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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 10, 2023 2:23:01 GMT -5
Honest to go don't know how MLB Network keeps rolling Harold Reynolds out on the Draft. Not only is he obnoxious, he is ill-informed, and clueless. You can tell everyone on the set is annoyed by him. Other than that an unbelievable first night of the draft! Harold, Dan Plesac and Greg Amsinger on MLB Tonight are the best team in broadcasting. These old guys can't handle Harold. 1st post u refered to what Reynolds brings to anything he talks/hosts at mlb channel: Clueless. Came to the conclusion years ago he was not there for what he could talk about which might be of interest to viewers, nor anything requiring knowledge.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 9, 2023 19:41:36 GMT -5
There is always someone who is not pleased. Comparing the consensus top C in the draft to a Round 3, High School catcher is a little bit of a reach for me. Also Denney didn’t fail to work out because he was a catcher lol so it’s just not a great point in general Right-o on that. He had the game and his own attitude (poor) to overcome. My bringing up those 2 was mostly high rated players slip and sometimes? it's for a reason Also, am thinking Denny was projected as a 1st rounder that year (2013) but believe there were makeup issues before the draft as to why he fell and they proved bigger than the game part.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 9, 2023 19:29:36 GMT -5
Can't ever argue with taking a consensus Top 8 prospect that falls to you at #14. Think Jason Groome and going back a little before that, to another C which slid to Boston in 3rd rd of 2013? Jon Denny. Not a fan of using a very high pick on any catcher. Hopefully this works out.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jun 1, 2023 22:23:34 GMT -5
Thank you Mr Pivetta. Nice to meet you. You know I can’t believe I am saying this but maybe if they extent him , based on doing both for the team he would be a great weapon. You always need a guy like this. He was struggling starting but he did do good too. His velo drops after an inning-2 was the thing with him, same with Winkowski, only it was 92-4 as a SP instead of the 95-7 we now see with more movement, which even O.Brian mentioned cpl nights back on Nesn. My 2c is Crawford has more movement with the velo at 95-6 than he does when it dropped (drops) after the 1st cpl innings into the 92-3 range, which is why both of these guys have emerged as legit weapons this year instead of at best? back end starters.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jun 1, 2023 19:56:16 GMT -5
if Sale it hurt, we are better able to withstand that misfortune this year, so there is that. Hoping for the best Can withstand 1 starter out for a time replaced with Piveta. Kluber is toast, Crawford and Winkowski are desperately needed in the day of starters going only 5-6 innings as long guys and there is zilcho at Worchester to use as starters and nearly that as viable relievers.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Apr 1, 2023 6:48:09 GMT -5
How did Whitlock look? Looks like a decent line, though seems that he gave up a few hard-hit balls and baseball-savant is saying his velo really dipped in the 4th. I thought he looked good, most of the singles were on the ground. Few hard hit balls in the air. I didn't pick up on a velocity drop. Thought both Whitlock and Shugart looked good. Other motley cllection of relievers brought in over the winter who pitched in the game had issues tho. Shugart, looking at just the linescore looked iffy, but 2 50 hoppers thru the infield and sitting 95 looked like the lone bright spot among relievers yesterday. Game was on Nesn and rebroadcast again at 11am today, 11/1 anyone not have milb tv.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Mar 20, 2023 19:01:12 GMT -5
I know…I know….small sample size….spring training, but Ort has pitched 6.1 innings and given up 4 HRs, and put 16 men on base. I think it is safe to say he can be a DFA who will not be taken (the Yankees are not snarky like DD and the Phillies who would take a player like Canon or Song with little to no chance of it working out). I think it is pretty obvious that he will be the subtraction if or when Tapia is added. Not so much the NYY (or anyone else) would claim him, but the fact the Sox have nobody at Pawtucket, other than Ort who really it looks like has a chance to help at the MLB level relieving wise, possibly removing the recovering Mata and wild card Altavila, who has had a career of little command. It's like Bloom spent the offseason looking at his crystal analytical ball, looking for his next "spin master" Schreiber type instead of guys who might actually have a chance to help. Not quite as dreary at AA, but if Olds is wasted another year in the rotation and now recent draftee Noah Dean thrust into the rotation. I have wondered for years what is wrong with the Sox FO pitching wise and the wrong headed decisions they have made, regardless of who has been in charge.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Mar 9, 2023 22:07:50 GMT -5
So annoying to have just the Yankees announcers, showing no interest in the Red Sox players. And they just said Judge is in the running for one of the greatest athletes ever to play baseball, and said that was "no hyper-bowl." They pronounced hyperbole with three syllables, hyper-bowl. Kay actually isn't as brutal of a homer as he once was, tho still an awful announcer and never fails to find a positive in every miscue a NYY will make on the field. Carbon copy of long time Rays announcer DeWayne Staats. Neither will ever, ever be as brutal as long ago NYY announcer Phil Rhizzuto, who was the worst can ever remember and were better off watching a broadcast only. Just the accent was enough to put one off. The awful NYY slant made it worse.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Mar 5, 2023 20:51:17 GMT -5
Seattle and 1 other team can't recall, have the countdown timer clock behind the catcher, or to the left (looking in) which makes it easy for pitchers to see time remaining.
