I gotta tell you I think many of us get the gist of what you're saying, but when I look at this list I see a fair amount of hair spitting and in the case of your last point you seem to be making an argument against what is a very simple and true fact. I've been fairly supportive of Bloom and this ownership group in general, admittedly less so in the past year. I'm hopeful that the Breslow years can help right the course for this team and applaud much of what he's done so far, but let's call a spade a spade and recognize that TO DATE the team isn't yet where many hope that it might be. I think that when we hear the word "probably" it's fair to assume what we all know probably to be. Very likely, almost certain, without much doubt etc... If the statement was "We'll probably spend up to or over the first tax threshold" What would your expectations be? I like you, I think you're a valuable poster here, but these past few weeks you seem to be all like this guy with some of your stances.
End of the day, all this parsing of words is pointless. Let’s just look at the team on the field. FA is almost over and we have the same team that we did 6 weeks ago. And that team wasn’t very exciting. Maybe we’ll have a late surprise in Montgomery to change the outlook but right now the roster feels pretty set outside of some Duvall type moves on the margins.
He was pretty good with the Yankees, if he can do that here, he’ll be a good piece of the pen.
Bolded part is spot on. There's still a bit of time, but the action we've seen so far has not been sufficiently encouraging.
You guys freaking crack me up. Seriously.Did you have Chinese food last night?
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I think I was around 75% that Montgomery was going to be signed by the Sox around a month ago and if I take a breath and think about the situation I’m still about that confident. The way that it’s been dragging out does create a sense of pending doom though and it’s hard to be rational about the situation.
Such a long off-season. I'm ready to play ball, tired of writers coming up with, "here is a trade that makes sense for (insert name of team)", as if Breslow, Cashman, and Dombrowski are listening!!
Teams can put injured players on their 60-day IL this Wednesday, and the Rangers have four of them (deGrom, Scherzer, Mahle, Coleman). Between that and the TV thing that got temporarily resolved last week, I can't imagine there are any other non-financial obstacles to them signing Montgomery, if they're gonna.
Because they are right up against the $237M luxury tax so as a second time offender they would have to pay a 30% extra on the whole contract, plus they would probably end up paying the additional surcharge for being $20M over the tax, plus it would put them at about $170M-$180M in contract commitments for 8 players in 2025 and beyond?
Bradford recently reported that he doesn’t even believe the Rangers are in serious contact with Montgomery.
There was a rumor over on Friday (forgot who and it may have been speculation) that the Phillies would trade Walker for Jansen and then go after Montgomery.
Boras seems really intent on getting the Phillies involved but I have a hard time seeing it. They're set to be over the CBT a third straight year, so he'd cost them 50% more. Always a chance Boras restructures something to make that more palatable this year, but they've got a decision on Wheeler coming up and I imagine they'll want to keep him too.
It was a bit of a weird offseason for Sox. I think Breslow made some really good moves and still didn't address any of the real gaps on this team. The Giolito contract was a flyer on a guy, that at best given the team as built today, gives you someone to trade at the deadline. You still have Story and Yoshida both of who you would love to get rid of but probably aren't going to be find a home for in the near term. They aren't terrible players but they are negative value contracts.
That is a great point. It really would cost them significantly more than just the "sticker price". If the Rangers are truly out because of this, and the Sox are at all serious about winning, then this should be a no-brainer.
Do you have the Rays' system ranked over the Sox? I don't see anyone saying that. Fangraphs has the Sox #2 in MLB.
ESPN has Tampa Bay a bit better with Junior Caminero. Yankees and Orioles have a better system than the Sox and Tampa Bay is around the same value. Fangraphs system rankings severely overvalues marginal talent (because they put monetary value on every player neglecting there is only 26 roster spots on every team).
The Fangraphs farm system rankings are way behind reality since McDaniel left to go to ESPN. If you look at the individual team rankings, the last time FG updated the BOS system was June 12, 8 months ago today. The other sites are sometimes flawed (the mlb.com ones are generally pretty bad) but they're much more up to date.
Law's just came out:
Yeah, they may be in the middle of the division but compared to MLB, the Sox are in a good spot.
Good. The team is better with him than without him, and they can always trade him in July if that's how things go.
Yep... no need to shed anymore salary and if he has a decent first half his trade value will be up.
Except there is a non-zero chance that Jansen continues to slide towards the cliff and has less or no value at the trading deadline.
Agreed, unless he needs to be moved to add someone better. Hopefully that is not the case. It certainly shouldn’t be.
True. But I don't his value is especially high right now, given his salary, and the team does have a chance to win a WC spot if enough things break right, so for the time being I think he has more value in our bullpen than as a trade chip.
Players have more trade value at the deadline than in the offseason if all things are equally with the player's talent because there are only limited players available and more needs especially with pitchers because of injuries.
Incorrect on the expression:
No snark: Can you educate me on what you mean here? I am unaware of what you are talking about.
