Old Red
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When you can’t produce good young pitchers yourself then you have to pay somehow to get them. I wouldn’t trade for someone who only has 1 year of control left, and yes a young pitcher who has years of control left would cost some good prospects, which they only are at this point. I would rather spend the bigger bucks on position players.
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I’ve been saying all along make some trades for some younger starters even if it means a prospect, or two. Do you really want to give Monty, or Snell a 5-7yr contract at $100M-$200M?
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All of these FA pitchers are over hyped, and over paid just, because they are FA, and available. Sunny Gray got a 3/yr $75M contract, and he had never made more than a little over $10M before, so now at age 34 is he so much better that he’s worth $25M per? Pass for me.
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Let’s remember that pitchers in Japan pretty much only pitch once a week, and the most games Yamamoto has started is 26. They throw more pitches, and more innings per start, so it’s pretty much an unknown what they will do when they get over here. A five year deal for any SP is a risk, and the longer the contract the more the risk 25yrs old, or not.
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I think trading Vaz two days before they released JBJ had a lot more to do with it in 2022.
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The first answer should have been why they released him in the first place if he was so valuable. Are you saying the team didn’t do well after Aug 4th of 2022, because they released JBJ?
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It was so good to have had JBJ in 2022 that the Red Sox released him on Aug 4th.🙈
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He hit well in 2020, and that’s one of the reasons he got the contract that he did from Milwaukee, which was something the Red Sox wouldn’t have, and didn’t give him, but Bloom traded for him a year later, and took on that contract, which was more than a head scratcher from most. Nothing was certain that he wouldn’t hit again, but it was more likely than not as he got older.
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Not for retirement, but his bat going away pretty much was.
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Bregman is making $28.5M now, so what will he get on his next contract?
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Reasonable with some players yes, but JBJ was not one of them, and that’s why he’s retired at 33.
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He’s still not walking through the Red Sox door.
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You said he didn’t hit in Milwaukee, because of facing different pitchers in a different league in different parks. He never hit much again after he left Boston.
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I don’t think Dugy getting benched by Cora has anything to do with who, or who wasn’t on the bench.
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I would call that attitude. Like I said Cora doesn’t bench many players.
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You made all kinds of excuses for JBJ when he couldn’t hit in Milwaukee, but the thing is he never hit much again after he left Boston.
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I believe once was for not running hard enough, and the other was showing up late. Call it what you want, but either way he was benched twice.
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Cora doesn’t bench many guys.
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It would be nice if we had a Mikey Lowell, or a Beltran type to play 3B, but we don’t.
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I didn’t intend it too.
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Why did the Red Sox give Raffy $300M+? They already knew he wasn’t a good 3B.
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Pitching is #1.
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I expect Dugy to have a good full year this year with FA on the horizon. Getting rid of him, because he was nominated for a Gold Glove would be the last reason to get rid of him, and the most ridiculous.
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I don’t know who doesn’t like defense, but it’s just worked out that way that the Red Sox haven’t been very good at it the last few years. Raffy, Casas, and Yoshida are bats, and no gloves, and Kike was a disaster at SS. I don’t know anyone who wants Dugy gone, because he was nominated for a Gold Glove. He’s on his last year of his contract, and his bat went to sleep the 2nd half of last year not to mention he was benched a couple of times. It’s always good if a team has guys who can hit, and field, but at the moment the Red Sox don’t have many of them. Of course you was one of the few who liked the JBJ trade, and how did that work out?
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Whitlock hasn’t been the same pitcher since 2021 when he was strictly in the BP. He’s gotten hurt in the rotation, and hasn’t been the same pitcher back in the BP either.