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I'm guessing Ottavino now to the Red Sox.

Here, here ! Avi hit .330 in 2017. He hit a career high 19 HR's last year in the fewest number of AB's in his last 4 years. What's so bad about seeing if he can put it all together in another year ? He sprays the ball all over the field . They can't massively shift on him . His Steamer projections aren't bad at all. His career splits against LH pitchers is .304 , .358 , .457, .816 . He has hit more HR's against RH pitchers but that's to be expected since he has faced them 3X as often. Righties are the ones that most often make him look foolish. Theoretically he just needs to be smarter up there against them, but again he has never consistently done that Everything with Avi comes down to swinging at strikes and being a more disciplined hitter. Odds are he cannot do that. But if he does he can return to being an All Star player.

How can anything like that be accurate though ? If you are just taking the distance of the HR's it can be done I suppose but but are you taking all HR's he hit at home in Baltimore then the ones he hit in LA? Then try to figure out the pitching difference between playing in a new division. Seems like a waste of time. You know in a good year he will probably hit 35-40 .

That's how I see it. The Sox want one and if they have to overbid they will . Machado is first and foremost. If you have to end up overbidding and land Machado then that makes the odds of landing Harper much longer since overbidding on both is pretty likely out of the question. Now if they think they can get both for somewhere around $600M they might go for it but that's a huge risk if you end up losing Machado by underbidding . Come hell or high water the Sox want one and Machado is the true target.

True but you also have to account for that the Sox are going after both with the hopes of landing just one.

True enough. I 've posted that if we get Machado the prudent thing to do is not go after Harper. Sure right now the payroll can take both but finishing off the rebuild with a World Series winner might get more difficult with a bloated payroll. Always need the room to add someone Verlanderesque down the stretch. I certainly wouldn't be against having both though. Not my money.

If we can bag Machado our chances at Harper increase exponentially.

Ha well they did sell a lot more records than the Clan of Xymox and Death in June combined.

LOL hey how did this get turned around onto me . I had a daughter who loved that stuff when she was a kid. I couldn't avoid it.

Ha hell no, But I will tell you my daughter recently moved to the Bay area and dropped some CD's with me , stuff she had growing up and there were 3 NSync CD's. I'm going now to check if that song is on them. Ha it is ! Wanna buy some CD's ?

Ha well just knowing pop music you couldn't avoid that song but I did have to look it up. My first thought was Justin Timberlake.

I think it's beneath you to be quoting NSync songs

El wood ?

Ok might be nice to know what all the fuss is about in the OP or do I have to go to another thread for that ?

Maybe the reign of Casey Gillaspie has reached it's end.

At the Concertgebouw. Which is in Amsterdam if you didn't know.

You're not. I thought of it immediately. I'm just avoiding all this conjecture, It's pretty pointless to try to figure everything out by reading tweets. Everybody draws their own conclusions. I'll just show up at the finish line.

I like kudos.

Well you sure seem convinced Machado is as good as gone. What led you to think that? Was it just one or many in a series of twitter posts about it ? Clark, Simonetti. Sox supposed interest in other options, Manny following Yankees things on twitter etc.. haven't influenced you at all have they ?

Ever think Manny gave his agent permission to follow certain Yankee things as a negotiating ploy ? 2 things we have heard about MM a lot and that is he loves the Yankees and he loves money. So let's say the Yankees offer is less than the Sox but agent wants Sox to think he's going to the Yanks. Seems to me to be the right way to go about getting a better offer from the Sox. To me it's unethical but not illegal. I believe in negotiating in good faith but that's a bit old fashioned and probably has been done in the past by other agents. The bigger twitter gets the more it will be a cesspool for this kind of behavior and may also involve bribes.

I'm great with you spitballin'. It might be Ok for Cincy but it would be selling low on our part. Rodon would be worth so much more if he can put it all together. Right now he's just another guy who needs to stay healthy and start showing why he was drafted so high. He's done it in spurts in a few different seasons. Just needs to be consistently good.

I wouldn't trade Cease or Rodon . Rodon may yet break out. Have to wait on him. Us or the Reds shouldn't be moving good prospects. Like it or not we have to wait. Usually it's the guy already in the majors traded for prospects so Rodon for an untested Senzel seems out of place though some are suggesting he wouldn't be enough. Hopefully Rodon has a nice 1st half and see what we can get at the trade deadline. I've still got my fingers crossed for Machado and if not him Arenado or Rendon next year. With plenty of payroll space just no need to deal prospects or a guy who still has a chance to be a TOR pitcher.

Yea I know but since you responded to me I just wanted to post what I posted and just quoted you for convenience. Kevin Butler was a pretty good kicker back in the day. Gould has had a pretty good year with the 49'ers 33 0f 34 thats amazing. Wonder what his longest has been this year. I see 2 of 2 from 50+ and 9 of 10 from 40-49 yds. I made up for it by giving you a haha.

Don't worry I see a Tommy John or more likely shoulder surgery in his future.

I have a home made DVD of the 1985 Superbowl that I hadn't watched in a long time. It opened with the Superbowl Shuffle. So many memories, great memories. Then the game was such a blowout. Surprised it was wide screen but it was and once I got used to it not being in HD it looked and sounded pretty good. The current fast young defense reminds me so much of that 85 team. Ditka was also a coach who used his personnel like Nagy .Remember the Fridge scoring a TD and blocking in 85?