm a little troubled that this was made public.
  24. Hugh2
    Relievers are so up and down who knows. It's not like the bar is set high. Kenley + Martin had a 2.3 FWar vs. 1.3 from Wilson and Chapman. If Hendriks comes back healthy they beat that group or even if they tweak something in Chapman or Wilson. With all the non consistency in relievers it's really not that hard to believe that two guys can cover a 1 War gap.
  25. Hugh2
    I don't think it's completely irrelevant that Bregman was also originally drafted by the Boston Red Sox. I have no ideal if there are people in power today who were back then who had really liked Bregman but it would not surprise me. Reminds me of Wilyer Arbreu, whom the Sox had a deal in place to sign out of Venezuela but that deal was ripped up by MLB because of the penalties they had placed on them that year in IFA. Years later they traded for him. Sometimes you just really like a guy.
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