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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 24, 2020 11:45:24 GMT -5
wouldn't read anything into Baldani, there's always surprise catchers on the NRI list because they just need warm bodies to catch all the bullpens. Let's not forget former NRI catching names like Jordan Procyshen, Jake Romanski, Austin Rei, Jake Depew, Dan Butler, and Ali Solis. Most of whom were 2-3 injuries from seeing major league time (Like when the Sox cut Pierzynski, and Ross got hurt so Butler was called up in 2014)
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 22, 2020 12:57:48 GMT -5
The Premier 12 was like Peak Dalbec Experience, too. He slugged .500 for the tournament, which is on the nose. But how get got there? 1.286 slugging (not OPS - slugging), 1 K in 8 PA in his first two games; .238 slugging with 9 K in 25 PA after that. That's the Bobby Dalbec we will soon know and love. The one who everyone on the Gameday thread will be calling to bench and then will turn around and pick up 25 total bases in a three-game series. Make him the closer
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 17, 2020 14:04:19 GMT -5
Over the last 4 seasons (2016-2019) Martin Perez has averaged 27 starts and 159 IP, so he's probably one of the safer bets to make 25+. Maybe he isn't the one we WANT to make the most starts, but as long as he's closer to his 2019 FIP of 4.66 then that's a pretty solid #4 or #5
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 17, 2020 11:42:28 GMT -5
Last year Mookie played 150 games, JBJ played 147 and Benny played 138 games. I'm perfectly fine with JD covering 12 games in RF and Peraza/Lin covering ~19 games each in CF/LF. hat's less than 1 game a week with 1 below avg OF surrounded by 2 avg (Benny) to Gold glovers (Betts/JBJ)
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 17, 2020 11:31:10 GMT -5
Lin career games in the OF (minors and majors): 51 in CF, 6 in LF, 2 in RF Peraza career games in OF (minors and majors): 44 in CF, 42 in LF, 1 in RF
They're probably comfortable giving rests in CF and LF with Peraza/Lin and rests in RF with JD Martinez. What they don't have is a solid depth OF to call up in case of injury (Gorkys Hernandez type) which they probably won't sign til February when vets are more open to minor league deals
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Dec 5, 2019 13:37:02 GMT -5
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jun 6, 2019 9:46:45 GMT -5
For those that want to follow these guys on Twitter to see if they post/change bios to say they've signed, I posted 3 tweets last night with all the twitter accounts I could find:
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Apr 30, 2019 7:52:06 GMT -5
*Micheal Scott THANK YOU gif
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Apr 5, 2019 7:27:45 GMT -5
You guys do realize that the whole point of the recent draft rules for cap/losing picks/dropping back is so teams like the Red Sox will deliberately have worse drafts than bad teams like the Diamondbacks? The whole point of the draft is for the worst teams to get the best players, not have the de-facto auction that existed in the early 2000's where the best players went to the teams that were willing to meet bonus demands. You shouldn't be able to go over the cap, win the World Series, and get the best players in the following years draft. I honestly don't understand the complaints. Are some of the new rules an over-correction? Most likely, but it's still better than teams drafting worse players in the first round because their bonus demands are lower
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Apr 2, 2019 17:50:05 GMT -5
Interesting, so with all but Salem posted(at least I didn’t see it), following aren’t on rosters: Austin Rei Chad De La Guerra Teddy Stankiewicz Mark Montgomery
Some make no sense (Hernandez over Rei? Lovullo over De La guerra?)
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Apr 2, 2019 15:00:23 GMT -5
Could see them pushing Rei to work with Sandy in AAA to hone defensive/pitch calling skills, team seems to like him as a future backup. But that puts Leon, Rei, Centeno and Romanski in AAA, and even with one on the phantom DL that's one too many. Curious if it's the end of the line for guys I expected in Portland (Stankiewicz, Cosart, Montgomery, Romanski, Lopez, Lovullo)
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 26, 2019 12:39:00 GMT -5
Well that clears that up. Obviously Sox couldn't trade him in the offseason if no one even wants him for nothing:
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 22, 2019 8:07:26 GMT -5
I understand that's a very simple blanket statement. But I was just thinking about the last time the Sox actually signed a homegrown all star to an extension? aside from Dustin Pedroia I can't think of anyone else in recent history. I would like to think if they're serious about keeping some of these guys then the time to get serious would be now. Your comment made me start to think about the history of the Sox home grown talent and losing players to free agency. That's actually an interesting thought experiment, and I honestly don't even know how many players would fit, but since say 2000, who were the homegrown players the Sox let go in Free Agency that you regret them not resigning? I actually went through the drafts from 2000 on, here's a complete list of players who were drafted and signed by the Sox, had MLB experience and left via Free Agency (remember Lester was traded for Cespedes) Chris Smith (2002) Jon Papelpon (2003) Tommy Hottovy (2004) Jacoby Ellsbury (2005) Ryan Kalish (2006) Carson Blair (2008) Madison Younginer (2009) Bryce Brent (2010) Justin Haley (2012) Drafted and still on the team: Dustin Pedroia (2004) Christian Vazquez (2008) Brandon Workman (2010) Mookie Betts (2011) Jackie Bradley Jr (2011) Blake Swihart (2011) Matt Barnes (2011) Mike Miller (2012) Austin Maddox (2012) Brian Johnson (2012) Sam Travis (2014) Bobby Poyner (2015) Andrew Benintendi (2015) While the Sox have traded away plenty of talented guys they drafted (Lester, Kopech, Lowrie, Rizzo, Youkilis, etc), they've been pretty good at keeping the homegrown guys worth keeping. Now there really have been no previous examples of guys like Betts and Benintendi getting close to FA before, but I think we've seen that if the Sox want to keep someone, they'll keep them.
