Look at Ray Ray Run

Hits dont always tell the story in regards to how you're swinging it.

How is he a low end starting SS anyway? He was league average at 24.

Nick hitting .351 but I'm sure the critics will continue to Harp on something in regards to his start.

No chance. A lot of good swings. He won't survive the top 5 in the order next time through.

I thought they would tee off on this guy second time through. Surprised to be honest. Doubt they get a chance to all seem him 3 times either.

Yes, Honda. You made a misinformed post that the Sox don't pay for top talent anywhere - citing an announcing job. He pointed out the Sox have the most acclaimed in-park voice in sports. As well as the two people I listed.

They had the best trainer in sports for multiple decades and have the best grounds keeper alive. People clamoring for Hawk and ripping Benetti are an interesting group. Benetti light years better at this point. Edit: I forgot about Honda as well.

Yoan running in a pitch out situation is Renteria fault too? Lol

Robert wasnt top 10 in CF? What?

Nah, his mechanics got so fucked up last year he lost his velocity too. His start to this season has been very promising from a stuff stand point. Now he needs to work on repeating his delivery and release point. Big arms take a long time to figure things out. He is a massive man with a lot of moving parts.

Yeah, I'm not sure if he expected everyone to get off to hot starts. The season just started. I'd say Walker has looked good too.

Nah, especially today. The talent has been decimated. The Cuban leagues today are A maybe. Certainly not anywhere near AA. Only foreign leagues that are equal or better to AA baseball is the nippon league. That's really it. If you want to link something that says that I'd love to read it. I have the statistical adjustments being similar to A ball. Not a huge sample but...

Cashman cant hold friedmans jock.

I'm not going to get into why Dombrowski isn't a very good general manager. He has acquired teams with great farm talent, traded it all, and aged the roster rapidly. Or in the red Sox case, he acquired a finished product with spending flexibility.

This is what people fail to understand once an outcome occurs... they didnt win because of Aroldis Chapman. What they may have done is cost themselves a significant amount of value in the long run and hampered their chances of winning over an extended period of time. Just because you win does not mean all your moves were smart. That assumption is OK for fans to make, I guess, as fans succumb more to outcome bias. But signing Heyward wasnt smart just because they won the world series, so why is a trade smart just because they won. Why do people think that way? Because present day value is something we witness in the moment. Fv is something that takes time to come to fruition. That's why bad free agent signings are still bad even if you win - because fans presently see his shitty value - but bad trades are forgotten... because fans don't see the exact value of the trade until years after. To someone whose job is to value talent, both present and future, that trade was an absolute train wreck and pretty much everyone would agree. Look at the other relievers trades. The Cubs gave up so much more for even less time than Cleveland gave up for Miller - as an example.

95% of the team was acquired, drafted and developed by someone else. You want to pat the guy on the back for signing jd Martinez? Sale is a big TBD too. He didnt do much down the stretch or in the playoffs. He was actually bad. Then he signs him to an extension. I love sale but if you want to pat a GM on the back for thinking that Sale and JD Martinez were good then you better be ready to pat a lot of backs.

He won a title with the Marlins in 97.

Yes, Dave Dombrowski built the team. Sigh.....

Dombrowski has won twice and he's a dunce. He's got 4 appearances!

Fair enough; my entire point is that the a lot of Theo's success in Boston was achieved by exploiting the draft in a way that he cannot do anymore. His edge was removed. Since then, he has not been nearly as dominant in drafts as he was back then. In fact, with the Cubs the only + player he drafted so far is Bryant. Almora was drafted a year before Tim Anderson, with the 6th overall pick, and he's had back to back 1.1 WAR years. Schwarber, as I said, is the most overrated baseball player on the planet; although I think that is beginning to wear off. Obviously to exploit the draft you need to be good enough to evaluate talent in the first place.

By the way, thanks for putting this together bmags. I love stuff like this.

GM's should be evaluated based on results and resources available. Brian Cashman shouldnt be judged the same as someone like Shapiro. If you give me 1 million dollars to invest I'm likely to make more money investing than if you give me $500,000. Resources available matter a lot. Edit: theo is certainly better than average. I'd put him in the top 8 or so. That said you cant poing to Boston years today. The main edge he had in Boston has been removed under the current cba.

As I said, Theo has not been nearly as good in the draft. Kris Bryant fell into his lap... after Bryant, what Cub has he drafted that is good?

That would have been the series price - as I said, I'll add 80 cents because of the aura of the post-season - but that was the series priced based on all the statistical outcomes last year. No one is more than -500 vs another MLB team in a 7 game series. The less scoring in your game and the more players, the more susceptible it is to extreme variance impacting individual outcomes. Teams that aren't very good can still win World Series. Hell, the Royals team that got their the first year flat out wasn't very good.

Yes, I'm indirectly defending Hahn by calling all his moves abysmal. My goodness.