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Post by danr on Jul 29, 2021 23:23:59 GMT -5
I have seen nearly every Sox game this year. Renfroe has become one of my favorite players because of his defense. He makes some sensational plays and handles all the routine ones. His arm is amazing.
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Post by danr on Jul 29, 2021 23:11:14 GMT -5
He can play first better than Dalbec has, it’s not exactly a high bar Dalbec has been an excellent 1B and has made a number of sensational plays, almost one every game.
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Post by danr on Jul 29, 2021 22:38:04 GMT -5
Very strange. Having a great year at the plate, but strictly a LF and not that good a defensive one.
Never a good hitter in high leverage until this year, where his clutch splits are great. That suggests the Nats may have made some kind of tweak to him ... did they also teach him 1B on the side?
I like it if he can play 1B (and he is an ex-catcher). You'd platoon him with Arroyo or Dalbec, though.
He is 28 years old, which is the average age for players to have their best seasons, and sure enough he was in the process of having his best season when he got injured. Since he doesn't exactly fit in, is there another move coming?
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Post by danr on Jul 29, 2021 21:05:04 GMT -5
Of all the players reported to be on the Sox radar, the only one I would like to see them get is Kimbrell.
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Post by danr on Jul 3, 2021 22:47:55 GMT -5
Andriese has to go. redsox04071318champs is right. Workman should have been left in.
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Post by danr on Jun 29, 2021 2:42:04 GMT -5
It doesn't make sense to me for the Sox to draft Davis, who doesn't have a position. In fact, it doesn't make sense for the Sox to draft a position player.
The team needs pitching. They should draft the best pitcher available.
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Post by danr on Jun 16, 2021 0:34:03 GMT -5
Erod lacks stamina. In the 2nd and 3rd innings he was throwing gas and striking out good hitters. By the 4th he couldn't hit the same speeds on his fastball, nor could he control it as well. There could be something physically wrong with him, maybe something related to the problem he had last year.
Barnes' curveball has not been nearly as sharp in the last two games as it was earlier. He ought to use it a little less until he can get it back to what it was.
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Post by danr on Apr 23, 2021 1:55:37 GMT -5
I had this strong feeling the Sox were going to lose this game when they kept blowing opportunities. This is a better team than many expected and I think we are going to have an entertaining season.
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Post by danr on Feb 10, 2021 1:50:28 GMT -5
I Have been one of the biggest JBJ fans on this board for years but now I am willing to let him go. I don't think the Sox are going to be a post-season team this coming season. It wouldn't make any sense to go over the salary cap to sign JBJ because he isn't enough to get the team into post season. A lot more has yet to happen to do that. There also is the real possibility that he will not repeat the season he just had over a long season. I just love him as a defender, one of the very best CFs I have seen in my long life. I am 77 and for much of that time I have been a fanatical Sox fan.
I am becoming a fan of Duran. He may be a better hitter than JBJ and he seems to be developing into a pretty sensational CF.
If I were running the Sox, I would focus on improving the pitching. The Sox are very vulnerable here with some major question marks. That would include getting some top talent in the draft and trying to get some additional MLB talent, although there isn't much left for the start of this season.
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Post by danr on Aug 4, 2020 4:36:29 GMT -5
No idea, I don't follow any other sports. But the owners are making lots of money and there are plenty of fans out there and it makes no sense whatsoever to say that the league will contract by 50% and the commenter gave no reason why that should be the case. They keep building new stadiums even when TV money keeps growing. There are cities that should have a major league team, like Portland, Oregon, where I am, that have more population and are growing much faster than a number of the cities that have existing major league teams. Portland even has made a success of a soccer team playing in a converted former Triple A baseball stadium that has no parking. The basketball team has been pretty successful as well. Oregon produces a lot of major league players and baseball still is played by young folks everywhere. I thinkk a major league team here would be very successful so long as they have a domed stadium.
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Post by danr on Jul 6, 2020 23:39:32 GMT -5
Diekman's assessment is stark, and he's on target when he states that waiting 4-5 days for test results is useless. That is the bottleneck in many places including here in Oregon. Labs are simply overloaded given the explosive rise in the case load across the country. So having a good testing rate becomes secondary if you can't get those results in hand quickly. Otherwise you have live virus walking around. Given the pushback the NBA faced when they were getting everyone tested, MLB may be trying hard not to jump the line. It's a no-win situation. Oregon Health and Science University runs two testing locations in the Portland area, one at the minor league ballpark in Hillsboro. Any OHSU patient with some symptoms can get tested for free. I did at the ballpark without any line. I got my negative result the next day.
