Sandoval was a misguided signing from Day One....Originally Posted by SoxHop
Sandoval was a misguided signing from Day One....
It's sort of weird so many think Cherington is relegated to do-nothing jobs around MLB, or out of MLB altogether. We rooted for a team that had a former GM as the first base coach just two years ago. Cherington is doing a far more responsible position than that...
Gotta admit, Cherries seems to have done a decent job with the Jays farm. We need a guy like Cherries and a guy like DD to have a head on collision and have the docs put together a Pres of Baseball Ops out of the remaining usable limbs and various body parts. THATS OUR GUY!!!!
Given all the dead money attached to this team, the next GM will be a goner too, unless he can build a winner with a 110 mill worth of salaries.
Paging Andrew Friedman...
Of course he is. That Cashman tried to hire him as soon as he left the Red Sox speaks volumes.
i think JH was counting on mounds of $$ from the panda hat sales.
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I don't agree.
He should have at least held down the fort in a position where no Sox GM had a clue how to just have a reasonable human stand in that position.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Then he ate everything in sight
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
I don't see how DD can be blamed for our SPers sucking this year. Yes, he should probably have obtained another RP, but if our SP did their job we would still be in the playoffs. DD assembled a competitive team....which didn't do their job.
He was overpaid and screamed "decline." While he was worth 7.7 fWAR the 3 previous seasson, the late Luis Valbuena was worth 6.0 fWAR those same years while playing about 60 fewer games.
Sandoval received a 5 year $85mill contract that the Sox are still paying despite releasing him 3 years ago. Valbuena signed a 2 year $10mill contract, played it out, and moved on. For the Sox, Sandoval was worth (-1.4) fWAR before being released. Valbuena provided Houston with 3.7 fWAR in that same timeframe.
Sandoval looked like just chasing the bigger name and getting burned by it...
Last edited by notin; 08-20-2019 at 11:51 AM.
Seriously, you kill me man. Too funny!
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Pry him loose with a 10 year contract... as long as it's not part of any salary cap, I'm with it.
Well, he held over a successful team from last year and has done nothing to improve it. Cherington built a Wolrd Series Champion in 2013 and did nothing as well in 2014, and the team was not successful. Was that on the team or Cherington? Because Ben was stripped of some of his responsibilities the next season...
Well, even at the time it wasn't a brilliant signing. But we had to do something about third.WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING!
And yes, it turned out to be the worst possible. No one could have predicted it would turn out SO SO bad.
If things went right, we would have plunked his ass down and he would have covered third for his contract, and we wouldn't have had to worry much about it.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
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