We'll find out once Bloom starts compiling his list of over-paid mediocrities to replace Bogey and Devers.Originally Posted by Bellhorn04
We'll find out once Bloom starts compiling his list of over-paid mediocrities to replace Bogey and Devers.
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Like he paid Wacha and Hill less than Richards and Perez?
Like Schreiber & Strahm less than Ottavino & Andriese?
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
If Xander wants $200mill over 6 years, I’d be surprised if he found a taker. You’re probably looking at 2 prime years before he starts to decline for which he gets $66.7 mill and then 4 years of his descent that earns him $133.4 mill. I don’t think many teams will want 2/3 of a $30mill AAV contract after the age of 32…
It's hard to know.
If you go by the Baez and Story comps, $200M/6 is too high, but I think he's got better name recognition and maybe the ability to generate more fan excitement than the two similar comps that signed, this winter.
fWAR from 2018-2022
17.4 Bogey (18.7 bWAR)
16.6 Baez (18.8 bWAR)
15.8 Story (19.5 bWAR)
15.6 Semien
15.1 Correa (who is younger)
10.3 Seager (who is younger)
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Semien is older than Bogey (20.4 bWAR 2018-2022)
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
It's hard to even compare winter to winter and player to player. I'm not sure anyone could have forecasted what Seager got from the Rangers.
That was absurd, especially in light of what Baez and Story got. I think we have to view that contract as an outlier, but maybe Bogey is not viewing it that way.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
"but maybe" Boras, Boras, Boras!
ps. I'm in the camp that thinks this could be a JD comp, when Boras had to settle for half of his opening demands in '18.
I'm not good at predicting what FAs will get, but I think Bogey gets $200M/6 or more.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
But how many big contracts can St. Louis give out? As many as Boston? At least the Redbirds are always all-in...
Who has the most WS rings since 2000?
What is the earliest in a season that a part 3 has been started?
And as far as me wishing the sox's season is over already, I have mixed emotions on that. Part of me enjoys watching them inhabit the basement, part of me would like to see them miss the playoffs on the last day of the season and part of me would like to eliminate them in the playoffs.
The last-place team in half the years the past decade?
I think I have usually waited until the trade deadline, unless we are out of it before then.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Gotta love the Sox 3-0 run of eliminating the Yankees in the playoffs!
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.
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