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  1. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    SS possibilities going forward

    No way is Adames at all realistic. He's paid too much for this year's ostensible budget and I doubt there is any scenario in which the Brewers would trade him right now unless someone makes a stupid offer. This year's team isn't good enough to make a stupid offer on to fix the SS problem...
  2. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    To be fair, Wong is an excellent defensive catcher and McGuire is a little above average (at least in terms of dWAR on bbRef). While yesterday's error was ugly, I do think one needs to give Duran a bit more time in LF before making an argument one way or the other. Regarding Devers, Valdez...
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    What Was The Red Sox Starting Lineup For Your First Home Opener in Person?

    Mine was the 2005 home opener. We shelled out the $400 a ticket to sit in the bleachers, and it was worth every penny. I want to see how close I can get to just straight up remembering it by position, and I'll see what I can come up with. Wakefield started the game, so I assume Dougie was...
  4. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    SS possibilities going forward

    If they both had anywhere near the same sample size in terms of at bats (or if Reyes were 25 instead of 30), I would. Reyes is just one of those guys that I tend to think the reason he never gets more at bats than he gets is that he's not very good. I could of course be wrong. But in a sample...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    I agree with the overall tenor of "I'm excited, but lets see the terms". But I'm curious - what makes you say "moderate" speed. Maybe it's semantics. But BBSavant grades him as 85th percentile sprint speed in 2023 and 89th in the miniscule sample of this season. But watching him backs that...
  6. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    SS possibilities going forward

    Edited down, but to answer - Because Reyes has a full career sample size of 525 PA's, so I wasn't looking to further dilute the sample size down to the 300 PA's he's had the last 3plus seasons. But I'm more than fine saying "they both suck offensively" and Reyes MIGHT suck a little less (or he...
  7. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    SS possibilities going forward

    I agree that there isn't any upside. I think the downside is much less (or the floor is much higher). DeJong is an above average defensive SS that has proven it over 7 MLB seasons. His offense kind of stinks, but is still better than Pablo Reyes. Go get the defensive player, solidify the...
  8. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    SS possibilities going forward

    A player I'd like to see the Sox inquire on - obviously assuming that Story is out for a prolonged period of time - is Paul DeJong from the White Sox. He is probably technically their starting short stop (he's started 5 games out of their 9 so far), but they're already 6 games out of first...
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    The TrevorEnding Story: needs shoulder surgery, out for the year (4/9 update)

    Exactly. Do not eff with Rafaela’s acclimation by moving him around if they think Mayer is going to be ready in 2025 (if they don’t, it’s a different calculus, admittedly). Moving Rafaela to SS probably lessens the impact there, but also makes them much worse in CF, and much worse in LF, while...
  10. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    The TrevorEnding Story: needs shoulder surgery, out for the year (4/9 update)

    Believe me, I don’t like the idea. I just like the idea of Pablo Reyes for a full season far less. Reyes just is plain old not a good baseball player. He’s a career -2.6 UZR player at SS. The eye ball test matches too. He also can’t hit - but that is secondary at this point. Hamilton is even...
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    The TrevorEnding Story: needs shoulder surgery, out for the year (4/9 update)

    Might as well be the first (I think) to suggest it this season, but assuming Story is headed for the 60day, I would like to see Breslow see what it takes for the Mets to move Iglesias and his minor league deal (not sure if he has an opt out at the end of the month or some such). I’d assume the...
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    2024 Lineup (What we actually have - no trade speculation.)

    Agreed. Watching it live and to me it looked like a good RF actually makes the catch that Abreu didn't, a competent one at least picks up the ball while it's on the ground. Of course, Rafaela more than made up for it with the catch later in the game, which is of course the play I was...
  13. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    2024 Lineup (What we actually have - no trade speculation.)

    Not sure where to put this, so I'll just throw it in here in the line up thread. Going back and watching the highlights of the first week with the off-day, it always makes me chuckle somewhat seeing the various sites try to "grade" defense vs what someone's eyes tell them, and how that truly...
  14. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    In terms of Abreu (and ostensibly bringing in either O'Neill or Duran, whomever has the day off), I have no idea. Especially since they are both be better bats too (not like you're losing Devers bat for a defensive upgrade...). In terms of Valdez (and Reyes) because Reyes kind of stinks...
  15. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    I do not. They have straight up Japan league stats on the well known sites, but not splits. A google search didn't turn anything up. Maybe @Tokyo Sox or @kazuneko (I believe they are our two Japan based posters) know of a site and I'm happy to look them up, but I haven't been able to find...
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    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Yeah, I just think we kind of disagree on the "type" of bat needed. I think you need more than just "platoon" players, at least one, in terms of the middle of your line up. Or - put another way - I agree totally that the team doesn't need another bench bat that is a right handed hitter. I...
  17. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Edited down to reply, but I think it makes them quite susceptible to LH starters but it also really neutralizes the entire middle of the line up if an opponent wants to bring in a LH relief pitcher in the biggest spot of a close game (likely facing the middle of the order as the highest leverage...
  18. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Because there really isn't another option... The only true middle of the order bats are Devers and Casas. There is no core RH middle of the order bat (and I don't care about Justin Turner for instance here because even then that solves the problem for one year, and you're right back to the...
  19. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    2024 Rotation and Bullpen

    I guess I meant more in the overall approach of seemingly not being afraid to still pitch in the zone with two strikes and ahead in the count. It seemed like there was the continued nibble approach once pitchers got ahead because they were terrified of giving up contact if someone happened to...
  20. Big Papi's Mango Salsa

    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Agree with a lot of this. The depth part is of course tough though in that it's not like you could go sign someone like Lorenzen or Flaherty or whatever other one year deal was out there AND still be getting the chance to see if the Breslow / Bailey approach could work for the pitchers on the...
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