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Because I can look at these two men and know that they are not interchangeable. Masa's arms look like a normal person. Duran looks like a gym rat. I think that is what you are seeing in the 2025 OPS variance. I think maybe when Masa was younger he was strong enough to drive the ball even without living in the gym but you just dont have to worry about it with Duran. Time in gym > nerds

Is your favorite WWE wreslter from the early 90s "Skinner". He was from the everglades

cats are smarter than they credited for a lot of times.

I like the sound of your cat. My cat is very doglike herself, and I had to convert her to indoors. Sorry Duranistheman and MVP, the street birds I didnt mind as much but the baby bunny murders broke my heart. I dont know how my cat can be so sweet and loving and snuggly with all humans even strangers. She even likes medium sized dogs (I dont trust her around small ones) but she is an absolute monster to mice, birds, rabbits. So I converted her to indoor only. ALso, she started losing fights to other cats and thats how you get kitty aids (getting scratched up and bit up). I didnt mind her fighting the neighorhood cats when she was winning the fights but one time I heard her shriek under a car and a bully larger, younger cat was bullying her and Im not going to say she didnt deserve it but shes my princess and she never went outside again. I thought it would be harder to convert her to only indoors but it wasnt. Once in a while shell lay by the door and try to sneak out but most of the time shed rather be curled up in a warm lap anyways. I feel like if she was murdering more exotic or cooler birds I would have minded more (not to imply that a birds life matters more if its pretty even though thats kind of exactly what Im implying) - but with like those gray street birds there are like hundreds of thousands on my block alone in the summer - I just hated when she would bring them home alive because now im chasing the thing around with a broom and its too dumb to find and fly out of the open window even though they are all open.

i dont think you would get along with my cat, if you like birds that is

Exhibit A of why Masa cant replace Duran, first of all.

I dont think Suarez as a 3b (everyday) was realistic. This could have been the lineup sometimes, but I dont think Suarez could give you more than 70 games at 3b. Which is fine cuz Raf shouldnt sit for 100% either, but it doesnt really matter anymore.

Casas career as a red sox was dead and buried the day we got contreras, the far better player RIP Maybe we can get some value for casas back in a trade

And we traded for Contreras to play catcher?

6 platoon guys, 3 platoons and backup catcher for bench. Unless you platoon at catcher, than 8 but thats not something teams usually do (platoon C)

Well things have changed since we deprioritized Refsnyder

We would have a better offense with Suarez at DH, it would push Cedanne to 2b and Suarez > Masa But Breslow doesnt care about offense

Well like Utah said, cant believe this is where we are. Im not sure why but Rengifos name has always sounded a little like he could be a character on street fighter to me. Maybe something about my ears hear Rengifo and think Zangief? 1. He lets us keep Duran (our best acquisition of this offseason) 2. I like his name 3. I had him on a fantasy team 4 years ago This is where we are, might be fine. Certainly better than trading Duran to sure up the defense.

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I like Suarez too. I just hope we keep looking for offense both internally (KC could take a leap) AND externally, but Im sure we will.

Thats fine. But they were always going to get Romys bat in the lineup against lefties. My hunch would be Romy would play DH, Duran jump into a corner OF spot, Abreu to bench vs lefties is how you would platoon Abreu with Romy. You keep Duran playing OF sometimes so the skills dont erode. And really Im choosing Abreu because he seems to be the odd guy out vs lefties (I expected him to play vs lefties last year and it didnt happen and Moon reminded me a few times that I was wrong, so Im just trying to not repeat past mistaken assumptions). Understood, a few moving parts here (Duran to LF/Anthony to RF). So maybe they would have platooned Duran/Romy at DH, so you can keep Anthony in LF always and Abreu in RF always (less moving parts). Maybe you platoon Romy with Mayer. BUt if Dham is going to have a .680 OPS vs righties and Romy .900 (vs lefties), thats roughly .733 (assuming lefty 25%, so (680*3+900)/4 What I am saying is including Romy is raising that from .680 to .733 and I dont think its accurate to compare that .733 to what we would get from Bregman (.820). Because if we got Bregman, that .900 OPS vs lefties (romy) would still be in the lineup. Lets say Romy would platoon with Mayer if we got Bregman. So, I look at mayer OPS vs lefties, which was like .400 but tiny sample size, so lets say .600, so our apples to apples comparison is (.680*3+.600)/4 which is .660. So by not signing Bregman, its a drop from .820 OPS to .660 because 3/4 times is DHAM bat in the lineup now that you dont have Bregman (when its a righty) and 1/4 time its Mayers bat in the lineup (when its a lefty). I still think we get an everyday infielder at some point, and even after we do (assuming we do) ROmy will still play vs lefties. So dont factor in Romys OPS when deciding how much that *acquistion* infielder helps the offense becasue his bat is NOT coming in for Romys. Its coming in for DHAMs 3/4 times and Mayers 1/4 times.

