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Good post. I used the movie star comp a lot when people claimed that Mookie wasn't worth his asking (and getting) price. Nobody ever complains that a movie star is overpaid. But how many times have we heard or said that a movie sucks?
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Devers and Vazquez made MLB.com's All Underrated Team. It's the second year in a row that Vaz made it at catcher. How could he still be underrated if the same site gives him recognition for two straight years? 2021 most underrated MLB players WWW.MLB.COM It is time for the most underrated baseball column of the year -- the 2021 All-Underrated Team. But what does it mean to be underrated, anyway? In years past, we’ve filled out this team with guys who have never been All-Stars, major award finalists or nine-figure contract recipients, among other
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But if they also care about your parenthesis, I'd argue that Price's tiresome grudge with Eck, and increasing style of stalling -- between pitches on the mound and sometimes between starts -- had eroded fan support and made the team less watchable. It did for me, anyway.
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My mistake -- I thought the Sox were on a deadline before they got stuck with his $32 mil per for three more years. Just glad they now only owe him $32 total...
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Hate to rehash the Betts trade, but most of us will forever, anyway. But Bloom knew (and knows) the Sox biggest need was/is pitching. I really think the offers he got for Mookie were limited because of the inclusion of Price -- whose contract was more important to dump before his no-trade triggered and doomed Boston to twice as much budget drain than staying on the hook for only half of it. The best LA would give up was Maeda, whose 6 wins in 2020 hindsight makes the Red Sox 30-30 -- and a playoff team. Would that have mattered? Who knows... the 29-win Astros were one postseason game away from going to the World Series.
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And trades usually hurt, because to get something, you have to give up something. As for bringing up guys from the farm, before the draft in the mid-60s, the rich got richer making high bids for the best prospects. Baltimore was a mid-market exception, because they had maybe better scouts with an organizational plan. Other franchises like San Fran and Pittsburgh were smart enough (and "tolerant" enough) to mine the as-yet untapped Caribbeans and southern Americas. The modern Red Sox circa the Epstein era did well expanding their scouting efforts on a more global scale. Unfortunately, another underrated factor in the recent fallow farm is the violations that cost us some international prospects; they don't all have to be legit future stars for the talent levels to fill out minor league rosters and up the games and development of prospects.
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Back in the days of the reserve clause, the '69 Orioles were upset by the Miracle Mets (it was a Baltimore-New York thing; see Colts vs. Jets). That offseason, the O's did not add one single player from another team... then they won the '70 World Series.
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Hope springs eternal, when truths sprout but kernels, so no spring hopes are infernal. This 2021 Red Sox squad can and should be better than last year. In a pastime often defined by nostalgia, it will be refreshing to watch new faces led by a familiar face back in charge. I think we'll all be ok if we keep things in perspective. This club can win 60 more games than last summer and still have a losing record. But if new guys and young guys get chances to contribute and show improvement (and that includes down on the farm), things will move forward... and that may be good enough for now.
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Henry said that after he got run over... by his own car.
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The five-man rotation that just won it all was back intact. How anyone could blame the GM or owners for that is beyond me.
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I'd take them both, but something tells me ERod -- if he shows he is recovered -- could be trade bait in July. Thor might be next year's Bauer, especially if the Yankees' master plan of replacing three-fourths of their rotation with question marks is a flop this season. As for Correa, I think he's the most likely of the big name position players to sign in Boston because of the Cora factor. Trevor Story may be a better fit, but I think he's more likely to be traded and/or extended before next offseason.
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It's my fault for getting greedy, expecting a twice-in-a-lifetime season.
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The question is: who do you and other posters want Bloom to spend a sizable chunk on next winter that is any better than players getting sizable chunks this winter?
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Some will always turn back. Few there are among us who may choose not to leap, but can still reach over and attempt to paint some graffiti on the side... and then leave it up to the masses to decide whether the message be profound, amateurfound, unfounded or too small to find.
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'69-71 Orioles wins, regular season and postseason: 109 + 4 108 + 7 101 + 6 _______ 318 + 17 = 335 I did say "arguably the best team", so argue away. Wins is one criteria, banners are another. Some consider how dominant a team is its own context, in its particular year and league. Another is strength of competition. For me, the '18 Red Sox have an edge on the '98 Yankees because the Sox beat three 100-win teams in the postseason. The Yanks beat the 88-win Rangers, the 89-win Tribe... and the Padres.
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But we may be the only finalists that keep watching (I did last year). And I'd gladly be the '68 Orioles and finish second this year... if what followed them, also happens to us: becoming arguably the best team in the past half-century... yup, I'd settle for 335 wins in the next three seasons after this one.
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Maybe the next two drafts (maybe that's the idea). The Orioles may be worse than the Red Sox this year -- right now, last year's bottom team is still chasing last year's 4th place -- but at least Baltimore already has the 2019 #1 and the 2020 #2 guys in their system.
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Porcello to some Sox fans -- pros: never injured, innings eater, a guy we used to root for; cons: ERA over 5.00 the past two years. Porcello to maybe some Sox officials -- pros: ERA under 6.00 the past two years; cons: never injured, a guy they used to root for -- so not a potential rehabbing/discovery project.
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Me, too. Fans maybe underestimate how much the familiarity factor can positively affect a new player's performance. The Cora connection is also why I wouldn't be surprised to see Correa and hopefully McCullers in a Sox uniform a year from now... As for Marwin, I hope fans will welcome him to Boston -- and remember he looked pretty good slugging homers off Price and Barnes in the '18 ALCS, the year after smashcans.
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As long as winning the lottery means another high draft pick that nets a future pitching ace.
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Sox may still rush him and hope for an impactful debut, in the hopes of enticing another club to give up an actual good (pitching, please) prospect... all the while planning on Jimenez as the centerfielder of the near future.
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Benintendi didn't have any problems making the jump -- at age 21. But once he hit the witching hour age of 24... -
What was encouraging about the Ortiz acquisition -- for me, at least (I promise not to make any blanket statements that may be perceived as assumptions of fact) -- is that he was the MVP of a winter league right before '03. That meant to me that he could be a factor in the lineup. This parallels more with Duran (not Cordero), who was just voted MVP of the Puerto Rican league playoffs; at least in the hopes of him being an MLB contributor soon.
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A Realistic View at 2021: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I only went as far back as the last two times Boston was trying to win a World Series. But it's been really fun looking up stats for a Yankee to fend off all the reminders I got for making an unsubstantiated crack on a Red Sox board about a player from our arch-rivals. At least Spring Training begins soon to put us all out of our misery or elation (did I cover it all) from this polarizing offseason.
