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Post by borisman on Dec 9, 2016 7:45:56 GMT -5
I'm 99% sure he was being tongue-in-cheek, but wouldn't that be awesome...one more go-around? I wouldn't a Pedro or Clemens like return where he comes back midseason. As soon as Hanley tears a hamstring in June Papi will be back
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Post by borisman on Dec 7, 2016 12:33:35 GMT -5
I think philsbosoxfan invented the italics. I also found it hilarious that "sarcasmo" was the only one that clicked "like" on that italics post.
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Post by borisman on Dec 7, 2016 6:53:30 GMT -5
A couple of thoughts. I might be in the minority but honestly I would have preferred the Sox deal JBJ instead of Moncada in the Sale deal. I think the Red Sox could have gotten a corner OF somewhere to at least platoon with Young. I think Moncada would have been either the 3b or even an OF by the end of the year. I was intrigued by the idea of a Benintendi/Betts/Moncada outfield down the road (with Devers at 3b). I like the fact that Moncada could have been under the Red Sox' control thru the 2023 season and I think he has a higher ceiling than JBJ. The other thought I had is that the Red Sox better go all out in the international market this upcoming season. They really, really need to replenish their system (and I'm hoping that dealing Drew Pomeranz and Clay Buchholz also aids the cause). Of course with the rules change, I imagine there will be a number of clubs who'll go crazy in the international market, so the Sox would have a lot of competition. Has DD ever done that? We'll see what, if anything, other teams will offer for the (somewhat) surplus of SP we have (Pomeranz, ERod, Buch). Either of them could fetch us prospects. DD did say they'd listen to any calls about their SP depth.
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 17:35:59 GMT -5
Sale led the league in HBP last 2 years. He'll get acquainted with Machado real soon. 6 CG as well last year. What will Farrell do besides a sigh of relief!
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 14:08:58 GMT -5
We are still missing a big power bat in the middle of the line-up. Seriously, there is not much of a substitute available if the Sox want to keep under the luxury tax.
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 13:46:19 GMT -5
Time to beg Ortiz to come back for one more year? Gonna have gaping holes at DH and third I'm suggesting a part-time gig at $20 mil, with a team option for full-time gig come playoffs.
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 13:44:44 GMT -5
Ken Rosenthal @ken_Rosenthal 2m2 minutes ago BREAKING: Sale to #RedSox. Moncada, Kopech and two other prospects to #WhiteSox. jmei edit: Bob Nightengale ✔ @bnightengale The #WhiteSox will also acquire Basabe and V. Diaz from #RedSox Ugh! They still have to pay Sale in a couple of years (along with the OF beasts....Xander is another (Boras) story) and I highly doubt Price opts out after 2018. Don't like the trade but at least we upgraded the starting rotation significantly. I would have preferred putting Pomeranz in the deal instead of Kopech. Hopefully, we can trade Pomeranz back to San Diego for Neo.
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 12:45:36 GMT -5
This is a forum and people post their opinions. Just because you like it or want to wait and see that's fine also. We don't need to calm down when DD has a history of trading the top prospects so getting another Pomeranz for a Moncada will not sit well.
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Post by borisman on Dec 6, 2016 12:32:29 GMT -5
This trade gives me a great deal of confidence that another trade is coming.Shaw and Dubon were the closest players the Red Sox had to replacing Ortiz and Hill (although Dubon wasnt ready yet). There's no fallback plan left, so now it's time to wait for the other shoe to drop.... Yeah, that other shoe may come in the form of a Salvatore Ferragamo brand (a Moncada, Devers, Kopech and/or Groome). What's not to like.I think we got another Carson Smith in this deal.
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Post by borisman on Nov 22, 2016 16:38:32 GMT -5
It seems like everyone likes the 26 man roster, but I don't get it. Won't this simply move all teams from a 7 man bullpen to an 8 man bullpen? The biggest problem with how the game is played currently is that the games are too long. Adding another bullpen arm will push for more pitcher changes which will increase the game length even further. Aside from employing one more person at an MLB salary and making roster management slightly easier (and less skillful), what is the benefit? It's incredibly useful to have an extra roster spot when a team is in the middle of a 28 game stretch with no days off. This isn't like the 70s and 80s when every team had 3 or 4 Bob Stanley types who threw glorified batting practice for 2-3 innings at a time. Relief pitchers are 100% effort on every pitch now and tire a lot quicker. In '83 Stanley pitched 64 games, finishing 53 of them. Had 33 saves. His inning total was 145.1 and he had 18 decisions (8-10). That's 2.1 ip/appearance. His innings plummeted the next couple of years. I think he threw one too many glorified batting practices. And jimed didn't even have to look up those stats.
