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You should always weigh most recent season more. Yes, when a disparity exists between last season and 2 seasons ago, a player is more likely to perform according to his most recent season. But I agree that if he was 25, you would weight the 24 season even more.

Sure, if they eat some $$. I dont want to allocate half our budget to sale. Need more than 20-25m for bats.

Im not interested in sale at 18m. Im surprised he has positive value at all. Now at the deadline, when there is only like 8m remaining on the 18m, Im very interested (assuming hes healthy) Fits the budget better.

Most likely to get injured in RF at fenway, but 3b might be second. Ball comes at you fast and theres a lot of diving around.

sure. Paredes plays 3b and suarez plays 1b though. Hes too old to play 3b full season (my opinion). He can play there sometimes. Like when we had Turner. He played some 2b, 3b, but also played a lot of 1b and DH because your body just cant handle 150 games at 3b when you are over 35.

Yes, but weighted for recency (which we should) and Schwarber looks much better. Not saying we should only loook at last year, but last year should carry more weight than 3 yrs ago re: expected future performance I really wanted Ozuna in a trade last offseason, and traded for him in my show franchise. He won back to back MVPs as a DH.

exclude. Hes talking about wanting to keep duran, cedanne, abreu, RA in the lineup.

I think its worth it for them to take that gamble. If he gets hurt, they only miss out on what his trade value would be if they traded him today, which is small. Because we're no longer subsidizing the contract. 18m is kind of a lot for him, IMO.

Of this list only Tucker is in Scwharbers league , hitting wise. And I dont see that happening. Im interested in Paredes, but hes not a big enough bat.

Of course there is a walk away point and yeah if hte bidding gets nutty, we have to walk. We'll see

One where hes gotten hurt every year for the last 10, and makes 18m/yr and is 37 yrs old Id put him in the pen.

For a 37 yr old sale on a non contending team, on a 1 yr deal, for like 18m? When he got hurt last year? Im honestly surprised they pulled the trigger on the option. No way I give up Early/Campbell/Tolle I think straight up for Sandlin is prob fine. If Im them, however, I wait to the deadline because if hes healthy and pitching well, then the price tag would go up. I could be wrong but I think he has very little trade value.

My comment was in response to your comment about him standing on first base most of the time, by erring on the side of taking borderline pitches (clearly implying walks) Walks are irrelevant to ISO because the denominator is AB, not PA. Also, leading the team in ISO isnt a particularly high bar, unless we are including Devers, which we should if we are comparing Casas 2024 stats for comparison. Over his career, Casas hits 8.4 extra base hits over 100 PA (8.4%). Abreu is at 10.2%. Story is 10.7%. Devers is 10.8%. Duran is 10.5%. Judge is 11.6%.

Sale makes a lot of sense as a deadline add more than an add at this point in time. 1. He'll be 7m as opposed to 18m, 2. if hes healthy at the deadline he has a much better shot at making it through the season because less runway between then and playoffs vs now and playoffs

Good point. Ill take Yoshida in the minors (to start the season) over the 4-5 mil (injuries will happen) but Im obvs taking the 4-5 mil relief over a handshake and a no-hard feelings let him go into free-agency with us on the hook for the whole salary.

Can we bait and switch in Harrison?

This is fair and I have no argument.

Why is Sale the expense of the future? Id give very little in a trade, and put him in the pen. And they might bite. But as I sip my coffee , probs not cuz theyll prob want to flip him at the deadline. If hes healthy at the deadline, could be a good add but no reason to decide on that now and hes not or was ever going to be the "#2 pitcher" we need right now.

Better than saying the opposite, but this dude yaps too much (Breslow, not Hitch). Hes just yapping. Like he yapped about how we'd be buyers at the deadline.

The best part about getting Skubal is not that if you have two legit aces you are automatically a contender. You arent. YOu still need a very good offense or you arent doing anything. The best thing about having Skubal and Crochet, however, is that if one gets hurt you still have an ace.

Touche. My point is really just that I think we should build through the offense vs through the pitching. If you have 2 great starters and a team of noodle bats, they wont carry as far as they would have in the nineties/early 2000s when dudes would throw 300 innings. I do thnk Crochet was this teams MVP last year, and will be this teams MVP next year, and I dont really think theres a convincing argument against. So my point is not that pitching doesnt matter or that you dont need it. Just right now, Im a bit lazer focused on the offensive needs because we had Yoshida batting cleanup last year, lost Bregman, will probably trade an OF'er and I dont think the youth is enough to compensate for all that. We need a pitcher, but not necessarily one as good as Skubal. Or, at least, we dont need an elite pitcher as much as we need an elite hitter (my opinion). A lot of that is because we already have Crochet.

First of all, I dont slap - when I swing, I do it with a closed fist. I would happily swing on any billionaire given the chance, but especially the one who owns the Pittsburgh Penguins, the organization who employed Matt Cooke, who ruined Marc Savards career with a cheap-shot elbow. But my point here is that Im not sure that even if Henry opened the checkbook, that would be enough for Breslow to close deals. Breslow has come up short quite a bit, and it hasnt always been just about money (for example the deadline). Ive also heard him talk and interact, and I honestly think at least part of the problem is hes a pompous jerk. You have to talk to people to sign people, and I think people genuinely do not want to talk to him. That being said, obviously the agents have their price, and wont let Breslows awful personality and puchable face stop them from getting their clients paid. I do hope we splash some money around this offseason. I like your comment that one bat or one middle infielder is just getting back to where we were with Bregman so we need multiple. My dream is Bregman, Schwarber, and trade for a pitcher. I can live without Bregman, as long as we get a solid (or better) infielder + Schwarber. Im fine with like Polanco or Peredes. Marte would be even better than Bregman. But in any of those cases, still need Schwarber and a solid (or better) starter

Ah, Yamamoto.....Yeah, hes really good. Still, of the top 30 WAR , all of baseball, 8 are pitchers. Highest was SKubal who was 7th. Not trying to say that pitching doesnt matter, just saying that in todays game, where pitchers are rarely pitching into the seventh, its better to have a stacked offense where the players play every night.

His 3 ER in 2.1 IP rally won it for them.

Having an elite pitcher in 2025 is like having an elite big man in basketball. Aint what it use to be. Game has changed.