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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 13, 2020 13:08:29 GMT -5
I just can’t see him changing course. Small market teams already get competitive balance picks it would be wild if Manfred changed things up. As the article says, it depends how wonky the "final" standings are. For one thing, if they don't get through the year, it makes it hard to rely on this season's standings. For another, if there are teams like the Cardinals who have double-digit fewer games than other teams and they're unable to make up the entire difference, it makes it hard to use those numbers. I don't see what competitive balance picks have to do with it. It has to do with whether the standings are a fair representation. I think if everyone gets through 60 games then there's a pretty good chance they just roll with those standings, but the issue is if they don't. IMHO, Those freebie picks have everything to do with it, not to mention millions of dollars just for existing some get from some owners. Change it up like it was and take away the for nothing picks? Maybe an excuse for poor mouthing teams to complain. As it is? Tough luck. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 13, 2020 10:13:54 GMT -5
Silver lining, apparently two bullpen sessions in Pawtucket and the Red Sox found the Weber they thought they had in the spring? Chris I think that you may possibly be the legendary cockeyed optimist. But we have to find it where we can. The brass announced over the winter that they hopefully had found the key nobody else had previously to fix Weber's issues. It helps to keep a few pounds of salt nearby and apply various amounts whenever bold statements are made sometimes. I'll take the Weber who pitched last night, tho think we'll get the off and on guy like Godley at very best. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 13, 2020 9:15:00 GMT -5
Good Jo Kelly story in today's NYP detailing many things regarding the incident just happened in a way only Joe kelly can. It's hilarious.. joe kelly NYP |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 12, 2020 5:12:20 GMT -5
Observations over the choice of Kyle Hart getting the nod for Thursday and Brian Johnson's release and others. Seem's the Sox bigwig's have some kind of plan with Houck and Mata and it involves taking much longer, perhaps 2021 before they debut. As for Johnson, with Hart getting a start over him? It showed they had no faith at all in him any more, unless some kind of injury and that is doubtful with him requesting a release.
I myself see no upside in Kyle Hart after watching him him several miLB games that would last in the MLB. believe in Johnson's extreme mediocrity a better choice. issues with the pitching choices this year and wonder if it is Bloom doing this. Maybe it works, but it's something i've never seen with making worst choices of a bad lot imho several times.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 11, 2020 16:12:30 GMT -5
I understand its apples and oranges but Arauz would be at the same spot as Wong if he wasn't selected in the Rule 5 draft. I wouldn't see the harm in bringing him up as the backup catcher if the return was really good for Vazquez. Guys that should go include Workman, JBJ, JD, Vazquez, Barnes, Moreland and Pillar. Get what you can for them and give others a shot and reload in the offseason. Vazquez is two years running of being about an .800 OPS catcher who is great behind the plate. He is 29 though. I'm not sure if I would trade him if I'm trying to compete in 2021. Anyone can be moved for the right price though. Vazquez is the best, home developed catcher the Sox have had since gedman. Think about that. over 35y and he's one of the best in the league, cost controlled for 2+ seasons and still young at 29. How can one think of moving him unless the return is massive? Especially when there is literally nobody in the system, prospect, nor AAAA wise to take his place? See no real problems moving others mentioned, tho thing over this one for multiple reasons. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 11, 2020 3:22:27 GMT -5
I get going after guys and hoping they improve. I don't get Peraza playing full-time like he's some high upside guy. He's a platoon infielder and he's not even a good utility guy because his D isn't that good at many positions. It's time to sell off guys if you can and start playing the young guys. Time for player development and getting a top five pick. Who does that entail exactly tho? Let Chavis play, along with Dalbec, then Mata and Houck as pitchers? Who else is ready? Doubts on Mata being so as it is and think Duran needs more time pre MLB. Not sure Shawarayn is a MLB pitcher. Who exactly can they give chances to? Am of thought that cleaning out current crop of mid relievers and replacing several with a Leyer, Shawarayn wouldn't hurt. Even Tapaia. better than some we've been seeing get hammered on every appearance basis of late. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 11, 2020 1:05:25 GMT -5
Ty Buttrey is throwing 97-98 MPH 4 seam strikes for the Angels. Why can't we get guys like that ? Jewel of the 2012 draft and looked like it then, just took him how many years to realize the potential? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 10, 2020 8:53:42 GMT -5
Yes. Think the issue will come up real soon and MLB isn't going to be able to put off the questions of how to fit in 2-3 DH a week for some teams and complaints by the MLBPA forever, even if enough players are deemed "clean".