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 22, 2019 7:45:22 GMT -5
Don't forget the Mariners and A's were allowed 28 man rosters (with an "active 25" announced per game) for this series since it was such a long trip. So technically Ichiro only took the spot of someone who had to be sent down immediately after the 2 games anyways.
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 19, 2019 8:05:20 GMT -5
Acosta is Like a giant squid...he occasionally surfaces from the deep to remind us of those lurking beasts in the ocean of the Sox farm, but...he always seems to promptly disappear and become the stuff of near-legend. What a bizarre road he’s had. I prefer to think of it as a unicorn sighting. After sitting next to him on the back fields, can confirm his tattoos are both elaborate and numerous. Definitely spent too much of his $1.5 million signing bonus on them.
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 13, 2019 18:24:13 GMT -5
And finally a slow-no of Devon Fisher
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 13, 2019 18:23:37 GMT -5
Here’s Jarren Duran:
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 13, 2019 18:22:18 GMT -5
Took a couple more videos while at the back fields today. I’m not sure I can post multiple tweets in one post, so I apologize for posting multiple times in a row:
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 11, 2019 14:17:00 GMT -5
To add on to carmen’s report, Cora stuck around to watch Feltman, Mata, Houck and some of Schellenger, so looks like he was trying to get an idea of some of the up and coming arms in the system. Dombrowski stayed for the whole game, but only ever watched the AAA/AA side, never really wandered over to the A ball side. I posted a slow-mo video of Feltman here, though im guessing it’ll be quite grainy on a computer screen rather than a phone:
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 4, 2019 10:57:22 GMT -5
Flying down Friday night, will be at the back fields the 9th-14th. Yes I'm mostly there for autographs but I also post a bunch of videos on Twitter of guys on the back fields and other news/notes/etc that I hear about while I'm there so feel free to follow along ( Twitter:SoxSignatures). Excited to finally see guys like Casas, Feltman, Duran and Flores in person
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Mar 1, 2019 15:30:08 GMT -5
Salvador Perez getting second opinion on elbow, looking like a torn UCL and Tommy John surgery (meaning out until 2020). So there's one more possible trade partner for our extra catcher. Granted KC isn't exactly in the hunt for a playoff spot.
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 18, 2019 8:56:01 GMT -5
So I (wrongly) assumed minor league Spring Training would start a little earlier since the MLB season started a little earlier and will be down in Ft Myers March 9-14th, any idea what will be going on in the back fields before games start on the 13th? Full day camps? Half day camps? Intrasquad games? Jut trying to gauge how badly I screwed up lol.
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 7, 2019 8:23:28 GMT -5
For everyone saying limit commercial breaks, just stop. 100% will never happen. The only way the breaks get shorter is if they show commercials during play or in the middle of plays. They aren't going to show less commercials unless viewers start paying networks more money to replace the lost revenue
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 6, 2019 9:09:06 GMT -5
3 batter minimum - I get it, don't love it, but I get it and it would speed things up a little.
Universal DH - LOVE IT! FINALLY!
Single Trade Deadline - Like it, but not before the All-Star Break, hate the waiver deadline trades.
20 second pitch clock - Love the idea, but it will never really be enforced so who cares
26 man roster with 12 pitcher max - Extra MLB salary for a quad-A minor leaguer/unsigned veteran FA? Sounds like a good idea to me.
Draft Advantage/Disadvantage - Just put a salary floor, teams don't really care THAT much about draft picks, it's not the NBA or even the NFL.
Lower the mound - Are we just destined to continually swing back and forth between dead-ball and 98-roid ball?
2 sport amateurs - Eh, not worth the loopholes it creates. Boras will have guys play varsity whatever their junior year so they can qualify for an MLB contract (or it will have to be a VERY convoluted rule about who qualifies)
2nd base runner in Extra Innings - In exhibition games, or minor league games go nuts. In games that matter, nope
28 man roster w/12 pitcher max in Sept - I'd actually like to really comment on this one. This gets brought up a lot because people don't like that September expanded rosters mean you're playing the most important games with different rules. If you propose that teams have to make 25-28 man rosters before every game so they can't use everyone on the 40, then all that means is teams will just hold out the 4 starters who would never pitch that game anyways, plus any relievers that need a night off after pitching recently. You're still going to have 12 guys available to pitch that night, unlike every other game of the year where you usually only have 7-8 guys available. You just cut down on a couple more pinch hitters/late inning defensive moves which do nothing to slow down games really
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Jan 22, 2019 8:57:26 GMT -5
So I 100% believe that baseball's salary structure is broken and younger players should be being paid a LOT more. But what's so fascinating about all of these talks is people keep bringing up the past deals by guys like Pujols, Stanton, A-Rod's extension or Russell Martin and does anyone consider those good contracts? Stanton is at least still valuable, but I don't know if he's "worth" that salary now. Martin and Pujols have turned into absolute disasters and A-Rod's $275 million extension ended up pretty bad as well (especially with all the PED news at the end).
I honestly don't know if there is an easy fix. My first thought was maybe it's just only 1 year of league minimum and 5 years (or less?) of arbitration. And in arbitration it doesn't matter if it's your 1st year or 5th year, you get what your last season was worth, so if Mookie had his 2018 season in his first year of arb, he still gets $20 million, but if he's worse in 2019, he gets less than $20 million (with some kind of clause that you can't drop a players salary more than X% to cover injuries). I'm sure there's tons of loopholes in that to pick apart, but that should at least get players more of a fair salary their first couple years in the league. I think also a huge deal would be setting a reasonable salary floor. You need to spend at least $X amount to get revenue sharing
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