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Post by danr on Jun 16, 2020 2:55:51 GMT -5
With the virus exploding in about half the states that opened when it was not under control, I don't think we are going to see any live public events for quite a while. I always side with the players. Without them there is no game. The billionaire owners offer no value.
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Post by danr on May 22, 2020 2:08:02 GMT -5
I didn't like the extension because I don't like signing pitchers in their 30s to long term contracts. However, this guy is such a class act, I can be persuaded that this might work out.
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Post by danr on May 22, 2020 2:01:52 GMT -5
Is it safe to assume that putting someone on the 50 man this year doesn't neccesitate that they be on the 40 man next year ? I'm pretty much the same as danr in what interests me except I'm more into World politics than USA only politics. In that venue, politics has helped fill the baseball void. Right now I'm keenly interested in the multi-nation military buildup in the South China Sea that is affecting Asian stock markets right now. It's getting scary there. What I love about baseball is that there is no space for insanity and it basically is the same game of 100 years ago showing that there can be traditions and consistency in life. When I was in the book business I had a baseball instruction book from the early 1920s. God, I wish I still had it, but it was too valuable to keep. It provided instructions and position diagrams for playing every position in all normal circumstances. Any Little League coach today could use the book and not miss a thing.
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Post by danr on May 21, 2020 2:27:46 GMT -5
If there is a season, and I think it is more likely there will not be one, I think the 50-man roster should include at least a half dozen of the most promising lower level players, from Duran and Casas to Jimenez and some others just to give them some playing time and experience. They really should be pointing to 2021 and lining up a team that will be highly competitive, while developing the handful of outstanding prospects they have.
At my stage of life there only are three things that really matter to me, family/personal relationships, politics and baseball - and by that I mean the Sox - and I sure would like to have the Sox divert me for periods of time from politics. I just don't see it happening this year.
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Post by danr on Apr 3, 2020 4:55:59 GMT -5
I should have added that OHSU administered the test to its patients on a meandering route through the parking lot of the Hillsboro Hops, a short season affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. It is a very attractive stadium and it made me realize how much I miss baseball this year
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Post by danr on Apr 3, 2020 3:12:42 GMT -5
Yeah, as someone who gives blood regularly, part of me almost wants to get covid and recover so that I can donate blood with antibodies. Read some descriptions of what this virus can do and you will not want to be a victim. But what is weird is that many people contract it and hardly know it and others are dead in just a few days. They have no idea why this is happening. I had an outbreak of what I thought were spring allergies last week but it kept on and on. No fever or headaches but big problems with my eyes - which is a symptom of COVID. The Internal Medicine Clinic of Oregon Health and Science University sent me to have a COVID test. The test is not very comfortable as they shove the stick inside your left nose almost to your left eyeball. The test came out negative.
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Post by danr on Apr 1, 2020 4:06:33 GMT -5
Thought I just heard Toronto was shutting down through the end of June. If all travel has to be open that would be July baseball soonest. 81 game season maybe similar to the 1981 season? Not a chance. This season is gone. The virus hasn't hit its peak and if you buy what the experts are saying the other side of the peak is longer than this side. Then, there is the chance it will start back up as it is doing in China now. We will be lucky to see baseball in 2021. The world will be much different then.
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Post by danr on Mar 20, 2020 0:44:10 GMT -5
If there is no draft, would college seniors be free agents?
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Post by danr on Mar 20, 2020 0:40:31 GMT -5
This rotation never will perform together for the Sox.
