southsider2k5

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.

All you do here is set the Yankess and Dodgers up to win every single year. This would be awful.

There was some weird hypertext in your post, which I just deleted. Sometimes if you copy from a different source the hypertext comes with if you don 't utilize the plain text option when you paste it here.

This exactly. Dude is going to paint anything as a win, even if it wasn't. Its quite literally his job.

Honestly, the most likely scenario is that both Hahn and Boras wins here. Scotty gets him more money than the QO, but they Rodon turns in the same injury riddled seasons that he has for most of his career.

The irony of course being that the teams that spent the most to "compete" all got bounced early.