April 25, 20214 yr So far, it looks like the front office didn't blow it by locking up Eaton early before he was taken. Eaton is actually leading the Sox in RBI right now. Adam Eaton 2021 32 CHW AL 17 76 66 14 17 4 0 3 16 1 0 7 16 .258 .355 .455 .810 131 30 Joc Pederson 2021 29 CHC NL 16 61 51 5 7 0 1 1 4 0 0 7 20 .137 .262 .235 .498 41 12 And then there's Nomar Mazara 2021 26 DET AL 12 40 38 3 9 0 0 2 5 0 0 2 7 .237 .275 .395 .670 89 15
April 25, 20214 yr It was so painful watching Mazara play last year. What a disappointment he was. Eaton has been about as expected, maybe even a little better. Joc has been a major bust. Maybe there’s a reason it took so long for him to find an interested team last winter. It is interesting how I haven’t heard much about him considering 95% of the board was devastated that the Sox signed Eaton over him. ?
April 25, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: It was so painful watching Mazara play last year. What a disappointment he was. Eaton has been about as expected, maybe even a little better. Joc has been a major bust. Maybe there’s a reason it took so long for him to find an interested team last winter. It is interesting how I haven’t heard much about him considering 95% of the board was devastated that the Sox signed Eaton over him. ? It’s still early but returns are solid so far. Just hope we don’t hear about Joc anymore because of Eaton’s good play and not because of Joc’s crappiness. Edited April 25, 20214 yr by TheTruth05
April 25, 20214 yr Let’s see where everything stands at the 54 game mark. Statistics will always swing violently over the course of just a week in the first 6-8 weeks. The question about his offensive punch left remaining was just as concerning as staying on the field. That has at least partially been answered. It’s also possible Verdugo would have been a better fit...trading for Mitch Haniger, etc. In terms of opportunity cost, surrendering no talent in return, just $$$ but not committing longer term seems to have been the best move.
April 25, 20214 yr I’ve been happy with Eaton so far, but it’s WAY too early for this thread. Let’s also not forget that a big reason people were concerned with an Eaton signing was because of Adam’s history of missing time. Hopefully he can remain healthy, but him having one strong month doesn’t change anything there.
April 25, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, caulfield12 said: Let’s see where everything stands at the 54 game mark. Statistics will always swing violently over the course of just a week in the first 6-8 weeks. The question about his offensive punch left remaining was just as concerning as staying on the field. That has at least partially been answered. It’s also possible Verdugo would have been a better fit...trading for Mitch Haniger, etc. In terms of opportunity cost, surrendering no talent in return, just $$$ but not committing longer term seems to have been the best move. Verdugo?
April 25, 20214 yr Watching Eaton in RF and Mercedes at DH instead of Mazara and EE... has allowed most of us to take a step back from the ledge.
April 25, 20214 yr 7 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said: Verdugo? Had we traded with the Dodgers to shore up RF last year...
April 25, 20214 yr 22 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: Had we traded with the Dodgers to shore up RF last year... Yeah we should have traded Betts for Verdugo.
April 25, 20214 yr Personally, I wouldn’t want Verdugo on my team. https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2020/2/6/21124292/red-sox-dodgers-alex-verdugo-the-unspoken-problem-with-the-mookie-betts-david-price-trade
April 25, 20214 yr 42 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: Had we traded with the Dodgers to shore up RF last year... Which player were we giving up comparable to Mookie Betts?
April 25, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said: Which player were we giving up comparable to Mookie Betts? He was still a rental at the time of the deal, just like Machado in 2018...so the likes of Cease, Lopez, Dunning or Crochet wouldn’t have interested the Dodgers? They run Scott Alexander out there as their primary LH high leverage guy. How can we keep claiming to have the most amazing collection of young talent in the history of the universe (jerksticks) yet we either can’t trade them out of necessity or they’re overvalued by the Sox...? Are we so sure that Garrett Crochet is going to be worth more fWAR than Verdugo, for example? Edited April 25, 20214 yr by caulfield12
April 25, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, caulfield12 said: Had we traded with the Dodgers to shore up RF last year... Who would we have traded? He got dealt for Mookie Betts.
April 25, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Chicago White Sox said: I’ve been happy with Eaton so far, but it’s WAY too early for this thread. Let’s also not forget that a big reason people were concerned with an Eaton signing was because of Adam’s history of missing time. Hopefully he can remain healthy, but him having one strong month doesn’t change anything there. I mean he's already .9 fWAR ahead of Joc. All the games count, even in April. That's a nice start from Adam relative to his main competition this offseason for the OF role, at least in the eyes of Soxtalk. I do agree that he's at a heightened risk of missing time (or losing production) due to injury but so far so good. Edited April 25, 20214 yr by chitownsportsfan
April 25, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, caulfield12 said: He was still a rental at the time of the deal, just like Machado in 2018...so the likes of Cease, Lopez, Dunning or Crochet wouldn’t have interested the Dodgers? They run Scott Alexander out there as their primary LH high leverage guy. How can we keep claiming to have the most amazing collection of young talent in the history of the universe (jerksticks) yet we either can’t trade them out of necessity or they’re overvalued by the Sox...? Are we so sure that Garrett Crochet is going to be worth more fWAR than Verdugo, for example? Because the Dodgers we were looking for an MVP type talent if they were moving Verdugo and not prospects?
