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Post by splendidsplinter on Oct 31, 2020 16:47:11 GMT -5
Nice summation of the situation. Bloom gets a freebie by selecting Cora. Cora is a popular, sympathetic and skilled manager. If Bloom selects somebody else...he better be right!!
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Post by splendidsplinter on Sept 29, 2020 10:54:58 GMT -5
Watching Cora with the players in Spring training he seems to have a real aura about him. You can feel the energy go up and the respect for him when he enters the field. He made some mistakes. He manned up, accepted the responsibility and didn’t throw anybody under the bus. He knows the club well. Is a proven leader, and World Series champion. He deserves another chance and the Red Sox should hire him this year.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Aug 31, 2020 16:45:11 GMT -5
I’m in the A minus group overall. He got something for Mookie who wasn’t going to resign and a reasonable reasonable return for some nice MLB pieces. With the international money and the pttnl later we got 2-3 lottery tickets to go with the prospects we netted from his other deals. I’m not giving up on next year’s team. We still have a.very good group of position players and some pitching will surely be added. We’ve caught lightning in a bottle before. Wait til next year!
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jul 22, 2020 16:31:16 GMT -5
Love a bunch of Mookie. Hate long term deals. If he signs a 10 year plus deal for over $300 million I am definitely out. He’s been a great player for us and provided great value. I hope he has lots of success but I like spreading the money around.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Feb 3, 2020 13:20:38 GMT -5
WEEI @weei · 14m AUDIO: Dale & Keefe - The Best Super Bowl Halftime Show Ever? Scoops Dale is back with news on Mookie Betts dlvr.it/RPJP0PAt about the 13 minute mark Dale says they he was told last Friday that the deal was done sending Mookie to the Dodgers but the teams agreed to wait to announce it until today or tomorrow bc of Kobe Bryant situation and the Superbowl. Now we wait... If the Dodgers have a deal but the Padres are still negotiating we’ve entered the nest negotiation where Best and really final offers (BARFO) are solicited. 😸
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Post by splendidsplinter on Nov 7, 2019 13:11:58 GMT -5
Everybody loves Mookie. If he does what he says he’ll do what does it take to sign him? Something like $30-40 Million a year over 10-14 years? Maybe this really works out for someone but we only have to look at our own experience to recognize the risk of these mega deals. My first option would be to package him Price to someone like the Dodgers. Use any savings to tie up some of young core to shorter term deals. Otherwise move on and take what you can get .
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Post by splendidsplinter on May 27, 2019 16:31:22 GMT -5
Agree. He doesn’t owe anything to anyone. He earned every last penny and more.
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Post by splendidsplinter on May 9, 2019 10:11:40 GMT -5
Casas hits a line drive home run Over the batter’s eye in Rome, Georgia. Announcer says it is the first one this year over the eye. Typically, fly balls don’t go out to center there.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Aug 16, 2018 16:36:20 GMT -5
Alex Cora is good at his job. Also, is "yellow" and "orange" a real system of some kind they use, or he's just speaking metaphorically? Lol yeah I have no clue. I was thinking about the terrorism threat indicator we as a county had after 9/11. Red was the bad color in this case if I remember correctly lol. Decoded... Yellow means to be cautious with key relief staff and orange you glad the MFY’s lost.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Aug 16, 2018 16:19:44 GMT -5
Could this be Elih instead of Alan? Since we paid these two almost two million in bonuses just want to be sure.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jul 26, 2018 18:42:57 GMT -5
Duran is one for last seven. Surviving in an ordinary world.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jul 10, 2018 16:56:09 GMT -5
Another thanks for your insight. Too often prospects are treate as statistical buckets. Each one has a story and is a real person. They all have dreams and live for that chance of the show. Most will fail, of course, and it is safer to point out flaws than point out hope. Not that it matters, but my hope is we could be a bit more positive about our prospects.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 16, 2018 9:05:20 GMT -5
Good info on Duran and how it impacts the rest of the draft class, thanks all. I did miss that Duron was ranked. The quest for Duran Duran finally ends.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 11, 2018 18:47:43 GMT -5
Add to that you are getting a free $125k that doesn’t count towards the cap but becomes part of the bonus. The articles cited above show us how the Sox work. They did the numbers contacted the players and made decisions based on the best strategy to improve the farm system.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 11, 2018 17:38:10 GMT -5
Didn't a similar thing happen with Netzer last year? Drafted way above where rankings projected but still got a surprisingly large portion of his slot bonus. I'm not a draft expert or even a draft novice really, but this seems like an odd draft strategy to go that far off field with #3/#4 picks and still have to pay most of the slot money. This year, to stick to one example, instead of drafting Cottam in the 4th you could have drafted Northcut in the 4th and given him $233k in over slot money ( his $650k that he signed for minus slot value) instead of drafting him 11th and giving him $525k in over slot money ($650k - $125k). The difference in over slot money between these two scenarios could have gone a long way in paying for the contract of another Northcut-like draft pick. On top of that, Cottam could have very likely been available in the 6th or 7th and you would have got both of your guys anyway. I understand that I make a lot of assumptions in this hypothetical scenario and I have no behind the scenes knowledge of what's going on, but the math seems to imply that it's not a great strategy. Note that the 650k is Mike's projection. He hasn't signed yet and details of bonus #s haven't trickled out (at least I haven't seen them). You take Northcut in the 11th because there is more risk he won't sign. That allows you to grab Cottam and Northcut - there are no guarantees that Cottam would have been available later. And clearly the Red Sox were higher on Cottam than BA/PG. By the way, I wouldn't hold those rankings to be the gold standard - there is so much variance after the top ~100 or so on those lists. ADD: What everyone above said.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 9, 2018 11:09:16 GMT -5
Looks like Caleb Ramsey is signing. Nice article with some information on how the deal went down during the 20th round. A $125k signing bonus and another $216k for schooling. He will report to the GCL on Monday. Looks like the Sox will keep him in CF. Caleb RamseyWell worth the read to see how the Sox organization works the the draft.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 8, 2018 16:23:40 GMT -5
Disagree. They may have said "we're taking him if we can get him under $1 million, and if he took $550, that's another $550 you can throw at another prospect(s) who might not have signed. Only way out of this terrible farm system is volume right now, and hope to hit on a few. Reference the infamous draft of 2013 when the Sox were drafting 7th. They had both position and volume. Quality and luck have a lot to do with it.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 7, 2018 16:32:30 GMT -5
Thinking of all time worse Sox defensive players who played significant time. Don Buddin gets SS, Joe Foy 3rd, Pete Runnels 2B, Dr Strangeglove 1B, Joe Lahoud (Lebanese not French) RF. Ike Delock starting pitcher. Others?
