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Post by philsbosoxfan on Feb 10, 2023 7:08:15 GMT -5
This might be interesting. Who do you envision being your closest watches. Not who you think will have the best year.
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position Player: Kiké
MiLB Pitcher: Mata
MiLB Position Player: Rafaela
Optional Wildcard: Houck
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Post by rminns10 on Feb 10, 2023 7:17:34 GMT -5
MLB pitcher: Whitlock
MLB hitter: Casas
Milb pitcher: Drohan
Milb hitter: Yorke
Wild card: Blaze
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Feb 10, 2023 7:25:54 GMT -5
MLB hitter: Yoshida
MLB pitcher: Bello
MiLB hitter: Bleis
MiLB pitcher: Perales
Wild Cards: Edinson Paulino, Roman Anthony, Kavadas, either Brannon or Hickey - want to see if there's a future starting catcher in the system
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Post by nomar on Feb 10, 2023 8:06:57 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position Player: Casas
MiLB Pitcher: Perales
MiLB Position Player: Bleis
Optional Wildcard: Valdez
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 10, 2023 9:17:37 GMT -5
MLB arm: Whitlock
MLB bat: Casas
MiLB arm: Perales
MiLB bat: Bleis
Wildcards: Yoshida, Mayer, Romero, Mata, Walter
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Post by scottysmalls on Feb 10, 2023 9:22:34 GMT -5
MLB pitcher: Whitlock
MLB hitter: Yoshida
Milb pitcher: Mata
Milb hitter: Yorke
Wild card: Rafaela
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Feb 10, 2023 9:34:44 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Hitter: Wong
MiLB Pitcher: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz
MiLB Hitter: Roman Anthony
Wild Cards: Eddison Paulino, Marvin Alcantara, Niko Kavadas, Hunter Dobbins
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Post by TearsIn04 on Feb 10, 2023 10:05:36 GMT -5
MLB P: Bello
MLB H: Yoshida, Casas (OBP!)
MiLB P: Mata
MiLB H: Mayer
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Post by seamus on Feb 10, 2023 10:10:37 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Hitter: Yoshida
MiLB Pitcher: Perales
MiLB Hitter: Kavadas
Wild Card: Valdez
There are definitely minor league hitters I expect to be better and am plenty interested in (Mayer, Bleis, Rafaela, etc.), but Kavadas will be the guy I follow most closely because this is probably the make-or-break season for him. If he can figure out how to hit more advanced pitching this year, he's got a shot, but if he can't mash in AA and probably force his way up to AAA this year, the odds of even a cup of coffee probably go way, way down. I could see him being a top 10 guy at the end of the year or out of the top 30 entirely.
Valdez is my wild card because he could make contributions at the big league level this year and it might positively change the way some people think about the organization if a recent somewhat under-the-radar trade target pops.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Feb 10, 2023 10:13:12 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello MLB Hitter: Wong MiLB Pitcher: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz MiLB Hitter: Roman Anthony Wild Cards: Eddison Paulino, Marvin Alcantara, Niko Kavadas, Hunter Dobbins I'm curious about your interest in Wong. Why Wong? I don't look at him as a potential high-impact guy. |
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 10, 2023 10:15:38 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Garrett Whtilock
MLB Position Player: Masataka Yoshida
MiLB Pitcher: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz
MiLB Position Player: Nick Yorke
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Post by TearsIn04 on Feb 10, 2023 10:17:40 GMT -5
MLB P: Bello MLB H: Yoshida, Casas (OBP!) MiLB P: Mata MiLB H: Mayer Since others are adding WCs, I'll play too. I'll go with Yorke, Blazer, Hickey and the MiLB P's some of you have added. Bleis is too far away to be at the front of my consciousness and I'm not high on Rafaela's bat. |
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Feb 10, 2023 10:30:42 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello MLB Hitter: Wong MiLB Pitcher: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz MiLB Hitter: Roman Anthony Wild Cards: Eddison Paulino, Marvin Alcantara, Niko Kavadas, Hunter Dobbins I'm curious about your interest in Wong. Why Wong? I don't look at him as a potential high-impact guy. The very first line of this post clearly states this isn't a "who you think will be best" set of choices. I'm really interested to see if the apparent improvements Wong made offensively in AAA last year are translatable to a point where he could hit enough to be a viable "starting" catcher. So he will be the guy I am watching the most closely to start the season. Most of the rest of this team, while having variance that has been discussed at length here already, are relatively known products (outside of Yoshida, who was my other consideration, and Casas). |
