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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 18:33:19 GMT -5
Not that Johanfran should be factoring into this decision much, but with the catching strength in the system both at the MLB level and with the rapidly ascending Teel, Hickey feels like an obvious trade chip, right? The bat is legit but if there’s a team that thinks he can be the strong side of a catching platoon, I think you have to explore the return. I think he’s at best the weak side of a platoon with Wong/sometimes DH, but Teel is going to force that issue sooner rather than later. He feels like a guy Billy Beane would have loved. It feels like it's going to take a stroke from God for hickey to be a passable MLB C other than in an emergency. I don't think they could pass him off as an option to play C to other teams but his bat is legit. Chris and Ian on the last pod said it’s mostly the arm and that you can squeak him by against teams that aren’t going to run a lot. Going by the Georgios Papagiannis principle (niche NBA reference meaning it only takes one team looking the guy to do something mildly crazy) it’s not a huge jump from there to 60-80 game a year catcher for a second division club, imo.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 18:24:16 GMT -5
Not that Johanfran should be factoring into this decision much, but with the catching strength in the system both at the MLB level and with the rapidly ascending Teel, Hickey feels like an obvious trade chip, right?
The bat is legit but if there’s a team that thinks he can be the strong side of a catching platoon, I think you have to explore the return. I think he’s at best the weak side of a platoon with Wong/sometimes DH, but Teel is going to force that issue sooner rather than later.
He feels like a guy Billy Beane would have loved.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 18:21:03 GMT -5
Kyle Teel vs helmet is gonna be a fun career long battle
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 17:31:20 GMT -5
Can we fire Bloom again? I’m looking back at his drafts, and it just adds to my frustration of what a waste this has been. Jud Fabian? Mikey Romero? Cutter Coffey? Even Yorke. Sure, they may turn it around, but … not looking great. I just can’t believe how much the Orioles have jumped past the Sox even when their ownership was barely spending. Bringing up "Bloom's failures in the draft" while ignoring Roman Anthony is picking cherries IMO. I put blooms failures in quotations because GMs from what I understand don't really impact the draft as much as one might think. He also drafted Mayer and Teel but those were kinda slam dunk picks but still. Also this is ignoring the fact that most of these draft classes during his tenure look like they could be pretty good lol I get why people would be frustrated about Yorke (though I think It’s wildly ignorant of at least three significant contextual factors), but anyone that thinks those drafts are bad needs to go look at what an average draft across the league looks like. They’re not exceptional but they’re pretty solid.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 16:31:34 GMT -5
I think if they were so concerned about floor they would’ve gone college player, I think they picked them because they liked them as prospects Nope. We picked them because we could sign them to under slot deals Chaim was always looking for a bargain. …That’s not how the MLB draft works… Like, you do realize they still spent essentially their entire pool, right?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 14:45:35 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them. Fun fact - there is more than one round of the draft!
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 8:45:29 GMT -5
Was listening to the D1 Baseball podcast on midseason risers, and James Tibbs was a name mentioned that was not previously on my radar. The comp they made in terms of similar profile was the Nolan Schanuel and, looking at his numbers, I get it. .421/.503/.860 with a .438 ISO yet only a 6.12 K% is pretty insane stuff in a very strong conference. If you think he's a first baseman then I can see being out on him but the D1B guys felt he could hang in a corner outfield so if the top 10 were to shake out the way the PG mock has it, I'm not married enough to Yesavage or Brecht and would be at least interested in the idea of going underslot for Tibbs, though I acknowledge Schanuel signed for exactly slot. As I've said a thousand times before and will reiterate whenever I do my personal wish list closer to the draft, I'm all about floor, and Tibbs feels like as safe a bet as it comes to be a major league hitter.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 11, 2024 22:39:01 GMT -5
I guess this question could be easily answered by me paying more attention to the starters each day, but with the set 6 man rotations what happens to the starter’s spot when there’s a postponed game?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 11, 2024 22:35:58 GMT -5
Any thoughts on the young lefty from Arizona that reclassified Cam Caminiti seems like a good target at 12 plus cheaper then college arm so hopefully enough left to go over slot high school bat in round 2 Why do you assume he’d be cheaper? If anything the reclass gives him a little extra leverage, assuming he’s reclassing to be young for the grade and not to catch up.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 11, 2024 18:52:20 GMT -5
Johanfran Garcia with his first HR of the year Hitting well in April + in Salem + at 19 is a pretty big "oh okay I see you" for me. I also believe a lot in guys with baby faces having a lot left in the tank developmentally and boy howdy does that kid look young.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 11, 2024 11:44:41 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 20:41:33 GMT -5
Cam Booser struck out all three batters he faced. 11 pitches, 10 strikes, 6 whiffs. Got the 4 seamer up to 98. 10/1 strikeout to walk on the year 4 seamer? Gross
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 19:08:41 GMT -5
Romy 2, Jackson 0
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 18:44:54 GMT -5
Romy 1, Jackson 0
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 18:24:14 GMT -5
Did they do the ovation thing for Duran?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 14:36:02 GMT -5
I voted internal. While I do believe this is a quality team, I don't think the timeframe to win at an extremely high level is right now, so I would prefer giving David Hamilton a shot as the org seems to believe in him and see if that + a sporadic Rafaela game + a little Pablo (especially post-Grissom) works out for you. If the ASB rolls around and it's not working out, I think a lot of the veteran names greenmonster named will still be available, and realistically I don't think the effort to give the home grown guys a chance is going to cost them a ton of wins in itself.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 11:03:09 GMT -5
