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Post by dirtywater on Dec 18, 2015 12:42:28 GMT -5
I think some people forget that players go into defensive slumps and tears just as much as they do offensively.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 18, 2015 11:59:11 GMT -5
Is Iwakumara the new Japanese import? /adds to the mass confusion of the thread By saying... "is that the new Japanese import" you are adding to the confusion of the thread too.... smh.... hence me following it up with a self aware statement.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 18, 2015 10:57:43 GMT -5
This is all that was confusing. It started off about Chen. Then someone posted Iwakumara's new contract. Is Iwakumara the new Japanese import? /adds to the mass confusion of the thread
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 17, 2015 11:37:18 GMT -5
Wow I love the Dodgers failures... No on the Sox... He's attached to a pick Forgot about the pick. This is terrible news for his market. He may not sign till the draft.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 17, 2015 11:33:46 GMT -5
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 15, 2015 12:39:17 GMT -5
Yeah based on having Allen Craig and Bryce Brentz at the corners in AAA, they needed someone with defensive chops.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 15, 2015 12:28:29 GMT -5
@bradfo 29s29 seconds ago Red Sox have come to terms on a minor league deal with OF Ryan LaMarre. Played 21 games with Cincy last year
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 11, 2015 15:33:15 GMT -5
Can we all come down off the mountain for a minute with this guy? Yes, he's solid as a rock. Yes, he has impressive tools/potential. Wake me when he's OPSing 1.200 in Salem and/or 1.050 in Portland, his defense has improved to where we see he can be an above-average major league infielder, and his ego hasn't grown to the size of Mt. Rushmore. Baseball is too complex a game to get all ga-ga over someone at Moncada's current minor league status.*Deactivates my SoxProspects account*
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 10, 2015 13:40:29 GMT -5
This is a perfect example of what can happen when a team holds onto a prospect to long and doesn't capitalize on their value. This is a perfect example of 20-20 hindsight. You might think a guy is at the peak of his value and then throw him into a Adrian Gonzalez trade like Rizzo. I'll take letting Cecchini bust as long as they don't trade Mookie at what they might have thought the "peak" of his value was in 2013. I do agree with you on this point. But once we signed Panda and Hanley there was literally no point on holding on to him. Marrero and Holt leapfrogged his value to the ML club at that point. I realize he was no longer a headliner type of guy, but could have easily packaged him with a couple pieces in a deal for a starting pitcher, for example.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 10, 2015 11:54:26 GMT -5
Still think it's weird that they DFAed him ahead of Coyle. It's close, but I understand a little. Cecchini had one elite tool and he completely lost it. Coyle still has some usable tools but injuries last year?
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 10, 2015 11:40:56 GMT -5
This is just sad. At a minimum, Cecchini should have been shipped out last offseason when we blocked him with Panda and Hanley. His stock had dropped, but not this much.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 10, 2015 8:41:24 GMT -5
Not sure where to put this: Cafardo has written an article on the defense of the 2016 Red Sox infield, which in itself is a good topic. He's even using advance stats, or at least he tries... He writes that Bogaerts posted a 8.0 dWAR this season. At first I thought that may have been a typo, but later in the article he writes that Sandoval had a -15.1 dWAR season...How does he still have a job? It's not that he is misinterpreting the table in Fangraphs (he looked at the 'defense' column), but he doesn't understand that what he writes is just impossible. He doesn't understand the metric. www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/12/09/holes-red-sox-infield-may-need-patching/zp1wnivHn7t6QgDJCJyKgJ/story.html?event=event25Probably his first time on the fangraphs website.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 12:18:02 GMT -5
Fair enough. Ironically, however, I've seen Benintendi's glove get more plus reviews than Swanson at SS. Way too early to tell though. Benny did have a -2.5 FRAA in Greenville though in a small sample size. IIRC, Swanson played SS this year only, he was a 2nd baseman the year before, that leads me to think that his coaches in Vandy didn't thought he was good enough to start there when recruited (Arm maybe?) and I keep reading (KLaw, Mc Daniel etc) that Benny baseball is at least an average CFer. So I don't think that difference is that big with the glove. I'll take Benintendi over him if we re-do the draft. Benny Baseball. I am 100% all for this nickname.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 10:38:31 GMT -5
