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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 13, 2024 18:23:29 GMT -5
If only they had a forum to face their paying customers to answer all those questions, lol. What does this, and all the subsequent replies, have to do with FREE AGENCY, the purported purpose of this thread? Can't y'all open a DISSATISFACTION thread and rehash there all the latest sports talk radio arguments? Seriously, I ask: Is there no place on this board where the talk is predominantly about the players?I'll hang up & listen. Which player did you talk about in this post, BOB? You actually have a point in that the FA thread has become a catch-all for all off-season talk. That's nobody's fault. Threads usually do meander a bit because it's just the nature of conversation. It's actually occured to me that it would be worthwhile to have a thread on overall Red Sox FO strategy, since that is the topic of so many posts in this thread, and one on Winter Weekend. It's intellectually dishonest and lazy to reflexively dismiss criticism of the FO as talk radio stuff or to dismiss the critics as mouth breathers, idiots or any other kind of bozo. Those comments are intended to avoid honest discussion.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 13, 2024 14:37:03 GMT -5
True, but they're not doing that either. Also, the Town Hall was a unique opportunity for the fans and upper management to converse. It was fun and informative. Last year, they took criticism at the event and aired a sanitized version on NESN. This year, they killed it. The principal owner won't show up at an event that costs $95 to attend and that draws the people who line his pockets by paying the highest ticket prices in the sport. The people attending buy the ticket with no promise of the owner showing up. The town hall last year was totally unproductive and uninteresting. I have a hard time being mad at them for not pursuing that format again. I agree it would be nice if they were more open and if Henry in particular was more available, and I do think there are ways to do that that would buy them more good will. I just disagree with the agita directed at this particular decision. Not a promise, but it had become an expectation. Did you attend last year? As I've said, posters who are going to characterize last year's event should disclose whether they were there. I was and I found it productive and interesting. The fans' reaction said a lot about their frustration with the way things were/are going. Some of Bloom's comments were productive and interesting. For instance, I walked away encouraged that he said he wanted to sign young guys to extensions before FA. I thought he did a good job of explaining why they didn't sign MB and why they gave $300M to Raffy (though I disagreed with his reasoning on Raffy). It's a testament to the SP crowd that the characterizations of last year's event are not remotely in the same universe as some of those on SOSH. Posters over there have raised the possibility of violence as a legitimate reason for cancelling. That's hilarious. About 70 percent of the audience is older dudes, women and kids. They're not the type to throw chairs. These are frustrated BB fans, not a bunch of loons gathering in front of Ruby Freeman's home. At least one guy on SOSH accused the critical fans as being drunk at the event. Yeah, they sell beer but I don't ever recall anyone there slurring their speech or stumbling into a wall in the concourse. It's also not like a BB or FB game where some people are back and forth to the beer stands the whole game. People at the Town Hall get their seats and sit through the event. That SOSH poster is talking out of his ass. Referring to fans who are sick of last place finishes and looking for answers as mouthbreathers, blowhards or whatever is just plain homerism. (I'm not saying that's you, SS.)
