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Post by jimoh on Mar 13, 2022 10:51:05 GMT -5
Do you think Brasier and Taylor are locks? Just curious — I hadn’t thought about it. Taylor ended up having a real nice season last year. Gotta think he's a lock. They gave Brasier an arb payday in the offseason, and the way they used him the last few weeks of the season made me believe they think highly of him. He might be more borderline than a lock I suppose.
Taylor, like Darwinson, has options.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 13, 2022 9:46:40 GMT -5
Chaim needs to make a move soon just so there's really something worthwhile to discuss. Haven't had that since the Renfroe/JBJ + Binelas + Hamilton was dissected to death. Your command has been answered MATT STRAHM BABY LETS GOOOOOO That's a lot of LHRP. Darwinzon has two options left.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 13, 2022 8:08:42 GMT -5
Yeah, that’s not arrogant and misinformed at all. . What did he get wrong? He got plenty wrong but it’s a baseball site.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 12, 2022 21:24:21 GMT -5
Perfectly fine with moving on from Xander or anyone else who’s gonna selfishly hurt the team by being an antivax nutcase How does this make him a "nutcase." He's a professional athlete, in the prime of his life, who possibly already had Covid in advance of any mandates. These shots last a couple months, tops. The boosters last only 10 weeks. Someone ought to send a memo to people like you, and the entire country of Canada, that this nonsense is over, and the holdouts are looking more petty and stubborn by the day. As someone who was forced to choose between my career and getting the jab (due to Mayor Wu's mandate), I can attest to how absolutely terrible it feels to gamble on the safety, and open myself up to any unforeseen longterm health consequences. From a baseball perspective, build Xander's scheduled days off around the road games in Toronto. He'll lose 9, at most. Extremely possible that Canada will stop pretending there's any net benefit to this approach sooner than later. Yeah, that’s not arrogant and misinformed at all.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 11, 2022 11:24:37 GMT -5
This is potentially significant... [...] This seems like a big deal. Is this the end of taking a senior in the tenth round and paying him $10,000 so you can spend more on your third round pick? The slot for the Red Sox' 10th round pick in 2022 is $148,400. In 2023, would they have to pay that guy 75% of $148k or so? Or will there be a run on seniors not taking physicals so they can be signed for $10-50k?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 11, 2022 11:16:49 GMT -5
I've always enjoyed the NL game more.
Some of the things we'll never see/hear again: A pitcher "helping his own cause." A pitchers' duel in which the starters both bat into the late innings because they're both dealing. A pitcher who everyone knows is a good hitter because he's got receipts vs big-league pitching.
Small ball. A proven pinch-hitter.
Real strategy.
[...] I wish people would just focus more on the things that make baseball great, rather than endlessly nit-picking about pitchers not being able to hit like first-basemen who can't field or the foibles of human umpires or the occasional bad pitcher who can't make up his mind.
Maybe some AAA team will offer a promotion for guys who long for the days when pitchers batted, in which they randomly pick some guy out of the stands to bat so everyone can see what it was like in the good old days when a person who can't hit got to strike out on national tv.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 11, 2022 10:43:44 GMT -5
Somebody has suggested FA Mil. RP Brad Boxberger
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Post by jimoh on Mar 11, 2022 10:39:00 GMT -5
....... hasn't Seiya Suzuki tweeted anything lately Not himself (well, people are reporting what he said on Instagram): Boston Strong @bostonstrong_34 3h Seiya Suzuki has arrived, he’s working out in Los Angeles. He’s represented by “Wasserman” the same agency that represents Kiké Hernández.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 19:37:52 GMT -5
You're going to saying this once an hour, right?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 19:08:22 GMT -5
We can't really platoon JBJ with a LH OF, or even give nights off for rest. JBJ should be someone you forget is on the roster IMO. If he’s not then everyone will be piling on him for not being able to do what is asked of him all year long JBJ cannot be counted on for anything for late-game OF defense, but I literally have no idea whether he's going to hit like bad 2021 JBJ, good 2020 JBJ, or the 2017-19 guy whose offense was tolerable given his defense. He did have wrist problems and plantar fasciitis last year.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 17:23:54 GMT -5
Since everybody wants Suzuki, it seems likely that he will be overpaid. Can we live with that? Conforto seems likely to be less popular, because of the pick. Could that be the way to go? Is the difference between Suzuki's contract and Concerto's likely to be more than the value of our Fabian pick? Hard to judge Conforto because of his poor 2021, but picking a player based on an earlier season seems to be a Red Sox thing, no?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 16:53:24 GMT -5
So, choices for OF are 1) Suzuki 2) Kyle with iffy defense 3) sign a big SS and play JBJ 4) McCutcheon, Pham, who?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 16:00:45 GMT -5
What I most want are Suzuki and McHugh. I think both those players fit our team perfectly. Suzuki for obvious reasons, we have a hole in the OF and he’s a lefty bat with a good glove. McHugh had elite stuff last season and can pitch multiple innings when needed. Bloom also liked him enough to sign him in 2020, so I could see us going after him again. Suzuki isn't a lefty. Which makes him what we need.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 15:54:50 GMT -5
Hope he rebounds this year after his rough debut but his glove really needs to improve. In a Keith Law chat today someone asked whether Duran might be due for a "Trout-like breakout" this year. Law said not. I followed up with a more modest question: Me: Yikes on "Trout-like breakout." What are the odds Jarren Duran has an up and down JBJ-like career offensively? And what are the odds that he becomes adequate or plus in CF? Keith Law @jim O. I like that up-and-down comment - I could see him doing that, having some above-average seasons and some below-average ones. He was worse in CF than I expected him to be in the majors, but that's also something we know can improve even in the majors, as long as the player is athletic & has the willingness to work at it.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2022 12:44:02 GMT -5
And a live chat right now. Somebody asked whether Duran might have a "Trout-like breakout"!!!!!
