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Post by geostorm on Jan 4, 2023 15:13:35 GMT -5
view.mail.mlblists.com/messages/1672791754783164b3519e16d/raw"No. 1 Prospect at End of the Year I'll double down on Holliday, who gives the Orioles a third superstar of the future to go with Adley Rutschman and Henderson. If it's not Holliday, shortstop still is a good bet with other options such as Marcelo Mayer (Red Sox) and Jordan Lawlar (D-backs). Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio, the biggest breakout player of 2022, is another to watch."
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Post by geostorm on Jan 2, 2023 14:31:20 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jan 2, 2023 9:58:43 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jan 1, 2023 19:45:44 GMT -5
Was it anticipated, his committing to participate in the WBC?
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Post by geostorm on Dec 31, 2022 14:19:50 GMT -5
If the gap between Devers' ask and the Sox's valuation can't be narrowed and compromised on, then I'd do this in an instant. RedSoxStats made a comment awhile back about packing all the (inevitable?) [excrement] sandwiches into one offseason to pull all the bandaids off at once, and I heartily agree. I'd also sign Baty to a long extension immediately following the 2023 season as long as he holds his own at an adequate level. I'm of this mindset as well. This offseason has been a bit of a gut punch mostly from losing Xandy. In a way I'd rather take another gut punch now and deal Devers and begin the healing so to speak than to go through this same exact thing a year from now with Rafi. Rip the band-aid off and get it over with so we can begin to move on either way. I don't want to sit here next offseason listening to how much a priority Rafi is only to hear he inevitably signed some mega deal and the Red Sox weren't even in the top few bidders. Sign him or at least make a real attempt to do so now or trade him since I don't want to see him leave for a crummy draft pick. Agree, unfortunately...the "tribal" emotional connection, that put the "fan" in fanatic, seems much less a consideration, when it comes to keeping even the elite of the band together...
...lose a young icon in the making, in Betts, Feb 2020, and, less than a month later 20yr icon TB12, I'd not be surprised both these two & other ownership groups, were probably thankful for that greasing of the emotional skids, allowing subsequent band aid ripping would hurt, but, seaming not as bad?
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Post by geostorm on Dec 30, 2022 18:44:30 GMT -5
Oddball song I always liked and usually play multiple times consecutively: Question.. Does anybody know what the expression "Jersey Girl" means ? I'm assuming a transgender but I'm not sure. Love the Wilburys' abbreviated catalog - esp like this one
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Post by geostorm on Dec 30, 2022 18:28:08 GMT -5
Ranking SRV ahead of Clapton, Page, and Beck is, er, idiosyncratic. But to each his own! My favorites are not guitar gods... mostly sloppy punks. SRV moves me like no one else. I don't have measurements of how far I'm moved. And I fully understand that some will call me crazy for it. And Led Zeppelin is the best band of all time.I actually pulled a ticket, in the international lottery set up, for the Ahmet Ertugen Tribute charity concert at London's O2 Arena, back in 2007, with Jason Bonham on drums.
Sadly, though I had family in London at the time, and initially planned to go, ended up selling the ticket, thinking I'd catch them, stateside, with the proceeds, because, "what are the chance's it's a one-off?!"
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Post by geostorm on Dec 30, 2022 13:32:59 GMT -5
in the run up to New Years', during the Eve, or, into 2023 and beyond, find time for this chill "Ride", with Boney James & friends, on Spotify, Amazon, or, an alt vehicle of your choice!
(Here, nicely curated) -
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Post by geostorm on Dec 29, 2022 12:22:06 GMT -5
www.mlb.com/news/prospect-vs-prospect-comparisons-pipeline-inbox?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage"Anthony Volpe vs. Marcelo Mayer vs. Jordan Lawlar -- @samlindauer After Henderson, Anthony Volpe (No. 5, Yankees), Marcelo Mayer (No. 7, Red Sox) and Jordan Lawlar (No. 12, D-backs) are the three highest-rated shortstops on our end-of-season Top 100 Prospects list. Volpe is coming off the first 20-homer, 50-steal season in the Minors since Andruw Jones in 1995; Mayer is the best defender and likely the best pure hitter of the trio; and Lawlar has the best combination of power and speed and also has advanced faster. I'll stick with the order on the Top 100 -- though I might take Orioles shortstop Jackson Holliday, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 Draft, over all three of them."
