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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 30, 2023 17:54:12 GMT -5
I like this in theory, love it if it is the first step to bringing Montgomery in. I'd be shocked if this move is not at least related to an acquisition which centers around starting pitching and I'm hoping it's Montgomery. Sign him and then this offseason is a success (at least a mild one) but I get the feeling there still maybe another move or two afterward as well.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 30, 2023 9:45:09 GMT -5
Hidden benefit is it takes the Sox out of the "desperate" market as they approach other FA pitchers. That, in itself, may reduce their price by $20 mil, or in trade capital. Its why nearly every off season the majority of times teams sign their pawn acquisitions first before moving onto the other targets. It gives some of the perceived leverage back to the clubs.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 29, 2023 15:59:17 GMT -5
List of the top 3 remaining position player free agents by fangraphs WAR projection: Matt Chapman - 2.6 Cody Bellinger - 2.4 Amed Rosario - 2.3 So... Rosario, anyone?
Anyone think they would grab Chapman and move Devers to LF? Anyone think Devers would accept a move to LF (or 2nd)? After seeing Mookie's transition back to the infield, I'm also stubbornly continuing to advocate moving Duran back to 2nd where he played for most of his life, throw Rafaela in CF where he's plus, if not plus-plus and fill in the other blanks with free agents. So, yeah, it's Christmas week, I've had a lot of sugar and carbs and I'm thinking outside of the box(ing day). I don't see the first point ever happening however the second one with Duran moving to second-base and sticking Rafaela in center is an intriguing one. If Durran is even average there, it solves a lack of second base depth and OF surplus at the same time and still allows Yoshida to be the DH
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 23, 2023 13:36:22 GMT -5
So does that mean they didn't make a competitive offer? Why can reporters not be clear about this? Or am I missing something?
I might be off but it reads to me like the same stuff fans are saying on Twitter. Basically saying if the Red Sox were serious they would have offered way more than other teams. When a teams rep takes a hit or already has one and playing there is not as desirable as it once was, or so it appears to be the case here to me, then you have to do an overpay to land at least one or two stars. I've seen it happen with many franchises over the years.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 22, 2023 22:39:25 GMT -5
Teoscars OPS away from seattle was much better on the road compared to home. I really think seattle’s stadium killed him and he’ll mash in fenway. Also probably allows them to trade one of the young outfielders if need be. Yeah, there was another player with Seattle I advocated trading about 9 months before they actually did. I gave over 20 reasons why he'd be great at Fenway as opposed to the park which might as well as have been designed to expose his weaknesses and take away from his strength. Over on SoSH I was ridiculed for the idea, within a calendar year that player finished in the top 10 in the MVP race while with the Red Sox. That player, Adrian Beltre. The only other person who agreed and made similar points is here on this board. He was one player they eventually let walk, (mistake there) and he just continued on with his HOF career. I don't know alot about Teoscars but Seattle's park is where offense can go to die for many players.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 21, 2023 18:40:38 GMT -5
Might be a top 2 team in the east even without Tatum Way off, I'd put them at as a top 3 team. . Seriously somewhere between #2 & #4. One thing I like is some of the complaints here acknowledge that the talent alone may be enough to overcome some of the potential issues. Maybe I'm changing the nuances of what was actually said but at least in my interpretation, I think they maybe right. That said I'm still not sure the team has any issues but at best I think even that is open to debate. They maybe right still to early and hard to tell if this team is championship level or still a rung below that. I'm going all in knowing I may be wrong.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 20, 2023 23:12:52 GMT -5
The offense has been fantastic even without Tatum or Hortford. If the 3's were Purple, Prince would be balling against Charlie Murphy and raining down threes. 28 for both team tied th all-time record in an NBA half.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 20, 2023 21:59:36 GMT -5
The only way the Warriors won was a perfect storm. Missing the Unicorn and Tatum was not 100% after rolling the ankle and a boatload of missed wide-open shots. We play them in a series and all things being equal I'd bet the house the Celts dominate. Several players shot WAY below their season standards, had Horford, Tatum and Hauser simply hit one of their many open 3 pt shots, the Warriors would not have come out to play. The many many missed lay-ups was not due to Golden state defense. Can you dig that? Good luck Warriors making the playoffs.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 17, 2023 19:57:47 GMT -5