I have really high hopes for Sandlin. Don’t hurt yourself David FTFY
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 10, 2024 9:01:46 GMT -5
Damn that is an explosive swing
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 9, 2024 21:50:38 GMT -5
Crazy how he could be a guy out of college with below average power potential (per the SP report at least) and then get to stuff like THIS so quickly. Exciting stuff.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 9, 2024 18:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 9, 2024 11:50:55 GMT -5
They could have had another starter or two and began with Houck and Whitlock in the pen and a couple of the pen guys in AAA so when injuries inevitably hit, the oh no you must start Houck and Whitlock crowd would still be appeased as they still wind up in the rotation but now with less quality depth behind them instead. Too bad the Sox had no money for depth. Oh wait. At some point you have to stop being such a front office sycophant. They do a lot of things very well (Breslow traded very well this offseason) but sometimes they dont which you can never seem to acknowledge. You just go into defense attorney mode. Im not being a damn sycophant... The amount of pitching injuries league wide should be sounding alarm bells at MLB HQ... You have pitchers who were the traditional/reliable rubber arm/workhorse now getting season-ending injures... I cannot recall the last time there were this many injures and its only APRIL This is tangential but I do wonder if, historically, pitcher injuries typically happen earlier in the year when they're still ramping up in a sense vs. the middle of the season when they are in a more well-defined rhythm, and I wonder if that is something that we'll see this year. That's probably wishful thinking, but my hope is that once pitchers get in their groove, the injuries will slow.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 9, 2024 11:48:11 GMT -5
They could have had another starter or two and began with Houck and Whitlock in the pen and a couple of the pen guys in AAA so when injuries inevitably hit, the oh no you must start Houck and Whitlock crowd would still be appeased as they still wind up in the rotation but now with less quality depth behind them instead. Too bad the Sox had no money for depth. Oh wait. At some point you have to stop being such a front office sycophant. They do a lot of things very well (Breslow traded very well this offseason) but sometimes they dont which you can never seem to acknowledge. You just go into defense attorney mode. I will say this about Whitlock and Houck. If people are dead set on letting them continue to get their cracks in the rotation then I'd rather they just start in the rotation rather than jerk them around. I've soured on them both in the rotation, but Houck more than Whitlock and so far this year Houck has been absolutely electric. I'm assuming he was the odd guy out before Giolito went down too. That's not to say adding more depth wouldn't be possible. The bolded is an aspect of this some people conveniently ignore when they act like the Red Sox had a ton of room to add more starters. This isn't a video game where you can just move guys around with no side effects, especially with pitching there is specific preparation that goes into whatever your role is going to be. It would obviously be nice to have another starter right now, even if it was one in the Clevinger tier, but those acting as if it's completely black and white that they could have signed another one if they simply wanted to are being pretty ignorant of some possible contextual factors. They very well may have tried, but I also wouldn't blame someone in that Clevinger tier if they felt they could secure a more defined role elsewhere (as Clevinger has seemingly done with a terrible White Sox rotation). The FO was in a tough spot. From the reporting it seems as if they were open to adding another guy, but weren't going to over-exert themselves to do so. It's easy to say in hindsight this didn't work out for them, but I think anyone arguing that it was unequivocally the right or wrong move is failing to argue in good faith (surprise, surprise...).
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 8, 2024 22:13:27 GMT -5
Who are the other obvious 1B/DH candidates? Devers obviously, but I’m not withholding a Casas extension on behalf of guys like Nathan Hickey or Blaze Jordan. Devers obviously plus Yoshida at DH plus Jordan plus pretty much anybody that outgrows their position. Left handed first basemen pretty much litter all of baseball. Yoshida isn’t likely to be on the team when this really becomes an issue, and again Jordan isn’t really good enough to be factoring into these discussions. The fact that you stopped the list at 3 and then had to resort to “well others will outgrow their positions and you can find first basemen anywhere” doesn’t really give credit to the notion that any player that grows off a position will have to clear the offensive bar for first base or DH, and any external option is going to cost just as much for similar if not lesser production. To me, the best arguments against a Casas extension are Devers’ inevitable move to first and the glut of position player prospects the team has coming up potentially necessitating a rotation DH spot. That being said, Casas was probably a top 20 offensive player in baseball the second half of last year, if you can get a reasonable deal done I think you jump on it and figure out the position logistics later.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 8, 2024 21:26:55 GMT -5
I doubt if it's any big secret that this makes me happy, good for the Sox, goof for Rafaela. Let's out Brave the Braves. My preferred list of more extensions: 1. Houck (Ace potential slider). 2. Crawford. (Always been solid, more very good games than bad, adjusts well). 3. Wong. (Underrated and it take two catchers). 4. Abreu. (Solid two way player with a Dewey like arm and great pitch selection. Enough range to play anywhere in the outfield). 5. Winckowski. (Seems like a good candidate for a Whitlock style extension). 6. Maybe Grissom, time will tell but we should know this year. I left off Casas because we have several 1B/DH candidates either here or down under. I also doubt if he'll sign, tough to sign a player who is already financially secure no matter how much he says he wants to play his entire career in Boston. Who are the other obvious 1B/DH candidates? Devers obviously, but I’m not withholding a Casas extension on behalf of guys like Nathan Hickey or Blaze Jordan.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 8, 2024 14:09:15 GMT -5
I had figured he was one of the young players being referenced before the season, makes all the sense in the world to lock up a guy that you are certain will provide value on one side of the ball.
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