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  1. JoeBrady
    I studied 3 years of French, and couldn't hold a simple conversation. So everyone in America should learn English. But most will never become fluent. And kind of related to this, I've heard that some players don't want to address the press in their second language. I'll actually try to speak Spanish at the Dominican place I use to visit pre-Yankee games. But it was never going to be more than a polite chatter.
  2. JoeBrady
    Just backing up a little, was he incorrect? I'm an agnostic on Devers, but one could easily argue that 1B is one of the easier positions to replace.
  3. JoeBrady
    I agree. No one ever says it, but I'd bet that Devers was probably a little embarrassed about his fielding, and embarrassed even more so that he lost his 3B job, and Fenway is the last place in the world you to make errors at 1B. It's would've taken three games before fans started booing him. I know the answer is to improve your fielding, but the reality is that he just didn't. Betts, OTOH, could've been the pilot on the plane ride home.
  4. JoeBrady
    I thought he'd get more like $12M/2 from a team like the Rox.
  5. JoeBrady
    Not a fan of Arraez, but had he been a righty, he'd have been worth considering.
  6. JoeBrady
    While some credit should go to Bloom for providing a fair amount of assets, Breslow's record has been quite good. Fitts, Weissert, Slaten, O'Neill, Narvaez, Chapman, Crochet, some good drafts. Lost on Sale & Buehler.
  7. JoeBrady
    He's not. If we hit a hard injury, and are out of it, and Suarez starts off great, maybe. But it would almost certainly never happen.
  8. JoeBrady
    That's going to be as good as it is going to get. That or Paredes. Vientos will be about the same as Yoshida. Baty will be the big bat that the big-bat fans want. But the underrated aspect, imo, would be that we have a perfect slot for Casas when he gets healthy. Take some lefty ABs from Vientos and Contreras, and allows Vientos back up 3rd (somewhat painfully). And the savings allow us another BP arm, and some spending money at the deadline.
  9. JoeBrady
    Fair enough on the calculations, but it was there to show you we are 6th in spending.
  10. JoeBrady
    On a s/t contract like this, I'm betting Suarez is looking for money, and maybe a WS ring, more than stability. I think his stability days are over. And I doubt Breslow is trading him for a RP and eating salary.
  11. JoeBrady
    On the first, I agree. But that's why you throw in Masa, or Hicks, or the Mets throw in Vientos or something else. On the second, I could trade Abreu, but prefer to trade Duran. Duran was fine in CF, kind of like Ellsbury. But I find him painful to watch in LF. That said, watching him run the bases is truly joyful. Line drives straight at the CF, and then watching the CF have to hustle to keep him to a single is remarkable. But one should really go.
  12. JoeBrady
    If we acquired Skenes for Yoshida, Fred would say we only did it to dump salary.
  13. JoeBrady
    I didn't realize that you didn't have access to the internet. Try this one: https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/
  14. JoeBrady
    No yet, but he added a good bat in Contreras. And I expect one more bat that will improve us over what we had at 2B last year. 4 positions to think about from last year. We only had 3 positions that were worse than league average: Catcher sOPS+ of 87. That's almost entirely due to Wong's 48. Narvaez had a 108. I expect Wong to improve, and my guess is that we land at 100. 1B with an 84. Contreras should be a huge improvement over that. 2B with a 97. We had a .670 last year. Using Mayer as a 2B should yield a .703 and push us over 100. At 3B, adding someone like Paredes or Baty will keep us over 100. And Yoshida should be roughly league-average DH. IMVHO, as we stand right now, we will have a better than average OPS. If we acquire Paredes or Baty, we should be in the top-11.
  15. JoeBrady
    That seems impossible. Most trades will get a yes from one side or the other, unless it is a bad fit. But the RS need a 2B/3B, and the Mets need another outfielder. One of us should do this eagerly.
  16. JoeBrady
    My question is more along the lines of why we would want to pay for Suarez when we already have Masa. A right instead of a lefty, and occasionally fill in at 3rd is good. But not worth $20M. If Masa, Suarez and Mayer do exactly as projected, then Suarez gets 220 ABs.
  17. JoeBrady
    This is just a continuing re-hash of personal favorites. It boils down to this: Half of us wanted a #2 and half wanted a good position player. Half of those that wanted a good position player, half wanted a decent+ glove, and half wanted to focus on hitting. Even among those that wanted a good hitter, some preferred pure power, and others wanted better all-around hitting. The idea of Breslow blowing it has as much to do with personal preference as anything else.
  18. JoeBrady
    I don't see an issue with Mayer. He's a highly-rated prospect that will face some challenges in his first full year. Almost every rookie does.
  19. JoeBrady
    That's why I'm not sure that's a problem. Williamson is a decent prospect, who is more glove than bat. They had Suarez and are likely to pass on re-signing him. They'd prefer the good, cheap long-term investment. That's identical to Mayer, and imo, the way that BB should work.
  20. JoeBrady
    That would be very counter-productive, imo. If the added net cost to acquire Suarez is $14M, I'd prefer to spend that on the BP.
  21. JoeBrady
    Most teams have guys under 100. Given that 100 is the expectation.
  22. JoeBrady
    Like I said, I see no problem finding a landing spot for Masa. You had mentioned Masa going to the NYMs in a Baty/Vientos trade. If Stearns balks because Baty/Vientos are his DHs, then Masa with a $30M check will look attractive.
  23. JoeBrady
    It's the risk, and same route, that every team and every prospect goes through. At one point, Duran could field or hit. Romy could hit, but couldn't catch the ball. Ceddanne had an eye-watering 10:1 K/W just one year ago. That's the price you pay for development.
  24. JoeBrady
    I think both trades are reasonable. But with two notes: With the NYMs rotation, they will either go after a legit #2, or no SP at all. Much like us, they have the #4/5/6/7 slots covered. If we did the Duran/Hicks move, I doubt we'd sign Suarez. He might get some platoon time with Baty at 3rd, but he would start. And at DH, Masa probably still gets all the ABs against righties. Suarez is too expensive to be a 300 AB player.
  25. JoeBrady
    That's reasonable. But there are a fair amount of us that would've ranked that #2 SP, big bat, then 2B/3B. What we've done so far works well for that population. So long as we get the 2B/3B, then the difference between the two POVs will be negligible.
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