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Literally none of these deals had to have any affect on financial flexibility going forward. But I guess you are avoiding that too. They still don't today. I do like how you have assigned the phrase "asset allocation" to cover the Braves getting a bunch of guys worse than Cesar Hernandez so that you can still be mad and trash Cesar Hernandez.

This is you. Yet, somehow when the Braves did it more, and at a higher level, this was a great thing.

He got 60 MiLB games in 2019.

Yet the Braves tried to fill three starting OF positions with worse profiles than the guy you were ripping the Sox for getting, but that is a success. That is some crazy contortions.

But I was told other teams don't run to the media after failed deals to tell their side of the story?

No, you spent post after post trashing Hernandez as toast because it should have been obvious by his stats, when Atlanta just won a world series by picking up four guys with worse profiles than Hernandez, yet Atlanta is a genius.

All with essentially zero minor league time.

This is so wrong, it is hilarious. The amount of hype around the guys on this team like Carlos Rodon, Yoan Moncada, and Luis Robert to start with, blow away anything Andrew Vaughn has seen. Hell the Sox created a freaking T-shit with most of those guys on it before they even hit the majors. Vaughn has actually become extremely underrated and understated precisely because of the hype around the rest of the better known guys.

That was an impressive goal post shift into a completely different topic.

This is huge. I hadn't read the article, but this is as big of a change as has happened with the Sox in a really, really long time.

I have honestly always through the opposite of Levine if you really listen to him. When he let's his guard down, he seems to have a pretty decent level of inside knowledge. The problem is that he seems to be more concerned with protecting his sources than he is about revealing info. if you listen to him as news breaks, he will THEN start to reveal details that could have only been known if he knew something before the news broke. But for whatever reason, he is content not being the guy in front of the news.

Here's the thing. If everyone looks exactly the same, they are either saying the best people for the job are all white males, or they are all saying they aren't hiring the best guys.

To add to this, the last five years of WAR from the Atlanta Braves OFs that won them a World Series, including that Soler guy you were dropping. Soler 17 0.2, 18 3.5, 19 0.3, 20 -1.4, 21 1.1 Duvall, 17 2.0, 18 0.8, 19 0.7, 20 1.9, 21 1.2 Joc 17 --0.4, 18 2.2, 19 2.8, 20 -0.3, 21 -0.1 Rosario 17 1.6, 18 4.3, 19 1.5, 20 1.2, 21 1.1 But somehow Atlanta is a genius for trading for all of these guys in super clear high WAR trends in recent years.

But it wasn't. It was 20 and the 1st half of 21

Except when you are making deadline deals you don't have a full season to look at. You are looking at the partial 20 and 21 seasons at that point. So no, you can't weight the 21 season in this at all, because you were still to play half of it. It's hindsight to pretend that it should apply to the deadline.

I know its Indiana, but my high school team is in the FInal 4 for the 3rd time in 5 years. A win next week on our home turf, and we play in state finals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy on Black Friday.

Or they are getting advice that big contracts may not happen after the new CBA, or at least not as big as now.

Vaughn could actually have more value by being healthy. What's the value of a guy who misses large chunks of the season vs one who plays all year and puts up lesser numbers?

Telling the story that they weren't "cheap" seemed important there.

Do you think the Sox are the only ones who use the media to their advantage? That's a pretty regular occurance.

I did not see their names on any posts, but there was only about a half of a dozen teams I saw named.

Its all good, just wanted to give you the FYI.

As evidenced by the last couple of years, the Sox will set a market for people they view as "their guy". They did it with Hendriks and they did it with Grandal.