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Post by jimoh on Mar 9, 2022 17:58:22 GMT -5
I repeat why do all of you care what owners and players make. I do not. Does this replace barroom irreverent conversation? Bored or nosy? Because if the players got a fair share of revenues in the sport, and minor leaguers got paid better, and owners stopped manipulating service time and losing on purpose, better athletes might be attracted to baseball and we might see better play on the field. That, and I’m tired of the way life today in general is tilted in favor of dishonest oligarchs and plutocrats.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 9, 2022 11:45:27 GMT -5
Is it too optimistic to bump this thread back up?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 8, 2022 6:39:06 GMT -5
Keston Hiura was graded as having 60 pop but was certainly a bat-first 2B who wasn't even a lock to stay there. Ozzie Albies wasn't supposed to even have average pop, although he was projected as potentially being able to stick at short and he has speed Yorke doesn't. Maybe Dustin Ackley? "Dustin Ackley was a beast at North Carolina, hitting over .400 in each of his three seasons, and blasted 22 home runs his final season. The Seattle Mariners took him No. 2 in the 2009 MLB Draft and by 2011 he was a big leaguer, after two straight seasons of being a consensus top 25 prospect (our own John Sickels had him the 10th best hitting prospect in 2010). Unfortunately, that was arguably his best season. He went from a second baseman to outfielder to first baseman to utility player. He hasn’t had a big league at bat since 2016, posting a .241/.304/.367 slash line and .671 OPS in 635 MLB games." www.minorleagueball.com/2018/6/23/17495844/25-times-milb-prospects-didnt-meet-the-hype-in-the-2000s-part-ii
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Post by jimoh on Mar 6, 2022 9:55:12 GMT -5
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Post by jimoh on Mar 2, 2022 9:23:30 GMT -5
This is interesting. From last July. "The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes" "Following lobbying by Major League Baseball, in 2004, sports teams were granted the right to use this deduction as part of a tax bill signed by President George W. Bush, himself a former part owner of the Texas Rangers. Now, team owners could write off the price they paid not just for player contracts, but also a range of other items such as TV and radio contracts and even goodwill, an amorphous accounting concept that represents the value of a business’ reputation. Altogether, those assets typically amount to 90% or more of the price paid for a team. That means when billionaires buy teams, the law allows them to treat almost all of what they bought, including assets that don’t lose value, as deteriorating over time. A team’s franchise rights, which never expire, automatically get treated like a pharmaceutical company’s patent on a blockbuster drug, which has a finite life span. In reality, the right to operate a franchise in one of the major leagues has in the last few decades been a license to print money: In the past two decades, the average value of basketball, football, baseball and hockey teams has grown by more than 500%." www.propublica.org/article/the-billionaire-playbook-how-sports-owners-use-their-teams-to-avoid-millions-in-taxes?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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Post by jimoh on Mar 1, 2022 11:27:32 GMT -5
Sounds like the sides are actually motivated to get this done. New fake deadline is 5pm 3/1. Sides still need to get CBT, pre-arb bonus pool, minimum salary done. Sounds like 12 team playoff. Universal DH. I guess they started talking about the shift even at some point. Earlier arb probably off the table. MLB's last CBT proposal was 220/220/220/224/230, $675k min, $25m bonus pool. Union wants them at 230 or higher on CBT, over $700k on min salary. Seems doable. Still a lot of movement that'd need to happen. Like why on earth is the CBT staying flat for 3 years? Another way of looking at it: why would the CBT limit go up only 4.5% in five years? When the inflation rate is likely to be 5-7% in just the next year? The owners just need to move a little on minimum salary and CBT limit.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 28, 2022 7:43:06 GMT -5
The "both sides" argument, as in "both sides make too much money" is like saying it snows in both Baltimore and Buffalo. The owners are keeping too much of the money that the players are brining in, by exploiting their antitrust exemption, which is 100 years old this year and never made sense. Players want the minimum salary to keep up with that of other sports, which would be good for baseball, and for owners to stop manipulating service time, which would be good for baseball, and to discourage tanking for draft picks, which would be good for baseball, and for the owners not to decimate the minor leagues, and for the soft cap of the competitive balance tax figure to grow with both inflation and the growth of revenue is the sport, which makes perfect sense. The owners have imposed a lockout, focused on PR, not negotiated in good faith, and don't seem to care about losing games.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 28, 2022 7:32:33 GMT -5
Anyone help with who Anthony bray is? Hitting coach? Pitching coach? What’s his input on the Sox prospects going to be? Is he focused on one team or up and down their organization of youth? I just got the feeling from the posting this might be a bigger signing but have zero idea who this cat is. Looks like a low-level hire. Played a couple of years in the Astros system, coached a little at his alma mater Charlotte (where he was an infielder and set the school record for career hits), and has been coaching kids and managing a summer league team for kids. His twitter handle is @hittingislife15.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 26, 2022 7:02:44 GMT -5
Not exSox but exBruins: Johnny Bucyk who played for the Red Wings and famously for the Big Bad Bruins (1955–1978) was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, once played on an all-“Uke line”, and I’d in the Ukrainian Sports Hall of Fame.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 25, 2022 13:11:41 GMT -5
Aaron Bray takes "developmental coaching job" with Sox.
Aaron Bray @hittingislife15 Former Charlotte 49er and Houston Astro. Youth Director for 5 Star Carolina. Proud Husband and father of Ryker and Ripken.
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