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Post by danr on Mar 16, 2020 4:39:08 GMT -5
There will be lots of blame to go around. Mistakes have been made in many places. So let's get back to the spread in the US and what it means for MLB, please. I'm wondering when we might see games begin again. The number of known people with the virus in the U.S. increased by 10 times in the last week, from 300 to 3,000. As of today you cannot get a drink or a restaurant meal in New York City. The top expert we have suggested today that we may have to have a massive nationwide quarantine like what has occurred in Italy with virtually everything shut down. On Sunday, the CDC said no gatherings of more than 50 should be permitted. I went to the Safeway in King City, OR today and there wasn't a single roll of toilet paper and many other shelves were nearly empty. Every prediction I have read or heard in the past several days is that this is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better and we aren't doing anywhere near what we need to do to slow it down. Trump has destroyed most of the competence in the federal government because he can't stand to have anyone around him who is smarter, or knows more, than he, and that is most of the competent people in the government. Consequently, the people he put in charge of things have no idea how to handle this. The few experts are afraid to tell him the truth. The stock market is going to crash again this morning. It is an incredible situation. So, are we going to have baseball this season? I seriously doubt it. I hope we have it next year and haven't lost some players to the disease.
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Post by danr on Mar 14, 2020 2:57:11 GMT -5
So apparently MLB is still going to try and play 162. We'll see. They aren't going to play until we have control of the virus and it declines. Most experts seem to think that could take months, even lasting into next year. There is no treatment for it and the guy who solved AIDs and who now is working on a treatment said on Rachel Maddow tonight that it could be next year before he gets anything effective developed. The vaccine will take even longer. We could get lucky and it dies out on its own but it doesn't seem to be that kind of bug. It seems fairly likely that this season is toast. That will raise all kinds of questions and issues.
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Post by danr on Feb 6, 2020 1:09:28 GMT -5
If Betts sees Boston as his home and if the Sox really want him then the trade was brilliant. With the Luxury Tax reset the team can spend whatever it takes to resign him. I don't think any team is going to give Betts the deal he was asking the Sox for and playing a full season for the Dodgers might even suppress his perceived value as it is not unlikely his power won't play very well in Dodger stadium. Major league baseball position players, on average (look it up, it is true) have their best season at the age of 28, Some a little earlier, some slightly later. That is the key point to consider about Betts. He may already have had his best season in 2018, but, if not, it probably is going to occur in the next year or two. Because he is such a great athlete and doesn't have some physical conditions, like overweight, that speed up declines, he probably will continue to have outstanding seasons for a while, but slowly not as great. Would it really make sense to sign him to a 10-year plus deal at $30M or more per year after a year in LA? I don't think so. This is the same problem as signing pitchers over the age of 29 or 30 to long term contracts. You really wind up up paying for past performance. I am a great believer that greed is a great destroyer of character and common sense. Betts could have had an incredible deal with the Sox that would have given him more money than he ever could need. He may live to regret not taking the deal. IMHO, I would not have made that offer and am happy it was not accepted. On the other hand, if the finances had permitted I would have offered $40M, maybe even more, for five years.
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Post by danr on Nov 7, 2019 22:43:52 GMT -5
No one has yet mentioned that the Trey Ball era is now over? I was surprised. They should have drafted Mike Trout over him. The Sox sure cleaned out a lot of longtime minor leaguers. A lot of upward moves of more promising players.
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Post by danr on Oct 3, 2019 23:34:13 GMT -5
The Yankees have traded prospects without weakening their farm system because they have done a better job of drafting than the Sox have in recent years. The Sox have done a good job in the international market, but not so much in the draft. The records of the Sox minor league teams are proof of that.
However, as thin as the system is, Duran might be a replacement for JBJ in another year, and if not, Jimenez might be even better in a couple of years. Chatham is looking like a good candidate for 2B next season. I would not trade JBJ this off season.
The Sox should resign Moreland for another year with the idea of platooning him with either Chavis or Dalbec.
I would try hard to sign Betts to a long term deal at an insane amount of money, but if he insisted on going through FA, I would trade him for whatever I could get in top flight minor league pitchers. I then would target Castellanos as a replacement..
If JDM opts out - which I don't think he will do - then Chavis or Dalbec becomes the DH.
The big problem the Sox have is the starting pitching. There is no guarantee that the Sox will have more than one reliable starter next year. They are stuck with Sale, Price and Eovaldi and what are the odds that all, or even one of them, will be healthy all season?
If I were in charge - and I am totally unqualified to be so - I would try to find a way to get rid of at least one of them in a trade and then sign the top FA, Gerrit Cole and maybe Zack Wheeler. This might put the Sox over the salary limit the ownership wants but a good argument could be made for doing it - i.e. another first place finish.
Dombrowski's failure is that he did not have a plan. Every year requires a new plan and if properly thought through and presented to ownership it can be a winner.
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