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 9, 2020 23:28:28 GMT -5
Does there come a time when certain teams are just eliminated from consideration from the playoff hunt period? Some teams already being 8 games back will be tough to make up. Games missed in the future by any other team suffering the same will be tough also if this happens.
Shame? yes. Boston lost a PO tie back in.. '72 think it was by a half game to detroit for a game not played. Games don't have to be totally equal, but having some teams play 5-6 more is wrong and it's going to happen without either killing the season, or eliminating teams. People are going to respond and say this is incorrect on so many levels, but you just watch.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 9, 2020 21:49:15 GMT -5
Let's not get too crazy here... The guy has 6.8 career fWAR in ten seasons, a career 100 wRC+ as a first baseman, and is about to turn 35. That walk-off was awesome, and he's good depth at $3 million, but I wouldn't count on him for anything more than that - for the 2021 roster, or in terms of trade value. He gets on long streaks, admitted, then will fall off. wasn't it 2y ago he was super hot for like 2 months to start the season, then fell off the cliff rest of the year? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 8, 2020 23:05:32 GMT -5
I'd give Vazquez a day off. He's been catching too many games even if it's had a positive outcome. I agree he needs a day off, but there really isn't a catcher to hand it off to and IMO Vazquez has gotten as much as possible out of what Boston calls it's pitching staff so far. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 4, 2020 23:28:46 GMT -5
Will this year count towards arbitration? Will he still be a FA after 2021? Yes, per the agreement between the owners and the PA. Service time keeps accumulating this year, even during the shutdown that happened in the spring and the one that might happen between now and the end of the season. We have a player who has opted out now tho in ERod. I agree it's due to a medical condition. Does he still accrue service time post opt out of the season time? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 3, 2020 18:43:37 GMT -5
Few quick things about some minor league guys remember way back. winter haven had this 1 guy who was always acting "cool" and dancing around all the time it seemed in the 70's. nothing wrong with that u know. I liked him and he was friendly and all. Was chatting with Danny Weppner 1 day and all of a sudden he comes out with xxxx wears 3 pairs of drawers to make his butt look big. Thought was going to fall over laughing.
Win Remmerswaall (spelling) was an odd one. I'd LOVE to hear more stories on him from players from this time. I was at a small gathering once, with handful of them.. remember Luis Deleon being 1.. Maybe Brian Denman where they had been having a good time and Win started throwing pizza onto the ceiling. Wasn't saying anything, just threw a cpl pieces.
Not a former player.. Not taboo to me and won't mention anything.. You know, might have been real wild ever saw, or was involved in also from years back guys. Just funny things a bunch of kids in a group did.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Aug 2, 2020 19:34:53 GMT -5
I don't see why not let Houck, who is older and "probably" more mature as has been in college and faced AAA hitters have a shot at a couple 3-4 inning starts. Upside is anybody who can think knows this team hasn't got a chance at the title, should be no pressure from that standpoint and the 3-5 starter options are just horrid currently.
As long as they have kept him down long enough to keep under the full season of service time? Nothing lost, it's not like they would be doing another "Bobby Sprowl", where they threw him out there, as top pitching prospect in '78 vs the NYY in a pennant race and let him get massacred for his 1st start.. I was at fenway for that.. kid wasn't the same. THAT was pressure, this team is going nowhere and pressure free for both Houck and Mata, other than 1st start of hopefully long MLB careers.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 31, 2020 13:39:49 GMT -5
Thanks. 2 is good. mention of ranaudo, then thinking of Marrero and couldn't remember a decent guy had me going there and do believe recall JBJ advised by Boras, but not possibly Ells. Think Schilling had some words about the change to the tune of '
selling his soul to the devil
" during his rookie year after the switch.
Now that think more about Schill's words, it was along the lines of "he was as pure as snow" before agency switch. It was in The Globe back then.. memory not as good as it once was.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 31, 2020 13:21:31 GMT -5
Not trying to make this about Boras or anything, but it DOES seem to be the big/name guys he represented in drafts who flamed hard doesn't it often times?
