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Post by Smittyw on Mar 12, 2020 13:04:59 GMT -5
This should push MLB's report on the Red Sox back until November 2021 and the Navy's decision on Song back to 2035.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Mar 12, 2020 13:22:21 GMT -5
Does Mookie ever play a game for the Dodgers before becoming a free agent?
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Post by nomar on Mar 12, 2020 13:36:32 GMT -5
Lol maybe just give Sale surgery. Now it’s not sounding so bad
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Post by patford on Mar 12, 2020 14:23:32 GMT -5
Spring Training now suspended. Doesn't this mean that players will have to ramp up again ? So isn't it clear the start of the season will have to be delayed ? On top of that it is likely exposure to the virus hasn't peaked yet.
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Post by art on Mar 12, 2020 15:26:23 GMT -5
ESPN will be strictly in the replay business starting ASAP. Maybe they can also have shows talking about the replays.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Mar 12, 2020 16:55:11 GMT -5
Lol maybe just give Sale surgery. Now it’s not sounding so bad Maybe just do the CBA renegotiation and inevitable strike/lockout this season while we're at it.
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Mar 12, 2020 17:04:37 GMT -5
You seem to be about the only one that doesn't think there's a Lucroy / Plawecki competition for straight backup catcher. It's apparently a state secret, but Plawecki projects to be one of the best backup catchers in baseball. (Maybe the best, but I'm not going to bother running those numbers.)
Weirdly enough, that may have something to do with why they acquired him!
Let's be silly and say that the Lucroy people are dreaming on is 4 WAR better than Plaweki, as a regular catcher.
Which is 1.3 WAR as a backup. Which is 0.2 WAR over one month.
That, my folks, is the maximum downside to keeping one of the best backup catchers in baseball and finding out just how good Lucroy actually is by having him be the AAA regular. By failing to gamble on Lucroy, you might miss a whole 0.2 wins.
OTOH, if you cut Plawecki and go with Lucroy, and Lucroy is Grady Sizemore Mk. 2, that's as much as a 2 win downgrade over the season.
Furthermore, what happens if Vazquez or Lucroy gets hurt? (Gee, do catcher gets hurt? Have these guys gotten hurt?)
It's a sad time in Baseball if Kevin Plawecki is the best back-up catcher in Baseball with a career .218 hitter .636 OPS and .3, .2, 0, and .2 fwar the last three years.
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Post by Smittyw on Mar 12, 2020 19:25:54 GMT -5
Stephen Colbert: It’s only March, and 2020 has done the impossible: Made me nostalgic for 2019.
Every Red Sox Fan: This MF spittin.
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Post by nomar on Mar 12, 2020 20:22:23 GMT -5
Lol maybe just give Sale surgery. Now it’s not sounding so bad Maybe just do the CBA renegotiation and inevitable strike/lockout this season while we're at it. Yeah just swallow all of the pills now. I’m already bummed bring it on
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 12, 2020 20:44:48 GMT -5
Lol maybe just give Sale surgery. Now it’s not sounding so bad Maybe just do the CBA renegotiation and inevitable strike/lockout this season while we're at it. I was thinking today that they might as well start negotiations now while they have nothing better to do.
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Post by dd on Mar 12, 2020 20:50:20 GMT -5
Bad enough for all these people to be home from work, but with no March Madness, no NBA, no NHL, no MLB, ... Hell with toilet paper, I'm surprised there hasn't been a panic run on liquor stores.
(BTW, if you just bought 140 rolls of TP just in case you get quarantined for 14 days, you should have seen the doctor long ago.)
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Post by Don Caballero on Mar 13, 2020 0:02:35 GMT -5
(BTW, if you just bought 140 rolls of TP just in case you get quarantined for 14 days, you should have seen the doctor long ago.) You can never have too much TP, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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Post by blizzards39 on Mar 13, 2020 10:07:48 GMT -5
What is happening down they? Are they still practicing? Have players been sent home? Is Sale still going to test his arm today?
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Mar 13, 2020 10:25:11 GMT -5
What is happening down they? Are they still practicing? Have players been sent home? Is Sale still going to test his arm today? I think canceling Spring Training means everyone is expected to take care of themselves at home.
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Post by Smittyw on Mar 13, 2020 10:43:35 GMT -5
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Post by nomar on Mar 13, 2020 10:44:43 GMT -5
Maybe just do the CBA renegotiation and inevitable strike/lockout this season while we're at it. I was thinking today that they might as well start negotiations now while they have nothing better to do. ESPN will probably air them for some content. "ESPN Presents: The 2020 MLB CBA negotiations brought to you by Cisco. Cisco - There's never been a better time."
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 13, 2020 12:19:18 GMT -5
Good point. I was wrong.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 13, 2020 12:20:37 GMT -5
Also, there's a conference call with the Sox FO at 3 where they'll probably try to answer a lot of these questions.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Mar 13, 2020 16:14:18 GMT -5
Ask teams like the LAD what they think of granting full service time to players for this time off that face losing potential superstar players at the end of the season.
I think at MOST split time. 1 day service time and the MLBPA union eats the next. It's the only way to be fair.
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Post by ericmvan on Mar 13, 2020 16:27:42 GMT -5
It's apparently a state secret, but Plawecki projects to be one of the best backup catchers in baseball. (Maybe the best, but I'm not going to bother running those numbers.)
Weirdly enough, that may have something to do with why they acquired him!
Let's be silly and say that the Lucroy people are dreaming on is 4 WAR better than Plaweki, as a regular catcher.
Which is 1.3 WAR as a backup. Which is 0.2 WAR over one month.
That, my folks, is the maximum downside to keeping one of the best backup catchers in baseball and finding out just how good Lucroy actually is by having him be the AAA regular. By failing to gamble on Lucroy, you might miss a whole 0.2 wins.
OTOH, if you cut Plawecki and go with Lucroy, and Lucroy is Grady Sizemore Mk. 2, that's as much as a 2 win downgrade over the season.
Furthermore, what happens if Vazquez or Lucroy gets hurt? (Gee, do catcher gets hurt? Have these guys gotten hurt?)
It's a sad time in Baseball if Kevin Plawecki is the best back-up catcher in Baseball with a career .218 hitter .636 OPS and .3, .2, 0, and .2 fwar the last three years. Scratching my head here ... is there something else catchers do besides hit?
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 13, 2020 16:31:35 GMT -5
So apparently MLB is still going to try and play 162. We'll see.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 13, 2020 17:53:48 GMT -5
With the current trajectory, that's a little hard to fathom. I'd love to be dead wrong.
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Post by wcsoxfan on Mar 13, 2020 17:59:43 GMT -5
So apparently MLB is still going to try and play 162. We'll see. When I asked Santa for a Red Sox world series for Christmas, I should have been more specific on the time frame.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 13, 2020 19:22:37 GMT -5
It's a sad time in Baseball if Kevin Plawecki is the best back-up catcher in Baseball with a career .218 hitter .636 OPS and .3, .2, 0, and .2 fwar the last three years. Scratching my head here ... is there something else catchers do besides hit? That makes no sense. UMass used fWAR which includes defense. It was you that used projected wRC+ to label Plawecki a top backup catcher, not UMass. A second note, if you look at Lucroy's DRS history, he was one hell of a defensive catcher before all the injuries. Both his offense and defense took a nosedive.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 13, 2020 23:30:09 GMT -5
Apparently Bloom has told the players going home or staying at Jet Blue is their option.
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