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But just think of all that money tied up in stars, with few funds left to sign future draft picks and international prospects and pay for good scouts...
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Yankee fans may be disappointed today, but they should all feel fulfilled after a winning season that culminated in a division crown and ALDS championship. With a 58-21 start, the Yanks truly were the greatest team in the history of the first half of this season. Only a 44-48 second half, including the postseason, marred New York's remarkable campaign... but that was only over the final four months. We'll never forget Aaron Judge (no matter where he ends up) setting the AL home run record -- the seventh most all-time. He also slugged two more HRs in the playoffs, when he was only second in strikeouts (to teammate Josh Donaldson). Kudos, NY.
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Looks like mostly lower level guys. Gave up a power hitting catcher for Marsh, but a 23rd rounder and a position of strength with Realmuto around. Philly has done some serious spending the past four years and Dombro did his job to round out the roster. Their 87 wins isn't a great accomplishment, but it bought them a ticket to the dance contest, where the lowest seed is now the hottest.
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Dombro's made a lot of moves in two years in Philly. It's what he does. Signing Schwarber and Castellanos may be the high profile guys, but DD has been relentless in building a bullpen of established relievers, signing Alvarado, Hand, Knebel, and trading for Robertson (and giving Bellatti and Nelson a shot). He also dealt for starters Gibson and Thor, and got Marsh for CF. Of course, all these additions come after the Phils invested large for MVP Harper, CY Young Wheeler and All-Star catcher Realmuto. Bet there's not a lot of Philadelphia fans on forums today complaining about the future of the farm.
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I'd just like to see one Yankee announcer tell the truth... instead, four guys wearing ties in the YES postgame defended Judge for cutting in front of Bader. Some of them were ex-PROS, and not one single mouthpiece stated the obvious: the centerfielder has the right to call off everyone else -- and everyone else needs to back off. Baseball basics.
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Bader made the error of not seeing the ball when a 6'7" giant ran right in front of him... but they can't give the E to the MLB's marquee player, lest they have to reassign five of the network's six camera men.
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Cabrera was a great Red Sox in '04 -- money on all tough plays, clutch hitter, and a big part of the change in culture with the handshakes and celebrations among teammates. Favorite moment after Game Seven in the Bronx: Cabrera turning to the crowd and holding up four fingers on one hand and a fist of nothing on the other. Four straight.
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I was actually defending Nomar -- and admittedly did a bad job -- for feeling unwanted; what human can't relate to that? The Red Sox tried really hard to replace him, in public, but the union wouldn't allow it. In the meantime, his own teammate, Kevin Millar, was interviewed on TV and asked who he preferred in his infield -- Nomar or ARod -- and came right and said ARod (mainly, because he thought ARod was a Red Sox and Nomar was not). Again, how can anyone blame the guy for the awkward relationship with the entire franchise that followed? Mrs: Sorry, I've fallen in love with someone else. He lives in Texas, but is moving in soon. Mr: I'll back my bags. Mrs. Wait, he just called and said he can't come. So you can stay... but only until I find another guy, maybe from Canada. Mr: Swell.
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And as far as the perceived "sulking" -- what employee of any company wouldn't be grumpy if you knew one winter your agent turned down a $60 million dollar offer, you were being replaced by the wonder boy of the industry, and were being transferred to Chicago. And then to top it all off, the new guy went to New York instead, and your old team that didn't want you had to keep you around after all...
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It's all perception, like most of reality. But I saw the game in question on TV, and remember when the NESN camera found him sitting alone on the bench, with every other player around him standing on the top step. No viewers, however, have evidence of whether Tito or the trainer told him to stay down, lest he stub his toe and have to brace himself with his sore wrist. If anyone was really sulking, it was Sox fans, whose hero couldn't or wouldn't play on a day when his counterpart rival was gamely gnawing on a hundred year-old metal armrest in the third row.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and do chin-ups until it snaps: he did play in an era where his training regime quite possibly can be blamed for shortening his career. As for your second point -- in contrast with another poster's -- if I ever call him horrible it won't be as a shortstop, but maybe as a teammate. At least, it looked that way toward the end in a fateful Yankee game, when every Red Sox player was standing up cheering except one guy... pouting in a corner on the bench. Unfortunately for Nomar, the day he was sitting out also happened to be the same one when Jeter caught a pop-up, then ran across Kenmore Square and face-whomped onto the chair of a BU co-ed at Starbucks.
