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Totally agree with this. I think teams want to pay a price for player value, and control is too hard to price out. Should 4 years of a player be 4x the price of 1 year of the player? Logically that seems close, maybe you get a discount for taking more of the salary. But realistically no team can wipe out its farm for a single player. That's where the "x amount of control from 5 players for 4 years" does start to make sense. That said, unleashing robert is timing a market right, all the teams competing would starve for a guy like that.

I still find this absolutely hilarious that we have contract and amounts prior to him signaling to any team that he's joining.

7th overall in a lottery after a bad year is the Jerry Reinsdorf org sweet spot.

this is the way.

Oh man I never realized he never pitched again after the sox. I love how many careers Rick Hahn ended.

I kinda think we should call up James Shields to be a mentor. Should be cheaper than the first time.

I think bullpen pitching free agents should be terrified of our situation. They will not be able to be used optimally and likely burn them out so we are also going to run out some extreme bounce back guys

It is extremely hilarious.

I actually am happy about this. AsiaPac has been nowhere in our scouting for 15 years after being a huge value for us. He only has to be a mediocre starting pitcher to show value, and this is why you have a bannister/katz set up. They should give them a bunch of bounce back guys to see if they are a legit organizational specialty.

Katz seems to like sweepers. He added one for Lynn.

So weird to get the contract details ahead of the team

Mets aren’t rebuilding?

Now on the other side of the argument of Is Dylan Cease a very good pitcher, to which I say Yes, I do still feel like I would not trade for him unless I was a team that needed more guarantee of winning their division, and I'm less convinced of him as a "he gets us over the top in the playoffs". If I'm Baltimore, I have the kind of Dodgers depth that disaster proofs your team, which is a long way to helping guarantee a playoff berth. Which Is why I keep thinking, if I was them, would I rather offload a haul of that "blocked" depth for Dylan Cease, or just wait until July to see what mercenary, FA pitcher is on a hot streak and can be gotten cheaper. Now that isn't really ATL, to me. They surely can survive the year with that offense. But that they may view Cease as that kinda guy is a good sign. Anyway I'd rather just do what Texas did last year, personally.

That’s foolish. His mvp year put them in a difficult spot with sky high arbitration despite two barely playable years.

Is it bad that every time I see a scenario like this I have a "bless his heart" moment for the poor player coming back to us?

Anyway no reason to trash cease. You should read the prospect writer chats when he came up, everyone thought he was gonna be a bullpen pitcher. He worked his ass off to be this durable and get this much out of his arm. I hope he wins a chip somewhere. Join the alumni of sox who are contributing to other world series.

There were only 5 200 inning starters last year. You know who walked more than him? Cy Winner blake snell. But lucky for him, he (Snell) let up an absurdly low amount of hits. So you went up and were either walking or striking out, but no big damage. BABIP for him though was just .256. For Cease? .336. Now everything isn't so simple, Cease gave up harder contact this year, probably from some velocity decrease. But the stuff you are citing is just a lot of what pitchers are now. And Cease is very good among them. You don't have to tweak much, but put him in front of...like not Gavin Sheets and he's better.

this is why I think reds are a poor fit, they need too many of these position players to be a part of their squad, and the rest are just on the down swing. Still surprised we haven't heard Cardinals at all.

phew.

I was saying I don't think it's the fact that nothing happens for a few months, it's that nothing happens AND there is no big bang of activity like first day of free agency for NFL/NBA/NHL

I think it's 100% accurate that the committee felt comfortable leaving out FSU because it's 12 teams next year and didn't need to care about "integrity" or whatever. 12 is great to me because missouri is currently ranked 9 I think, and probably will get smoked by OSU.

I was agreeing with you?

He could play 2nd.

Sox have started LH players a lot recently. It's definitely been a weakness, but I don't think we can be so tunnel visioned on one thing. WHile he may be RH, he also showed excellent patience (12% BB rate in AAA this year) and great contact. And handled being a 20 year old that started in High A - getting promoted - and then delivering 120 wRC+ offense to a team in a pennant race his first year. I think makeup wise this kid is probably a gamer. ANd he has shown his offense translates pretty well in MLB. Now, I hate saying this, and feel free to laugh at me, but his poor defense was so apparent you can look at his fielding percentages, which were like .900 his first runs. While he was still not good from a fielding percentage at SS last year in Gwinnett, at 2b he showed a near perfect .992 fielding percentage in 250 some innings. Braves have indicated he made progress as well. We won't know. Requires scouting, which we don't have.

Right - instead of rewarding higher spending in a year with more cheap talent, it is punished. Teams like STL/San Diego get such a huge advantage from spending a good amount + getting small market rewards. Reward that again with giving explicit benefits to teams that spend above their "Expected" salary tier. But regardless, it would be more fun if you allowed teams to trade more in the mlb draft. This isn't the 1960s, we aren't worried about teams trading out of this because they don't want to pay a young player. Let them decide which type of asset is more important.