LOL, Erod wouldn’t restock the farm. You wouldn’t even get a top 30 MiLB prospect for him.
I agree that Sox need to make more small market moves. I'm all for it.
Then, as a big market team, we have the ability to acquire an impact player that can get us over the hump. The trick is not to get into a long term deal, especially with pitchers. You can't pay a player for multiple years just for couple of years of production. Having money does not mean you should waste it, and we've done that under all three GM's. Just look at unproductive relievers that we've overpaid as an example.
As a baseball fan, I'm okay watching young team play, knowing that better days are ahead. What I don't want to watch is bunch of aging, overpaid, unproductive baseball players. I don't want to see a team full of Ken Morelands next year.
Somebody needs to explain to me what has been so bad about our team's overall approach.
Haven't we won the World Series more than the other teams since Henry bought the Red Sox? (Yes.)
Sure we've made mistakes and wasted some money, but the bottom line is we've been pretty damn successful with what we've done.
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.
I, for one, am fine with our approach. I may think DD went a bit too far, but he wanted to make sure we had a rock solid ring roster, and he got us there.
I'm fine with a couple down years used as collateral.
Just get us back to the top again in 3-4 years and keep bring a couple rings a decade and I'll accept anything in between.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Then you don’t deal him. You make it a requirement to get a top 50 guy leading a package. You don’t get that? Then keep him
Paxton is a pretty good comp. we gave up Sheffield (#36 at the time) plus a couple others for him
Unless you 1) are getting a younger/more controllable/cheaper SP in return or 2) plan on punting 2020-21 and rebuilding (which I think we all know is not going to happen, nor should it at this point), I don't see the case for trading E-Rod. He's someone we'd be trying to trade for if he was on another club.
The only players the Sox should really consider trading are Betts, Barnes (who apparently has good value, but his inability to pitch back-to-back days is troublesome), and Dalbec (rising in the ranks but blocked by Devers).
Baseballtradevalues.com does give all of them favorable trade values, but of course, that is just projected WAR vs projected salary over remaining years. It cannot include the most important factor - how badly (or not) another GM wants the player...
According to this website, Eduardo Rodriguez has a surplus value of $37.6 million:
https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/
Taylor Trammel, Luis Patino and Dustin May -- the 28th-, 30th- and 32nd-ranked prospects at MLB Prospects -- have surplus values of $42.2 million, $45.6 million and $54.7 million, according to that website. Carter Kieboom, the 20th-ranked prospect, has a surplus value of $76.5 million. Heliot Ramos, the 50th-ranked prospect, is listed with a surplus value of $28.7 million.
Last edited by harmony; 10-09-2019 at 08:56 AM.