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 13, 2024 13:47:46 GMT -5
If only they had a forum to face their paying customers to answer all those questions, lol. If you’re implying they need the town hall to do this I disagree. They could do an interview or press conference any time and answer the questions more effectively than in that format. True, but they're not doing that either. Also, the Town Hall was a unique opportunity for the fans and upper management to converse. It was fun and informative. Last year, they took criticism at the event and aired a sanitized version on NESN. This year, they killed it. The principal owner won't show up at an event that costs $95 to attend and that draws the people who line his pockets by paying the highest ticket prices in the sport.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 13, 2024 13:40:59 GMT -5
One annoying thing about the cheapo owners narrative is that no one is explaining why they would be cheap. Gammons lays out the pretty obvious logic there: it can't even be in their crude financial interest to stay well below the LTT. So... what's the logic of laying off the big-money free agents? What is their plan for this offseason, and going forward? The complaint always just terminates in moral dudgeon without anyone really trying to understand their motivations. Bolded: And this the problem. The upper management people should be explaining why they're doing (or more accurately, not doing) this or that. But JWH has ghosted and nobody else is stepping up to speak for the org. Skipping the Town Hall, an event that fans came to expect and appreciate, is a middle finger and gutless. I actually think there are legitimate reasons why they're intent on keeping contracts short, which means staying away from the big names. I thought - and still think - that signing E-Rod and Sonny Gray - could have been a reasonably priced fix to the SP. From there, they could have added some inexpensive defense like Harrison Bader in the middle of the field and a RH DH on a one-year deal and been in business. That team, including a healthy Story and a full year of Casas in Beast Mode, would project for about 90 W's, IMO. And they'd still might be below the LTT. But once E-Rod, Gray and some other second-tier SPs were off the board, I was in favor of a cheapo winter and another bridge year - though that bridge is getting pretty long. I guess that's the plan. But we're all left to speculate on the FO's motives because the suits aren't keeping the fans informed, which is part of their job.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 12, 2024 23:26:09 GMT -5
I'm not dying for Jorge Soler, or for anyone else in a non-GFIN year, quite frankly. And I certainly don't want Soler on anything more than a two-year contract. In fact, if they sign him for two, I'll be asking why they didn't just go with JT, JDM or Hoskins for one. But it's gotten to the point of comedy: The Red Sox are in on player X. Now it's down to three or four teams for player X. The Red Sox just got outbid for player X. This is the first year I wished Henry would sell the team. What a nightmare of an off-season. Could still be great! But man are those hopes fading. Even the middling guys they get will feel like their last choices. I'm not at the point of wanting JWH to sell. You just never know who you're going to get. Also, I still hold out hope that when the time is right - next off-season at the earliest, but more likely the '25-'26 off-season - they'll make big moves. A big problem as I see it is that they'll have only one way to acquire a big-time SP when the time comes. The farm isn't likely to produce anyone big in the next two years and, let's face it, it's going to be hard to keep up with the LAD, NYM and MFY when it comes to bidding on top FA SPs. The Red Sox will have to trade top prospects for that No. 1 we all want.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 12, 2024 23:08:28 GMT -5
According to Hector Gomez the Sox will be outbid yet again I'm not dying for Jorge Soler, or for anyone else in a non-GFIN year, quite frankly. And I certainly don't want Soler on anything more than a two-year contract. In fact, if they sign him for two, I'll be asking why they didn't just go with JT, JDM or Hoskins for one. But it's gotten to the point of comedy: The Red Sox are in on player X. Now it's down to three or four teams for player X. The Red Sox just got outbid for player X.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 12, 2024 22:09:40 GMT -5
The hope for me is that the 2024 team can be somewhat comparable to the 2016 team. Heading into that year the crop of position players was Mookie/Xander/Ortiz/Pedroia/JBJ. I think Devers/Casas/Story/Yoshida/Duran is a not totally dissimilar group of position players to build off of. That team added Price in the offseason I think with a similar addition this team has that sort of potential. I often think during the off-season about which past Red Sox team the next season's squad might emulate, so I relate to your thought process. But I don't see a similarity with the 2016 team, which by the way is one of my favorite non-WS winning Red Sox teams. Mookie, X and JBJ all blossomed that year, each one starting in the ASG. Travis Shaw was a decent contributor at 3B and Beni came up toward the end of the season and impressed. D-Dom sagely saw a young core ready to make an impact and acquired Kimbrel and Price during the '15-'16 off-season. Porcello got himself a CY and Hanley Ramirez had a nice bounce-back year playing 1B, a new position for him. The 2024 team will not have a young core that talented and ready to explode. The '24 team also will not have established studs like Papi, Pedroia, Price and Kimbrel. The '26 team might be put together like the '16 team, with MM, Anthony, and Teal making an impact for low money, but '24 feels a little too early. Barring upgrades (which apparently will not include Montgomery or Snell) I'd expect the '24 team to perform a lot like the '23 team. And the '22 team.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 10, 2024 22:31:04 GMT -5
