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Post by jbsox on Aug 5, 2020 17:23:45 GMT -5
I think the plan needs to be to compete in 21 and 22. Bogaerts and Sale have 2022 opt outs. ERod is a free agent after 2021. Vazquez, Benintendi, Eovaldi are free agents after 2022. So is JDM if he doesn't opt out. Devers is a FA after 2023. Now isn't the time to blow it up. The pitching is bad but that's in large part (not entirely though, for sure) due to rotten luck. 2022 might be, or at least to remake the roster. I wonder how aggressive we will be in free agency since we reset the tax ( if we finish the season) and if the pandemic will hold us back or not with spending. I know several teams are losing money and may not be aggressive. Maybe that can play into our favor? Looking at the free agent list it seems like there will be enough starting pitchers available where we could upgrade starting at the top with Bauer and someone like Lester if his team option is declined. Maybe we will also be aggressive with OFs (like Springer). What Bloom does between the trade deadline and the offseason will certainly be interesting.
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Post by manfred on Aug 5, 2020 17:33:04 GMT -5
I think the plan needs to be to compete in 21 and 22. Bogaerts and Sale have 2022 opt outs. ERod is a free agent after 2021. Vazquez, Benintendi, Eovaldi are free agents after 2022. So is JDM if he doesn't opt out. Devers is a FA after 2023. Now isn't the time to blow it up. The pitching is bad but that's in large part (not entirely though, for sure) due to rotten luck. 2022 might be, or at least to remake the roster. I wonder how aggressive we will be in free agency since we reset the tax ( if we finish the season) and if the pandemic will hold us back or not with spending. I know several teams are losing money and may not be aggressive. Maybe that can play into our favor? Looking at the free agent list it seems like there will be enough starting pitchers available where we could upgrade starting at the top with Bauer and someone like Lester if his team option is declined. Maybe we will also be aggressive with OFs (like Springer). What Bloom does between the trade deadline and the offseason will certainly be interesting. This is my nightmare. Go through all of this to reset, then spend on a 37-year old Lester, Bauer, and Springer... thus adding lots of payroll but not getting nearly good enough to contend. And just getting older.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Aug 5, 2020 17:47:39 GMT -5
Chavis last year: 4/20-5/22: 123 PA, .283/.382/.585, 26.0% K rate 5/23-8/11: 259 PA, .241/.293/.382, 36.7% K rate He needs to play his way into more playing time than he's getting, if we're being honest. Moreland was brought back specifically because Chavis hadn't earned the full-time 1B gig. If anything, he's in danger of losing his roster spot to Dalbec (or at the cutdown to 28). I think it speaks volumes that Dalbec was brought to Tampa on the taxi squad. I'm kinda over people doing that because month by month tells a much different story. His injury in August tanked his numbers. Everyone wants to take away his hot streak, yet act like him playing injured didn't tank his August numbers. 1.061 OPS, .788, .730, .786 and .456 OPS in August. The only month he didn't hit enough for 2B is August while injured. 1B is a different story, yet given Peraza I don't get that. That guy is going to struggle to even have a .730 OPS for a month. So I agree he's not ready for 1B, but he did prove he can hit enough for 2B, it wasn't just one hot streak and then he sucked. The guy they need to move is Moreland. I get why they signed him, yet we aren't going anywhere and he's 34 years old. Time to get ready for next year. Chavis hurt his shoulder diving on Tuesday, August 6 in the 8th inning. He played 4 more games, going 0-for-12 with a walk. He also made an out in an at-bat on the 6th after getting hurt, so it was 0-for-13. May 23-August 6, 8th inning: 245 PA, .254/.306/.404, 36.3% K rate 2019 MLB 2B as a whole: .256/.320/.417, 19.9% K rate As we have been telling you since August, it wasn't the injury. Even if you want to take out his slump at the beginning of August that has nothing to do with an injury, from May 23 to July 31, it's .253/.305/.402 with a 36.9% K rate. He was an averagish-at-best hitter with worrisome strikeout numbers portending further issues from May 23 onward. There's always a flaw to playing the arbitrary endpoints game and I'll give you that. But defending Chavis like the problem was an injury is nuts. He was striking out at a 36 percent clip! That's not sustainable.
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Post by manfred on Aug 5, 2020 18:16:30 GMT -5
Gunna call that a Verdugo fly out.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Aug 5, 2020 18:42:47 GMT -5
Hope Perez goes on a nice little run here so we can deal him at the deadline.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Aug 5, 2020 18:47:52 GMT -5
that’s a fly ball!!
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 5, 2020 18:48:06 GMT -5
Gunna call that a Verdugo fly out. How about that one!?!
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 5, 2020 18:49:09 GMT -5
verdugo!
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Aug 5, 2020 18:51:02 GMT -5
I'll give Verdugo a fly there
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Post by Coreno on Aug 5, 2020 18:51:58 GMT -5
Choo chooooooo!
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Post by manfred on Aug 5, 2020 19:00:21 GMT -5
Gunna call that a Verdugo fly out. How about that one!?! I stand corrected. If Verdugo can keep up his torrid one extra-base hit per 12 game pace for the Sox, I will never look at Mookie’s stats again.
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 5, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
It's not always clean with Perez, but the redsoxstats account on twitter showed that he ranks among the hardest pitchers to square up, similar to Eduardo Rodriguez. I think he'd be a fine number 5 starter in a fully healthy rotation.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Aug 5, 2020 19:23:28 GMT -5
And like ERod, his pitch count is up early. 91 pitches after 5.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Aug 5, 2020 19:26:06 GMT -5
Perez is the Ace !!
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 5, 2020 19:27:57 GMT -5
Who says this Sox team doesn’t have a decent offense? Xander with a wall ball double and CV with his 10th RBI!
edit. And Chavis absolutely having a night!
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 5, 2020 19:30:06 GMT -5
ok chavis, way to show us something!
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Aug 5, 2020 19:30:17 GMT -5
Adding value...
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Aug 5, 2020 19:30:20 GMT -5
see all the negative talk and another home run. We are doing good work here, boys !!
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Post by incandenza on Aug 5, 2020 19:32:08 GMT -5
I really appreciate Chavis' bat flip/mic drop thing. Subtle yet effective.
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 5, 2020 19:34:05 GMT -5
a Verdugo homer and a Peraza walk tonight?? things are looking up folks
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 5, 2020 19:34:59 GMT -5
I really appreciate Chavis' bat flip/mic drop thing. Subtle yet effective. Completely agree. The lack of “flair” somehow is more dramatic. Or something like that.
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Post by incandenza on Aug 5, 2020 19:42:25 GMT -5
Chavis' season wRC+ has improved from 24 to 114 in the last two hours.
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Post by pedroiaesque on Aug 5, 2020 20:05:18 GMT -5
a Verdugo homer and a Peraza walk tonight?? things are looking up folks Who was asking which would happen first (Verdugo putting a ball in the air or Peraza taking a walk)? And who would've guessed it would've happened in the same game?!
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Post by Guidas on Aug 5, 2020 20:10:58 GMT -5
If the Sox keep playing like this they may actually get to double-digit wins.
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Post by manfred on Aug 5, 2020 20:26:42 GMT -5
I poo-poohed Perez, but I’ll give the pro-Perez guys credit. He looks ok. I mean, if things had gone to plan and he was a 4/5, he’d be really solid. I’d consider keeping him. If he regresses as a starter, he might be a good Oliver Perez-style lefty reliever, a very poor-man’s Andrew Miller.
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