April 25, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: It was so painful watching Mazara play last year. What a disappointment he was. How could he have been a disappointment? Mazara has sucked out loud at baseball his entire career. IMO, he was exactly as shitty at baseball as he'd always been, and thus, he was exactly as expected. It was a disappointment that this FO were stupid enough to trade for a shitty DFA candidate like Mazara. Edited April 25, 20214 yr by Two-Gun Pete
April 25, 20214 yr 15 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said: I mean he's already .9 fWAR ahead of Joc. All the games count, even in April. That's a nice start from Adam relative to his main competition this offseason for the OF role, at least in the eyes of Soxtalk. I do agree that he's at a heightened risk of missing time (or losing production) due to injury but so far so good. But so do the games in May, June, July, August, & September, which is my point. I don’t disagree the early returns look promising, but it’s way too early to declare a victor.
April 25, 20214 yr Also notable is that Springer still hasnt touched the field with injury, JBJ sucks, Dahl sucks, and all the other fringe guys have been meh also. So, Eaton turned out to be the best fit for Current needs. Brantley is the big miss...but Yermin may never happen if they signed him.
April 25, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, caulfield12 said: Had we traded with the Dodgers to shore up RF last year... I would have preferred to keep Mookie Betts myself.
April 25, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said: Because the Dodgers we were looking for an MVP type talent if they were moving Verdugo and not prospects? Caulfield needs to pass me a little bit of whatever he is on.
April 25, 20214 yr 19 minutes ago, Two-Gun Pete said: How could he have been a disappointment? Mazara has sucked out loud at baseball his entire career. IMO, he was exactly as shitty at baseball as he'd always been, and thus, he was exactly as expected. It was a disappointment that this FO were stupid enough to trade for a shitty DFA candidate like Mazara. Mazara was 5th in ROY voting at 21. At 22 he had 20 homers and 100 RBI's. He improved his OPS every year at Texas, and his dWar improved every year. He was a lefty hitting RF that fit in with the age group of our young core. Of course there were risks but it wasn't "stupid" to take a chance last year on him. I think an Eaton bounce back was as risky this year as a Mazara bounce back. Sometimes you get lucky.
April 25, 20214 yr 22 minutes ago, Two-Gun Pete said: How could he have been a disappointment? Mazara has sucked out loud at baseball his entire career. IMO, he was exactly as shitty at baseball as he'd always been, and thus, he was exactly as expected. It was a disappointment that this FO were stupid enough to trade for a shitty DFA candidate like Mazara. He was not exactly as expected, not even close. He hit 1 home run and 30+ points lower than his career batting average and OPS 160 points lower than his career average. He already has more home runs this season in less than a third of the games he played last season. If he was the typical .750-.780 OPS guy last season that he had been for his entire career prior to 2020, I would have been fine with that.
April 25, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, ron883 said: Caulfield needs to pass me a little bit of whatever he is on. Steps of caulfield posting: 1. See a players name in yahoo news binge 2. Regurgitate all players names in wherever thread you happen to post 3. get pushback on why player you don’t really know was mentioned 4. furiously, quickly research to try and create a reason why it makes sense 5. dig deeper hole 6. Never back down
April 25, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, michelangelosmonkey said: Mazara was 5th in ROY voting at 21. At 22 he had 20 homers and 100 RBI's. He improved his OPS every year at Texas, and his dWar improved every year. He was a lefty hitting RF that fit in with the age group of our young core. Of course there were risks but it wasn't "stupid" to take a chance last year on him. 11 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: He was not exactly as expected, not even close. Look, Mazara has never ever produced >1 fWAR in a season. Which means he has ALWAYS sucked at baseball. Trading anything for a guy who has never ever produced >1 fWAR in a season is, by definition, stupid. He sucked, and it sucked to trade for a guy who sucks.
April 25, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, Two-Gun Pete said: Look, Mazara has never ever produced >1 fWAR in a season. Which means he has ALWAYS sucked at baseball. Trading anything for a guy who has never ever produced >1 fWAR in a season is, by definition, stupid. He sucked, and it sucked to trade for a guy who sucks. One of the pervading themes on Soxtalk is that a 24 year old is a finished product. Mazara's bWAR went from -0.3 to 0.5 to 1.0 in the years before we traded for him. As a GM you have two routes to follow, paying for past performance or trying to extrapolate where a player is going to end up...an offensively and defensively improving 24 year old lefty seemed like a reasonable bet. It didn't work out...but no matter how many times you write "sucks" in a post...it was a reasonable calculated gamble.
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