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Post by dmaineah on Aug 24, 2020 10:06:12 GMT -5
I can only gather from your post that you must be blind.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 24, 2020 9:35:03 GMT -5
Martin Perez. Not sexy but goes out there every five days. ERA- of 75 and Batting Average against .198. Reasonable $6.5m team option and he'd be minimum wage from the Sox. That has value. That “value” is imaginary. He’s a bum, trade him if someone is willing to take him for whatever prospect they offer.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 24, 2020 9:32:10 GMT -5
Agreed the sox have a small advantage over lots of teams because they will take on money. But, they are not going over the cap and they will not take on a contract like meyers from the padres. The sox have very little to trade and the end result will be they are not going to get a trout type player back. Trading CV for a young impact prospect pitcher might be interesting, but beyond that who would bring a huge upgrade to the system? I am assuming you are not trading XB, Devers, or Alex V . Bloom has an opportunity to make some small upgrades without moving the core. Building up the weak pitching staff is not going to happen over night. In general we agree. Unless there's a windfall trade, it's unlikely this is going to change overnight. Windfall trades happen but they are rare. I have pretty consistently targeted 2022, not 2021. To that end I am hoping we trade anyone whose control ends thru 2021. I am also not a fan of selling low on Benni, high on CVaz or JDM (I don't believe he will opt out and it's a decent contract). Slow and steady works, the Workman trade was excellent. Look at the potential starting pitchers we now have control over for 2022: Sale ERod Eovaldi Daarwinzon Mata Groome Houck Ward Mazza Gonsalves Seabold Pivetta A lot of sure things ? No but there's a ton of upside and Bloom has just begun. We also have a potential decent player under control (assuming nobody opts out into uncertainty) for every position in 2022. C CVaz, Plawecki 1B Dalbec (placeholder) 2B Downs ss X 3b Devers LF Benni CF Duran RF Verdugo DH JDM Util: Munoz, Peraza, Arroyo, Lin, Marco Hernandez, Arauz Relievers: Fungible Can it be improved ? Yes and we have the right GM to do just that. ADD: We don't need to go over the cap. Eating current sunk cost 100%-minimum wage works. Just like the Philly trade. In a normal year, noway do you get what the Sox got in return. No, because we have the wrong GM to do just that. Time will tell because unfortunately he is not going anywhere.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 24, 2020 5:45:48 GMT -5
I think the Red Sox should try to acquire another young OF with JBJ & Pillar both free agents after the year. Pittsburgh is in complete re build & Cherington knows the system. What’s it take? Lugo & Jiminez +?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 23, 2020 6:50:44 GMT -5
I don't agree with this, Phils. Adding a high-quality college SP prospect like Jack Leiter has more value than a stockpile of lottery tickets like the kind we got for BWM and HH. I'm all in on having the worst record in the AL. I also don't think CB trades Perez. He has a 2021 team option for $6.25M. That's an incredible value for a guy who appears to be, at worst, a solid, durable No. 4 or 5 starter. Trading him and/or Moreland (team option of $3M) would be a major white flag on the 2021 season and I don't think CB will wave that flag. I expect to see JBJ go and I'm sure he'd like to move JDM, who is sure to exercise his opt-out after the 2021 season. Completely unrealistic expectation of Perez, he’s really got you fooled.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 22, 2020 19:50:25 GMT -5
You go Jackie! Get hot & stay hot
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 22, 2020 7:09:58 GMT -5
Quite happy with this result. Neither Workman nor Hembree are irreplaceable in the bullpen. Tampa Bay for years have been able to find cheap arms for the pen who have pitched to great success and I have to hope Bloom has learned a thing or two in these regards. The one thing that is harder to find are cheap controllable starting pitching options and there are two coming back in this trade. Pivetta has quality stuff but has not put it together for any long stretches but is a quality piece as a 4th starter. Seabold has upside if not top of the rotation stuff. I for one enjoy a good command and control pitcher in the rotation and believe these pitchers are often underrated, although Seabold seems to have the love of the scouting community. I’m surprised after watching this years starting staff that anyone would not think this is a win. In a lost season Boston essentially is giving up 1 year of Hembree for 3 arb years of Pivetta, who is making about 500,000 this season (162 game value), and 6 seasons of Seabold. A rotation next season of Sale once he’s healthy, Rodriguez, Eovaldi, Pivetta, some combo of Perez, Godley and/or a Free Agent (#3 to #5) doesn’t seem bad to me. The offense should be very competitive next season just on in house replacements. This doesn’t need to be a complete tear down and rebuild with a core of Bogaerts, Devers, JD and Verdugo supplemented by some reasonable prospects in Casas, Downs, Dalbec and Duran and quality depth at other positions. Oh that rotation is going to be bad, it’s going to be real bad. Sales not pitching in Boston until after the all star break maybe not until August or even September. If Bloom runs that SP rotation out to open the season he needs to be tarred & feathered. Pivetta, Perez & Godley? Come on man! You can’t be serious when you say that doesn’t seem bad.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 21, 2020 21:16:01 GMT -5
Honestly, in Bloom we trust with both of these guys. No, not at all
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 21, 2020 20:59:11 GMT -5
It’s a pending UFA reliever due for major regression whipping 1.80 this year (and imo is pitching like thats an accurate number for him) and Heath Hembree, not sure what people were expecting for a return but honestly a change of scenery guy w great stuff and a solid starting pitching prospect ain’t too shabby Pivetta?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 21, 2020 7:07:30 GMT -5
Trade; Moreland, Benintendi, JBJ, Chavis, Eovaldi & Workman.
