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Post by jbuttah on Jul 28, 2017 12:18:53 GMT -5
Can he be called up in September without his salary counting against the luxury tax? No. Curious why you ask? Well, he needs MLB at bats to prove he can be either a useful backup for the Sox next year or to get traded.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 28, 2017 9:15:07 GMT -5
Can he be called up in September without his salary counting against the luxury tax?
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 26, 2017 12:30:18 GMT -5
A random fan called out of the stands could do as good a job as Mike Timlin as color man on the NESN telecasts. Who is the genius at NESN who decided that he would be a capable standin for Remy/Eck/Lyons? Ugh! He's a perfect reflection of how the team is playing right now... low energy.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 26, 2017 1:23:03 GMT -5
Just call Brentz and DFA Chris Young plz! This! Also, why not give him some time at 1B while at Pawtucket?
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 25, 2017 23:42:46 GMT -5
Pedro likes it, so I guess I'm in Can he play 1st?
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 25, 2017 23:32:17 GMT -5
2nd game in a week where you have blown a game Hembree. Congrats. That was entirely predictable. Hembree for a 2nd inning. Thanks Farrell.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 25, 2017 23:24:40 GMT -5
Gotta put Xander on the 10 day at this point. Hope to get something out of him once again this season. Yeah, he's providing nothing. He's not even walking because noone is afraid of throwing him strikes.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 25, 2017 11:14:53 GMT -5
Didn't think Travis Shaw would have the kind of year he's having, but trading him away could single-handedly cost the Sox a playoff spot.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 25, 2017 8:54:46 GMT -5
Yikes!! In that case, DD has really painted this team into a corner! The Sox are out of serious moves, other than pinning their hopes on a 20 year old who's never even played in the Big Leagues, let alone the playoffs. I pray that he doesn't feel like he needs to be the one to bail this team out. That could possibly be devastating to his development. If ownership and management are more focused on avoiding financial penalties, and the potential loss of signing long-shot IFAs by going over the salary structure, than we're forced to punt the season away, unless a couple of players get red-hot offensively, and somebody else besides Sale steps up to be a shut-down starting pitcher. Cherinton did most of the painting with Pablo and Hanley (and a few other gems). Dombrowski just did the trim work and got rid of most of the doors (prospects) that get you outof the corner. Those 2 signings were so odd, especially coming on the heels of the relief provided by being able to trade away Crawford and Beckett.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 21, 2017 8:22:19 GMT -5
Instead of trading for a LHR, how about looking for starting pitching AAAA depth pieces, then try Johnson or Beeks in the pen. Can't remember where but I remember reading that Johnson's fastball plays up to 92-94 in relief.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 18, 2017 23:13:57 GMT -5
Can nothing remotely normal happen in this game! Great, Mookie - but....running into another out?! And the cou de' gre' would've been if JBJ wasn't running hard and Bogaerts got tagged before he scored. Or Bogaerts hurts his hand even worse.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 18, 2017 23:06:24 GMT -5
But Farrell's asking him to do something he's shown he can't do. Be a baseball player? Not everyone can bunt, or has worked to be able to bunt. Either way, the handful of times I've seen Marrero try to bunt has shown me he just cannot do it. He's got a better chance of running into one.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 18, 2017 23:03:48 GMT -5
But Farrell's asking him to do something he's shown he can't do.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 18, 2017 23:01:26 GMT -5
Wow, Marrero's a terrible bunter. Keeps jabbing at the ball.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 18, 2017 21:53:31 GMT -5
So - that play, or the pinball bounce toss to Moreland to get the out at first last week? Which was best? Come on, no contest, toss to Moreland. He was playing in and the ball came right to him. Man on 3rd wasn't going anywhere and the runner on first was couple steps away before turning around. Good play, but one most 2B should make.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 14, 2017 14:55:19 GMT -5
I've always been a huge Theo fan, but his recent moves have perplexed me a bit. Now, you can argue the Chapman trade away as feeling like a truly elite team who added an elite arm to bolster their WS aspirations (although he didn't really help in the playoffs and that package should have been enough for Andrew Miller who had control past 2016). I get why they over-paid for a reliever with a half year of control. This Quintana move just reeks of panic and for a team whose had just about everything go wrong 1 year after winning the World Series, I don't think that justifies treading the number 5 prospect in baseball along with 4 other kids for a guy with a 4.01 FIP amd xFIP of 4.13. I get that he's under control through 2020, but it's not like they're buying low on him. Actually, the Chapman trade is the one that still boggles my mind...I can only imagine the reaction here if Dombrowski traded Devers (the rough equivalent of Torres as a prospect) and several others for a 3-month rental, WS aspirations and "elite arms" aside. Getting Quintana for 3 1/2 years is far more palatable. The better question is how would have folks around here reacted in Nov 2004 if the Sox had made a similar trade that year.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 14, 2017 10:52:13 GMT -5
A year from now, I hope it will be Hanley's turn. They absolutely cannot let his 2019 option vest.
