Well, crap on a cracker was I wrong about Belinger.
I am shocked Boras misread the market this badly and didn’t get him numbers even in line with Lee, on a total dollars standpoint. I was certain he was getting $150m at the absolute minimum, and would have probably landed around $175m. It’ll be interesting to see if this was a unique situation to Belinger, or if the Snell and Monty markets collapse.
If the market truly is this low for hitters, I’ll admit I’d at least toy with the idea of something like 3/$65m for Chapman and move Devers to DH.
He‘d provide some RH balance to the lineup and would pretty drastically improve the defense. If the Sox aren’t going to bother to actually improve starting pitching, maybe that would be a more cost effective way. It’d be interesting to see which ”replacement” helps a pitching staff more - LF or 3b.
I‘m not smart enough to figure that out.
I am shocked Boras misread the market this badly and didn’t get him numbers even in line with Lee, on a total dollars standpoint. I was certain he was getting $150m at the absolute minimum, and would have probably landed around $175m. It’ll be interesting to see if this was a unique situation to Belinger, or if the Snell and Monty markets collapse.
If the market truly is this low for hitters, I’ll admit I’d at least toy with the idea of something like 3/$65m for Chapman and move Devers to DH.
He‘d provide some RH balance to the lineup and would pretty drastically improve the defense. If the Sox aren’t going to bother to actually improve starting pitching, maybe that would be a more cost effective way. It’d be interesting to see which ”replacement” helps a pitching staff more - LF or 3b.
I‘m not smart enough to figure that out.