I think the word is a little too extreme, but I'm okay with using the word.
To me, decimated means totally stripped of any value. Keeping Devers, Beni, ERod and DHern, among others is not total. The definition includes "removing a large percentage of...", so maybe it is appropriate.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Well, if he's as good as Boggs, he'd be worth it. If he's like Rice, who petered out after 33-34, he wouldn't be.
OPS by Boggs & Rice at these ages
Betts next contract:
Boggs/Rice
age 28 year 1 .939 (3rd best ever)/.755
age 29 year 2 1.049 (best ever)/.868
age 30 year 3 .965 (2nd best ever)/.911
age 31 year 4 .879/.791
age 32 year 5 .804/.836
age 33 year 6 .881/.874
age 34 year 7 .711/.766
age 35 year 8 .740/.736
age 36 year 9 .922/.621
age 37 year 10 .834/out of baseball
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
A decimated farm goes from 3 to 30 whatever and then back down to 20 whatever in the wink of an eye. Someone has got some splainin to do.
POST OF MY DAY
i dont know where the "20 whatever" started. i have used bleacher report only and as of their latest rankings (Post 2019 trade deadline) the Red Sox are ranked #30. has something happened between the deadline and end of season to move them up a few spots? perhaps. reality is a #20 Farm is probably closer to #30 then to #15. perhaps our move up from #30 coincided exactly with the firing of DD (aka "Farm Destroyer") as the people doing the rankings realized the remaining scraps in our Farm are safe from being dealt for the time being......
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Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.