Bobby Dalbec DFA
- Thread starter Petagine in a Bottle
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Seems there should be a goodbye haiku:
Bobby D at bat
Desperation left on base
Flailing epic fail
Bobby D at bat
Desperation left on base
Flailing epic fail
In 2024, Dalbec struck out in 41.1% of his at-bats (132/321) in Worcester and in 52% (43/83) of his AB in Boston.
I held out until this season in the "are we sure we should give up on him?" camp. I think we know now. Hope you made some decent coin and get another shot somewhere Bobby!
Thanks for the 25 homers in 2021 Bobby! We wouldn't have made the playoffs that year without him, and that postseason was so much fun.
He hit 33 HRs in his first 497 big league at-bats, with 94 RBI, an .819 OPS, and a 114 OPS+.
Then he completely cratered: in his next 449 at bats, he hit only 14 HRs, with a .599 OPS, 65 OPS+, and 189 strikeouts.
He hit 33 HRs in his first 497 big league at-bats, with 94 RBI, an .819 OPS, and a 114 OPS+.
Then he completely cratered: in his next 449 at bats, he hit only 14 HRs, with a .599 OPS, 65 OPS+, and 189 strikeouts.
In September of the miserable Covid 2020 “season” I was on a rented houseboat on Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, listening to Sox-Yanks thru the MLB app. Houck was tossing a shutout and Bobby D was bashing homers — 10 in that call-up, iirc. Sox were lousy, but Bobby D brought some joy.
I’m sorry it faded so fast for him.
Thanks for the memories, Bobby, and good luck in the future.
I’m sorry it faded so fast for him.
Thanks for the memories, Bobby, and good luck in the future.
I'm sure Bobby will get a minor league deal somewhere. Hopefully the new organization will fix his bat and he'll be back in the bigs....
Best of luck Bobby!!!!!
Best of luck Bobby!!!!!
Good luck to him. I always hoped he would make in in the majors. At least he made some money with the Sox. Including his signing bonus he earned over $3,000,000 with the Sox. I hope he catches on with another team....or maybe in Japan.
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/_/id/20825/bobby-dalbec#:~:text=2024-2024 Pre-Arb,average annual salary of $760,000.
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/_/id/20825/bobby-dalbec#:~:text=2024-2024 Pre-Arb,average annual salary of $760,000.
Dalbec definitely seems to have the profile of a guy who could go to Japan and become a folk hero, hitting 50 homers a year and striking out way too much.
Old friend Dom Smith was DFA'd last week... wonder if he'd consider stepping into Bobby D's shoes in Worcester?
Fun story, I got to see Dom Smith play for the Reds against the A's before labor day weekend. My 2 1/2 year old son was like daddy he's a red sox... I said he was, but not any more... He said do we still like him? I said yes son we do....
There's probably a million guys like him that have come through professional baseball in that we have a guy with one and a half tools (good power, probably better than average glove) and who had a pretty good amount of success in the minors but never could make it in the majors.
Yup: 70 power, 35 hit is a profile that will get a lot of chances, just because 70 power, 40 hit is a fine player and 70 power, 45 hit is an occasional All Star.
I think it's more likely Dalbec is outrighted to the Worcester roster to step into his own shoes than it is Dom Smith comes back to play <checks calendar> two weeks worth of AAA games.
Possible dumb question: if Dalbec stays with the org, does he still get his (possible) arbitration hearing, or does removing him from the 40-man negate that?
I believe he has enough service time (minor and major) that he can elect free agency at the end of the season as long as he's not on the 40-man roster. Not unlike Christian Arroyo did last season after the Sox DFA'd and outrighted him to Worcester.
So much for the talk that the team was keeping him on the roster unfairly. If that was the case, another team would have moved for him.
So he stunk worse than cabbage?
Sorry. I’m a Dad. I have to make the joke.
Good luck, Bobby D. You seem like a good kid.
I would just hope he expands the voodoo doll collection to include players not wearing a Red Sox jersey.....
The namesake of this website Sam Horn is perfect example. Except for that brief period when called up in 87.
Will Middlebrooks is another; seems like there’s a far amount of guys who have success right off the bat, and then that’s it.
"The Chicago White Sox have agreed to terms with INF Bobby Dalbec on a minor-league contract which includes a non-roster invite to Spring Training."
https://x.com/whitesox/status/1876698558474121507
https://x.com/whitesox/status/1876698558474121507
I wish he was going to Graoefruit League not Cactus.
But he’ll be close to his Alma mater, not sure that’s good or bad (pressure).
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