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    Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

    I used him, and he scored 4%.
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    Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

    Had a chance to use a guy whose name is only thrown around in this joint as my Giant-Padre. He was at .02%, which is more popular than I expected.
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    Let's Talk About Bello

    Wayne Garland signed for ten years in 1978, which I believe remains the record for a pitcher. His arm fell off almost immediately.
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    Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

    Luis Ortiz. I remembered his modest playing career but forgot that he is our current assistant batting coach. Wikipedia claims that he was the first Dominican MLB player to get a college degree. We traded him and Otis Nixon to get Jose Canseco in 1994.
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    Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

    I remembered that the Red Sox third baseman of the future from thirty years ago washed out and was traded to the Rangers, where he washed out again. His MLB career was nothing much, but he played almost 12 full seasons in AAA and is still very much involved in baseball. It took me all day to...
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    All-Star Rosters 2023

    Jarring to see two Oakland players on here and just one Red Sox player (Verdugo). Going strictly by WAR, that is fair--three A's have more WAR than the #2 Sox player (Connor Wong!). Realistically, Oakland will get only the one courtesy player, probably Rooker. The Red Sox will probably have...
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    Sox Sign OF Adam Duvall to 1 year deal

    Baseball Reference gives him 1.5 WAR for 2021--a near league average player on the strength of his defense. He was indeed terrible in 2022.
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    Sox Sign OF Adam Duvall to 1 year deal

    Andrelton Simmons is available. He is 33 years old, coming off a terrible year, but was previously well above replacement level. In his prime he was regarded as the best defensive shortstop in baseball, and would probably still be good on defense at least. He played in all seven games for the...
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    2023 Offseason Moves

    Rich Hill was signed out of independent ball in 2015, though he had been with the Sox before (and after).
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    Poll: Who Will Play the Most Games at Shortstop for the '23 Red Sox?

    I am tantalized by Andrelton Simmons on the free agent list. He is the same age as Jose Iglesias, and at no point in their lives through 2021 would anyone have doubted Simmons was a better ball player. They have been similar batters over their careers (below average but not useless), and the...
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    Following Former Red Sox 2022 Edition

    Do you ever wonder what happened to all of the marginal players from the 2015 Red Sox? Old friends Alejandro de Aza, Rusney Castillo, Deven Marrero, Sam Travis (farmhand in 2015 who later made the show) and Austin Rei (3rd-round draft pick in 2015 who never made the show) are all playing for the...