Again, if your going to throw bricks with words like putrid, you need to say who they should have signed, and for how much, and then build a budget from that. Give names and amounts please. See, this is why it's important for management to speak and answer questions, not just post happy talk on redsox.com. I don't know whether they've had a putrid off-season because I don't know what their goals were to start with. Maybe they are leaning heavily into '24 not being a GFIN season, so they're accumulating future assets and not tying up resources (money) that can be better spent once the team is ready to contend. I can see some wisdom in that. But I don't know if that's what they're doing. Winter Weekend is a chance to speak to the fans, just like a company's annual meeting is a chance to speak to the shareholders. CEOs don't check the stock price on the morning of the meeting and then decide not to show up to avoid guff.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 10, 2024 19:46:12 GMT -5
Who was planning on hitting the ball with a stick at the Q&A? I just think sports fans sound very silly when they pretend that they’re making some big moral stand about not watching/supporting the team when they’re bad. The Red Sox aren’t getting the Oakland A’s treatment from John Henry. They’ve had one (1) year where they didn’t spend like a marquee team. It’s lame that they’re not showing up, and it’s frustrating that they’ve been treading water for so long. But at the end of the day the only thing that’s being lost here is an opportunity for people to yell at a boogeyman figure. No, not true. I didn't do any yelling. I was just bemused by the whole thing. So, that's not the opportunity I'm missing out on. I genuinely want to hear upper management's side of things. I was encouraged last year when Bloom said he wanted to sign young guys to extensions. I was interested in his point when he said the org was not in the right position to invest heavily in a superstar player after the 2019 season but that the opportunity was right last year and that was why they extended Raffy. It comes down to plain, old accountability.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 10, 2024 19:39:50 GMT -5
This is such a bad look. Claim there is a covid outbreak in the FO or something. But to just pull the plug, especially when last year went sideways. This is ugly and inexcusable. They should just hire me as their spokesman. None of this "full throttle" and "our goal is a championship every year" hoo-ha. I'd go up there are say, "Look, through a combination of mistakes and bad luck, the farm system totally dried up in the late 2010s, and we've been paying the price for it the last couple of seasons. The good news is that, because we're a well-run organization that spends a lot, 'paying the price' means being roughly .500 and restocking the farm system without truly bottoming out like the Astros and Orioles did. So you should be thankful you all are Red Sox fans." Everyone will appreciate this clearly reasonable perspective and no one will be angry anymore. This nails it. When I own the team, I'll definitely hire you as team spokesman. I'm a few billion short, so just give me some time. 😎 Seriously, my guess is that some in the PR office gave them this very advice and they rejected it.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 10, 2024 19:33:32 GMT -5
They did the town hall thing once and it went horribly. They were punching bags and got booed and all that and all it did was generate even worse press/vibes. It only made things worse, it would make no sense to do it again, no one wins except like the one fan who feels good because he was mean to the owners of the team. No, they've done it each year the event was held. And I didn't get the impression anyone felt good at last year's event. They felt great at the 2019 event, though. JWH found a way to attend that one.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 10, 2024 19:30:46 GMT -5
I see this as they're admitting they've totally screwed up this off-season. If things were going as planned they would 100% get up there and tell us how wrong we are, and they are fully behind what's going on. They're in over their head and are cowards to boot. Nope. They saw the shitshow of how certain “fans” behaved last year and thought better of having it. That's the reason they should be there. I've been to each WW since the Red Sox started having the thing in 2015. (The event wasn't held in '21 or '22.) Upper management was there during the great run of the late teens and accepted the standing O's and "atta boy" comments. Now their product is lousy while they continue to charge the highest prices in the industry and they run? It's gutless, arrogant, tone deaf and garbage. Also, those who want to comment on how people behaved last year should disclose whether they were there. I was and I can attest that nobody threw anything, I didn't hear anyone shout a curse and nobody was shut down from speaking. People booed and hissed at what amounts to a sporting event staged by a poor performing, expensive-to-follow team. Heaven forbid. Hide the children. After last year's rough reception, the suits said they loved it, that the fans' passion is what makes Boston special. If their experience last year is the reason they're dodging the event this year (and if they are in fact dodging it), it means they were lying after last year's event. It was just dishonest pablum shoved in their mouths by PR types who instructed them to regurgitate on cue.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 6, 2024 20:53:33 GMT -5
