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Post by cba82 on Feb 19, 2021 18:46:20 GMT -5
Brett Gardner back for one more season with the Yankees, $4 million. Boy that guy bothers me, I wish he’d just retire already.
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Post by greenmonster on Feb 19, 2021 21:34:57 GMT -5
Brett Gardner back for one more season with the Yankees, $4 million. Boy that guy bothers me, I wish he’d just retire already. IMO, he is easily the least likable Yankee. I was nervous that he was going to end up with the Sox to help fill CF. Thankfully that did not happen
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Post by blizzards39 on Feb 19, 2021 21:50:37 GMT -5
Not to change the subject but I don’t buy one second into the Jays. Not saying they will be bad but that pitching staff has piles of questions.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 19, 2021 22:56:59 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't see much in the way of contingency planning going on with a lot of the teams. That is what Bloom has been doing, stocking up on the most valuable resource of all, pitching, for all possible outcomes this coming season.
If your the Dodgers with an abundance of home grown talent to complement what you've acquired, you can pick and choose how you want to program the rotation, the long, middle and short relief... all of it. But it's only the Dodgers who have that talent base.
Looking down the list of pitching choices the Sox FO has assembled, I'm impressed. There's risk with some of those guys, but it all looks very calculated. There could be significant reward also. With all the uncertainty over these two seasons, this looks like a good plan.
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Post by unitspin on Feb 20, 2021 7:00:56 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't see much in the way of contingency planning going on with a lot of the teams. That is what Bloom has been doing, stocking up on the most valuable resource of all, pitching, for all possible outcomes this coming season. If your the Dodgers with an abundance of home grown talent to complement what you've acquired, you can pick and choose how you want to program the rotation, the long, middle and short relief... all of it. But it's only the Dodgers who have that talent base. Looking down the list of pitching choices the Sox FO has assembled, I'm impressed. There's risk with some of those guys, but it all looks very calculated. There could be significant reward also. With all the uncertainty over these two seasons, this looks like a good plan. And if the red sox are lucky and hit on one or two of the pitchers then it will be a decent off season. But as we saw last yr most of these guys will not pan out. The sox rotation where it stands right now cannot afford Richards and pivetta to have bad seasons. If they do this team will sink fast. Quantity over quality almost never works. Lucky for the dodgers they have quantity and quality.
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Post by trajanacc on Feb 20, 2021 7:56:27 GMT -5
Brett Gardner back for one more season with the Yankees, $4 million. Boy that guy bothers me, I wish he’d just retire already. IMO, he is easily the least likable Yankee. I was nervous that he was going to end up with the Sox to help fill CF. Thankfully that did not happen I wonder what percentage of the time the short white guy isn’t the least likable player on a rival team.
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Post by cba82 on Feb 21, 2021 11:41:52 GMT -5
Ian Desmond opts out. Opening for JBJ in Colorado?
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Post by blizzards39 on Feb 21, 2021 12:55:13 GMT -5
IMO, he is easily the least likable Yankee. I was nervous that he was going to end up with the Sox to help fill CF. Thankfully that did not happen I wonder what percentage of the time the short white guy isn’t the least likable player on a rival team. When it’s the giant mean hairy guy. One or the other
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Post by cdj on Feb 21, 2021 16:03:21 GMT -5
Zack Britton kinda going after Domingo German, I dig it
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Post by vermontsox1 on Feb 21, 2021 20:12:31 GMT -5
Not a great look for the Mariners...
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Feb 21, 2021 20:52:01 GMT -5
Ian Desmond opts out. Opening for JBJ in Colorado? Just saw today the last major league free agent Colorado signed was Daniel Murphy in December 2018. I'd bet on JBJ going elsewhere.
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Post by sarasoxer on Feb 21, 2021 22:31:44 GMT -5
Zack Britton kinda going after Domingo German, I dig it I dig it....irie, irie
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Post by blizzards39 on Feb 22, 2021 11:33:50 GMT -5
Chaz Roe is going back to rays.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Feb 22, 2021 12:09:36 GMT -5
Jeremy Jeffress is going to the Nats for 1.25 million.
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Post by blizzards39 on Feb 22, 2021 12:13:27 GMT -5
Jeremy Jeffress is going to the Nats for 1.25 million. Plus incentives. But notice it in a Minor league deal. From here on probably what the Sox should be looking at. Keep the payrole flexibility
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 22, 2021 12:40:16 GMT -5
Jeremy Jeffress is going to the Nats for 1.25 million. Plus incentives. But notice it in a Minor league deal. From here on probably what the Sox should be looking at. Keep the payrole flexibility At this point, most deals are going to be minor league ones, but with opt-outs, save for a few guys like JBJ, Porcello, Odorizzi, and a few others. I doubt Jeffress is going to Triple-A - he's probably got an opt-out for the end of camp if he's not going to make the MLB club.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Feb 22, 2021 16:03:00 GMT -5
Not a great look for the Mariners... And Mather resigned.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Feb 22, 2021 19:12:31 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on Feb 22, 2021 19:34:20 GMT -5
Fun fact: Andruw Jones accumulated more fWAR after the age of 33 (3.2) than Pujols has (2.6).
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Post by vermontsox1 on Feb 22, 2021 20:25:12 GMT -5
Sounds like that may have been a premature announcement...
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Post by blizzards39 on Feb 23, 2021 13:14:53 GMT -5
Moreland to As. 2.25M$ guarantee.
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Post by redsox3in10 on Feb 23, 2021 13:49:30 GMT -5
Moreland to As. 2.25M$ guarantee. Damn.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Feb 23, 2021 14:20:59 GMT -5
Blast from the past.
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Post by manfred on Feb 23, 2021 14:36:57 GMT -5
Holy cow, I’d love to see him come back. I don’t know anything about him as a person, but he has had a wild career... and coming back after 4 years off would cap it. I feel like more than once his fastball has dropped to mid-80s then bounced back miraculously.
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Post by geostorm on Feb 24, 2021 13:01:59 GMT -5
Angels manager Joe Maddon stated Wednesday that he thinks Ty Buttrey has the potential to be one of the best relievers "in the American League and in baseball." That is high praise from the Angels skipper. Buttrey is coming off a rough 2020 campaign in which he held a 5.81 ERA and 1.40 WHIP over 26 1/3 innings. However, the 27-year-old has shown flashes in the past of being an effective high leverage relief pitcher, posting an 11.0 K/9 and 10.5 K/9 over the two previous seasons. Impressive numbers for a groundball pitcher who has shown the ability to limit the long ball. Buttrey will work in a set-up role behind Angels' closer Raisel Iglesias this season.
SOURCE: J.P. Hoornstra on Twitter Feb 24, 2021, 11:43 AM ET
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