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Rooster!
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Ain't happening. 1. Bloom said at the presser he needed home runs. 2. Valdez is not only his guy, but 3. Bloom traded clubhouse harmony for him... 4. ..and now: long live King Enmanuel, crown jewel of the Mexican Home Run Derby!
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Red Sox shortstops Career leaders in dWAR Everett Scott 16.3 Rico Petrocelli 14.4 Rick Burleson 12.4 John Valentin 12.2 Freddy Parent 10.9 Cherry Garciaparra 8.7 I know what you're thinking: would Freddy Parent get arrested if he dated Julia Child? It would've been awkward anyway: she was 6'2, while he stood 5'7.
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My bad. I was just looking at one statistic, like some posters often do when they want to refute someone else's opinion. According to dWAR, Nomar was the top defensive infielder in baseball in 2002, like Ozzie Smith in 1989, or Willie Mays, the best at all positions, in 1954.
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Fitzy is with the Guidance Counselor right now, asking if he can transfer some credits.
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After the win all his teammates wanted to low-five him there, but Altuve waved them all away from that area.
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How dare you use the eye test to counter the cold hard metrics I just presented.
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Trade Deadline Day, July 31, 2004: Red Sox acquire glove whiz Orlando Cabrera, who hits a combined .293 in regular/postseason, Doug M. -- who catches the last out of the World Series -- and Dave Roberts, who runs faster than Kevin Millar. Oddly, all soon have quirky character issues in Boston...(Roberts' character issue was named Machado).
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I don't know about the juice, but here are the five AL guys who played a minimum 900 games at shortstop from 1997-2003: dWAR Nomar 9.6 Vizquel 8.0 ARod 7.6 Tejada 3.5 Jeter -1.5 (that's negative) ... only one of the above is statistically horrible.
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I'm already on record predicting Kike at short in '23. I'd even take KK in center. But I really don't want to watch 2,000 strikeouts from the same guy in right and DH for the next decade. What's more likely five years from now if the Sox break the bank for Judge: him smiling down the streets of the Bronx playing "Dirty Water" on his boombox or Yankee fans laughing and pointing at Sox fans stuck with the back end of "the big stiff's contract -- Whoo-HA!"
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I'm noting this year only in reference to someone overpaying for his future. The point is no one is giving him the Bonds treatment, even after a record-breaking season. His good D doesn't slump though.
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Postseason opponents are pitching to him, and he's struck out 12 times in 24 at bats so far (with only one walk). This is right after Judge had what some scribes call one the greatest regular seasons in AL history. How bad will it get when his bat slows down with age?
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All or nothing offenses don't typically go far into October, when really good pitching usually beats really good hitting. Yanks have scored 82% of their playoff runs on homers (18-for-22), just ahead of the Stros' 76% (13-for-17). Who has the better staffs? Houston hasn't even thrown Javier or Urquidy yet, and both are postseason battle-tested... Conversely, the NL finalists are much better balanced offensively: Pads have scored 35% on HRs (14-39), Phils 33% (13-39).
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A Realistic View at 2023: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
When I said TO Bogey, I meant what does he feel is a fair offer. If Correa gets a penny over $30M, then why would Bogey deserve or take less than $30M? So a fair offer may be 6 at 180 -- that's probably his market value, like it or not... but you know Boras will be insisting on at least 8 or $200M, whichever comes first. Ponder this: say another club offers 5 for 150, and the Sox offer 6 for 160 -- does X stay in Boston?