If the Dodgers want to give Teoscar 3 or 4 years let them. Never really wanted him and his 36/211 ratio on the first place. Would rather they sign Martnez, Turner or Soler to DH and put Yoshida in LF and defense for him later in games. Ot they could simply bring back Duvall which works for me, too. I want them to spend money but Teoscar is not where I want them to spend. Whether it's Yoshi or TO on this year's team, they can just revisit the issue of OF defense next off-season. That weakness is going to be a major strength in the next window of contention when they have Roman Anthony and Little Raffy out there. At that point, they can just put Yoshi/TO at DH. All things being equal, I'd prefer that TO be the DH at that point due to the extreme LH of our lineup.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 6, 2024 20:46:58 GMT -5
I'm not down with a three- or four-year deal for TO either, except under one circumstance. If it's for a materially lower AAV than Yoshi's $18M and they're able to move Yoshi without subsidizing him so much that it eats up the difference, I'd be Ok with it. Even then, I'd far prefer 3 years for TO instead of 4 years.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 6, 2024 20:37:06 GMT -5
The more I look at the Wacha deal, the more I think the Sox(and many other teams) whiffed on that one. I think he’s a relative bargain, and probably will outperform Giolito. Absolutely not imo. Wacha's been pitching over his head for two years now. His ERA has been substantially better than basically any other stat you might look at (xERA in the mid 4s, for example), his velocity is declining, and he hasn't been eating innings either. I wouldn't want Wacha on a 1/16, never mind a 2/32. Meanwhile I think Giolito's deal is a good value, as he still has the upside of a 1/2 starter. There are few SP deals this offseason for any team that I like better. It's true that Wacha's ERA has been shiny compared to his other metrics the past two years. But your characterization of the comparison with Giolito is a bit misleading. If you look at 2023, it's a clear advantage for Wacha in three out of four metrics. Gio's only edge is in xFIP and it's a tiny one. In '22, Gio performed better in three of the four metrics, but again his edge was tiny in one, which was FIP. I don't hate the Gio contract because he might bounce back. More importantly, the contract is for only two years. It won't encroach by much, if at all, on the window for the Red Sox to compete again. (I used to think that window would open in '25, but now for a variety reasons, I'm thinking it's more like '26.) And I'd have loved to get Wacha at 1/$16M. Again, nothing to lose. You are correct in saying that Wacha hasn't been an innings muncher like Gio. Few guys are. It's a major strength for Gio. Yet, Wacha has had a clear advantage in B-Ref WAR (citing it because FG WAR is wacky). He's combined for 5.7 in the two years, compared with 2.1 for Gio. I don't buy that Gio is a great bet to outperform Wacha in 2024. It could go either way. Wacha 2023 ERA - 3.22FIP - 3.89xFIP - 4.47 xERA - 4.30
Giolito 2023 ERA - 4.88 FIP - 5.27 xFIP - 4.45xERA - 4.61 Wacha 2022 ERA - 3.32FIP - 4.14 x FIP - 3.99 xERA - 4.56 Giolito 2022 ERA - 4.90 FIP - 4.06xFIP - 3.66xERA - 4.23
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 5, 2024 19:17:06 GMT -5
That’s great, they aren’t going to come out and say something derogatory about his play That fact is he had a wRC+ of 109 with atrocious defense. Soler has a career wRC+ of 112 with no worse (also atrocious) defense If we offered Soler a 4 year deal worth $72 million today we would all be rightfully so extremely upset and dumbfounded And they aren’t that much different in age roughly 1.5 years Yoshida is an awful contract for what he brings to the table Not exacly sure what you basis is for that assessment. baseballtravalues has him at +3.3 trade value, so basically he gets payed what he is worth. Considering this was a free agent signing, I'd call that "decent". I'm not picking on yokulia but I just hate the whole WAR/$ thing. It's meaningless. Yoshi was not a good ML BB last year. You need good BB players to win. If he made half the money he's making, he's still not a good BB player. On top of that, he's a terrible roster fit. The Red Sox have multiple LHH who are poor defenders.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 2, 2024 17:08:17 GMT -5
I like Pivetta but I'd still be hesitant to give him an extension unless it was 3 years or something which with the contracts that get given to SPs I don't think he'd take nor would I blame him. I'm thinking of something like 4 years/$60M. Would that get it done, given that it removes the risk of him getting much less due to an injury in 2024? (Reality check: I am very bad at predicting contract numbers.)
