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Your aspirations are higher than your grasp.How about making a serious push to be good at baseball
Your aspirations are higher than your grasp.How about making a serious push to be good at baseball
By keeping Pivetta, it allows us to move another SP to the pen, and or trade one of Houck or Crawford in a package deal to upgrade the rotation.This seems like a bit of an overreaction. Qualifying Pivetta could mean a number of things. Of the top of my head, there are two fairly plausible scenarios:
1. They know Pivetta will reject the offer, and they're trying to get a draft pick out of it.
2. They're getting pretty significant trade interest in another one of their starters.
I cannot see all 4 remaining on the team this year, at least one needs to be traded.Always tough to be the guy who has to make the final decision on the construction of the team.
While, as he said, it's tough to decide to move young talent for current MLB'ers, it's also got to be tough to decide to be patient with them, especially in a big market.
I mean just look at the 4 he mentioned -- Anthony, Teel, Campbell, Mayer-- I won't pretend to be able to project what they will be 5 years down the road.... but just looking at things based on likely position:
Anthony is an OF, Mayer a SS.
Two years from now, who are the 3 starting OF?
Duran, Abreu, Anthony? --- what about Rafaella if Mayer is here at SS?
Do you trade one or two of them this off season in a package for pitching?
Will Rafaella learn not to chase sliders away and not strike out in over 27% of plate appearances? Do they move him, or keep him because of his versatility?
What of Campbell? I read some reports saying OF is his best position and some saying 2B. Does he push for a spot in 2026?
Teel is a bit easier, as he can back up Wong for a year or two before hopefully taking over in 27 or 28.
Good problems to have, but regardless of what he does, a huge % of people will not like it initially, and nobody will know if they were the right moves for a couple of years at least.
I believe Breslow is going to f*** this entire thing up. I don't understand anything he has said this off-season. I also don't understand why you'd make the fanbase wait years for the "kids" and the moment they're ready to contribute you trade them away.
Before anyone says, "But what if they trade them for established stars?" My fear is Breslow is gonna overpay with prospects for pitching rather than just sign FAs, and the team ultimately won't pay any star they do trade for. They'll let them walk in a year or two and then restart the whole process of "waiting for the new kids."
I have no confidence in Breslow and disdain for ownership.
A year ago I thought we simply replaced Chaim with a copy who's got better PR (former player, stronger ties to the org). This offseason will tell us if we got a worse version who just happens to be better at kissing ass.
I feel like I do with Sweeney, where I'm just expecting the worst asset management possible.
Yes El Tiant is a certain HOF.This is the only ballot Steve Garvey has a chance on this fall.
Tiant is a HOFer for sure
Tommy John is a tough one where he had a very long and very good career, but no hardware and was only top-five in Cy Young voting twice. But he was well-above average until the age of 40 and was average or better until the age of 46. I think being the namesake of the surgery and being the first guy to do it and come back gives enough notoriety that he should probably be in, but its a tough call.
Garvey had an MVP, was runner up another year, finished 6th three other times. Four time gold Glover and the best defensive 1B of his generation. He's kind of a Schilling attitude but I would give him an HOF nod.
Parker would probably be in if he didn't have the drug scandal hanging over him.
Dick Allen's raw numbers are tremendous but comparatively less on the award voting side, plus not having the defensive prowess that Garvey and Parker had. But part of it is just that he was on a lot of shitty Phillies and White Sox teams, and if he had Stargell or Reggie Smith batting behind him or got showcased in October ever he'd probably have gotten a lot more votes.
They have PLENTY OF MONEY. It makes zero f***ing sense to trade any high level prospect for pitching when they can simply sign pitchers. It's not like those deals are even outrageous these days. Last off-season showed it has become a buyers market in free agency for now. Cole just had to eat major shit from the Yankees!
I think the argument would be that pitchers over the age of 30 are at a higher risk of injury and/or significant decline.They have PLENTY OF MONEY. It makes zero f***ing sense to trade any high level prospect for pitching when they can simply sign pitchers. It's not like those deals are even outrageous these days. Last off-season showed it has become a buyers market in free agency for now. Cole just had to eat major shit from the Yankees!
Of course.
Or they want him to accept the QOThis seems like a bit of an overreaction. Qualifying Pivetta could mean a number of things. Of the top of my head, there are two fairly plausible scenarios:
1. They know Pivetta will reject the offer, and they're trying to get a draft pick out of it.
2. They're getting pretty significant trade interest in another one of their starters.
Of course.
But that doesn't mean the Red Sox shouldn't be in on him.
He's not going to get posted. The Chiba Marines still have two years on Sasaki's contract and they aren't going to throw that away.
When Sasaki gets posted two years from now, the Red Sox should absolutely be in on getting him. He's a generational pitching talent.
How does the posting system work these days? I know they changed it a few years back to basically be full on free agency and a buyer's fee to the Japanese team.He's not going to get posted. The Chiba Marines still have two years on Sasaki's contract and they aren't going to throw that away.
When Sasaki gets posted two years from now, the Red Sox should absolutely be in on getting him. He's a generational pitching talent.
How does the posting system work these days? I know they changed it a few years back to basically be full on free agency and a buyer's fee to the Japanese team.
I do not see this happening.
How does the posting system work these days? I know they changed it a few years back to basically be full on free agency and a buyer's fee to the Japanese team.
FWIW... I like Sasaki, but I think there's a real chance he ends up as a late inning reliever in MLB.I do not see this happening.
Dodgers have Glasnow,May and Gonsolin all coming back next year, and maybe Kershaw.
What else was Breslow going to say? "Oh yeah, his ass is gone!"