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How is a 3-yr/$50M deal for a 33-yr old player worse/riskier than a 4-yr/$92M deal for a 34-yr old player that has had a significant injury. Please explain.

Dick Allen was incredible in 1972. I might be wrong but I think he still has the highest single season Offensive WAR of any Sox player.

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Nationals are playing the Marlins this weekend, not the Braves.

If so, I wonder what his injury is this time. The kid is such an outstanding talent if he could just stay healthy.

Thanks flavum. So that means they may or may not be injured.

Question: Does anyone know what *3 Inn* on the bottom of Ricky’s lineup card means? Yesterday’s lineup card had *5 Inn* on the bottom of the card. Luis Robert has been in the *3 Inn* and *5 Inn* group the last 2 games. I hope he is not injured again. I was at the Sox-Rangers game on Friday when Robert hit the triple and 9th inning game winning 3-run homer. He seemed fine after the game but he hasn’t played at all since that game. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.

You guys are thinking of C.J. Retherford. Close to the same last name as Blake Rutherford, but the second letter in C.J. last name is an “e” not a “u”. I saw C.J. play a lot in the Az Fall League (AFL) several years ago. In fact, he hit the game winning home run in the AFL championship game that year. C.J. was primarily a second baseman in the AFL.

Sorry, I was reading posts that were over a month old. My mistake as I should have looked at the dates of the posts.

Ah, you are right. I should have looked at the dates of the posts. I am quite embarrassed but am glad that was old news. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I feel much better now.

Maybe this is why Hahn sounded so down in the mouth this morning and was almost preparing Sox fan for disappointment with respect to Machado. I’m sure he is well aware of this potential 3-way deal, in which NYY might be trading Andjuar, opening up 3B for Machado. My guess is if this 3-way deal happens, we can kiss Machado goodbye. NYY will probably not dick around like Hahn & JR and swoop in and sign Manny within a couple of days.

So 4 hours earlier, some guy named Paul Crane said the Padres were close to signing Machado to an 8-year deal with an opt out after 3-years. He made it sound like it could happen this weekend. Then a very credible Padres writer for The Athletic, Dennis Lin, said the Padres have not even met with Machado yet and want to get some face time with Machado before becoming more involved with him. This confirms that Paul Crane is full of shit. We, including me, need to start ignoring guys like Crane and other insider wannabes as almost all of them don’t have sources and don’t know shit.

I have not posted much since signing up to post on this site, but I do read as many posts as possible. You have become one of my favorite posters since you joined the site. Your comments are almost exactly what a couple of scouts told me about Robert during the AFL season. I personally watched Robert play in 15 AFL games this past Fall and spoke to some scouts about him after games. In the AFL, he struck out only 13 times in 79 PA’s so there was no evidence of the “swing and miss” comment made by another poster. I know this is a small sample size and he did strike out at a much higher rate during the minor league season. However, the fact that he was battling through thumb injuries during the minor league season and his hand was still stiff for a fairly long time after the cast was removed, scouts told me his stiff hand hampered his swing & bat speed, in which he was beaten by fast balls and it also sapped his power. Apparently, the stiffness in his hand was finally gone when playing in the AFL as, like you said, he impressed everyone that I spoke with during the AFL. One scout said that he still needs to improve in recognizing off-speed pitches and some work on his swing so he is not yet a finished product offensively. But, as you said, he is still very young and I think the sky is the limit for this kid. I agree with you that he may have more raw talent than anyone in the our system. What I saw this Fall was a kid that can hit, hit for power (a blast of a HR in Mesa & another to CF at Camelback), tremendous speed on the bases and great range in the outfield and a very strong arm. In one game, he made a strong and perfect throw from fairly deep RF on one hop to the catcher that should have easily nailed the runner at home, but the catcher somehow missed the tag.

I was thinking of JR and that is why I said “mutual option”. Not sure JR would agree to an option decided solely by a player. But I have been wrong more than being right. You are right that it is rare that mutual options get picked up by both side; thus, they are mostly useless and don’t add any real value to an offer.