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I'm not surprised he left the Red Sox' yellow uniforms, but his new team colors include both yellow and pinstripes. Ugh... At least the Pads still wear camo once in awhile, for guys who want to blend into the desert, ashamed from wearing yellow and pinstripes. -
Maybe you hit on Dombro's pros and cons: great at signing elite veteran talent, not so good at extending young talent at slightly-below projected market prices... (in other words, making offers a pre-arb star shouldn't refuse when he can be rich for life, even if he blows out a knee or snaps an ankle is never again good as new.) Mookie was always lowballed -- $200M when he was worth $300M, then $300M when he was worth $365M -- and his mother was always the first cousin of ex-big leaguer Terry Shumpert, so she maybe knew and was made aware of her son's true value. But before efforts to lock up the Red Sox' best all-around player since George Herman R., there were established primetimers like Price -- who Dombro highballed. Then again, the one young guy the Phillies chose to ink longterm was Scott Kingery, now a 4A regular at age 30. That decision may have led to the firing of the previous Philly GM... and/or the hiring of Dave D -- who may or may not have been told to take his chances on more sure things.
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Moreland and Nunez hit good pinch-hit home runs that helped win two World Series games. That's good enough for anybody. Pearce was World Series MVP, then tried to play all banged-up for one more year when he had to retire at age 29. He also got paid by Boston that last, lost season -- for around the same amount as the checks Manny once forgot in his glove compartment. John Henry and Co. probably just viewed the Pearce ext. as a reward for his contributions to winning a ring, Kinsler couldn't hit a fastball anymore... but 3 out of 4 ain't bad.
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According to the stat Total Runs Saved, the '24 Red Sox had the two worst catchers in the American League: Jansen at -11 and Wong at -16. Combined, that equates to -27 -- on the negative side of "saved" ... ... Oxford lists the following antonyms for saved: endanger, waste, fritter away. Translated into balltalk: Sox catchers endanger their pitchers, waste fans' time watching, and fritter away hopes of preventing 27 more foes from crossing the plate. Over 162 games, those 27 gift runs represent an additional 17%. If Boston didn't have catchers who gave away runs -- even if they saved zero tallies -- the team average of runs against per game would be almost league-average.
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Averages are overrated. It's all about metrics, now (kilometers to go before I nap). All that matters is a team's WOPBL -- Winning Or Playoffs Beats Last. Henry acoloytes and acoheavies alike just. want. our Sox. to be woppable.
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As a nostalgic old-timey fan, I go back to last century in the 70s-80s-90s and a lot of good Red Sox teams loaded with star players. Many had winning records and contended for division crowns and making the postseason. There was plenty to cheer for, and that's what they had to show for it. Winning rings this century doesn't change my outlook into Yankee elitism by deeming each subsequent season without a World Series title a total failure. Phillies Nation is crazy in its prime right now. Some frustrating endings -- which face every fanbase but one every year -- but Philly is always going for it, with a GM and owner showing no signs of letting up (and not half-assing like BS Boston).
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Loaded question... how about for 5 years of Sale on the Sox? Yes -- for 5 Sale WHITE Sox years. No -- for 5 Sale RED Sox years.
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Clubs that might deal for peak Duran are most likely already contenders looking for another star player to help get them deeper into October. If so, they're not trading their ace starting pitcher... so foegeddaboudit. The best Red Sox fans can hope for is an aging arm on a salary dump. The best Red Sox execs can hope for is a young pitcher with a rating that was once high on baseball's prospect list... with the potential to someday develop into an ace.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Right, Giolito's automatically our top starter because he's our top paid starter. And it's guaranteed he'll come back better than ever, just like everyone else recovering from surgery. -
This has always been my point since I joined here in '19 when posters brought up whatever top 5 payroll place the Red Sox currently held. If the front office blows it by signing a bad fit or someone suddenly injury-prone, that's too bad for the org... but the best ones find ways to overcome or eat their mistakes and still pay for acceptable replacements -- for the paying fans! Rich owners don't see a company mistake and just refuse to take another chance on a different investment (though they might first make changes and take a chance on using different employees to do the investing). As for the Mets, they have it all working: bargain guys, overcoming overpaid old pitchers they got rid of, and relishing the peak of their most expensive condiment currently cutting the mustard -- Lindor.
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Denny, don't you pay attention to preseason polls among professionals who make a living analyzing teams and rosters? The reason the Yankees and Dodgers are the favorites every single year isn't because of the talent they amass with the almighty dollar -- it's because of the shrewd managerial skills of Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts. Boone and Roberts were playoff heroes 20 years ago, so they know how to rally their troops in crunch time. Imagine how far they could go with the rosters given to Alex Cora the past three years -- at least to the back of the line at the Unemployment office.