Why all teams did not install something akin to this over the winter is beyond me.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Feb 5, 2023 2:57:22 GMT -5
It's pretty dang far away, they'd need to keep him in the minors until like the 4th of July. I think he's clearly in the rotation if he's good to go, Pivetta the odd man out. AH OK, fair enough but Pivetta is the only member if the staff who projects for a complete innings season. ADD: Yeah I know, promises promises but, if you remember the covid camp season, Pivetta agreed to stay there and lose a year service time in return for making him a starter. Can't agree more Phil. Keep seeing various projections from some leaving Pivetta out of the rotation and they just don't hold any water for multiple reasons. First, obviously he's the only known healthy and solid starter they have and second? he's shown himself to be the proverbial team player since joining Boston 3y ago and put in solid Wakefield-esque numbers, which is the type every team needs for a value price.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jan 28, 2023 19:13:40 GMT -5
1 side of a discussion into total non sports was tolerated, despite numerous cease and desist warnings. Reason? nobody bothered to post anything against it.
Books written in any language and translated will never be the exact same. Each time they are subject to various words and meaning(s) varying, not to mention the personal opinions of the translator and "maybe this is what the writer should have said" written into a translation.
Now it's safe to clean up what appears to be nearly 1 page of political clap-trap.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jan 17, 2023 20:13:26 GMT -5
One more signing: Stijn Van Der Schaaf, RHP, Netherlands. Whenever see a Dutch player, brings me back to Win Remmerswaal and his time as both a player for the HaSox and later his short time as a big league player.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jan 9, 2023 16:59:44 GMT -5
Bad year from the booth upcoming. Like end of career Ned Martin and any season bob Montgomery did color for the team bad.
Sox really need to go out and poach a decent PBP man for starters and although Youk and Middlebrooks are fair as color guys, not for more than a handful of games before they get stale.
Understand they want a former Sox player handling the color job, they need to find one who has the personality and voice to handle the job.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Dec 31, 2022 6:50:30 GMT -5
Sorry, but I can't fall for any of those major brain wave differences between RH/LH major sided people, other than each uses a different side of the brain more predominantly.. Nothing else.. That long post above reminds me more of the dribble coming from teachers in early elementary school, who would walk by desks and use a ruler to smack our hands when we would get caught using "the devils hand" to write with.
As a lefty.. All my life quite often get a chuckle when see off the wall nonsense like the above written about "us".
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Post by johnsilver52 on Dec 21, 2022 17:33:13 GMT -5
Harold Reynolds incompetence on draft day is one of my favorite baseball related days of the year, even ahead of Bobby Bonilla day. If he can still have a job, then maybe I can ask out Taylor Swift after all. He sounds like he's legally not allowed to do any research until he arrives to the studio. Like he was on the way to do literally anything else and his phone alarm went off and he was reminded that he had to be there last minute. MLB should have dumped Reynolds years ago. He has no business being on air, a constant gaffe machine, without a clue. Obvious why he's on air and understand why, but why not bring in someone who has a clue? David Simms (Seattle PBP announcer) is one of the best currently and would check off every box believe MLB is looking for and not saying that to be insensitive.. He's also 1 of my favorite announcers. Does Reynolds chase away more fans than he brings in?
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Post by johnsilver52 on Dec 18, 2022 22:59:59 GMT -5
Can't really complain about the deal. pretty sure his middle IF days are long gone. 3b/dh.. Maybe a few 1b, should they give him some time there in ST in 2023. Sox felt like spending the money tho? i'd have rather seen them tag another 14m, on top of what Turner will cost and fix a real hole at catcher by resigning Vazquez, who really wanted to return.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Dec 10, 2022 0:04:03 GMT -5
I'm not sure why being right-handed is a drawback. Have you seen the state of our roster? Lefties everywhere. Lineup right now would probably be: Yoshida L Devers L Hernandez R Story R Verdugo L Arroyo R Casas L Hosmer L McGuire R Bench: Valdez L Refsnyder R Wong R Duran L That lineup needs a RHH. Oh you guys know who is a RHH? Carlos Correa….just so happens he plays short stop.. Thing is about paying him the 300m+ contract it would require.. Kiss any chance of a Devers deal coming together then. It's not going to happen no matter how much typing and wishing fans try to put it together by saying their is plenty of room for another huge salary. JH isn't going to pay another 300m+ salary after year before throwing 1 out.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 15, 2022 23:46:26 GMT -5
It’s also like people forget about Dave Roberts! Hamilton is also not an awful hitter, he still has some upside. It’s not like he’s Billy Hamilton level bad I also think people really are underestimating how hot he got to end the season too, there really may be something that changed there that the org liked. Like it’s actually pretty crazy he got his OPS up to .740ish considering where it was at one point Without digging up his month by month numbers and just from memory.. hamilton started '22 season red hot, cooled considerably until lates summer, then finished close to as hot as he started. I'm not buying his worthiness myself of being used for a 40 man spot with Ward left off.. Barring of course his AFL injury isn't serious as the reason. Even Jacob Wallace, who got a mention on another site has a chance to be nabbed. Flamethrowers with 1 other plus pitch go every year. I'm waiting to see the day Boston uses a roster spot (full season) for a pinch runner. Been a fan of this team for well over 50y and never seen it happen, except for the short term Roberts mentioned above.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 12, 2022 15:31:20 GMT -5
Winckowski to the pen and forgeting about anything but his FB/slider combo would probably be a good help. I can't help but remember his nice ST games early last year, him sitting mid 90's and throwing nothing but the FB and slider then.