Keep; Vazquez, Bogaerts, Devers, Verdugo, JD, Hernandez, Barnes, Taylor, Valdez,
Keep to finish out the year but if someone wants him go ahead & trade him; Plawecki, Peraza, Pillar, Arauz, Perez, Brasier, Hembree, Walden, Hart
Cut/waive/DFA/whatever the hell you want to call it; Lin, Godley, Brice, Brewer, Osich, Weber, Springs, Stock, Mazza, Covey, Hall, Kickham, Triggs, Alvarez, Blair, Layer, Simpson, Tapia
Call up; Dalbec, Chatham, Downs, Duran, Groome, Mata, Houck
Add to the player pool; Jimenez, Wilson, Fitzgerald, Ward, Murphy, Zeferjahn, Feltman, Aybar, Bazardo, Shugart, Politi
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 20, 2020 21:16:10 GMT -5
Perfect timing by Eovaldi to pitch a good game
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 20, 2020 12:40:51 GMT -5
You expect them to have a seven-man rotation fronted by four acquisitions? Why do you have to try & spin what I’ve posted into something that I didn’t say? This, I believe, is an accurate description of where the current teams make up of SP stands. Where the current players should slot into and what is missing.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 20, 2020 12:27:57 GMT -5
Ace - Acquisition #1 - Acquisition #2 - Acquisition #3 - Acquisition #4 - E. Rod #5 - Eovaldi #6 - Perez (if his option is picked up)
Isn’t this a more accurate description of the state of the SP for the start of 2021?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 20, 2020 11:51:28 GMT -5
Can Eovaldi keep his ERA under 6.00? That’s our #3 (best case scenario) next season! #3? Who are you projecting to be #1 & #2?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 19, 2020 17:39:18 GMT -5
That’s the package the Red Sox should be shopping. Can they get Abrams & Campusano from San Diego for them?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 19, 2020 16:15:12 GMT -5
Need JBJ to stay hot
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 19, 2020 15:06:55 GMT -5
Bye bye Lin
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 19, 2020 13:04:41 GMT -5
This team is playing so bad
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 19, 2020 13:00:10 GMT -5
Lin getting some showcase starts before the trade deadline before being traded or waived?
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Bloom
Aug 18, 2020 18:51:20 GMT -5
Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 18:51:20 GMT -5
Current voting results: 19-1. Thats a worse record than....Bloom's Red Sox Does that include mail in ballots?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 17:10:47 GMT -5
It be great if he could play the next 10 days & hit 400 with a few HRs & highlight reel catches. A CF hitting 200 with wrist issues isn’t bringing back anything. He could hit. 750 until the trade deadline and he still won't net you a top 100 guy Agreed. I’m just hoping for....something.........anything. I just don’t thing he gets moved if he only plays something like 6 of the next 12 games.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 16:45:35 GMT -5
It be great if he could play the next 10 days & hit 400 with a few HRs & highlight reel catches. A CF hitting 200 with wrist issues isn’t bringing back anything.
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 16:36:10 GMT -5
JBJ needs to play regularly if they want to trade him.....and play well
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 16:33:15 GMT -5
1. Alex Verdugo LF 2. Rafael Devers 3B 3. JD Martinez DH 4. Xander Bogaerts SS 5. Mitch Moreland 1B 6. Kevin Pillar RF 7. Michael Chavis 2B 8. Tzu-Wei Lin CF 9. Kevin Plawecki C SP. Zack Godley I guess I'll just give up on them ever giving Verdugo a shot at CF. Showcasing Tzu-Wei Lin?
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Post by dmaineah on Aug 18, 2020 16:22:35 GMT -5
Again your wrong. I don’t need to explain anything. The team Bloom has fielded says it all. He needs to go Then he shouldn't have taken the job because they would have sucked no matter who the president of baseball OPS was and for you not to realize that shows how little you really understand baseball or nuance. I'm done arguing with somebody who isn't worthy of my time. I don’t believe that to be true at all and for you not to realize that shows how little you really understand baseball or nuance. You really never made it an argument
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