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They still have derek dietrich listed which is annoying.

What is the best 2019-20 free agency list? MLBTR's burned me because it included guys that were on team options.

I do agree with you that we could be at $110 million and none of us would even be that impressed with the signings. When you add up the amount of spots we still need, the $amount will be large even if there is no marquee guy. Basically would need to hit like the twins did in the offseason, which is one of the better ones of the last few years.

I don't believe they felt they were competing in 2014.

Their track record is horrible, and I am concerned teams will spend a bit more this free agency trying to show well for the next CBA and the sox may lose out on some targets or spend more on average than they would have last year.

I would definitely prefer making CF the plus defensive position and not RF. Benintendis defensive metrics are so hard to read because of the monster. So it's a hard question to answer but I'd take weaker arm in RF and what I believe will be plus plus defense with robert. Also feels like any deal for Benintendi would occur in offseason and I would imagine would start with Madrigal.

Not an inspiring list https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/minor-league?pos=all&lg=30&stats=bat&qual=y&type=0&team=&season=2006&seasonEnd=2019&org=&ind=0&splitTeam=true&players=&sort=14,1 Cortney Boran, Red Sox, DSL However, if you include all the way until 2005 with only players 16 and 17 and sort by wRC+, Bailey is 5th. Players like Candelario, Jorge Bonifacio, Julio Rodriguez, Estuiry Ruiz, Victor Robles and Estevan Florial show up in the top 25 of that list. His is much more BB driven, but Robles had a similar (but better) iso and worse walk percentage. So his performance does stand out.

I think its a little interesting they are going level by level with Lindgren like a Billy Madison thing.

I'm surprised by this but maybe this is the not particularly cheap aspect of the 3 years of arb. I can't imagine he'd be Betts level but he'll be expensive.

I'd be happy with Alex Wood but what if he returns from his back injury and is terrible? He has a big question mark here having missed almost 2/3rds of the year by the time he returns.

I think so. As his krate persists so low, it's really hard at times to not think of him as level-proofed. Maybe his ability to make contact is so good that even if its weak he is exploiting holes he sees? At some point you start to believe that, and if he continues to do that against better and better arms he will just be this successful player playing a completely different kind of game. I wish he'd up his SB% though.

I still think this excuse is ridiculous. To make it work people just kept extending how long a wrist should bother you to make it fit. Ptatc also mentioned the type of wrist injury he had shouldn't have affected power. His timing appeared off, he was probably letting the shift get in his head. Clearly the hot streak he was in the three weeks before was meaningful, and his makeup really did show up. The gloating over the promotion thing is silly. If they waited a few more weeks and his hot streak had continued in A+ before getting moved up...did he lose anything? He's improving as he's moving up levels which is nice to see. His brand of baseball is still working and his walks are improving. All of that is great news.

It is because he has operated so differently in the past 3 seasons that he has allowed the team to get players they like this offseason. They got under the luxury tax and stayed disciplined.

Fun year in AZL. Wish Thompson and Dalquist would pitch a few innings but I hope we can hear reports from instructs since it seems we are only one of a handful that still run games in AZ.

Guessing this is part two of signing glass and krugman (short lived). And the Virginia OF going to Kanny (cannot remember his name and on phone)

Yanks are dropping CC and possibly Chapman’s contracts. They saved themselves this offseason on Corbin, they aren’t going to be outbid on a legit piece like Cole.

It is Yankees 1, 2, and 3.

Lol

He may have just gotten better since he is striking out more guys. But the Kanny defense was pretty bad, though that wouldn’t account for so many more hits now. His peripherals were good in Kanny just saw worse results, but maybe he found something his last few starts before promotion that propelled him in A+

Man I struggle to follow pitchers until they become a known thing. Not sure I follow a single kannapolis pitcher. Had no idea Andrew Perez had like a 40% k rate down there

Heyoooo

Huge night for Gladney. And Ivan Gonzalez is killing it

Walker 2 2Bs. Ramos/Gladney singles

Ha, 60/60 is nice but 110/60 is certainly more impressive.

Thanks, definitely 22. Im excited but also still unsure what their production ultimately means. When you even do the exercise on where we believe the Sox feel they rank among each other, it would be reasonable to assume it is: Beard Gladney Ramos Rodriguez Beard was a 4th rounder, Gladney was over slot, Ramos was a 300k day 1 signing on J2, and Rodriguez was a mid year J2 signing originally in DSL a full year. So to what extent does this years production change that order? I don’t even know that it would! Except maybe as a whole we have more shots at a player that makes the big leagues.