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Really just want Hahn to say "we don't believe in handing out starting jobs in the offseason, but there can be exceptions. And that exception is Yermin Mercedes will be the starting DH for this team, his minor league stats will translate exactly, and everyone on the internet was right about everything."

Yes sorry I clarified later, probably should have just edited the main post. I thought DRS would align to baseball savants OAA data since its usually close but DRS is also specifically dinging his RF play, which OAA still views positively. So it's holding runners or something causing the dings.

FG crowdsourcing has been way off in the player direction the last few years. It misses often on the highest end deals but everything below that they do poorly on.

Maybe this will be rad like the upcoming dune looks after the first one was garbage.

I hope Jake McGee is a real option. Though I feel they can just read our innermost thoughts and regurgitate them.

unfortunately I'm wrong. DRS does not like Eaton in RF. Baseball Savants Outs above average does like him...so this is possibly holding runners related but that would be surprising since I his arm was insane in 2016 when moved out of center to right.

If this is the world we live in (never getting the premier corner talent), the two positions you'd be ok with it in is RF and 2b. Next year you have Marte, Taylor, Dickerson, Polanco, Canha, Calhoun, Blackmon in addition to some possible opt outs or buy outs in Avi and Castellanos. Plus who knows how many of the guys this year will sign 1 year deals in Joc/JBJ/Rosario/Schwarber, etc. And on top of that, the possibility we can fill it internally.

Eaton isn't the insane RF he was when he was with the sox, but his dWAR is dragged by CF play. His RF is still positive in OAA

at this point it's, I think, at 114. So last year was 140 basically right? Starter + Reliever probably puts you there. So I'd say sox are probably going to be around there if not slightly above for some middle relievers. If they sign a DH they may go higher. That will probably be the interesting call.

I will be extremely happy if we can convince brantley to come here and DH. If that happens, we probably need to get leury to work fulltime on infield again, where he isn't great but has attributed it to having to practice so many positions.

It's more about his position. Despite him being more of a power hitter than a Madrigal, its slugging in 2019 puts him at 25th in RF...just ahead of Jason Heyward... Hilarious. Didn't hit me until now but for all the talk about Darvish/Heyward last night, this is basically the budget version of that (granted Eaton doesn't K)

absolutely silly.

Gonna guess reliever.

Yes it would make sense. But instead it is freeing up money for another declining starter in quintana and then probably colome. And the sox media will say "wow the sox spent 40 million and got an ACE!"

Yes, yes, everything is a big puzzle needing to be figured out on a message board.

Adam Eaton wRC+ 2018 - 122 (95 games) 2019 - 107 (150 games) 2020 - 75 (40 games) BB % 2017 - 13% 2018 - 10.3% 2019 - 9.9% 2020 - 6.6%

You'd gotta go with Wade Davis. He was also good in 2016!

not hard to look up things.

Adam eaton being bad in 2020 is ok because Joc was also bad but less bad, but joc being bad in 2020 is bad because he was worse than Mazara. And Eaton showing decline in 2019 is...well, Joc was bad in 2020.

Wow, you win. I'm convinced.

You know just because a hitter will hit 7th on our good lineup doesn't mean you have to aim for a declining hitter right?

Soxtalk on 33 year old Michael Brantley who hit .300 / .364 / .476 last year: "Just scares me, you know? Declining hitter, he's basically Adam dunn or LaRoche" Soxtalk on 32 year old Adam Eaton who hit .226/.285/.384 "Love it. Great defense. Great bat. Good walks. What's not to love?"

Small descrepancies my dude those numbers mean Joc was 20% better than Eaton in 2019 and 11% better than him in 2020, even in joc's "terrible year". And Joc was great in the playoffs. I'm sorry to inform you all that adam eaton didn't get cryogenically frozen in 2016. Time has continued on for us all.

Wow that's amazing. Sox fans saying "wow if we just get average production after getting awful production last year, we are great" just works out every time doesn't it? This was the exact line people said about melky cabrera, and boy, this is a melky cabrera signing.

2019 Adam Eaton - 107 wRC+ 2019 Joc Pederson - 127 wRC+ 2020 Adam Eaton - 77 wRC+ 2020 Joc Pederson - 88 wRC+ Adam Eaton - 32 years old Joc Pederson - 28 years old