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Post by homerdante on Mar 9, 2023 22:06:19 GMT -5
They looked dead tonight. At one point no shots for ~10 minutes in the third. After 4-5 days off? Team looked gassed. A bit concerning.
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Post by homerdante on Mar 4, 2023 14:38:14 GMT -5
They’re playing like a-holes today, I kind of love it Haven’t seen them try to bully another team in awhile. Sending a message on national tv against a playoff team 100%, they look stout today!
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Post by homerdante on Mar 3, 2023 21:04:00 GMT -5
Gotta love what we're seeing out of the new additions already, and what Bertuzzi generally brings to a team (based on every other year of his career when he doesn't suffer two broken hands in the same season).
Makes you wish you had the space to sign an Orlov, Hathaway or Bertuzzi to complement the core...sadly, Taylor Hall and Charlie Coyle say hi, with their absurd salaries compared to their production. Swayman likely gone too. Maybe there's a cap bump next year that gives us some room for one of them to stay around, or you get lucky and dump Reilly and somehow wiggle one of them in...of course then there are your top two centers...
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Post by homerdante on Feb 20, 2023 14:37:13 GMT -5
Frederic has turned into a pretty impressive player this year. He's fun to watch.
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Post by homerdante on Feb 20, 2023 13:57:46 GMT -5
Matt Grzelcyk bonehead play with 30 seconds left....so deflating.
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Post by homerdante on Feb 19, 2023 1:12:40 GMT -5
Two blowouts this week...nice to see them get back on the horse!
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Post by homerdante on Jan 29, 2023 0:24:05 GMT -5
What...was...that?
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Post by homerdante on Jan 26, 2023 21:54:16 GMT -5
Did the ref get an assist on TB's second goal? That was absurd. Agreed, Refs tilted the ice all night. Forbert got high sticked, same way Marchand hit the other guy, barely touched, yet Bruins get penalized. Completely different standards on goalie interference calls. Apparently TB's D-men can cross check 5 times and throw tantrums and nothing happens to them. Absurd Reffing all night.
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Post by homerdante on Jan 26, 2023 21:52:27 GMT -5
Ullmark was incredible tonight. He almost rescued the Bruins. Admittedly, the refs tilted the ice most of the night in TB's favor. Ullmark is really incredible this year. Tough one, but onto Florida.
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Post by homerdante on Jan 26, 2023 21:07:09 GMT -5
What a season this has been so far...except for Charlie Coyle. Most over-payed player in hockey.
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Post by homerdante on Aug 12, 2022 21:54:30 GMT -5
Tatie Jr suspended by MLB for PED use!!!! Now I'm going to need to find a new favorite player. Sorry was that a typo? did you mean Prayer?
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Post by homerdante on Aug 3, 2022 20:42:21 GMT -5
Our grade from the Athletic on what happened during the trade deadline theathletic.com/3471426/2022/08/03/mlb-trade-deadline-grades/Grade: D Trades: Traded C Christian Vázquez to Astros for INF Enmanuel Valdez and OF Wilyer Abreu; acquired OF Tommy Pham from Reds for PTBNL; acquired 1B Eric Hosmer, INF Max Ferguson, OF Corey Rosier and cash considerations from Padres for LHP Jay Groome; traded LHP Jake Diekman to White Sox for C Reese McGuire and PTBNL or cash considerations. The Red Sox were buying and selling at the deadline, but I’m not quite sure I understood their end game. Vázquez was too important in that locker room, and to their pitching staff, to trade him for two position players who were not even rated in the top 20 of the Astros’ farm system. Then, to turn around and acquire left fielder Tommy Pham, when you already have Alex Verdugo in left and J.D. Martinez at designated hitter, just didn’t add up. Trading for Eric Hosmer and taking on some of his salary in return for gaining two prospects made some sense, but it also will block first base prospect Triston Casas and let Bobby Dalbec know he’s not good enough. Hosmer will probably be released in the offseason, which makes me wonder if all of this was worth two mid-level prospects who will never start for you. Dumping Jake Diekman’s multi-year contract was smart. But overall, for a team so close in the wild-card race, trading Vázquez and adding Pham and Hosmer just didn’t add up for me. I don't understand this common response RE: Hosmer by the media. I'm not the worlds biggest Hosmer fan either, so keep that in mind. He's NOT blocking anyone long term. JDM is almost certainly gone next year. In other words, there's a very good chance our DH spot is open for next year. I'm not saying Hosmer is the best candidate for DH by any means, but at near zero dollars, he's an asset you can either dump, or even trade if someone else wants a league average first baseman that costs ~zero. I fail to see how that part of their dealings was bad. Not trading JDM to get under Luxury Tax and likely lose him because you're unlikely to QO him, ok, I get it. moving Vaz and the locker room trouble it's purportedly bringing about, ok, I can hear that, even if I think the chance to get something for him because you're not going to QO him, ever, is a good enough reason. But I'm left scratching my head at how the Hosmer trade in it's final form is bad for this team, blocking Casas, or at this point that Dalbec has any consideration in the teams thinking. Can anyone help me out on this repeatedly horrible take and how it makes sense at all?
