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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 7, 2024 15:37:41 GMT -5
Good to see the optimism. And the spelling malaprop is great: sprint training indeed.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 7, 2024 10:41:51 GMT -5
Why do we have to treat everything the team does as if they're playing to win a news cycle or something? It's very self-flattering to think that the team makes all its decisions out of concern for our reactions (and also that we're savvy enough to see through it), but this is totally straightforward - Bello was saying they were "more or less" close to an extension well before Giolito got hurt. Much like the team was actively trying to sign Devers a year before they actually did, and public stating that it was a high priority - which hasn't stopped people from arguing *to this day* that it was just a PR move following the loss of Bogaerts. (By the way, where would this roster be right now if Devers had walked in free agency? They pretty much to do that extension for baseball reasons; no secret craven motivations required.) If the team were stupid enough to build their roster with short-term news coverage in mind the obvious reactive move after the Giolito injury would have been a Montgomery signing. But the evidently didn't rush to do that. To be fair, it does kinda seem like they are timing this to create a big Dominican Red Sox Baseball party this weekend, which is a different kind of PR/news cycle concern It's dispiriting to have the threads buried in pop-psychology paranoia. That seems to happen over and over again.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 7, 2024 0:49:58 GMT -5
Well maybe they'll both recover. Yamamoto mentioned he was trying stuff out, though the lack of command was worrisome. Rodon's issues seem to be far more serious, with a significant loss of velocity so far.
This is where (big) opportunity cost kicks in. It's hard to push aside a guy you're paying that much money to for someone marginally better whose paid many times less. It's the image thing don't you know.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 5, 2024 18:39:03 GMT -5
So is it open-air or does it somehow close into a bubble so that they can escape the Vegas heat?
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 5, 2024 18:36:08 GMT -5
Last year's rotation was a weak point. Only their position players on defense keep it from being the worst part of the team. From last year's starters they have subtracted Sale, Paxton, and Kluber and with the latest news have added no one. Hard to see how this year's rotation will even be as good as last years. And if Crawford, Whitlock,, Houck, and Pivetta are all full time starters, it does weaken your bullpen depth since one or more of those four were in the bullpen for most of the year. We failed to resign Evolve, Wacha, Paxton and traded Sale. Those four plus Bello would seem to me to be stronger than what we have now. Yes, all of our remaining starters could show big improvement this year. But every team in baseball is saying the same thing right now and it is unlikely to happen. It seems foolish to bank on it. Very disappointed in where are now.\ with the starting pitching. The loss of Giolito is no small thing. But the exit of Kluber is a plus, not a minus. And Paxton's early Jekyll and late Hyde helped until it hurt. Sale came on but only after a prolonged absence. What they need is a group that can stay healthy and pile up some innings, and that's problematic given this injury and how it cuts into the starting pitching.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 2, 2024 13:09:16 GMT -5
A real shorstop!
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 2, 2024 13:04:10 GMT -5
To be clear, Bowden is not a "Boston Sportswriter". He's a voice on MLB (Sirius and XM) and I've tuned he and the other voices out for the latter part of the off season. The nearly endless seat-of-the-pants drivel they churn out as they're forced to populate hours and hours of chatter is almost un-listenable. The stream-of-consciousness BS sends them into side-channels from which there's often no exit. It's really an embarrassment as you hear them grasping at verbal straws with lots of "uhh", "and, and, and", "but, but but". Five days worth might give you all of fifteen useful minutes of information. I don't need that.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 29, 2024 22:36:36 GMT -5
I was basically thinking the same thing. What keeps him from being a starter is his lack of whiff. That has been the case in the past and from what I've seen in these 2IP that's still the issue. My guess is: they want to try to tickle some whiff out of him via the "driveline treatment". The chances of success are probably slim, but the upside would be massive. It's a no risk, high reward kind of deal...worst case: he is what he was last year... He had 8.8 K/9 last year. Montgomery had 7.9 and I'll check a few others for comparison. Of course he was primarily a long reliever which may account for some of that difference. But he was very effective over those innings. Add: Seth Lugo 8.6; Michael Lorenzen 5.3; Sonny Gray 9.0; Eduardo Rodriguez 8.4; Marcus Stroman 7.8 Winckowski also also has at least five years on those pitchers.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 27, 2024 14:45:43 GMT -5
He was just starting to recover his velo at the end of last season. He gave the team everything he had so it's good to see him find his way back if that's what happens.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 27, 2024 11:59:31 GMT -5
Really impressed with Anthony and his approach. Here's a 19 year-old who was given a first opportunity to impress major league eyeballs. With plate discipline many of those ML players could use, he shuffles through the pitches he's offered and finds almost none of them worth swinging at. So he walks twice and comes around to score a run.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 27, 2024 9:39:54 GMT -5
You might want to go back and read through the thread. Much of it was just that, irrelevant.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 26, 2024 23:21:15 GMT -5
lol, zero people cared when Garrett Cooper and Tony Kemp signed elsewhere. I could have told you then that they'd be Red Sox if they had ponied up another $200k. Are you saying the Sox should have signed them?