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Post by geostorm on Dec 29, 2022 0:57:28 GMT -5
Speaking of...was there not a Bloom quote about getting aggressive in the trade market? (or was it more "the possibility" and/or suggesting it as an available option, in the post X presser?)
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Post by geostorm on Dec 29, 2022 0:38:22 GMT -5
I guess Rojas is more of a possibility than I had thought given that the Fish just signed Segura making Rojas expendable. Can't say it excites me though. Rojas can't hit his way out of a paper bag. He's a terrible offensive player. I guess his glove is what makes him a regular, but we're talking a #9 hitter/replacement level offensive player. I get that he's probably really good defensively but wow, I wish there was a better option. I'd rather they keep their assets and simply sign Andrus or Iglesias depending upon if they really think Story can handle SS at this point. I'd be okay w/Andrus, and, his projected value here < JI, and, preferring he play SS regularly. keeping Story @ 2B, for the stability for both the player & team, given "the next" SS, is anticipated to be a season or two away.
See he's also a Boras client; I'd not mind a 1yr + some type of '24 team option
"That leaves the free agency option and the obvious two answers here are Elvis Andrus and José Iglesias. Both of them are basically tied for being the best available shortstops left on the free agency market and they’re absolutely a couple of tiers below the marquee signings. Also, no matter who you get when it comes to these two, it’s pretty clear that you’re signing them for their glove and not their bat — Andrus has only had two full seasons where he cleared the league average mark of 100 wRC+ (109 in 2016 and 105 in 2017) and Iglesias has only done it once in a season where he played more than 100 games (102 wRC+ in 2013).
Elvis Andrus can still play defense at a very solid level (3 OAA last season put him in the 84th percentile of all qualified defenders) and José Iglesias can get it done with the glove as well. I’d imagine that either one of them would serve as a defensive upgrade over Grissom, whose defensive capabilities are the main reason as to why he’s not really being projected to become elite at the position."
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Post by geostorm on Dec 28, 2022 14:31:21 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 28, 2022 14:06:38 GMT -5
For what it’s worth, as we begin the Christmas season and a 2023 season, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and here is to a “live glass full” new year. Peace. And Merry Christmas from the Philippines (it's the 25th now). Hoping we all get our real Christmas wish, another title. (Phil!...best to you and yours, on the other side of the world, rolling into the New Year & beyond!...you've me thinking of a sis in law's pancit...lumpia...crispy pata...embutido (sp?)...breakfast/spam fried rice!!)
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Post by geostorm on Dec 27, 2022 15:55:11 GMT -5
Just looking through what $4 million buys you in the free agent starting pitcher market, and the options last year in the $3-5.5 million reange were:
Garrett Richards Matthew Boyd Rich Hill Dylan Bundy Martin Perez Chris Archer Johnny Cueto Danny Duffy Chad Kuhl Vince Velazquez
A few of these guys worked out nicely; most did not. But practically speaking, the lesson here is that the alternative to "guy who has been injured the last couple years" is "guy who has sucked for the last several years." Or Rich Hill. (By the way, they should re-sign Rich Hill.)
...what would be a reasonable 1yr deal for Cueto? (though prefer return of one of Eovaldi or Wacha) comparable to Kluber?
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Dec 26, 2022 20:56:33 GMT -5
Post by geostorm on Dec 26, 2022 20:56:33 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 23, 2022 6:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 19, 2022 17:40:47 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 19, 2022 14:59:10 GMT -5
Speier says his understanding is it's $10.85M this year, and if he opts out the $4M difference gets added to the 2024 bill. Update here: Speier now says he thinks it is $15M year one and if he opts in it's $7M year two, but is still double checking this. Apparently in the CBA a buy-out worth >50% of an option means the second year is considered non-guaranteed.
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Post by geostorm on Dec 19, 2022 8:35:09 GMT -5
"The Mets are spending heavily because owner Steve Cohen is pushing general manager Billy Eppler. The Padres keep adding stars because owner Peter Seidler empowers GM A.J. Preller. The Yankees’ Hal Steinbrenner extended himself to keep Aaron Judge. Even the Cubs’ Tom “Losses of Biblical Proportions” Ricketts awakened from a long slumber to authorize a $177 million agreement Saturday with shortstop Dansby Swanson.