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Sounds like a metaphor, so I crack a simile.
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Not sure these count (not MLB free agents), but the Sox did outbid NY for Yoan Moncada... and were outbid for Jose Contreras. Both won World Series for the Sox: Moncada traded for Chris Sale for the Red; Contreras started and won Game 1 of the 2005 WS for the White.
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This is so easy: all Breslow has to do is give Paxton a contract worth a million bucks, and he'll sign it to become Red Sox property again -- even though he's retired. Then Brez can trade Paxton back to Bloom for Sonny Gray. The Card will be happy to get rid of Gray's contract... and Bloom will be happy to have Paxton on the VRL (Voluntary Retired List). "Guys come out of retirement all the time," Chaim will say. "And when the Big Maple changes his mind -- either next summer or the one after that -- he'll give us just as many quality innings as any more expensive starter I'll only pretend to want."
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
... a move that might win them a World Series -- if they get there, and King and Cease keep them in some games. I'm starting to wonder about Cease, though, who's been getting smacked around by LA... which has me wondering about how much it will cost Boston to land Crochet, and the wisdom of relying on guys who pitched for the White Sox... -
When Muncy had to play first base for LA last night because of Freeman's injury, announcers noted how it wasn't that easy, moving from one position to another across the diamond. But I have no doubt that Story has the soft hands to play first to accommodate this deal, and welcome a lesser defender like Adames to help Boston's D regress even more. That's how much this makes sense...
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Just Rusney Castillo him -- but send him to Worcester, where he can entertain fans as a lefty-swinging Dalbec, launching fly balls over the close right field wall.
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A lot of these big names were traded for, not signed as free agents, like Seaver, Jenkins and Eck (when he was a starter). Tiant was the ultimate bargain bin pick-up, the Papi of pitchers. Saberhagen was a good signing, in that he helped get the Sox to the postseason. I've seen some posters say Lackey was a good signing because he helped win a ring, but an overall 3.9 WAR in four years of an $82.5 million dollar contract is borderline Yoshida (who has 2.8 WAR with three years left). The rest are nothing to celebrate, and Smoltz was Kluber, before Kluber wound up like Smoltz.
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What's almost never stated in all these yearly payroll rankings is how much dead money is being paid to players who aren't even on the roster anymore -- and in cases like Sale's, getting paid by Boston to perform for other clubs. And does anyone doubt an owner like Henry is also aware of the actual big spending his front office talked him into in the past half decade or so that has monumentally flopped? If he is, doesn't there come a point of accountability for all those Assistant Vice Presidents running all the departments that scout, acquire and develop such players?
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Missing from your Top 10 - any starting pitcher. This team has been either too dumb to find a good one, too cheap to sign a great one, or too incompetent to see the difference, based on the mixed results of starters lured from elsewhere: Giolito, Kluber, Richards, Price, Lackey, Dice K, Matt Clement, Matt Young, Mike Torrez, and any of the dozen or so arsons from 2020.
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Fenway fans overpaid to see the Red Sox in person the last three years. I know Tom Warner said they had special discounts for student tickets, but I no longer attend institutes of higher learning. Though even at my ripe old (average MLB fan) age, I'm still a student of the game -- so where's my bargain, Warner Brother?
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I have advocated signing both Fried and Scott, so I'm not disagreeing with your proposal, at all -- just that ownership will even consider outbidding 29 other clubs for either of them. Henry has beat me down about expectations, so my realistic hope for any significant upgrades this offseason is for a blockbuster trade.
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Interesting perspective in that several pitchers picked high by Boston (not just Trey Ball) didn't have very long or successful MLB careers at all -- for whatever reasons: Owens #36 overall, Renaudo #39 overall, Johnson #31 overall... Bad luck, scouting, organizational development, or a mix? After all, Tarik Skubal was a 9th-round pick, 255th overall, by Detroit in 2018...
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The similarities are that both Boston and San Diego needed pitching help, but the Padres got King and Cease -- each now a top-of-the-rotation starter -- only because they traded a generational talent in Juan Soto. It should be noted, though, that the Pads traded a ton to get Soto in the first place, with a package that included big-time prospects Mackenzie Gore, CJ Abrams and James Wood. It seems like the only major changes in Boston will begin when Breslow is finally ready to deal some big- time prospects of his own...
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I'm sure Red Sox fans are drinking their coffee this morning, reading this thread, and thinking, "Whatever happens, I hope ownership doesn't spend hundreds of millions of their own dollars to upgrade our favorite team to make the postseason." "The Sox need to be frugal, and only spend just enough each year to stay in pretension. We're an offseason away from being sustained pretenders!"
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