Defensively -okay, but I dont think its fair to consider Romy in a comparison of should we vs should we not acquire an everyday infielder (not implying you are doing this) because I think Romy was/is always going to play vs lefties. If we got Bregman/Paredes/Marte for example - Romy would have platooned with either Abreu or Mayer (most likely), so its not like you gain his bat vs lefties by not getting a Bregman/Paredes/Marte I think apples to apples, if we are deciding for example, how much Paredes helps us offensively, its not accurate to compare Paredes to what youd get offensively from a DHam/Romy platoon. I think its more accurate to compare it to what youd get from DHam (vs righties) + what you would get from either Mayer or Abreu (vs lefties), because by not getting an infielder, one of them goes from bench to starter (vs lefties) but Romy was always going to start vs lefties so you dont gain that.

Michael Morse won me a fantasy league once , love him

I dont blame Bello at all, I didnt agree with the quick hook. He had only given up a 2 run homer to a hot Ben Rice. We scored 2.3 runs/game that series. I dont blame the SP. And not only do I think it was NOT the SP that did us in last year, but I think that the SP was going to get better this year even without bringing in any of Gray/Ranger/Oviedo. I think Kutter coming back and Im expecting Tolle to be a rookie of the year contestant. I think that a staff of: Crochet Crawford Tolle Bello Early Sandoval Harrison Is already PLENTY good enough. I think its already like the second or third best in teh AL. I dont think we needed a single starter.

Trivia: who performed the main theme/song in this movie? I had it as a question on weds and whiffed and it haunts me (even though we won). I should have gotten it because I like the band.

Good point here

I think the chances of that are quite low because I believe the reporting is that it was Breslow who believed that his contract was tops and "didnt want to bid against himself" What you are describing is more of a "RS hit their limit" , which to me isnt the same. Put another way - I think that if Breslow believed that he would have had to match the cubs offer he would have and I think he would have had the green light to because Im working from a belief that we didnt up our offer because we didnt think we would have to (as opposed to being like we dont think theres value if we go any further north) So what you are describing isnt really on my radar as a high probability, but certainly, if Breslow cannot offer a NTC no matter what and that was always a dealbreaker , then sure - not breslows fault. But I find it all to be much less likely than simply Breslow thought Bregman would take the offer on the table and thought he had it in the bag until the shock of the cubs agreement. If Im willing to pay $200 for something at a store and I get there and its on sale for $150, Im not going to pay more because I dont have to. This doesnt mean I was unwilling to spend the $200. I think the sox should have and would have matched the offer had they thought they had to, but didnt think they had to.

I would imagine that more often than not, if a GM/CBO is asking a player to leave money on the table, and the player agrees - theres a NTC. I would speculate its almost assumed.

If the cubs want him at 175 , deferred down to 155 in adjusted value....And he signs with the red sox at 165 deferred (remember considerably more than cubs deferment)....So thats prob adjusted down to like 135.....He just created a 40 trade value unit surplus for the sox regarding his contract vs what the cubs want him at. Then yes, he is turning himself into a tradeable asset immediately. If I was a free agent and you wont give me a NTC then im taking the highest offer without question. Im not taking a discount to sign with you so you can trade me. I agree its unlikely that the sox would ink him at a discount and flip him, it would smell terrible. But I see why he wants to protect against this

I love Kutter tho :( And yes, I acknowledge Ive talked about man-crushes and biases before and being a hypocrite here. But Kutter is 29 and Bello is 26, and if they dont want bello because they are going full rebuild, subbing in crawford isnt really going in the right direction. Maybe Early for Donovan? Also - BTV is not always right. Im not sure Harrison is actually 5 and Donovan is 31. But that could be wishful thinking on my part because to me , Harrison makes a lot of sense to trade. Here are the starters that I am against trading at this point in time (in order) 1. Suarez (you cannot trade him at this time, no new free agents can be traded until mid june, so its not an option at all) 2. Crochet can technically trade him but of course no f'ing way not for anything 3. Gray (maybe) Im not sure if we can trade Gray, if we can he moves down 3 spots 4. Tolle (6'6 huge bodied lefty, thows 100, looks like a crochet clone, seems poised - I think he figures out at least 1 or 2 secondaries - rookie of the year potential) 5. Kutter Crawford - yes im biased, but hes one of my guys. Been following him since he was a long shot minor leaguer. He was like 30s or 40s on soxprospects YEARS ago and i read an article like - this guy gonna rise, dont sleep and ive liked him ever since NOTE here is where Gray would be if we can trade him 6. Oviedo - Im intrigued and I dont think he has a lot of vlaue in a reflip. Im a little worried we gave up some value in this trade (e.g. I think that Garcia may have more value than Ov, but I dont hate the trade if we love Ov, but I dont like the trade if we flip Ov for less value than Garcia had) 7. Sandoval - just dont think he has any value 8. Bello I think hes a good pitcher. But he has value as a sinkerballer who can get out of jams. 9. Early 10. Harrison Meaning, Im looking to trade Harrison or even Early, but I want a lot more value for Early. Youd have to blow me away for Tolle.