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Post by borisman on Nov 22, 2016 8:46:58 GMT -5
I'm a guy that believes in stats and history, not hype and prospect rankings! Almost everyone on here thinks the chances that Espinoza is a TOR starter is really really high. Looking at the data of past players like him and what he has done so far, I would say he has a 25% chance of being a TOR starter, 50% chance of being a decent starter and some where around 60-75% chance of being a back end starter/ reliever. Heck those numbers might be a little high. I would like to see someone make the chase that he has a lot more than a 25% chance of being a TOR starter right now. Do I want to trade Devers? No, I think his ratings are high, I don't think he's the 7th best prospect in Baseball like Keith Law, but I still see him as a for sure top 50 guy, probably closer to top 30. I believe in Devers a lot more than Margot. We would have to get awesome value for Devers to trade him, I currently don't think he's an untouchable though, but he's getting close. We aren't trading for Sale now, my point was the Pomeranz deal was made so we didn't have to trade for a Sale. You might be ok with Clay, but I want to trade him! His up and down antics have worn me down over the years. If you wanna blame anyone for Sox losing Espinoza blame Clay, because his crap 3/4 of a season is why we had to make a trade. You call it hype but I'd say there's a lot of consensus regarding Espinoza's potential and his ability to reach a good deal of it. You see a kid with so-so numbers and I see a kid at 18 years old at a level higher than he should be putting up a strong K/BB ratio with some terrible BABIP numbers going against him as others have pointed out. He's the kind of kid I'd gamble on to reach a good deal of his ceiling and if he does he'll be a helluva lot more valuable than the short-term return the Red Sox got. I do blame Clay to an extent and E-Rod's injury and certainly the pinch-running maneuver that backfired on the team with Wright's injury but if the team feels they have to make a detrimental trade, then they shouldn't do the deal. It reminds me of one trading deadline when Theo was talking about the price of milk being way too high and he refused to make a bad deal. This will be a shortsighted deal Dombrowski regrets. As it turned out Buchholz and E-Rod did get things together enough at the end, along with Price and Porcello to give the Red Sox four viable post-season starter options, although it ultimately didn't matter. I would have been very excited to see the trio of Espinoza, Kopech, and Groome making its way toward Fenway, the first trio of young starters since Clemens, Boyd, and Nipper to make its way to Boston. By time those guys are ready, Pomeranz should either be on the way out or gone. I was fine with dealing Margot away even though Kimbrel was a disappointment, but this particular deal was pretty bad. Honestly I'd rather the Sox had not made the deal and then tried to sign injury plagued Rich Hill as a free agent in the off-season. I would substitute Bruce Hurst for Al Nipper and now we're talking. Yeah, I am one who loved Neo and his potential and was not happy with the acquisition of Pomeranz but I understood why it was done. Kopech, Neo and Groome would have made a nice TOR trio but would be tough to match Clemens, Hurst and Oil Can (when he was on for about 3 years). We really don't have anyone else to replace Neo's potential so keeping Kopech and Groome is a must unless we get a Sale or one of the kids from Cleveland (doubtful).
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Post by borisman on Nov 7, 2016 16:22:32 GMT -5
I don't think we have the same definition of a "power bat". We don't really have legit power bats unless we use Mookie and Hanley. I'd like to replace Papi's production. EE will give about that much. I don't want to give him a big contract but let's be realistic of what he'll get. Not saying we have to have him but I think it's needed on this team. Beltran doesn't bring more than 20+ and he's about, oh, 40yo. I'd take him though if EE bidding gets outrageous. He's a decent bat so no biggie if we give him a one year deal.
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Post by borisman on Nov 7, 2016 14:04:46 GMT -5
Let's name some LHH that could be available in a trade, even if we have to overpay? And then ask ourselves if we can just sign EE for 4 years and wait for Moncada to be that LHH with some pop (followed by Devers 2 years from now). I think those are our best alternatives to replacing Papi while keeping the line-up deep. I'm more for getting a stud pitcher and a bullpen arm. I just think that this is the way DD will go. He's already stuck with Farrell with no Lovullo as an option if Sox start slow so he may play it slow until the trade deadline and see how the team performs with last years experience under their belt.
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Post by borisman on Nov 4, 2016 10:16:27 GMT -5
How about a tie I think that Moncada was trying to hit for more power as the year went on which led to a lot of his swing and miss problems, especially from the right side. He may also started to wear down and the position changes may have had something to do with his struggles as well. (other than the first couple of games he did look absolutely lost once in Boston) I don't think it matters much as Beni will graduate soon enough which will likely, barring a surge from Devers, Groome (and I'll even say Kopech, just to please deepjohn...haha) leave Moncada as the top prospect. I don't think there's too much pressure to change the ranking but I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen.