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 2, 2024 16:51:32 GMT -5
“Nick Pivetta had the 10th-best ERA (3.16) and 12th-best FIP (3.27) in baseball after being demoted to the bullpen (minimum 100 IP). After May 16th: 30 G/8 GS 102.2 IP 3.16 ERA/3.27 FIP 12.4 K/9 2.7 BB/9 1.2 HR/9 .181 BAA“ This is the type of player who needs to be extended! IMO, he should be listened in everyone’s rotation in this thread…. and he does not cost 20-30 million per year. I hope the Red Sox appreciate what they already have! He is listed as starting 8 games, but most of his second half games were pitched innings 2 through the end of the 7th or there about (a non-starter starter). He pitched 142.2 innings and struck out 183! That is impressive. Yes, it's occurred to me that nobody talks about a Pivetta extension, but if they're able to extend only one of him or Casas this off-season due to a desire to stay under the LTT in 2024, I'd rather see them go with Pivetta. That's simply because he's on the verge of FA and Casas still has five seasons to go.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 2, 2024 9:45:20 GMT -5
I was hoping like crazy that Leiter would fall to us in the 2021 draft. It didn't break that way but we got the kid who was touted as the best player in the draft anyways.
A subsidized KJ for Leiter would be tremendous.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 31, 2023 11:16:20 GMT -5
The assumption here is that Grissom will start at 2B on OD. Is that guaranteed?
He was pretty horrendous in the ML last year. I know it was a SSS but he was REALLY bad. He was -4.4 WAR/150 on both B-Ref and FG. That's hard to do.
The projections are better but he doesn't seem like a guy who should be counted on for 140 games.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 30, 2023 17:57:54 GMT -5
I haven't read through all the posts yet, but I'm skeptical on this one. I'm all for paying to get rid of bad contracts and bringing in future value but it seems like $17M and about 100 innings of roughly average SP - which is what Sale was in '23 and could reasonably expected to provvide in '24 should bring more.
If we are trying to build the Next Great Red Sox Team we can't have bad defense all over the field. None of Raffy, Casas, or Yoshida are likely going anywhere.
If they like Grissom at 2B long-term, do they trade Mayer and keep Story at SS? I don't think the board would like that.
