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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Feb 17, 2017 4:53:04 GMT -5
ADD: I don't believe I've ever seen Mookie as saying he prefers one year deals. I don't believe that statement. Here's the article and quotes- fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2017/01/19/wondering-if-red-sox-mookie-betts-are-talking-contract-extension-not-a-peep/“Nah. Not right now,” Betts explained. “One year at a time. One year at a time and we’ll go from there. I’m going to go year by year and worry about one year at a time. Just go out, win and kind of keep my focus there. “There are so many different views of things. I know what me, my parents and my agents talk about. We have one view and I don’t want to have three or four different views on that thing. I just want to have one view and kind of stick to it.” And that one view is … “One year at a time,” he reiterated.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 17, 2017 5:29:21 GMT -5
ADD: I don't believe I've ever seen Mookie as saying he prefers one year deals. I don't believe that statement. Here's the article and quotes- fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2017/01/19/wondering-if-red-sox-mookie-betts-are-talking-contract-extension-not-a-peep/“Nah. Not right now,” Betts explained. “One year at a time. One year at a time and we’ll go from there. I’m going to go year by year and worry about one year at a time. Just go out, win and kind of keep my focus there. “There are so many different views of things. I know what me, my parents and my agents talk about. We have one view and I don’t want to have three or four different views on that thing. I just want to have one view and kind of stick to it.” And that one view is … “One year at a time,” he reiterated. Interesting, I hadn't seen that, just the "Not a peep" part. The same article makes it appear that Xander is looking forward to talking extension. I guess we'll see what happens when they start the talks. How much is posturing for either vs. reality is an unknown. Lester turned out to be full of it, Pedroia the opposite and Ellsbury stuck to his guns.
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Post by ryan24 on Feb 17, 2017 7:26:46 GMT -5
Why would mookie, xander or jbj say anything negative about the sox. In theory Dave will keep each for the next 2 or 3 years. They do not want any bad press and fans down on them. They know the sox pay big, so why not wait until you get close to the deadline and see what happens. They also know that several teams, the cubs come to mind, that would like their services. The Manny M and harper signings will have a great impact on what the market is willing to pay. 5 to 10 year contracts at 30 / yr are on the radar. How many can you afford and WHO do you keep? This is a lot like texas holdem poker. Pablo's contract comes into play here as well. He is probably out. Hanley's contract comes into play in 2 years. What will they do with him, especially if he continues to hit. It would not surprise me that Dave trades some or all of them. Not going to happen, but an example would be xb for lindor in cleve. The idea would be young CONTROLABLE player to spread out the money and still make them a WS capable team. Seems as the new game plan for the big market teams are to manage the salary cap with young controllable players and sprinkle in enough vets to give them a chance at the big ring with fans in the seats.
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Post by costpet on Feb 17, 2017 8:12:19 GMT -5
If we get the Sports Illustrated cover, then we're really screwed.
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Post by jimed14 on Feb 17, 2017 8:12:22 GMT -5
Betts grew up with baseball and spent a lot of time with the Rockies locker rooms as a kid with his uncle Terry Shumpert. ADD: I don't believe I've ever seen Mookie as saying he prefers one year deals. I don't believe that statement. Mookie has said several times that he doesn't really think about the money.
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Post by mattpicard on Feb 17, 2017 8:44:43 GMT -5
Playing the "do they like Boston? How much will they chase The Money" game with the four young B's is a fruitless exercise. By all accounts, they're great guys with a lot of maturity for their age, and they seem perfectly content in Boston right now. That tells us next-to-nothing in terms of how likely we are to lock them up long-term.
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Post by James Dunne on Feb 17, 2017 8:50:28 GMT -5
Playing the "do they like Boston? How much will they chase The Money" game with the four young B's is a fruitless exercise. By all accounts, they're great guys with a lot of maturity for their age, and they seem perfectly content in Boston right now. That tells us next-to-nothing in terms of how likely we are to lock them up long-term. Yeah. Someone seriously needs to show up in the BSOHL nowish so we can move on. No grainy pictures of Matt Barnes with his sleeves rolled up too high or Steve Selsky looking on the trim side? Come on reporters, what am I even mooching off of my sister-in-law's Globe subscription for?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 17, 2017 8:52:45 GMT -5
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Post by ryan24 on Feb 17, 2017 8:53:58 GMT -5
Playing the "do they like Boston? How much will they chase The Money" game with the four young B's is a fruitless exercise. By all accounts, they're great guys with a lot of maturity for their age, and they seem perfectly content in Boston right now. That tells us next-to-nothing in terms of how likely we are to lock them up long-term. Exactly! With Dave at the wheel Anything can happen.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 17, 2017 9:36:43 GMT -5
It's Henry's money. He'll decide which direction the car is being driven.
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Post by jimed14 on Feb 17, 2017 9:43:31 GMT -5
Awesome pics! And new avatar from one of them. Pretty funny thinking about the players waiting for luggage at the airport. Things have changed a bit since then.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 17, 2017 15:45:10 GMT -5
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 17, 2017 18:59:46 GMT -5
Playing the "do they like Boston? How much will they chase The Money" game with the four young B's is a fruitless exercise. By all accounts, they're great guys with a lot of maturity for their age, and they seem perfectly content in Boston right now. That tells us next-to-nothing in terms of how likely we are to lock them up long-term. Yeah. Someone seriously needs to show up in the BSOHL nowish so we can move on. No grainy pictures of Matt Barnes with his sleeves rolled up too high or Steve Selsky looking on the trim side? Come on reporters, what am I even mooching off of my sister-in-law's Globe subscription for? Seriously, the Cubs are gaining an edge while we concentrate on Pablo.... Ryan M. Spaeder @theaceofspaeder 18m18 minutes ago Ryan M. Spaeder Retweeted John Baker Source: every employee of the @cubs is in the best shape of their life. Every idiot knows the team with the most BSOHLs always wins the World Series.