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Post by splendidsplinter on Jun 5, 2018 16:30:38 GMT -5
Red Sox take Elih Marrero, catcher from St. Thomas University. Sox fascination with players named Marrero continues.
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Post by splendidsplinter on May 25, 2018 11:04:38 GMT -5
They still have 7 days to make a trade with him. They might get a decent minor leaguer in return. Or nothing. I think we'll see a lot more of Swihart now. Maybe he gets into a groove. I guess they really like him, so now at least he can play a little more. He can DH when JD is in left. My head is still reeling. Nobody saw this coming. If somebody had suggested it, people would have called him crazy. Maybe DD is just smarter than the rest of us. The Sox added up all the pluses and minuses. That vesting option was a big elephant in the room. Once they decided that they didn’t want it and started sitting him, it would have most likely created division in the clubhouse. They gave him his audition and they didn’t see enough. Best to put this behind them and avoid the distraction. Hopefully, he finds a good landing spot. Hanley was much better than Pablo but I’m glad to see an end to their era.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Mar 20, 2018 14:20:29 GMT -5
Majors: Kyle Martin, Sam Travis
Minors :Groome and Dalbec
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Post by splendidsplinter on Mar 16, 2018 20:04:52 GMT -5
From the Fenway South backlots the last two days.. Buttery was wild and hit hard in his two innings. Martin was sharp and seemed be dialed in his three inn8ngs. Little good contact against him. Cbavis took BP this morning but didn’t appear to take part in other activities. He was making good contact and it appear he has shortened his swing. Groome threw a bullpen this morning. Hard to see a lot because of his position in bullpen and the covey of team observers around him. Appeared to really use his impressive lower half well. Saw a few of his curves which he seemed to control well with little effort. Saw Dalbec in BP and later in the triple A game. He came in as a sub and did not play the field. First AB was against a righty who was hitting 94 on the gun. He controlled the ab and while didn’t get a hit was on balance and didn’t overswing. His other at bat was equally as poised ending in a rope single to left. Last time I saw him down here he was taking the high inside strikes and swinging and missing at the low outside ones in the dirt.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Feb 17, 2018 18:42:25 GMT -5
Not crazy about chubby ball players but this guy looks he can hit and is cheap.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Sept 24, 2017 16:51:07 GMT -5
Well, that was a fortunate last 15 minutes or so for the city of Boston sports. Is there another professional sport happening? Our odds of winning were 6.4% after Hamilton scored. It was the 3rd most impressive comeback of the year in terms of low WP, but that we did it against Raisel Iglesias probably makes it the best. He was 5th among MLB relievers in Win Probability Added coming into today's game. He now ranks 13th (pending other guys who may have pitched). Interestingly, his other two big meltdowns were against the Dodgers and Nationals. Since August 11 we are 7-14 after our odds of winning have fallen below 10%. That's five extra wins. We are 26-0 after getting to 90%, which is another 2.5 wins. That's the whole pennant race right there. How unusual is 7 wins from below 10% in the last 39 games? Since the start of 2016*, we had been averaging 1 such win per 57 games (5 in the previous 288 games -- while losing 9). The odds against that improvement happening in a random simulation (say, if you were replaying the two seasons with Diamond Mind) are 2,307,686 to 1. One would venture a guess that the team has acquired some confidence in their ability to come from behind, while the bullpen keeps thing where they are. This road trip? We were 4-1 after falling below 15%. Who recalls the nickname of the 1967 Sox? *(I could have sworn I kept this data for 2015, but I can't find it. And I found my 2014 and 2013 spreadsheets, I thought, and now can't find them again. I may have to do 2015 over, and look harder ...) I'll guess GO Go Sox. Can remember cars refusing to go into Sumner tunnel when Yaz was at bat. He seldom disappointed that season.
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Post by splendidsplinter on Aug 29, 2017 14:37:30 GMT -5
CDLG listed as an outfielder on the team roster and a FB on his individual team page. Quite a versatile guy!
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