He's not a starter and the team already has enough fringe depth with Seabold, Murphy, Crawford and higher upside folks as well at AA and AAA. We see questionable relievers now getting 30-100m deals already this offseason. Time to develop some who we have.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 11, 2022 21:18:47 GMT -5
That’s our only real issue we won in 2007 with kids . Then it dried up again. We have good prospects we graduate talented kids but the only difference we hit and miss but we have hardware 4 titles. 2 of them by our key prospects. Rules of the (drafting) game switched also a huge reason post 2011 boston hasn't done as well in rule 4 draft.. being unable to game the system and throw huge bonuses at multiple people way down each draft each year and get lucky often enough no longer happens.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 10, 2022 11:18:24 GMT -5
Heaney is interesting, his fastball velocity ticked up a bit and from what I read he discovered something with his slider that made it a real weapon. I've seen 2/20M thrown around for what he may be looking at. Heaney may be this years "Wacha" so to speak if they do end up signing him. Lugo, that's a big eh out of me. Probably would be better than some of the low leverage fodder they threw out there last year so that could be a plus. Heaney is one of those guys have never understood what the splash was all about. he was hyped up as a prospect with the marlins, but remember when saw him on milb games.. nothing special I ever saw from him and was never, ever more than a back end guy with the Angels, yet he continued getting that hype. remember Eovaldi getting same kind of treatment when he 1st came up with the LAD, only he threw triple digits. Pass on giving heaney close to 10m. Throwing away that much hoping Richards can learn to use a baseball not loaded up with stick-um would have a better chance of success and cost a lot less than 10maav.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 9, 2022 17:06:41 GMT -5
Am I crazy, or could Paxton be a lights out closer/8th inning guy? Think Paxton is more of 1 of the type of guy who looks, at 1st glance like he could be a terrific closer, but what anyone considering such a move MUST look at is all the injuries he has had and problems and not just the arm issues, but his back as well. People look at him and say he's made of glass. maybe it's earned, maybe not, but Boras himself believe was responsible for pulling him out of active duty at Seattle whenever he was feeling twinges in his back/legs and his arm there. Protecting his pre FA payday? Possibly, but M's fans were upset when team dr's and agent dr's came up with conflicting reports 1-2 times with regards to his issues. Fan of Paxton, don't get me wrong here. Just saying some of the injury issues might be with the agency more than with him.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 9, 2022 14:23:21 GMT -5
That is a bit surprising to me. I don't outright hate that he picked up the option but I just hope he's ready to go for ST and isn't still hurt from the injury sustained in his brief rehab stint. Liked Paxton from his days with the M's and am by no means dissatisfied with him picking up the 4m option, but look at his camp's view of the pickup.. his agent is Boras.. Picking up the (low) 4m option amount could have probably been equaled on the open market, even if had to wait long and deep into the offseason to get it. maybe even surpassed. perhaps there are still issues with his arm.. maybe even further surgeries down the line is why boras allowed him to take "just" 4m right now.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 19, 2022 17:05:30 GMT -5
Cpl thoughts on the clubhouse and dandruff up over guys maybe getting the boot.. If true..
1st of all? Believe the NE sports media in the 1st place, who have a last place team to write about, rather than a playoff team and are digging, or flat out writing lies from the start? Some are not exactly known for facts 1st to begin with.
Then if any part of the stories ARE true? Just maybe the team should have done a little better. This wasn't a bad team from the start, even with the injuries and many times? Played poorly, did the wrong things at wrong times and seemed to have a individual player 1st approach.. I give Pham hacking away 1st pitch 2nd KC game when Sox had bases loaded, 2nd inning and -0- out and Singer was fighting control. Things like that which bothered me all year about this team as an example.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 8, 2022 3:09:25 GMT -5
I must be getting old, I don't remember Julio. was that as a Devil Ray ? Don't remember him either. Think another pretty much unknown may have held it for years.. Short kid name of Mike Ciampa (was pronounced champa). Guy was barely 5', an OF late 70's in the Sox system. Used to tease him and call him "shorty" all the time. 1 day was on him pretty good and told him he couldn't put anything over the RF wall at Chain-o-Lakes stadium, which wasn't any short poke as it was. He hit one over the scoreboard during that very game and looked at me, at my normal seat while heading around the bases. Not sure who was happiest. Think it may have been his only professional homer tho. Nice kid tho, but mostly speed as an asset.
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