The Red Sox under owners John Henry, Tom Werner and Co.? They’ve failed to react to a changing marketplace, one in which stars are getting decade-long deals. Dating back to Mookie Betts, the Sox owners have been averse to such contracts. They will need to adjust their philosophy to compete for top talent, including their own third baseman, Rafael Devers. Otherwise, they will need to trust Bloom to thread the needle, which he has not been successful at doing."
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Post by geostorm on Dec 17, 2022 6:41:58 GMT -5
Hopefully, they have a decent RH backup 1B in mind. The last I knew, Casas had some knee issues in the Winter League. He's had some injury issues previously and I don't want to see Dalbec back at first base. We saw how 1B looked this past season. To me, Dalbec has looked better at 3B than 1B. To your point, Hosmer may have been redundant but a free veteran player that could have been a safety net for spring. I have to assume they have a decent backup 1B in the works. Hosmer probably would have been the starting DH against RHP for this team, so I'm interested how this is all going to shake out. If Dalbec is expected to play 1B/3B, that makes a lot of sense positionally (Wong C, Dalbec 1B/3B Arroyo 2B/SS & occasional 1B/3B/OF, Reysnyder OF), but it would leave us with a completely right-handed bench against RHP. That's not ideal; best case we'd have some sort of left-handed middle infielder so we'd have at a mix of RH and LH options at all positions and also have a LH bench bat. I'm not sure who that would be, but I suppose one possibility could be Enmanuel Valdez. We still do need to add a middle IF of some sort to the roster, LHH or no.
If the season started today, the starting DH would probably now be Yoshida. Refsnyder would be forced into an everyday RF role while a guy like Duran would fill out the bench as the fourth OF. I don't think there's a chance that's the plan; otherwise you just keep Hosmer. One option would be signing a corner IF/DH type that would be enough of an upgrade play Verdugo in RF and Yoshida in LF (e.g. Justin Turner). I don't think that's a good alignment, though. I hate the idea of signing another likely defensive liability for the privilege of having poor defenders at both OF corners. I think a much better option would be trading for a proper RF (e.g. Max Kepler), since that would let Verdugo stay in LF and let Yoshida DH most of the time. That's a big upgrade defensively and also likely gives us a similarly good lineup.
At any rate, I'm excited to see how it goes. I'm excited to see Mills throw too. Having two Schreibers would be outrageous.
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Post by geostorm on Dec 16, 2022 20:22:28 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 16, 2022 17:10:27 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 16, 2022 17:02:04 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 16, 2022 8:14:14 GMT -5
Rodon to the MFYs ... I still hate them and remember it every day. Hope his arm blows up two innings into his Yankees experience. In the last 6 years, in his age 24-29 seasons, Rodon averaged 18 starts. I don't think I'd bet $162m that he'll almost double that in his age 30-35 seasons. Random observation/thought - what Rodon was valued at, in this market, based on this signing, is about what Sox thought X's value was to them, in same market, their reported offer, near about same length and dollar amount?
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Post by geostorm on Dec 11, 2022 8:19:06 GMT -5
"There wasn’t any doubt that owner Steve Cohen was prepared to keep spending in order to keep his 101-game winning team in line to be World Series contenders. However, the spending spree has just continued to reach record levels, as Roster Resource projects the Mets for a 2023 payroll of roughly $334.68MM, and a luxury tax number of just over $349.5MM. This not only dwarfs the $233MM Competitive Balance Tax threshold, it even soars past the fourth and highest ($293MM) tier of the CBT. The fourth tier was instituted in the last collective bargaining agreement as a further penalty for excessive spending, and was unofficially nicknamed the “Steve Cohen Tax” given how the owner made no secret of his intentions to heavily increase payroll. Since this is the Mets’ second consecutive year of tax overage, they’ll face a two-time repeater penalty, as well as a 90 percent overage tax on any dollar spent beyond the $233MM mark. This works out to around $104.85MM in tax penalty — according to Fangraphs, 11 teams currently aren’t slated to spend more than $104.85MM on their entire 2023 payrolls."
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