April 22, 2025Apr 22 The strategy, from what I could interpret, was to get these guys for minimal prospect impact and flip them for something better. how is that going? Booser looks like a stroke of genius. Dude looks like Matt Thornton with the life on his fastball. Assuming he can keep it sort of up, he could net a very nice return. Gilbert has been less encouraging, though serviceable. As of this moment I don’t suspect he has much value.
April 22, 2025Apr 22 33 minutes ago, Lyle Moooton said: The strategy, from what I could interpret, was to get these guys for minimal prospect impact and flip them for something better. how is that going? Booser looks like a stroke of genius. Dude looks like Matt Thornton with the life on his fastball. Assuming he can keep it sort of up, he could net a very nice return. Gilbert has been less encouraging, though serviceable. As of this moment I don’t suspect he has much value. Gilbert's a failed starter with well below average stuff even for a LHR. Might be held back to eat innings for starters who get in early trouble. Booser otoh has to sustain his positive numbers in high leverage for at least 2-3 months. Edited April 22, 2025Apr 22 by caulfield12
April 22, 2025Apr 22 Author 14 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: Gilbert's a failed starter with well below average stuff even for a LHR. Might be held back to eat innings for starters who get in early trouble. Booser otoh has to sustain his positive numbers in high leverage for at least 2-3 months. Thanks?
April 22, 2025Apr 22 The real question is — will Getz get back a better return for these two relievers than Yhoiker Fajardo and Aaron Combs? Edited April 22, 2025Apr 22 by WhiteSox2023
April 22, 2025Apr 22 5 hours ago, Lyle Moooton said: The strategy, from what I could interpret, was to get these guys for minimal prospect impact and flip them for something better. how is that going? Booser looks like a stroke of genius. Dude looks like Matt Thornton with the life on his fastball. Assuming he can keep it sort of up, he could net a very nice return. Gilbert has been less encouraging, though serviceable. As of this moment I don’t suspect he has much value. Boston color man, Lou Merloni, had say during spring training that Red Sox were going to beef up their left side relivers. So he was surprised the Red Sox let Booser go since he was very effective last season. Booser pitched well this past weekend against Boston.
April 22, 2025Apr 22 Boozer looks really good. I'm surprised Boston let him go. He's what playoff teams look for. If he continues to throw it like this he's gonna be very popular at the trade deadline.
April 22, 2025Apr 22 The Sox gave up an interesting lottery ticket for him, so the only reason to do this is to hold him for a few months and turn him into 3 lottery tickets or 1 or 2 prospects with upside who are closer than the DSL. Kind of an arbitrage or what the pinhookers do with yearlings. I guess someone like Bergolla would be satisfactory (although if he doesn't show any power, his ceiling is backup infielder).
April 22, 2025Apr 22 Looking him up, it looks like he has way over pitched his stats because of a .118 BABIP. Looks like regression is probable, but it is nice to see someone overachieving. xERA 3.01 FIP 4.82 xFIP 3.53
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