unfortunately, we'll never know. IMHO, JH should have sucked it up, signed Mookie, and dealt with the budget for a few years. after all, what's $40-50M to a multi-billionaire, right?
isn't that what any good GM is supposed to do? i don't really see any of the players DD traded away as being someone we might have missed. i hope the next GM trades "suspects" for proven talent.
Rangers are the closest MLB team to me and i've been there dozens of times. guess i'll root for them.
and screw the Rays. glad they're out. the only team i hate worse than the Skankees.
it has made sense for far too long yet hasn't happened. he's only been worst or second worst defensive 3B every year he's played but his first. and had he played a full year that year, he would have been the worst then too.
even with the Sox being out of it for quite some time, Cora has still yet to use Devers at 1B. this blows my mind that we can see this but he doesn't. at this point, what do they have to lose? it's ridiculous having such an aawful defense and even more ridiculous that he doesn't seem to care to do anything about it. i really like your Matt CHapman idea. and it makes a ton of sense so....it will never happen. i guess Cora is going to stick with guys that can't play defense for s*** (see Rodriguez, Kike) because he's a "players coach".
yeah....but doesn't every team play a "brutal" schedule? maybe all the Braves, Rays, Orioles, Dodgers and Rangers players are just conditioned better? no offense, but i think any coach/manager/player using this as an excuse is doing so to avoid saying that his players/team just aren't very good.