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Post by grandsalami on Mar 7, 2024 10:19:17 GMT -5
Can you retroactively insure a pitcher's expensive contract...? (Asking for a FO I follow.) Iirc they rarely have insure contacts. Especially for players who rarely had any injury risk at the time
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 6, 2024 16:40:12 GMT -5
After another good year his price would go way up. This is a stupid take all around, but that’s par for the course. And if he underachieves this year?? I have no issue waiting on this extension. I don’t see any rush. I also haven’t been overly impressed with Bello overall. He’s had some moments, for sure, but is he even a #2 type? Add in his injury history and his build and I’m a bit apprehensive long-term. Ok. And if he has a cy young season the price sky rockets. And then the mouth breathers on sports talk radio yell and scream the sox are cheap and missed a chance to extend him
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 21:39:52 GMT -5
This is actually kind of wild. And may be why Henry is hesitant to spend big $$$ on FA pitching
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 15:58:34 GMT -5
they already have a knockoff NY, and Egypt, I guess the Land down under was the next place for vegas to copy lol
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 15:39:12 GMT -5
I guess the A's are moving to Australia?
pretty much a blatant clone of the Sydney Opera House
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 15:07:34 GMT -5
Is this an injury that can just pop up whenever or did the Red Sox miss something in the physical (or just not care enough)? It seems odd this kind of injury would pop up st the very beginning of March after signing as a free agent. Injuries can just happen... IIRC the last few years there was a large rise in arm injuries league-wide for pitchers. And the sox are pretty good at catching these things during physicals... See Lackey and Napoli who had their deals altered due to stuff discovered during the psychical
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 11:14:54 GMT -5
I feel like the sox sold their soul for the historic 2018 season... No other way to explain this historical levels of terrible luck (injuries) since
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 10:43:34 GMT -5
Innings! The Red Sox need SP innings! Thats why they signed Lucas.. because he could eat innings....
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 5, 2024 10:34:44 GMT -5
Also shows that even durability is no guarantee... Lucas Giolito rarely missed any extended time in his career. This was not signing someone with a rap sheet like list of injury history
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 26, 2024 19:43:21 GMT -5
Until Cotillo is actually wrong on something that matters this off-season, his articles should be taken as gospel. He still deserves an apology thread for the ridiculous comments that have been thrown his way the last few months. Sorry but if you can’t see the obvious slant here, then you’re just as blinded by whatever’s gotten to him as well, even if he is reporting accurately. yup..
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 26, 2024 18:14:53 GMT -5
All of the leaks to Cotillo this offseason just absolutely reek of agents trying to gin up leverage. Are we seriously going to complain about the Sox not giving more money to random NRI guys? Why is it that the Red Sox are the frustrating ones for not giving in to the demands of the agent here? yah, Payroll stuff notwithstanding, all of his reporting this offseason reaks of someone with an axe to grind... I mean its highly likely Garrett Cooper chose MIA over us because of Playing time and not money..
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 26, 2024 18:13:32 GMT -5
So they're basically the Cleveland Red Sox, now? yah, I still feel like Chris has somewhat of an axe to grind here...
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 23, 2024 12:09:02 GMT -5
"It was entirely possible, and for a reasonable price. You can cry now." then goes on to list six (6) straight players making at least a $20m+ AAV in 2024. How the hell does he still have a job It's absolutely ridiculous which is to be expected by Tomase but even if you want to entertain the thought, why the heck would we want JD Martinez at DH and Schwarber in LF? Feel like you'd want Schwarber at DH and I don't know Verdugo or Duran/Abreu in LF. Edit: I don't know why I clicked on the stupid article, couldn't help myself but he's just saying that oh what if Xander signed for 6/150 and that they gave Martinez 1/10 in his mythical scenario. Sure maybe it's semi plausible in MLB the Show but his rotation consists of Eovaldi, Giolito, Bello, Whitlock and Pivetta which is basically what we're looking at right now minus Eovaldi and somehow he comes to a conclusion that the total payroll would be $252M. I guess just glossing over the fact that they'd still be on the hook for Sale's money. and I want a pony... Dude is a paid to be a "reporter" not some dude on a random blog.... he gives actual journalists a bad name
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 23, 2024 11:49:46 GMT -5
"It was entirely possible, and for a reasonable price. You can cry now." then goes on to list six (6) straight players making at least a $20m+ AAV in 2024.
How the hell does he still have a job
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 20, 2024 15:18:39 GMT -5
Boy, good thing the free agency thread got shut down; now the same excruciating ownership/spending/PR conversation can flourish in every other thread. at this point every game thread will turn into this....
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 20, 2024 10:50:16 GMT -5
.."after meeting for three hours Dec. 14 with Yamamoto and his agents, and making a presentation that featured a video appearance by Bryce Harper, the Phillies offered more money than any team, according to multiple industry sources. That includes the Dodgers, who won the Yamamoto auction with a 12-year, $325 million bid that stands as the largest guarantee for any pitcher ever." www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-yoshinobu-yamamoto-offer-middleton-free-agency-20240220.html Pretty clear that Yamamoto was going to the Dodgers no matter what
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 20, 2024 10:49:39 GMT -5
This is a small point, but why exactly is John Henry wearing an "official" credential lanyard - is there a concern some security dude at Fort Myers is going to mistake him for some other 74 year old man walking around the field? uh... yes...... it would also be malpractice from a security standpoint to not have people wear that...
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 17, 2024 12:43:11 GMT -5
Thomase is a hack and take anything he says with a grain of salt He didn't say anything that was inaccurate. Just because you dont like it when ownership gets criticized doesn't mean that given their situation that they should be immune to criticism. The Red Sox have been bad 3 of the last 4 years and don't look markedly better in 2024 and appear to be holding off on any big impactful moves until the Big 3 are ready which could be another year or two. What do you really expect people to say? Its thomas. If he said it was sunny outside i wouldn’t trust him and would go verify myself. He has a long track record of journalism malpractice. So pardon me if i dont trust him.
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 17, 2024 12:41:33 GMT -5
“Actual sox fans”
Good grief sox twitter is a toxic as Chernobyl
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 17, 2024 12:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 17, 2024 11:47:31 GMT -5
Thomase is a hack and take anything he says with a grain of salt
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 15, 2024 20:31:19 GMT -5
I don’t understand why the mods keep closing/deleting Free Agency threads while 5 of the top 10 free agents are still available and free agency is very much ongoing. Don’t think it belongs in non-Red Sox, because there’s still a chance we sign one of them. Right? We went from "It's still early" to "that's all folks" real quick Because everyone was repeating the same things over and over and over again
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 15, 2024 17:30:25 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 15, 2024 10:32:13 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Feb 14, 2024 10:20:20 GMT -5
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