Did they have a really decent kid rep'ed/advised by him in the draft in the JH days who worked out?
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 31, 2020 9:30:39 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Cecchini, the kid who raked at A ball, then could do nothing above it? Another guy I was completely wrong about and thought had a very good MLB career ahead of him early on and Sean Coyle.. Remember people here talking about his fiery attitude and comparing him to Pedroia. His profile used to mention that, may still.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 30, 2020 18:20:59 GMT -5
I think Pedey and Nomar were clearly better players that just had injuries that cut their careers short. No offense to Betts, yet no player I enjoyed watching more than Nomar. And by all rights should have been a Sox all of his career. Yet another player ridden hard for not being perfect in the eyes of both the Sox fans and the ever so perfect media that resides there, especially the Globe as remember, which always found something wrong with the way he played his game and his personal life. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 29, 2020 19:53:22 GMT -5
Benintendi is not fast anymore. Some guys can bulk up and get away with it. Sadly, young Andrew is not one of those guys. Agree with that. Last year he looked like had put on so much muscle and maybe slowed down his swing possibly because of it, his entire game. Reminded me of what happened to a young Tigers top kid named Nelson Simmons in the early-mid 80's. He put up good MiLB numbers and really good numbers part of 1 MLB year, then reported to ST here in lakeland looking like Hulk Hogan and his game was done for pretty much. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 29, 2020 17:23:27 GMT -5
Not saying Lucroy is worth much nowadays, but the catching is pretty awful behind him. Are there not a parade literally of AAAA arms that could have been dumped instead? If they weren't going to use him, why have him take up a roster spot? I feel like the only reason he made the 30-man was because he probably had an opt-out and they wanted to get as far along as possible before making a call. They were probably going down to 2 catchers at the 28-man cutdown, so why delay it? I don't have a problem with it. Am reading that rosters may not go down to 26 man at all with Miami having so many infected with Covid and MLBPA/MLB in negotiations over possible rosters staying at 30 one idea being floated. Probably should have mentioned that in initial post. As it is, with 30 man rosters there has to be 3 catchers I believe? Losing Lucroy, if he does go would leave the Sox with centeno next in line, who IMO is not nearly as good as is Lucroy. Letting the situation play out with MLBPA/MLB probably won't take long it seemed according to the article at MLBTR from what gathered. Just thought hanging onto him would have been smart for now. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 29, 2020 17:02:41 GMT -5
Not saying Lucroy is worth much nowadays, but the catching is pretty awful behind him. Are there not a parade literally of AAAA arms that could have been dumped instead? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 28, 2020 9:13:36 GMT -5
My theory continues to be that Dombrowski thought he would be under the tax limit in 2019 but he just screwed up the calculations and that's why he was fired. You realize they were over by $34 million, right? That's not quite a rounding error.  Maybe he had Paul Krugman doing the team finances?? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 28, 2020 7:47:11 GMT -5
We are in a 7 way tie for first pick if anyone is looking. I wouldn't of course. Hard tank is coming. JD will be here for a month and then traded. Better get something good for him. If JBJ keeps raking maybe someone buys his hot streak and trades for him too. Funny thing is that they don't even have to try, the pathetic pitching will do it for them and the Sox have been condemned since Sale went under the knife. Where are all those predicting playoff hopes? it helps to look at things realistically most of the time rather than thru rose colored lenses.. This team staff was the pits before ERod's covid illness and the team really had no way of improving the staff without spending money, which of course salary cap limitations stopped it from doing. This has always been a .500 at best season, even if Sale had not gotten hurt. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 24, 2020 15:35:01 GMT -5
See on MLBTR that old friend Hector velazquez has been outrighted by the O's. Someone Sox this year could find interest in as an opener with such a bad staff and regardless of some.. As good as Johnson and Godley, which isn't saying much tho would prefer Carson Fulmer. Why not both? Staff is currently manned by 4-5 easily DFA'd at anytime with no great loss.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jul 23, 2020 23:36:34 GMT -5
Carson Fulmer DFA by CWS. Wonder if the Sox will take a flyer. I'm hoping so. World's better talent wise than either Johnson, or Godley and an actual starter instead of someone who goes out there as an opener. one guy who is still young enough to find himself. please sign the guy. |
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