Ok I'm convinced I'm right ...Thankyou .Originally Posted by moonslav59
Ok I'm convinced I'm right ...Thankyou .
Are you his agent?
How can anyone be so blind?
You want the worst fielding 1Bman to be our 1Bman for 7 years, and why? Because Bogey sucks at SS and JD sucks in RF. Wow!
You want one of baseball's worst power-hitting 1Bman to sign with the team that needs power more than anything else. Why? Becaue your crack pipe whispers 35 Hrs in your bad ear.
Maybe the best reason to not want Hosmer is that the Padres want him.
He's not coming here. We signed Moreland, who actually can field.
Wake up and smell the smoldering crack.
Can we please just pass on JD? He is an injury waiting to happen and not worth our time or money.
Pitching! We need more pitching!
He's worth $100M/5.
We'd still have about $13M to spend. That's enough for Cobb or Lynn, or maybe Cashner & Watson.
31 1Bmen with 1500+ PAs since 2014
Power ranking (ISO)
Hosmer 29th
Slugging
18th (just .030 ahead of 29th)
Defense
UZR/150
16th out of 16 qualified 1Bmen at -1.9
25th out of 31 with 2,000+ innings
Want confirmation?
25th out of 31 in DRS at -9
Hosmer is not even worth $30M/2.
He's good at getting on base. That's it.
FanGraphs piece about JDM and why the Sox could really use him:
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-...ed-each-other/
Can't really use Papi as a measuring stick. He was an anomaly - a fantastic bargain for virtually his whole career.
Alternate ways to characterize DD's offseason to date:
1. Commendably patient and restrained.
2. Hasn't done a damn thing.
Okay, then name another DH who made more than $20M a year. Now, make it 5 years.
Assuming the $100M/5 offer is accurate, I'm not sure I'd go above $105M/5 or $88M/4. If he chooses AZ, fine.
We can sign Cobb & LoMo or Cobb, Duda & Nunez for the same money and less years and risk.
He plays in KC ....not Fenway park try to atleast look at the bat for Fenway ..You and I will always differ on who he is and what he would be here ....ThankGod someone didn't write Ortiz off.I shook my head when you wrote he's not worth 30 million .....I would love you to explain that to Peter Gammons who has forgot more baseball than anyone here remembers .Now if we can agree on Freddie Freeman .... I'll feel somewhat better .
Last edited by Natick to NC; 02-14-2018 at 08:53 AM.
Cobb brings plenty of risk.
I'm not opposed to your proposals though. I just wish we'd freakin' do something...this offseason is really starting to drive me nutty.
There will be nothing comendable about his patience unless he improves this team.Alternate ways to characterize DD's offseason to date:
1. Commendably patient and restrained.
2. Hasn't done a damn thing.
The King of TalkSox has Spoken.
But he signed Mitch Moreland!Alternate ways to characterize DD's offseason to date:
1. Commendably patient and restrained.
2. Hasn't done a damn thing.
***News flash***
Fenway is not an HR park, so your wild projected 35 HR total is way off, especially for a lefty. Although Hosmer is pretty good at going to LF, pitchers can and will pitch differently to him in Fenway-darring him to hit to RF's spacious area.
Don't believe me? Look at the facts:
Hosmer hits an HR 2.9% of his PAs (127/4393).
At Fenway, he hits an HR 2.8% of his PAs (3/109). He had 0 HRs in 14 PAs last year.
Your projection is a stab in the dark.
Your claim that he's a good fielder in based on a dream. He is horrible on D and will only get worse. Apparently, he's good at scooping low throws- whoopdee-freakin-doo!
We already signed a good fielding 1Bman, and we can't trade him until June. If we sign Hoze, it will be to DH, and he profiles even worse as a DH than a 1Bman. JD is way better as a DH, and he'll get 5 years not 7.
He'll be the worst big ticket signing this year. It better not be by us.
Using Gammons as a supporting argument actually helps my position. The last time Gammons was right was in the 80's.
Yes, and so does JD. The risk with Cobb might be 3-4 years not 5, and we can also sign LoMo or Duda+Nunez with Cobb, so the risk is spread out and for a shorter term.
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