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Post by homerdante on Aug 3, 2022 20:31:52 GMT -5
theathletic.com/3476111/2022/08/03/inside-red-sox-trade-deadline/Behind a paywall, but it says they were considering trading everyone except Bogaerts and Devers. It sounds to me like they were just fishing for people to make stupid mistakes, and the Astros were the only team to make a stupid mistake. I think there is a pattern where Chaim is loathe to spend 97 cents to buy a dollar when he's managed to do it for forty cents so many times.
Also says Chaim flew out today to smooth things over with the players.
I hope he does not get the Trader Danny reputation where other teams will stop dealing with him...
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Post by homerdante on Aug 2, 2022 21:24:15 GMT -5
I don't get the lack of a JD Martinez trade. If we're understanding the Vaz trade as a QO issue--which it certainly looks like. You either lose him for nothing, or make the trade, then the prospect of a JD QO makes zero sense to me. I don't see how a DH makes sense at 19 mill with how's he's been playing this year and anticipated further decline next year. I just can't see how some team wouldn't value him "Enough" to get something rather than nothing for him given the circumstances the team finds itself in currently. The Pham trade also seems odd, the others have some logic to them, and if I stretch, the Pham TB connection to Bloom fills in some gaps there, but JD still on this team after the deadline is the biggest headscratcher. Anyone have some insight into the lack of a JD Trade? Don't look at me. I don't have a clue. I would have accepted a low return just to get under the LTT. If you don't get under, you've significantly lowered the value of the picks you'll get for QO FAs who leave. Getting under the LTT is also important because it allows you to go over in some future year when you have more than, you know, a .8 percent chance of winning the WS. My preferences for this deadline were: 1. Sell Eo and JDM. Keep Vaz and try to re-sign him. Vaz could have been re-signed for reasonable dollars and years, I think. 2. Be a buyer and chase that .8 percent chance. This was a very distant second choice for me. 3. Try to be both a buyer and a seller and not gain much of anything in terms of improving the team or adding future assets. This was unthinkable for me and it's the path Bloom chose. CB will try to convince fans that this new version of the 2022 RS has a great chance of making the PS and going deep into October. Anyone who believes that is doing what our new C was doing in that car. It feels good but it's not the real thing. I think those are all reasonable thoughts in response (and in retro considering what you were thinking before the deadline.) I can see holding onto EO, only because giving him a QO is not unreasonable. 20 mill for a starter who put up his 2021 seasons, is not unreasonable even with injury risk. It's a little high maybe, but not unreasonable. Vaz I can see the logic of the QO difficulty with. You're not risking 19 mill per year on him, ever. He seems like a nice dude and all, but the numbers are just bonkers. JDM, like you said, addresses that LTT issue. Even getting a marginal return on him is worth it, since you're not giving him a QO, or at least it's a huge stretch to do that. I don't think it's giving him away for free when subtracting his salary gets you so much with regard to the Luxury tax. That's the big get. Get whatever you can after that in trade value, but you've already won the trade if it drops you under the tax threshold. Further, when you added Hosmer, having the DH slot available gives you Casas possibilities in 17 days. Now, you've got more of a roster jam. Just seems bizarre not to have moved him.
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Post by homerdante on Aug 2, 2022 19:31:34 GMT -5
I can't wait to hear that they tried, and failed, by offering him another low ball offer. Well, we really don't know exactly what they offered him. Based on press reports - which are, of course, incomplete, but the best information we have - it sounds like Raffy wants to max out on money and years. We don't know which side is being unreasonable. With X - again, based on the public reporting - I get the impression the RS have not been serious at all. In fact, after hearing X's comments today about the direction of the organization (or lack of) I expect a consensual divorce. I don't think either side wants the other. I'll be pretty disappointed if it turns out that Bloom made no effort to keep X, and in fact made insulting offers to him. Why was JDM not traded? I can't understand any logic for not trading him. It fixes too many issues...
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Post by homerdante on Aug 2, 2022 19:14:56 GMT -5
I don't get the lack of a JD Martinez trade.
If we're understanding the Vaz trade as a QO issue--which it certainly looks like. You either lose him for nothing, or make the trade, then the prospect of a JD QO makes zero sense to me. I don't see how a DH makes sense at 19 mill with how's he's been playing this year and anticipated further decline next year. I just can't see how some team wouldn't value him "Enough" to get something rather than nothing for him given the circumstances the team finds itself in currently.
The Pham trade also seems odd, the others have some logic to them, and if I stretch, the Pham TB connection to Bloom fills in some gaps there, but JD still on this team after the deadline is the biggest headscratcher.
Anyone have some insight into the lack of a JD Trade?