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Post by Coreno on Feb 17, 2017 19:24:09 GMT -5
I'd love to see JBJ start switch hitting.
Since this thread is desperate for something to talk about, I checked out the spring schedule since exhibition games are less than a week away. 2 things: A.) is there a broadcast schedule out yet? B.) I noticed that Thursday's spring opener is lacking its traditional double-header. Does anybody know why there's no BC game scheduled this year?
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Post by soxfanatic on Feb 17, 2017 19:39:04 GMT -5
No post yet on Swihart having issues with the yips - more specifically throwing the ball back to the pitcher?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 17, 2017 20:24:41 GMT -5
No post yet on Swihart having issues with the yips - more specifically throwing the ball back to the pitcher? It was day one, too early to be worried about it but the video got some great comments.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Feb 17, 2017 22:52:52 GMT -5
Yeah the Swihart to the pitcher thing is meaningless. He'll be fine once he gets into the routine again.
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Post by mattpicard on Feb 18, 2017 11:52:35 GMT -5
Knew about Benintendi already, but these changes because official today: Jackie Bradley Jr. changed number to 19. Andrew Benintendi changed number to 16. Roenis Elias changed number to 29. -- Here's some info from Abraham on Swihart's throwing issues:
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 18, 2017 12:14:10 GMT -5
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Post by m1keyboots on Feb 18, 2017 12:22:54 GMT -5
In the off-season thread, Chris said: The likely opening day bullpen, even assuming health, includes Abad. He'd have to completely forget how to pitch in order to get cut. The marginal upgrade if he's pitching poorly from Abad to the likes of Robby Scott - and that's even assuming it's an upgrade for the sake of argument) - wouldn't be worth depleting depth.
Unless someone's hurt, you're looking at Kimbrel, Thornburg, Kelly, Ross, Barnes, Abad, Hembree.
If nobody is hurt (including Wright), that would assume either 13 pitchers (with Sale, Price, Pomeranz, Wright, Porcello, Rodriguez) or ERod starts the year in Pawtucket. My guess, Kelly gets stretched and if he looks good, is a Pawtucket starter, if he doesn't look good as a starter, Barnes goes to Pawtucket because he has options. The question is moot if Wright starts the season on the DL. I agree though that ABad is unlikely to be released, traded maybe, released no. Have to say I think Chris is absolutely right. I just like the idea of having a unique (to the AL east if not the league) lefty with that wrap slingshot delivery. Abad to me looked like felix doubront with control. However that was of course me only seeing him after he came over. Speaking of Robby Scott of course Thornburg, Hembree, Kelly and Barnes just seems like a lot of redundant semi power righties. Although of course thornburg is good against RH and Kelly has velocity the rest don't have. I feel like they may trade one of em depending on which has options etc. Either way SPRING TRAINING! life starts again!
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Feb 18, 2017 12:26:49 GMT -5
Al and Margie Hirshberg lived around the corner from us and were my folks best friends (Al was a sports writer for the Herald/Traveler and the actual writer of "Fear Strikes Out"). Thanks to him I was sitting in the 10th row directly behind home plate for Game 2 of the '67 series and still have the program/scorebook from that game. Lonberg was perfect through 6, walked Brock to lead off the 7th and gave up a "Wall Double" Julian Javier with 2 out in the 8th for the only hit the Cardinals got. Hard to believe that book will be 50 years old this October.
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Post by soxfanatic on Feb 18, 2017 14:40:30 GMT -5
Boston Red Sox redsox 1 u The #RedSox today purchased the contract of RHP Hector Velazquez from Campeche of the Mexican League. The deal is pending a physical. Per MLBTR: The 28-year-old pitched well over the winter for the Mayos de Navojoa in the Mexican Pacific Winter League, with a 2.32 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 85 1/3 innings. He also fared well in the regular season for the Acereros de Monclova, with a 2.47 ERA, 8.2 K/9 and 1.1 BB/9 over 131 1/3 innings. He has spent his entire career in Mexico to this point. Edit: Also includes an invite to Major League camp via Pete Abe
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Post by jmei on Feb 18, 2017 15:58:42 GMT -5
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Post by James Dunne on Feb 18, 2017 16:40:06 GMT -5
I feel like we need a kickstarter campaign to recreate all those old WWF Mr. Perfect vignettes starring Mookie.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 19, 2017 9:30:28 GMT -5
Red Sox manager John Farrell doesn't want to make him a right-handed specialist though.
"It's a clearcut development plan per se for Heath in spring training," Farrell said. "I thought there was some improvement late last season with the attack of left-handers. The numbers bear it out: He was very good against right-handers. But what we don't want to do is limit him into a specialist. He's got too good of stuff. And if we take a little bit different approach against some left-handers, with some first pitch and some sequencing, we feel like those numbers will balance out a little bit more."
Hembree added about facing lefties, "I don't think it's necessarily anything with my stuff or on the physical side. I think it's just more my the mental approach."
He said he thinks left-handed batters came to expect that he would pitch away against them.
"When they see that all the time and expect that, it's pretty easy to hit that so right now I'm just being conscious of moving the ball in and out, varying pitches," he said. "But as far as stuff-wise, the stuff last year was good enough to get them out. It was just wrong execution, wrong time, showed them too many of the same looks." www.masslive.com/redsox/index.ssf/2017/02/heath_hembree_is_boston_red_so.html
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