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Post by borisman on Nov 4, 2016 9:33:48 GMT -5
I actually sent my question in right before I left work, even though I knew I'd miss the chat. Glad to hear Alex say what we all thought would happen. We should all be giddy right now. Let's hope the top prospects feel the same way. Notice where I said I was from Boris (soxprospects.com): Hi Alex. Love your work. A little off topic but where do the Sox currently stand as far replenishing the top part of their prospect list with IFA's after being unfairly penalized by MLB. Alex Speier: I imagine that, in what could be the last year of the current international amateur free agency restriction, we will see the Red Sox spend an absolutely enormous amount when the green flight starts blinking on July 2.
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Post by borisman on Nov 4, 2016 9:30:01 GMT -5
You're the best! Thank you!
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Post by borisman on Nov 3, 2016 6:43:06 GMT -5
Oh man, I'm going to miss the chat. Can someone copy it & send it to me or post it somewhere until BA locks the chat as subscriber only? I think it's free for a day or so, so hopefully I'll be able to read it on BA tomorrow before it's locked.
Raudes being top 10 is awesome but by all the scouting scratch on him he will need to be able to spot his pitches extremely well so more one of his pitches will have to be obedient for him to make the show.
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Post by borisman on Oct 28, 2016 12:55:42 GMT -5
True story: I've won something like a half-dozen of the avatar bets over the years (and have never lost), but have yet to collect on one. It just brings me no joy to actually enforce the thing. At least make him pick one out himself or let the board decide by starting a poll. You know it's going to be a dead period soon so some excitement could be used around here.
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Post by borisman on Oct 28, 2016 9:57:33 GMT -5
Happy Michael Kopech day aside, why doesn't deepjohn have an avatar chosen by one of the staff members. I am deeply (no pun intended) concerned with the integrity of this website. It's like the NFL headquarters.
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Post by borisman on Oct 27, 2016 8:36:52 GMT -5
And Ball isn't done developing physically so who knows where he ends up Hopefully in the outfield, soon.
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Post by borisman on Oct 24, 2016 7:59:18 GMT -5
I know there's probably an answer to this already but why can't international prospects be added to the June amateur draft? I know the HS kids have the option of going to college so that's one big issue but bad teams shouldn't be able to have 2 top picks in 2 separate drafts. I don't see how that's fair.
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Post by borisman on Oct 6, 2016 12:54:49 GMT -5
CAROLINA LEAGUE 1. Yoan Moncada, 2b, Salem (Red Sox) 2. Andrew Benintendi, of, Salem (Red Sox)3. Victor Robles, of, Potomac (Nationals) 4. Gleyber Torres, ss, Myrtle Beach (Cubs) 5. Francisco Mejia, c, Lynchburg (Indians) 6. Rafael Devers, 3b, Salem (Red Sox)7. Bobby Bradley, 1b, Lynchburg (Indians) 8. Michael Kopech, rhp, Salem (Red Sox)Edit: Onto the EL for Devers and Kopech. Not sure where Moncada will start. Read more at www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2016-league-top-20-prospects-index/#COdYGkiALMfhcESK.99EASTERN LEAGUE 1. Yoan Moncada, 2b/3b, Portland (Red Sox) 2. Andrew Benintendi, of, Portland (Red Sox)3. Austin Meadows, of, Altoona (Pirates) 4. David Dahl, of, Hartford (Rockies) 5. Lucas Giolito, rhp, Harrisburg (Nationals) 6. J.P. Crawford, ss, Reading (Phillies) 7. Amed Rosario, ss, Binghamton (Mets) 8. Clint Frazier, of, Akron (Indians) 9. German Marquez, rhp, Hartford (Rockies) 10. Reynaldo Lopez, rhp, Harrisburg (Nationals) Read more at www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2016-league-top-20-prospects-index/#COdYGkiALMfhcESK.99That's a decent top 10 in the Eastern League.
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Post by borisman on Sept 20, 2016 6:20:59 GMT -5
Why doesn't deepjohn have a new avatar yet? Major league season isn't quite over yet. I'll wait to count my chickens when they hatch. You should probably come up with a few avatars and have the board vote on which one dj will sport. haha
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Post by borisman on Sept 19, 2016 13:13:40 GMT -5
Why doesn't deepjohn have a new avatar yet?
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Post by borisman on Sept 13, 2016 8:54:31 GMT -5
Speaking of what ifs.....when Duquette had the following players agree to terms: Sammy Sosa, Kevin Appier and John Wetteland.
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