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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course not. The top starters will wait until the Yamamoto bidding breaks the $300M barrier, then the rest will "settle" for $200M.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's a long time? He's going to get five years -- say for $100M -- so is it worth it if he produces another three like his last three? Is anyone a $33M AAV guy? The Mets thought a couple of 40ish were $40M men a year ago...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, that's never been the plan in Boston this century, in the Land of Buchholz (the Sox' last homegrown All-Star starter). Wonder: if Leiter was still on the board in '21, do the Sox take him over Mayer? Texas did, and instead of drafting a guy described to have Seager-like talent, the Rangers signed the real Seager...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unless someone is complete damaged goods -- which is highly unlikely with modern due diligence on medicals -- free agents are really just pays... The biggest mistake media or fans (who care) make when dissecting contracts is obsessing over the years; no player is ever literally paid to produce for the entire contract, because all GMs and depts. know attrition is inevitable with age. Some clubs will always pay big for the front end of long contracts because they want to be good now.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think in WAR it's Darvish, 31 bWAR and counting...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed, but Dice K's stuff was billed as mythological during the bidding. We're still waiting to see (or not see) the gyro-ball... And he turned out to be an injury-risk, as well -- as any MLB org should've suspected with a guy whose pitch-count in Japan tournaments was 250...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Especially if it's just Yamamoto, who'll be joining the majors a year younger than the similarly-hyped Daisuke Matsuzaka (but most likely at a lot longer contract). The Sox inked Matsusaka for six years. Boston got 9.5 WAR from Dice K in his first two seasons, then -0.3 WAR over his last four...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But if you're a first-year CBO counting on Sale, that's horrible.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    c) Ohtani's team found him a New Balance store on the West Coast.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But if this statement isn't too ridiculous -- "Their inability to develop pitching isn't the problem" -- on a Red Sox forum where the majority of posters say it is... ... then the majority of talksox just must be ridiculous, instead.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wikelman had the highest strikeout rate for starting pitchers in the minors -- and his ceiling is only mid-rotation? What does a guy have to do for Soxprospects.com to rate a top-of-the-ro ceiling, lead the minors in no-hitters rate?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But why draft pitchers when the best players are always shortstops?!?!?! Just convert them all to the mound -- they're shortstops, so they can play anywhere! Or trade them for pitchers -- like when we... hold on... thinking... like when the Sox traded Mike Aviles for John Farrell (I know he was the manager, but at least he used to pitch).
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When it comes to pursuing free agents or the possibility of swinging trades, the only voices I trust less than MLB reporters (except sometimes Alex Speier) are those from the Red Sox front office. For fans who look daily for moves their team can make to improve, the baseball offseason can be excruciating, empty and deceptive (with lots of politics, gamesmanship and public relations that conspire to the latter). All of the above has come to define Red Sox Nation since the days of Dombrowski, who'd tell the public he was going to get a closer or an ace or two -- and then be the first GM on the boat to actually reel them in.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Target sells an entire box of Twinkies (10 count) for $3.69... and a small container of organic blueberries for $3.59. The total for 10 Twinkies might cost a penny more apiece, but you get more than double the food: 13.58 oz compared to 6 oz of berries! And Twinkies never expire! Archaeologists have even found perfectly preserved Twinkies in mummies' sons and daughters inside the great food pyramid.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bad pun. Or as you say, "unsuspected." Or as Yogi said, when a teacher asked if he knew anything, "I don't even suspect anything."
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's gonna take a Gambrell?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bregman is an exception -- 8-year career average of 28 HRs, 99 RBI per 162... with a 13.3% K-Rate. Bregman has a career OPS of .861 -- higher than everyone on 2023's entire Red Sox line-up of vaunted offense... which included five guys with over 100 strikeouts. Bregman has never fanned 100 times once...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow: Something strange here... Kelly, as in Kelly Green, since this is my first Boston blockbuster? Let me consult my thought partners and get back to you. Bloom: ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................................................................................................... can't do it, Sally Dombrowski: Deal! But only if you let me throw in Alcantara... Ben: We'll also need Dubon, to make him our fulltime second baseman... Theo: Jose Abreu! Have to have Abreu -- don't make me chuck this chair. Gorman: The sun will rise, the sun will set, but how would we fit both Javier and Garcia into our rotation?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As I've stated plenty of times, I have no interest in the Sox adding another K Master. But I would absolutely change the entire infield dynamic longterm by trading for Alex Bregman.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This sentence subtly sums up the Red Sox' recent problem with their viewing audience. Baseball fans know good hitting is more important, but nothing turns us off more than bad defense. Ironically, good pitching and defense keeps you in a game longer -- but not necessarily from an entertainment standpoint. The average fan craves more "action" than a diving catch... Team builders also know that's true, but it is very rare for a club to bash its way to contention with lousy fielders. That's why true full-throttle teams acquire a Doug Mientkiewicz and a Pokey Reese to use as late-game gloves to nail down victories. No one puts all their best bats on the field at the end of close games. It's not croquet.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If I typed that, there would be at least three posters who would hammer away at the phrase "a lot"... ... but I value defense a lot more than most. When discussing good baseball, it's the asset most often used in conjunction with pitching -- because they're so connected (compared to, say, pitching and baserunning, or pitching and moaning). Pitching and defense are so co-dependent that it makes Breslow's first year that much more difficult; he knows he needs better D or it won't matter how many kajillions he spends on arms. btw: when I typed the word co-dependent to see if it depended on a hyphen, the first site that came up said Help Is Available, with an 800 number. I forwarded it to Brez.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    moon, thanks for the prospect summaries. Wondering: if Teel/Garcia can form Boston's catching tandem through the late-20s, if Rafaela can at least be Dubon ('23 Gold Glove), if Cespedes is another E.Valdez or someone more like Pitt's Termarr Johnson, and which of the Big Three will be traded... ... because on the entire pitching page, only two -- Perales and Gonzalez -- have ceilings as high as mid-rotation starters. Those are the best in the Red Sox system?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    (edited) if they had played some quality defensive players... ... all we had was Story, whose only full month was the last one (when we were repeatedly told he was "phenomenal", and the Sox had a worse record than with Kike at SS).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "when all is said and done by winter's end, I think" ... the snow will melt. Dan Szy can speculate the Yankees will splurge because Hal said they would, and I can speculate the Red Sox will "go full throttle" because Tom said they would. Nobody knows nothing. But at least everyone here knows notin.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The fact that Burnes is a Boras client changes the narrative about the Red Sox trading for him. That doesn't guarantee Burnes wouldn't take an extension to stay in Boston... just that it's highly unlikely he'd give the Sox any kind of signing advantage; he's not a guy who grew up loving the organization, like Bogaerts. Then again, Mookie wasn't, either, when he inked his LA offer...
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