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Maybe instead of relying on matching you make him the offer that gets him to stay?

Say what you will about Jerry, but the fact he doesn’t tweet is >>>>>

It’s really not that clear cut to me, because for for Escobar I don’t know that it’s a 1 year 10 mill deal. And it really isn’t clear to me if he is a good defender anymore, and whether on a 2-3 year deal if that continues to drop off. He’s also pretty power dependent. I get that there is a scenario where it’s like Segura and Pederson or Conforto and Escobar, and like, gross. But if we are just collecting good players where we can, it’d 55/45 I’d take Segura over EE.

What does this even mean? Today I guess?

See this is what I’m objecting to. Couple things: love @fathom resisting narrative that it has to be a binary. Though it probably IS a binary decision. Next - I’ve mentioned Seguras GB% rate from the beginning. Between that and avg splits, it’s not getting Marcus Semien. But he has great contact rates - career of14% k rate. That matters too, and also balances out a weakness. Hes not amazing. He’s not great, but he is good, and his defense and contact are important and helpful. And so the idea he’s specifically shitty for this team holds zero water with me.

But Segura had a tremendous year defensively according to baseballsavant, and considering our infield that matters. Kemp among 2b was toward bottom

“Segura has a 98 wRC+ as a RHH vs RHP” Soxtalk: “BOOOOO” “Escobar has a 98 wRC+ as a SH vs RHP” Soxtalk: “Yaaaaaaaaay”

The thing is most of these LH/SH options at 2B mentioned are just average vs RHP. And Segura is … Avg vs RHP

At first I thought - meh it happens. But I was pretty busy during day. As it’s progressed, yeah this just all comes across as very mean.

Yeah, that slider is unbelievable. I think 2021 was a transition year for him, not sure he knew how to harness that.

I had a post talking about bringing more diverse offerings into our pitching, graveman, tepera bring that. (I know we had tepera but notable he was one of our best in playoffs)

The good news is his stats in Cuba were also terrible

Never heard of them, will slice em and dice em now. Good stuff!

I was going to cali-clap for myself thinking I originated pointing out Kimbrel for segura but it was our @Squirmin' for Yermin congrats ?

Unfortunately the teams mentioned aren’t ideal there. I do wonder …would Philly part with Eflins risk? Would Sox take it? Always felt like he had a lot more in there and I think Katz has shown promise in his teaching, and harnessing guys with more break. I wish Phillies still had spencer howard

I wouldn’t call either high quality

I don’t think there is a difference, get whatever they like most. You can always repackage the prospects - turn it into a Bassett, Castillo, Montas, etc

I feel like the pop up pitchers like Ray, Wheeler, Corbin, Lynn’s have been much more reliable money the last five years than the established Keuchel, Bumgarners.

Yeah well I started that thread. Appreciate the congrats

I mean let’s get DeGrom right?

remarkable how well these projections have been so far. They are usually complete crap.

Fegan probably doing backflips.

sox will definitely add some more, cheaper bullpen players. And if they break out and are good, there are solutions like trading Graveman (see: mariners) or keeping him and having more relievers.

another year, another offseason where Soxtalk thinks the Dodgers are going to deal from depth ?