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Post by jbuttah on Jul 13, 2017 22:35:46 GMT -5
Would it make sense to trade Chavis for Frazier, but only if the White Sox take on Pablo's contract? He's a half-year rental who hasn't hit all that well this season, but still showing some good pop. The White Sox would be essentially buying a prospect. Depends really on what the White Sox are being offered for him, but I think it would make some sense as they're losing Frazier after the year, they aren't likely to contend next year and wont have a lot of salary commitments through 2019. They would need to eat the full 2.5 years remaining. The White Sox wouldn't take on the Sandoval money for anything less than Devers, and I still don't think they'd do that. Sandoval is about to be DFA'D most likely. He didn't even play in Pawtucket tonight. Hard to believe a MLB team with all their resources, especially one like the Sox, would sign Sandoval to a 5/95 contract that most on this board disagreed with to some extent. I mean he's been a disaster from the very beginning with no flashes of talent befitting such a contract.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 21, 2017 8:29:00 GMT -5
The Yankees were on a pace for over 100 wins. Now it's obvious Cashman fielded a team they can win some games with, but they also have serious holes. The relievers are mediocre at best, and the pitching staff is all over the map. Sabathia gets by on guile these days, and Tanaka hasn't looked quite right for a long time. Pineda has very good and very bad days,... and so on. Severino has looked the best, but I don't know that you want a 23 year-old carrying the team on his back. They can compete and they're likely to stay in the race, but the pressure will be enormous to trade for mercenaries to put them over the top. That's true in New York even more so than Boston. What will they be willing to give up, what will it cost them? I don't believe they're a 100 win team so they were due for a fall. But I'll bet they stick around. The Yankees will heat up again. They have enough to stay in the race and win it if the Sox don't resolve some of their own issues. As they both are now, both teams are heavily flawed. I think Porcello, Price, and a real 3b are the keys to the Sox season (and not getting any awful injuries of guys who are extremely tough to replace.) I think the odds the Yankees fade down the stretch is greater than them battling for first the rest of the way. Besides the problems with their pitching staff, they have 3-4 guys who if the season were to end now would have career years. I just can't believe Gregorious, Castro, Hicks and Holliday (at age 37) will continue hitting like they have been.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 19, 2017 14:42:20 GMT -5
Remarkable that the Sox are tied for first when as a whole the lineup and starting pitching have been below what would have been expected. In many cases well below. Meanwhile as a whole the Yankees lineup has performed well beyond expectations. I doubt there is anyone who felt a career .270 hitter in the minor leagues would be hitting .335 and leading all of baseball in HRs. Yankee pitching aside from Tanaka is probably also unsustainable. Aaron Hicks - 968 ops Starlin Castro - 872 Didi Gregorius - 851 Matt Holliday - 891 Brett Gardner - 829 They're all playing out of their minds right now. I'd expect at least 3 of them to end up with an OPS at least 100 points lower at the end of the season.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 18, 2017 21:56:38 GMT -5
Bogaerts should be hanging all over the plate right now.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 18, 2017 21:55:55 GMT -5
I hope that the reason is along the lines that Price really wanted to come out for the 6th, and Farrell deferred to the veteran.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 18, 2017 21:44:18 GMT -5
Top of 6, price at 104 pitches with 3 walks and Sox leading 3-2. I was thinking that has to be it for price and no need to bring him for few more pitches. Well what do you know what Farrell thinks. AND with 2 right handed power hitters coming up.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 18, 2017 21:33:52 GMT -5
What the fuck is Farrell doing, absolutely no reason to bring Price back. Baffling Can't think of any reasonable justification for letting Price start the 6th.
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Post by jbuttah on Jun 15, 2017 16:37:12 GMT -5
Fully expect his production to crater until he finally gets put on the DL with a 720 OPS. In the article it says there isn't much you can do for it. How about not facing 95mph fastballs with a fractured toe? How about resting it instead?
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