oneofthemikes

1) Ditch your breaking ball 2) Stay tall 3) Seriously, no breaking ball 4) I don't care if it has worked for your entire career so far, no more 5) Throw cutters 6) More cutters

I come back from lunch and see that the Trade Whispers thread is hot thinking something cool was happening and the whole crew is in here doing a deep dive on post reactions.

It’s like 4 pages long. Just read it.

"Ya don't need a f*ckin curveball when you've got a nasty cutter." - Don Cooper, probably

Didn't Jeff Passan confirm that NSC was legit (at least regarding the Dunning deal)? EDIT: Never mind. Didn't see the response before I sent the above

Pass for me on Cruz. Dude was a monster last year but he's only getting older and at some point he'll not be able to catch up to the fastball like EE last year. I'd rather let him do that somewhere else.

Baseball, am I right?

And that's fine. I don't hate Colome as a player, my preference would just be to go with Hendriks.

Colome's BB/9 was TRIPLE what Hendriks was last season (SSS I know) but even if you go back to 2019 it was ~1.2 BB/9 higher than Hendriks. And Colome's xFIP over the last 2 seasons suggests that he's due for substantial regression. The Steamer projection puts him at a ~4.5 ERA for next season and I know that they're not gospel but projecting a nearly 4 run jump in ERA has to be based on something.

Who is "we"? Is it the pitching coach? Because he's new. Or the manager? Also new. The fans? Jerry's already shown that he doesn't care about that at all. Listen, I know that Colome put up good numbers the past couple seasons but I worry that they're a mirage. His peripherals aren't all that great.

If they can round out the offseason with Brantley, Hendriks, Hand, and Paxton/Quintana I'd be over the moon. That's one hell of a team.

Oh. I guess that's settled then.

I kinda thought I did that by using words like "hope" "pessimism" and "dream".

There have been a few posts on here about industry people saying that the Sox are one of the only teams willing to spend this offseason and then they added Lynn ($8M) and Eaton ($7M) so what gives? My hope (with nothing but pessimism behind it) is that Jerry is going to tell Rick to go get Bauer no matter the cost and turn over a can't miss team to his pal in an attempt to let him go out on top. A guy can dream can't he?

Understood. It could have been the case with Dane. But it is certainly going to be the case without him (unless Lynn is extended).