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There really isn’t a year when good starting pitchers are cheap.

We never know, could be a tougher punishment. They dropped a pretty big hammer on the braves for stuff that “a lot of teams” were doing.

Would love to see the parade in LA to celebrate the World Series won after Houston vacates.

Dodgers AAA hitting coach. I would like to see an “offensive coordinator” hired like the marlins just poached from Yankees.

I already did this exercise. It’s not the predictor people think. And his spin rate increased along with velo this year. CC Sabathia had a very similar career, and while his 30s weren’t incredible they were productive.

He's awesome. Really glad he was hired.

What makes you think odorizzi will be 1 year (esp if he turns down qualifying offer), and Bumgarner is only 30 compared to Odorizzi's 29, this isn't like Hamels vs. Odorizzi.

People say this all the time and it's never that dramatic. His xFIP puts him at 4.3 (jake odorizzi's...4.3) His fastball velo went up last year, allowing him to bring back his 4 seamer more. He increased his k rate and decreased his walk rate. His HR rate already consumed the juiced ball surge which may very well see a decline as the mlb tries to solve the lack of consistency. He'd also be playing a very power starved division, excluding the twins. His cutter and fb combo is still evolving. I think he's only going to get better at using it. But I'll trust him to find productivity over jake odorizzi putting it together for a year and everyone thinking he can just replicate that.

That’s funny, I think he’s being underrated. He won’t be an ace but I’m very confident he will be reliable and will be a good mentor.

Could happen with nfc east

Yeah. Read through it. Let John Fox draft.

Ha, yeah that has been funny. Open to interpretation on how excited we'll be with signing Odorizzi.

You uh, said he would thrive. But I suppose that may mean just his personal health and not the results of the team. Also I just pointed out that two teams that spent less than Hahn in a rebuilding year where he wasn't trying to compete made the playoffs. I could have brought up that both teams that won his division sported payrolls less than Hahn has had during his "competing" years. And I'm sure instead of hiring personnel from the teams that can operate well on smaller budgets, one of 29 other teams will approach hahn to hire him, recognizing that he is just one of those execs that can't operate on a smaller budget but will thrive on a bigger one, but still wouldn't be the best GM in baseball. It's a pretty compelling case to hire him.

Alright guys we are at a stalemate here, let's see what a yahoo news article has to say about this

He doesn’t care unless it happens to him. What do you think he’s going to charge the field and tackle them?

While ideally you can fit the perfect puzzle pieces into place, the Sox need offense and a lot of it. $220 million would maybe be spent better if Yelich or Judge were available, but they are not. You sign a castellanos or ozuna you are gonna want to upgrade on them. You don’t have an inkling if that with Rendon. That said, I’d put many pitching targets above him before I’d seriously prioritize this.

You can always make that the long-term plan.

Yeah that's interesting. Would be an actually good defensive infield.

Ha, this would be hilarious "you took a silver slugger third baseman and moved him to second? He doesn't know where the balls gonna go...discombobulated...guy can't play. Hahn sucks!"

I think the good thing about madrigal is he's absolutely a player you could play all over (though sub-optimal production) and just be deep, but also, yes I think trading him is fine.

I get this reaction, but I just don't like the idea that we judge moves as 'bad' just because the sox are unlikely to pursue them. The offseason has a long ways to go, I'll wait until january for realism.

Yeah, I also think the "he can't play second" stuff is overstated. If there's a position I think they can shift around weaknesses, it's 2b.

I would like to state though that despite the many people against rendon because it moves moncada around again...I think getting Rendon would be so clearly a net positive that you go for it. He's so good. I just also get some Adrian Beltre "he'l be good forever" vibes from him.