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Post by homerdante on Aug 2, 2022 13:43:24 GMT -5
Meh even if it’s just a free Eric Hosmer it’s still better than what we’ve been rolling out. At least against righties. But he plays the same spot as the positional prospect the team has who's ready, or close, to the majors. It's almost like our DH position is about to be open from next year until forever....huh
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Post by homerdante on Aug 1, 2022 22:17:12 GMT -5
Seems like a flexibility play. Vaz might have walked for nothing, you got something. Plawecki is what he is at this point. You can move McGuire to your backup next year as one play. There are a lot more catcher flex with him in the fold. Vaz might even be resigned in the offseason if that bridge isn't burned. I'm not saying I'd make the same trades, but I can see how this gets you something instead of risking getting nothing. Vaz was not a QO candidate. No way you risk paying him 18 mill, ever. I think it's the smart play when you take emotion out of it, especially when you get rid of the bad bullpen contract to boot.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 22, 2022 20:59:52 GMT -5
Anyone have the link to the page where the Red Sox are hiring? After their recent performances, they must be house cleaning. I'd like to see what they're hiring for.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 22, 2022 20:56:06 GMT -5
We get a compensation pick for losing this badly in a single game, right? Cincinnati gets them for...having bad attendence.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 20, 2022 20:40:23 GMT -5
For the record (in case these posts are directed at my initial post) I wasn’t hand-wringing and I’m aware SS often times move off the position and succeed elsewhere due to their inherent athleticism. There’s a billion examples of it. I merely mentioned that they were drafting a lot of SS and said that’s the position to load up on. Not directed at you CDJ, directed at a general sentiment the past several days at SS from CA as a running meme. There's very good reason behind it that seems as though it's being missed by maybe a new gen of Sox Prospects readers or something, what it is has been lost on me as an old reader of Sox Prospects even if rare poster. There are a TON of very good reasons for selecting SS, it seemed like a vibe was running the Daily Draft Threads that ignored this.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 20, 2022 20:26:49 GMT -5
I remember reading that the rationale was very simple--take any young team at a low tier level; where do you put the most athletic person on the entire team? SS right, and CF? So it stands to reason SS or CF is always the most athletic and arguably best player on any given team. So granted, you're picking that position, but there's always going to be a filtering down affect as your funnel is inverted onto one top tier team. Only THE BEST SS is going to make the cut, and the rest of the big fish from their little ponds are going to adapt in around them.
I don't understand the hand wringing about so many SS this draft. There's a follow on argument that your SS will also be your most versatile players who will have the highest liklihood to switch to another position with relative ease, whereas it clearly does not work in reverse. Am I missing part of the SS from California outcry? Seems simple to me.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 19, 2022 17:41:27 GMT -5
--Ranked as the No. 1 left handed pitcher in the state of Idaho by Perfect Game. --As a senior, put up a .329 batting average with four doubles, four triples and three home runs. --On the mound, collected 31 strikeouts and had a 2.10 ERA in 2018. --Named Second Team All-SIC pitcher and outfielder as a junior in 2017. --Finished junior season with a .333 batting average with three doubles and two triples. --Also struck out 56 batters and posted a 1.70 ERA as a junior. --Played two years of club ball for the Idaho Cubs. other minor tidbits about his high school accomplishments. #1 LHP in the state of Idaho by perfect game! LFG! Idaho, where they play 2 months out the year... lol Exactly, sorry, i should have used more italics!
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Post by homerdante on Jul 19, 2022 16:19:43 GMT -5
--Ranked as the No. 1 left handed pitcher in the state of Idaho by Perfect Game. --As a senior, put up a .329 batting average with four doubles, four triples and three home runs. --On the mound, collected 31 strikeouts and had a 2.10 ERA in 2018. --Named Second Team All-SIC pitcher and outfielder as a junior in 2017. --Finished junior season with a .333 batting average with three doubles and two triples. --Also struck out 56 batters and posted a 1.70 ERA as a junior. --Played two years of club ball for the Idaho Cubs.
other minor tidbits about his high school accomplishments.
#1 LHP in the state of Idaho by perfect game! LFG!
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Post by homerdante on Jul 19, 2022 16:12:15 GMT -5
2021 • Appeared in 10 games for the Eagles • Struck out 18 in 11.2 innings pitched • Recorded a season high three strikeouts against Westmont (5/1/21) HAWAII/SPOKANE FALLS CC • Spend one year with the Rainbow Warriors before joining the Sasquatch in 2019-20 • Helped the Sasquatch to a 9-3 start in 2020 HIGH SCHOOL • Prepped three varsity seasons at Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, graduating in 2018 • Earned First Team American Family Insurance All-USA Idaho team honors as a senior outfielder • Named First Team 4A Southern Idaho Conference as an outfielder and as a pitcher in 2018 • Helped the Knights to 30 wins and back-to-back district tournament appearances in his two years as an upperclassmen • Still listed in the Knights' top-10 for single season ERA with a 1.71-mark during his junior season, when he earned second team all-conference honors • Also competed in wrestling at Bishop Kelly PERSONAL • Born on April 22, 2000 to Jen and Peter Butler • Has one younger sibling, Quinn • Majoring in business administration and wants to pursue a career in professional baseball • Enjoys ping-pong in his spare time • Favorite Bible Verse: Romans 8:31 • Why I Chose Biola: "I wanted to play for a great team and get a good education while doing so." athletics.biola.edu/sports/baseball/roster/connor-butler/6516
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