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 25, 2024 23:09:19 GMT -5
Is that something that happens in the Philippines a bit?
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 22, 2024 20:23:56 GMT -5
Why are we assuming that he was hurt around the time he was promoted to AAA? Seems way more likely that he got hurt in the offseason/ramping up for spring training (unless it has been reported that he was hurt last year, which I haven't seen). Yeah, I have no information that it was so. It was just visual observation, something I'd mentioned at the time. I have no information about an injury.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 22, 2024 15:54:45 GMT -5
Interesting. Having watched him pitch last year I wondered about what I was seeing. There was tremendous effort and a lot of difficulty in repeating his delivery. I guess he was hurt.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 22, 2024 12:45:41 GMT -5
Heh, heh... look at all the pitchers in that list!
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 20, 2024 23:45:22 GMT -5
Cora was mildly complimentary of Dalbec in the OF in AAA (while noting that the dimensions are reversed in Polar Park compared to Fenway.) I didn’t pay much attention to Bobby playing OF for Worcester - can anyone confirm he was competent out there, or is this just Cora trying to be nice? Found just a bit on Fangraphs for his AAA time in RF over 36 games/308 innings. On the plus side he had 4 assists. He does have a very strong arm. On the minus side he also was credited with 4 errors.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 20, 2024 17:14:08 GMT -5
The navel gazing about Devers' mindset/intentions/feelings/comportment/attitude... don't do squat for the thread.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 20, 2024 15:43:07 GMT -5
Ok, I'm asking everyone to not divert this thread. Let's keep it to spring training news please.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 20, 2024 12:40:35 GMT -5
Thanks. I need to know what deals they were offering and for how much. I for one don't know that not offering "good deals" has been the case without that information. Hernandez can say whatever he wants but it's not his role to figure out how long teams might want his services and at what price. He's the seller not the buyer.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 20, 2024 11:27:44 GMT -5
This quote mirrors some of what we've discussed here: I believe many of the teams are having to reassess their business models. That and how he may have misread the room after the Dodgers signings could be at the root of the impasse. LA had opportunities unavailable to most other teams and they leveraged those brilliantly. Someone posted early on that they can probably partner with overseas interests for rights to their games. I don't think broadcast revenue will be a problem for them.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 19, 2024 17:02:32 GMT -5
By BR Vernon Wells' $47M from the Angels (them again) for two years produced... 0 WAR. If we try to figure out what the cost per WAR was the whole thing blows up!
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 19, 2024 11:22:31 GMT -5
I have not had that happen, though Friday's can be co-opted by Apple. I have also been using Fubo to watch Seattle games. They started carrying Root, the RSN that covers them.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 19, 2024 10:34:14 GMT -5
The list of pitching additions grows to eight...
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 18, 2024 23:07:01 GMT -5
I love this move. The drop off from Schreiber to Campbell or Weissert shouldn't really be that noticeable. There's excellent depth in the right-handed relief corps, and we've just gotten a legit starting pitching prospect. I'll throw my hat into the ring for ranking guess - 13. Just under the high upside of Nazzan Zanatello, but above Chase Meidroth. There may not be any drop off at all. Weissert's peripherals were similar to Schreiber's last season, and Campbell's were a bit better. They are both younger as well.
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