I chuckle at the comments of these pages always about how the Red Sox gave up too much. The people on this page would have claimed that the Red Sox gave up too much when they traded Pavano and Armas for Pedro. We can laugh at just about any trade in a vacuum. Every team can look back on deals that went lopsided for or against. You forgot about the immortal Casey Fossum. Looking at his bref page is fun. Welcome to the board btw.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 10:34:06 GMT -5
Wade Miley and Shelby Miller have the very similar steamer projections for next year. One got traded for a young cost controlled starting centerfielder, a top 50 pitching prospect and the #1 overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft. The other got traded for a reliever. I mean I understand the upside but deal lord. Once again, Miley got traded - along with Aro - for two players. I'm going to dig all these posts up and throw them out there once Elias comes on board. He's not dead meat, he's a swing man who's had periods when he's done very well as a starter. And, as has been pointed out, he doesn't have much mileage on his arm. For the record, I'm not against the Miley trade. I realize we got Elias too who defintiely adds value to the deal. I guess I was trying to be blunt and left him out of my point. Regardless, I don't think any of the secondary stuff in the trade even puts it in the same stratosphere as the Miller haul.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 10:21:14 GMT -5
Wade Miley and Shelby Miller have the very similar steamer projections for next year. One got traded for a young cost controlled starting centerfielder, a top 50 pitching prospect and the #1 overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft. The other got traded for a reliever. I mean I understand the upside but deal lord. Miller is 3 years younger, more life on his fastball, has a better primary secondary pitch in his curve. Shelby Miller has infinitely more upside than Miley. I don't even know where you get this comparison. I agree that Arizona paid through the roof to get him, but I'm sorry Wade Miley is a #3-4 starter at best. Upside is somewhat limited here based on years of control. Both have 3 relatively cheap years. Both are under 30. Yeah raw stuff Miller has an edge but performance wise, it's not as big of a gap as you are suggesting. My point was that Shelby Miller is better - albeit somewhat marginally - and yet the difference in packages was astronomical.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 9:52:45 GMT -5
It's almost a shame it's not time to rebuild. Wade Miley and Shelby Miller have the very similar steamer projections for next year. One got traded for a young cost controlled starting centerfielder, a top 50 pitching prospect and the #1 overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft. The other got traded for a reliever. I mean I understand the upside but deal lord.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 9, 2015 9:37:23 GMT -5
I think that trade should just about set our rotation in stone. Absolutely. The Red Sox and other teams now see how ridiculous the trade market is now. We are going to start seeing the free agent dominos fall now I presume.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 8, 2015 15:23:03 GMT -5
At this point I'm all for the Red Sox doing the complete opposite of what Nick Caffardo suggests.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 8, 2015 15:21:36 GMT -5
I wonder if Miller could be part of a bigger deal involving Freeman? Yeah let's dump Hanley and Panda on them while we're at it.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 8, 2015 10:02:14 GMT -5
Wait, there are two dirtywaters? wth? Yeah, I'm OG
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 8, 2015 9:35:56 GMT -5
I don't see any scenario barring an injury that Vazquez doesn't start out in Pawtucket.
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 7, 2015 15:57:32 GMT -5
So Elias is going to be used out of the pen? Or compete with Kelly for #5 spot?
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 7, 2015 14:11:19 GMT -5
When you say jump into an interview, what kind of interview are you talking about?
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Post by dirtywater on Dec 7, 2015 14:06:40 GMT -5
We have not heard from Xander in a while. It would have been nice if someone had put a GPS tracking device on him so that we could monitor his movements throughout the Winter Meetings. Only Heisenberg would suggest this.
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