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Post by scottysmalls on Feb 10, 2023 10:43:49 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello MLB Hitter: Wong MiLB Pitcher: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz MiLB Hitter: Roman Anthony Wild Cards: Eddison Paulino, Marvin Alcantara, Niko Kavadas, Hunter Dobbins I'm curious about your interest in Wong. Why Wong? I don't look at him as a potential high-impact guy. Personally I'm very interested in watching the performance in general from the catcher position. If one or both of Wong/McGuire can be even an average player (2 WARish), especially Wong, that would be a real nice-to-have for team building for the next few years. |
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Post by nomar on Feb 10, 2023 10:56:00 GMT -5
I'm curious about your interest in Wong. Why Wong? I don't look at him as a potential high-impact guy. Personally I'm very interested in watching the performance in general from the catcher position. If one or both of Wong/McGuire can be even an average player (2 WARish), especially Wong, that would be a real nice-to-have for team building for the next few years. Don’t want to derail the thread but I have my eye on Wong too April + May: 1 HR, .066 ISO, 19.5% K, 85 wRC+ (26 Games) Rest of year: 14 HR, .264 ISO, 24.5% K, 137% wRC+ (55 Games) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 11:22:33 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Sale
MLB Position Player: Arroyo
MiLB Pitcher: Walter
MiLB Position Player: Rafaela
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Post by terriblehondo on Feb 10, 2023 12:16:02 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position: Yoshida
MILB Pitcher: Mata
MILB Position: Rafaela
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Feb 10, 2023 12:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Feb 10, 2023 12:38:47 GMT -5
MLB Position: Verdugo
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MILB Position: Yorke
MILB Pitcher: Mata
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Feb 10, 2023 12:53:14 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Sale (how great would vintage Sale be?) MLB Position: Yoshida (would be Story if he wasn't injured; will be Story in 2024) MiLB Pitcher: Mata (it's gotta be Mata) MiLB Position: Rafaela (if these were ranked, he'd be at the top) Wildcard: Duran (is he MLB or MiLB?)
EDIT: Great topic @phils! Simple, yet a real thinker and illustrates how objectively interesting the 2023 roster is.
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Post by gerry on Feb 10, 2023 13:22:29 GMT -5
This thread reminds me how very many important, interesting players of unknown potential the Sox have assembled. So many choices. I apologize for going off track, but for the life of me I cannot settle on one because the curiosity factor is dominating my thought process.
Congratulations to those with the discipline to choose. I am too excited as these binkies are each as suspenseful, and defined by error bars, as the 2023 team itself.
MLB hitters: Casas, Yoshida, Devers, Verdugo, Kiké, Turner, McWong (Wongâs spray chart is so enticing, and imagine if McGuireâs âbreakthroughâ last year showed any semblance of future ABâs)
MLB pitchers: Sale, Bello, Whitlock, Houck, Paxton, Jansen. What backstories.
miLB hitters: Valdez, Mondesi, Hamilton, Rafaela, Yorke and former binkies. Dalbec and Duran.
miLB pitchers: Mata, Murphy, Walter, Kelly, Feltman.
Sorry about that. I like so many of these players and their potentials that I increasingly like this potentially underrated team. I am too excited, as ST begins, to limit my binkies. Go Sox.
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Post by ramireja on Feb 10, 2023 13:50:43 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position Player: Yoshida
MiLB Pitcher: Brandon Walter
MiLB Position Player: Roman Anthony
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Post by 0ap0 on Feb 10, 2023 15:00:44 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position Player: Yoshida
MiLB Pitcher: Nobody. They've got guys I can imagine being useful as cheap replacement level players, but nothing that holds my interest.
MiLB Position Player: York, Lugo, Kavadas. Three guys I could be really excited about if any of them figure out how to put it together.
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Post by christianarroyossock on Feb 10, 2023 16:15:29 GMT -5
MLB pitcher: sale
MLB hitter: Arroyo
MiLB pitcher: Walter
MiLB hitter: romero
Wildcard: paulino
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Post by soxfansince67 on Feb 10, 2023 16:23:23 GMT -5
MLB pitcher - Bello
MLB hitter - Yoshida
MiLB pitcher - Mata
MiLB hitter - Rafaela
Wildcard - Yorke
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Feb 10, 2023 16:37:11 GMT -5
MLB Pitcher: Bello
MLB Position Player: Yoshida
MiLB Pitcher: Gettys (never giving up on the pinch runner reliever dream)
MiLB Position Player: Sikes
Optional Wildcard: Duran
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