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  1. TheYellowDart5

    2023 Yankees Spring Training News & Notes

    Genuinely funny to me that for as good a GM as Cashman is when it comes to making trades, whenever he makes a midseason trade for a starter, it routinely blows up in his face. Montas, Andrew Heaney, Lance Lynn, Sonny Gray ... his track record there is amazingly bad.
  2. TheYellowDart5

    2023 Yankees Spring Training News & Notes

    Super excited for the Yankees to take Danish, teach him the whirly slider and have him suddenly become a 2.00 ERA guy.
  3. TheYellowDart5

    How do you feel now about this team, as opposed to earlier in the off-season?

    This was a last-place team going into the offseason and is a last-place team coming out of it. That's what you get when your strategy is pursuing a lot of cheap boom-or-bust veterans and letting elite talent walk. Frankly there's just about zero the FO could've done after losing Bogaerts that...
  4. TheYellowDart5

    Matt Barnes DFA'd, traded to Marlins for LH reliever Bleier

    Man does that say a lot about the Sox farm system and Bloom and not in a good way. That said Ottavino was good for the '21 team so regardless of what becomes of German, I think that was overall a good deal for Bloom.
  5. TheYellowDart5

    Matt Barnes DFA'd, traded to Marlins for LH reliever Bleier

    German throws hard but he's got fringe control and average or worse grades on all his pitches, he's basically younger Ryan Brasier. I'd rather they keep the younger Brasier with (theoretical) upside over the actual Brasier (or Ort for that matter, I don't get how he's survived this long either)...
  6. TheYellowDart5

    Matt Barnes DFA'd, traded to Marlins for LH reliever Bleier

    I think the answer with "why Barnes" is pretty simple: he doesn't throw 98 anymore. He was consistently 96–97 in his best days and harder than that often, and now he tops out around 96. He did seem to gain some velocity back by season's end — fastball went from 93 in April to 95.5 by September —...
  7. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox acquire SS/3B Adalberto Mondesi for Josh Taylor

    Hard to be upset with an acquisition cost that low, and if nothing else, Mondesi should be an ideal defensive replacement for either of Hernandez or Arroyo (and also allows them to do essentially a double switch with Duvall where Mondesi can run for him and then move to shortstop with Hernandez...
  8. TheYellowDart5

    Sox Sign Raimel Tapia

    Tapia got a minor league deal with a camp invite and would make $2 million with performance bonuses if on the MLB roster, per Chris Cotillo, so not much and suggests the team doesn't see him as anything other than affordable Triple A depth. I doubt he makes the cut unless someone gets hurt.
  9. TheYellowDart5

    2023 International Class

    How is it possible that Yoelin Cespedes isn't related to Yoenis Cespedes
  10. TheYellowDart5

    Do you think that Chaim Bloom came to Boston with a bad rap?

    I've said it elsewhere on this board before but the beginning of the Bloom tenure in Boston reminds me a lot of the beginning of the Friedman tenure in Los Angeles, when it genuinely seemed like he didn't know that he had a bigger budget to work with and didn't have to work with a bunch of...
  11. TheYellowDart5

    Trevor Story had surgery on his right UCL and is expected to miss time

    Forget whether or not Kim is worth trading for; why would San Diego give him up? He's the projected starting second baseman for that team unless Preller gets a first baseman to replace Cronenworth so he can move back to second or decides that Tatis will play there post-suspension, or the...
  12. TheYellowDart5

    Trevor Story had surgery on his right UCL and is expected to miss time

    So the Red Sox bet $140 million on Story's elbow holding up and it didn't, and it ended up giving out because instead of paying Bogaerts, they decided that it was smarter to have Story be the backup plan despite the fact that his elbow was so compromised that he needed surgery after all of a...
  13. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox sign Corey Kluber

    Didn't realize Kluber was below 90 mph on average now; he was never a big velocity guy but he's getting awfully close to Jered Weaver territory with that fastball. He's obviously better than Weaver and should be fine, but he's far from a sure thing and will probably peg out to league average...
  14. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox Rumors - Just Kidding

    I have a hard time seeing Dalbec's place on this roster with Turner now on board as the backup 3B and the backup 1B against lefties. I assume he'll bide his time in Triple-A barring injury or a trade.
  15. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox DFA Jeter Downs to make room on 40 man for Yoshida

    Yeah, Washington is in pure throwing shit at the wall mode, and Downs may well get some run if Luis Garcia flops at second, but he just can't hit, so I imagine he won't be long for D.C. either. And as that tweet suggests, the Nationals are probably the worst franchise imaginable for a guy who...
  16. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox Rumors - Just Kidding

    What's with the interest in Kepler? He rode the gopher ball to a career high in homers in 2019 and has been a league-average or worse hitter since. Doesn't make consistent hard contact, is injury prone. He's an alright defender and a better base runner than Verdugo but why give up anything...
  17. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox acquire Wyatt Mills for Jacob Wallace, DFA Eric Hosmer

    For me it's less about the mechanics of the Rule 5 and more about the process of losing a potentially talented arm for nothing at the expense of a guy who wasn't in their 2022 plans anyway. Maybe adding another lefty bat in Yoshida made Hosmer that much more expendable and his roster spot was...
  18. TheYellowDart5

    The 5 Dumbest Moves in Franchise History

    As the (sort of) thread starter, yeah, my thinking was more "dumbest front office/ownership decisions." Managerial moves is a whole other thing.
  19. TheYellowDart5

    Red Sox acquire Wyatt Mills for Jacob Wallace, DFA Eric Hosmer

    Beyond weird to me that Hosmer was disposable enough that he could be DFA'd in an inconsequential reliever swap but not disposable enough to be booted last month in lieu of the three Rule 5 guys who got taken. The process and timing by which guys get moved off this roster continues to be...
  20. TheYellowDart5

    The 5 Dumbest Moves in Franchise History

    Hard not to see the Mookie Betts trade as one of the five dumbest things this franchise has ever done.
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