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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    Interesting, and totally feasible. But have we heard anything recent to discount the idea that MLB is going to move to an automated zone in 2025? It seemed like the idea was done for 2024 but certainly plausible for 2025 - which is when it would impact Meidroth, among others, at least as far...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    No worries. FWIW, that's what the Sox did with Eovaldi (gave him the QO, attempted to get him back, etc, etc) and ostensibly Bogaerts too, though I've seen on here plenty of people say that Story was Bloom's choice and was always planning to let Bogaerts go, so I don't know. But the point is...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    Yes. Teams are certainly allowed to re-up the guys they've given QO's too (assuming I'm reading your question correctly). It's odd, on the one hand, i really am not excited about the idea of committing any money beyond the current one year to O'Neill based on his injury history. On the...
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    May: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Edit - here is a stat that better encapsulates what I'm trying to get across. They seem to not have the ability to do - or at least haven't to this point have not done - anything impactful with runners in scoring position (which I'd say means they're incredibly "un-clutch" in laymen's terms -...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    Yeah, and I get this too. That's a lot of why I outlined (or tried to find) teams that look like they could use help at the back end of the bullpen, possibly the rotation (basically everyone needs pitching though) and the outfield. I don't think you'd get a ton for O'Neill by himself either -...
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    2024 Portland Sea Dogs (AA)

    @JM3 or others - have we gotten any reports (first hand or otherwise, and admittedly they may be anecdotal) on how Mayer is looking vs same handed pitching? He had no real split in 2022 (both pre shoulder injury, but also in the lower minors), and if anything was better against same handed...
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    Chris Sale (plus $17mil) traded to Atlanta for Vaughn Grissom

    They basically paid half of Verlander's salary for the next two seasons, ish. Agree with you on the latter part - which is why I mentioned that I adored it then and still do now. Grissom is (my opinion) a better piece to have received than what the Mets got, even with Sale's injury history...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    Don't know if this is the right place to put it or not, but... In my opinion May and the first half of June was the part I had circled on the calendar to see where the Sox actually stood. At this point they're 5-8 and the month doesn't get all that much easier. 3 at StL but then they go to...
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    Chris Sale (plus $17mil) traded to Atlanta for Vaughn Grissom

    Just for the record, I adored the trade then and I still adore it now. If Sale were pitching the way he is right now and the Red Sox were to trade him at this minute, would they get something "better" than Vaughn Grissom, especially for the 2025 and beyond team? It's possible, but I really...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    I'm admittedly very confused. I didn't post that RBI were more important than OBP nor have I talked about Rafaela getting credit, could you be referring to someone else? No disrespect intended, I'm just truly confused because I didn't post either of the things you attributed to me. I did cite...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    I don't want to get into the rest of it because it doesn't concern me, but I don't think either of us said that. I certainly didn't. Would it be great if Rafaela had a .400 OBP, yes, of course. I'm also saying that along with getting on base, driving in runners when they're on base is...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    Strong agree here. That's another of those things that I think are "analytics run amok" as Theo said, relative to looking at RBI as a stat. Driving in runs is still important. Or put another way, not having a huge RBI number certainly does not mean a player sucks, obviously, but I think being...
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    May: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Strongly agree. In one of the threads (maybe even this one) I posted something similar about having a much better idea of what the team really is after the May to mid June gauntlet that they have to go through. Not off to a great start (3-5), however they're starting to get the pitching back...
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    Edited down just to say that I can't agree more with this type of assessment. Many bullpen arms tend to be so volatile not only from season to season, but from seemingly month to month and a smart baseball organization can cycle through guys enough until something sticks in a given year that...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    I talked about this earlier in the thread too, and I don't mean to dismiss defensive stats, but I think that is part of the idea of "watching the games" vs just looking at the stats. Not only is @greenmountains on point about the 3 errors, but it also doesn't take into account the fact that...
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