that was absolutely putrid officiating. Someone in the league office should be docking the pay of those clowns. They are not transparent about such matters. A lack of transparency one way or other inevitably leads to corruption. It always has and always will.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 16, 2023 22:55:57 GMT -5
So either the refs are grossly incompetent or the league is up to shenanigans. If your defense is to defend that, it's merely incompetence, then what is the business with the coffers this league has doing employing grossly incompetent refs and never firing any of them actually doing? Logic forces you to go in another direction, make even a bad argument defending its simply mere incompetence.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 16, 2023 21:02:33 GMT -5
That is my guess as well. $300 million is a wild number to give YY, and the teams they're competing with would all be adding 9 figure luxury tax charges on top of it It is wild and honestly a month ago I'd have said no dang way should they spend that on a dude who never made one pitch in the MLB but some excellent points made about his age and that in a few years who knows what contracts will look like and I'm now all in on the hopes they reel in YY. He moves the needle off the field and hopefully on the field. He just makes sense. I agree. His signing alone does not make us contenders but it goes along way towards it and more importantly it's a sign to the league that we are back. The team has lost its luster and sometimes you have to overpay for at least one deal to attract other players and make them take you more seriously. Signing YY I think would do that. That said I'd really like to not only sign YY but another starter that considered at least a #3 or better type pitcher. Maybe sign a second baseman to a one year deal like Merrifield, call it an off season.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 16, 2023 9:24:28 GMT -5
After a crazy long week at work seemingly since November began and 2 beers in me, I fell asleep while watching the B's. I'm watching the recorded C's game this morning and wow. The J's playing like truly elite superstars attacking the rim hard and with the team missing both its starting centers and their backup center too. The bench including a few I've barely seen showing they actually can play is great to see. Houser is not merely a 3 and D either. Great game. The Celtics are often getting the best from other teams right now too and more often than not it just doesn't matter. They should and need to win it all this year. All to often you hear Championship or bust from fans when the team is merely a contender, well we are not a contender but the front runner to win it all. Championship or bust this year.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 16, 2023 9:04:06 GMT -5
Overall the goalies have been leaned on a little to much, anyone could have predicted this before the year began. Do we need a true first line center? Do we trade Ulmark? Again both are things I, and many others predicted as a need before the season began. I'm still not convinced where there yet but I do think it should be on everyones radar. I don’t think there’s a chance in hell they trade Ullmark this season. Could see the offseason though. Geekie was a beast last night Last year I thought even the idea of trading Ullmark was foolish. But during the off-season when you lose your top 2 centers the idea that the offense would suffer was a common sense one. They did not have a lot of cap space to land a free agent either so they were going to have to lean on the D to make it happen this year. They've done well and the defense is the reason as they are arguably the best defensive team in the league and the goals against back that up. The goals for tell a different story, a story of mediocrity right in the middle of the pack. That right there is not enough reason however their goalie in Providence is having a good year with a 2.46 GAA and a .918 SV% in Michael Dipietro and appears ready to be a good back-up goalie in the NHL. Ullmark is on the third year of his four year contract and coming of a deserving Vezina award from last year. A season in which Swayman was the better goalie from December on and has been the better goalie this season too. Ullmark's value may be at a peak and is greater to another team than it is to the Bruins and that's pretty valuable too. I still think they need to wait more to assess if they do indeed need a true #1 center on the team, there is no rush to do so but they have an expendable piece to acquire one.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 13, 2023 23:11:49 GMT -5
Didn’t deserve to win. Swayman was very good though. Got a point. Overall the goalies have been leaned on a little to much, anyone could have predicted this before the year began. Do we need a true first line center? Do we trade Ulmark? Again both are things I, and many others predicted as a need before the season began. I'm still not convinced where there yet but I do think it should be on everyones radar.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 12, 2023 20:25:01 GMT -5
D.(Lite) White rocking his greatest hit, 'I could shoot with any other'keeping us in the game. Interesting to see if Cleveland fades in the third quarter after back to back nights or the Celtics can have back to back good third quarters.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 10, 2023 17:20:00 GMT -5
By time zone, that's: Eastern: 28 Central: 12 Pacific: 17 I assume the point you are trying to make is that players are more willing to go east, but there's just more teams:
Teams by time zone: Eastern: 16 Central: 8 Pacific: 7 So 1.75 players per team in the East, 1.5 in the Central, and 2.4 in the Pacific. The main takeaway is that none of us really know what he's thinking. And the real answer about time zones is inconclusive. The data above would suggest a slight west coast bias, but the difference isn't huge. So I wouldn't be out there saying time zones don't matter, but I also would say they are only a part of the decision - location, playing opportunity, winning, and dollars all likely contribute. The issue was about time zones and ease of talking to family etc. He listed the players and it was decisively more in the ETZ than PTZ, the amount of teams on the East Coast verse West Coast is NOt a part of the equation as the players were all in effect free agents. Your inserting additional criteria that does not below in the debate. I agree with the second part of your response. Many thing we read from writers is contrived anyway as they don't know what to say and or make up garbage for filler. He's a free agent, it's up to him and the coast will have less of an influence than the actual teams and his comfort level with those teams.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 8, 2023 21:58:46 GMT -5
NBA showing off it sketchyness ball handling skills in full effect.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 8, 2023 20:43:30 GMT -5
How active can they be realistically? They’ve got a trade exception and some picks left still, they can probably do some stuff They don't even need a top 6 roster player, seriously what they could use is merely the 7th or even perhaps even their 8th best player on the roster and I think that's an aggressive take too but also the correct one. Am I wrong?, present your take! If you believe that to be true, then of course their is a lot of moves the Celtics can make as that market is wide open compared to finding a final fifth piece to start for the team, etc. They could use a niche player, 3&D etc. fine tune their search even more to their limited roster weaknesses. Kudos to Brad Stephens. Danny built a very good roster but Stephens just maybe a better GM then Danny and that's in no way a knock on Danny either.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 7, 2023 21:44:54 GMT -5
You are being to literal. We are not competing for fourth place. Of course, no one is competing for fourth place. But every team in the division is better positioned than the Red Sox are currently. Yankees were the closest team we could catch and they've added Verdugo and one of the five best hitters in the game, already. Besides missing the point, your making your point at an early snap shot in the off-season. You might as well say the sky is falling. For Pete's sake at least let the off-season play out before declaring the sky is falling.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 7, 2023 21:15:58 GMT -5
The Refs suck, nuf said.
Sure the B's were bad in the first but even the B's telecsast went over many blown calls all one way. WTF.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 7, 2023 20:51:27 GMT -5
Again who really cares. I hate the Yankees but it’s not 1999 Yankees are not who we are chasing. Not yet at least. The Yankees are the team that finished directly ahead of the Sox in the standings last year. The Sox are ABSOLUTELY chasing them. You are being to literal. We are not competing for fourth place.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 6, 2023 23:52:41 GMT -5
The Yankees always have bottom half farm system but always somehow have the pieces to pull off trades. Soto, Verdugo, Gallo, Montas, Benintendi all recent. And they give up quantity in these deals It's like the league facilitates the biggest markets. The better they do they better off they all are. I believe the Twins were one of the Yankmees farm teams for a long time, always bailing them out.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 4, 2023 22:21:18 GMT -5
Probably influenced by them dropping 155 on 20 3’s against them a few weeks ago Yeah that was an exception. I really don't have a ton of faith in Mazzulla. Brian Barrett had a great interview with a beat reporter for Indiana who said Indiana's best hope is for Boston to try and replicate the three point shooting from their first matchup. Wouldn't it be equally right to say this was the exception? Tip you cap and move on.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 4, 2023 21:32:53 GMT -5
Anyone else notice that knee grab and hopping around by White? I did but he appears fine, very entertaining game.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Dec 1, 2023 23:50:21 GMT -5
CDJ this is not directed at you obviously. There is mounting evidence against the integrity of the league and also now with gambling promoted every other commercial where even the ostriches can't be so cocky in their stance, that something in the state of Denmark is rotten. WTF. Regardless they have 2 choices the league is not straight or the officiating is so bad they may as well be crooked. To me if you even debate that, it is a litmus test, for whether I want to even engage you in a conversation. Disagree and my best course of action is just to agree with you. If you feel compelled to argue remember that I truly don't want to be right and you obviously need to be right otherwise you would not feel compelled to engage in the debate. I've said my two cents and moving on.
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