It would be good if Grissom can become an average LF, but he'd have to hit more as a LF than as a 2B to provide real value.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 30, 2023 12:51:03 GMT -5
Thanks to Matt Picard for his really trenchant analyses. I'm going to make a suggestion, which you can take or leave. If you're angry that the Sox aren't spending, then you need to look at who's been signed so far and say how the team should have responded. Keep Ohtani and Yamamoto out of it please. They were never coming anywhere East of the Rocky Mountains. That's been made crystal clear from Ohtani's obvious choice and the path he laid for his countryman, which Yamamoto has now acknowledged. That leaves a handful of signings so far. I've made my thoughts known about Lugo. Everyone likes to tag Pivetta as a 4th or 5th starter. Did the Sox need another of that flavor? So who should they have signed so far? Wacha? Kiner-Falefa? Speak up please. I liked Gray and E-Rod but if you check their introductory press conferences, it's clear the Red Sox had no chance for either one. Gray wasn't going anywhere farther from the Mississippi River than St. Louis. He praised the city, the fans, Cardinals tradition, the FO - just about everything except the Arch. E-Rod said he liked the D-Backs' commitment to winning and that he has heard great things about Brent Strom, the P coach. But the clincher was Tory Lovullo greeting him with a hug at the winter meetings. Will you knock it off with this after-the-fact conclusion that Ohtani and YY were going to the LAD? That's where they got the biggest bag, which is the prime factor - usually the only factor - in where a FA goes.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 30, 2023 12:37:06 GMT -5
Thanks to Matt Picard for his really trenchant analyses. I'm going to make a suggestion, which you can take or leave. If you're angry that the Sox aren't spending, then you need to look at who's been signed so far and say how the team should have responded. Keep Ohtani and Yamamoto out of it please. They were never coming anywhere East of the Rocky Mountains. That's been made crystal clear from Ohtani's obvious choice and the path he laid for his countryman, which Yamamoto has now acknowledged. That leaves a handful of signings so far. I've made my thoughts known about Lugo. Everyone likes to tag Pivetta as a 4th or 5th starter. Did the Sox need another of that flavor? So who should they have signed so far? Wacha? Kiner-Falefa? Speak up please. I would have liked E-Rod at the deal he got and maybe sonny Gray at what he got but I'm not sold on Gray being a pressure cooker pitcher so that one I'm fine on so in the end E-Rod was the only deal I'm sitting here banging the table saying man they should have done it, assuming that e-rod would have come back to Boston for that same deal anyway? My thought at the start of FA was to go for E-Rod and Gray. I'm a little higher on Gray than you because he had only one bad season in a big market. That was 2018 with the MFY and we don't know whether gagged or just had a bad year because...he had a bad year. Signing those two, acquiring Drury for 2B (optional, in my view), adding either O'Neill or Harrison Bader in CF, and getting more out of Casas and SS (both of which are easy to foresee) could have added about 10 Ws and left them well below the LTT2. Once that plan was shot, my priority shifted to just keeping contracts short this winter and waiting for the young guys to develop and start hitting the roster in 2025.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 29, 2023 14:20:11 GMT -5
I can understand the desire to move Yoshida primarily to DH. If that is the play, though, I'd rather sign Bader to a (possibly overpriced) one-year deal and push Duran to LF, with O'Neill and Abreu able to play wherever, as necessary. If, as has been suggested in some reports, they're signing Teoscar so as to be able to trade from their outfield depth... well, we'll just have to see what they do I guess. It's probably not a popular opinion on here but I'd also be pleased to get Bader for a year. He'd provide a big defensive upgrade in CF and a bridge to Little Raffy, whose bat and approach are clearly not ready for the ML. If he is a starting OF on OD, he'll quickly get curshed by ML pitching. Put Bader in CF, Story at SS for a full season, and get O'Neill significant OF time and you've gone a long ways toward fixing the defense.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Dec 29, 2023 11:29:11 GMT -5
Is there no concern that Teoscar's bat declined 4 years in a row? I'm surprised there isn't more concern about signing this guy to more than one year. If his agent asks for four, CB2 should let out a hearty laugh and hang up the phone. At three years at the AAVs that have been discussed, his contract will make it harder to spend money going into the 2026 season, which is when I think the Red Sox can start a nice run if they do things right between now and then. Here are his numbers for 2020 through 2023. The trend is obvious. OPS+/wRC+146 142 131 132 128 130 106 105 wOBA/xwOBA.384 .401 .369 .370 .348 .351 .317 .336 OPS.919 .870 .807 .741 WAR B-Ref/FG3.9 4.5 3.8 4.3 2.8 2.5 2.1 1.8 In 2019 he had a 9.7 percent BB rate. Last year, it was down to 5.6 percent. He's also chasing more pitches outside the zone. One year would be Ok, since this not a GFIN year. I could live with two. Beyond that, I'm out.
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