As a JMU alum I want to love this, and I don’t see any reason not to take a flyer on him and unload Kiké, but Robertson seems like a guy who could just as easily have a breakout season and be a contributor as he could spend his career as a AAAA guy. His redshirt junior season was good enough to get him drafted, but he’s been inconsistent in AAA and this year in LA, albeit with a small sample size.
Let's see if Robertson can stay on the 40, and if Hagenman can make it through the Rule V draft, before calling it a fleece
The last two seasons with Boston: 83.1 ip, 92 h, 57 er, 22 bb, 6.16 era, 1.37 whip
They signed Yu Chang before the season also, who by definition is a plausible replacement level SS - he broke his wrist on April 24.
He always had a decent FIP though; 3.61 last year, 3.73 this year. Seems like was unlucky in Boston and lucky in LA.
IIRC, Kike' was only supposed to be a stop gap until Mondesi was healthy. That didn't happen and Chang was brought in. He got hurt and Reyes was brought in. He got hurt and..... In a nutshell, I think Hernandez played more shortstop than most people thought he would. I think the Sox knew exactly what Mondesi's medicals were and felt that Josh Taylor was worth the gamble. Taylor and his 8.15 ERA are currently on the 60 day IL after surgery on a herniated disc.
I dunno, but if you take the square root of the same negative you get the Manfred man at 2nd base.
Do you mind on elaborating? Curious what makes you think that RE: not selling.
Whether LA just has better guys or whatever. Both are "older" in prospect terms, so if they haven't forced their way into full-time MLB-ness, its time to make room for someone who will. Even if they turn out to be good. That's where you want the org to be --- too many good or potentially good players to keep, so you have to start moving the older ones who will have to go anyway.
They mainly (only?) do giveaways for weekdays for obvious reasons
it was the part where he said the vision is becoming a reality and he wants to keep building on that.
They have a guy on the team named Yu Chang. He plays a very good defensive shortstop. Bloom, the front office, brought him to Boston in the off-season to be a bench player who could fill in at short in case of injury. He did just that, and did it well. And then he suffered a hamate fracture. This is a thing that happens sometimes, and when it does it can require using players in roles that are no one’s first choice. It is not indicative of the front office failing to do its job.
He also said this according to Speier:
Kike's season at shortstop was Don Buddin-esque (if he played there all year, he would have equaled Buddin's worst year), maybe worse considering most fossils like me believe the scoring decisions back in the day favored the pitcher more than they do now.
My daughter graduated in December but I'm not too well versed on their teams, football more than the others. Nice athletic facilities there, that I'm sure about. Especially their new basketball arena.
This is it. He’s been a pretty bad offensive player for most of the past 5 years. Then his defense crashed this season. He had to go. Thanks for a fun couple of months in 2021.
I think they had all the info about Mondesi that you could have, but for some reason his body hasn’t healed like you might expect. Everyone is different to some degree?
This is code for Shohei to Boston, obviously.
See, the thing about reality these days is that it makes zero sense to trade for Ohtani, and all the sense to pay him a ridiculous amount in the offseason. Baseball is weird.
Both Mondesi and Chang not being able to play for a long time is hard to totally pin on Bloom.
Only makes sense if you are almost certainly going to win your division (i.e. could have big time value this year) AND you think getting him in your clubhouse will have a meaningful effect on convincing him to sign long term.
October 2021 puts Quique in the Red Sox pantheon, even if he was below average at most other times.
And good for us. The Red Sox should be building a reputation of sending outbound players where they want to go (where possible). It helps in signing free agents down the road.
No thanks, even at the lower end of what seems likely he’s still an arm owie away from being a $70mm/yr DH. Really good one though.
My Dodgers top 200 prospects list is still a work in progress. I'm surprised we got 2 guys who would be ranked as decently as those 2, though.
Greetings from my 31st Dodgers home game of the year, aka, the time I check SoSH the most. I started writing this as things were tense and it's now out of hand for the hometown Blue.
