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  1. johnlos

    2023 Starting Rotation

    Surprised it isn't worse honestly. But the point is Houck has been particularly susceptible to this (well known) phenomenon for years which is why he's always been considered a fringe starter. For the record I'm also not sold on Whitlock as a starter either, so I'll leave it to the analytics...
  2. johnlos

    2023 Starting Rotation

    Amen. The stats are staggering: View: https://twitter.com/IanMBrowne/status/1658274691444879360
  3. johnlos

    2023 Starting Rotation

    Why did we have to add someone on Jan 12? We I get that we eventually wanted to bring in an arm with Sale/Paxton being big ?s but if we weren't going to sign a frontline guy there were tons of options. Thanks, didn't realize it was that complicated. Yeah, In a sense Wacha did sign for more...
  4. johnlos

    2023 Starting Rotation

    Seems like the front office severely overthought Kluber vs. bringing Wacha back. -0.4 to 1.0 WAR. Dunno if Wacha would have signed 1/$10 but considering he took 4/$24 he probably would have signed for less...
  5. johnlos

    Should the Red Sox sign Dansby Swanson?

    Yeah I buy the argument with the Story contract we can't tack on Dansby as well (especially consider luxury tax as last three posts rightly pointed out). Then again, if X had agreed to 7/$200 (a bit more than Swanson's 7/$177), very few people would be questioning the decision and we don't...
  6. johnlos

    Should the Red Sox sign Dansby Swanson?

    We could have signed all those guys and Swanson and still be only 9th in payroll. Maybe it's not worth it for 2 wins with Mayer coming up the pipe, but what's the evidence that we "probably don't" sign them? We were 4th, 6th, and 6th in payroll the last 3 years.
  7. johnlos

    Should the Red Sox sign Dansby Swanson?

    Seems like y'all are largely talking past each other. Three things can simultaneously be true: 1) The Sox are overachieving expectations due to unexpectedly great OF play (way to go Verdugo; love you Jarren!; Yoshida you're the king we dreamed of! Miss you Duvall :_( ) 2) The middle infield...
  8. johnlos

    Should the Red Sox sign Dansby Swanson?

    Apparently so!
  9. johnlos

    Mookie redux

    Lol just seeing this treasure of a post now. Great work. Poor John Henry not being able to fill his doubloon swimming pool aside, I'm stoked that Verdugo is matching Betts in WAR so far this year (paired with 0.4 WAR from solid Connor Wong). Will be interesting to see how these two compare from...
  10. johnlos

    Should the Red Sox sign Dansby Swanson?

    Swanson now 2nd in NL in WAR View: https://twitter.com/baseball_ref/status/1658170387308371984?s=46&t=umenR-2WWoXV9hGQVNjWGA
  11. johnlos

    Baseball America Top 100 ‘23: 5 Red Sox

    DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS
  12. johnlos

    What about Bobby?

    Starting at SS tonight. Gotta get his bat in the lineup when he's on one of his heaters I guess
  13. johnlos

    Kaleb Ort appreciation thread

    Thanks for the breakdown. Would be a lot easier for people to root for Ort I think if he were 26 (like Thad) instead of 31. But for a reliever I think all the upside you're looking for is 3-4 years of a guy that could pitch in a playoff game so I don't think the age matters a ton. FWIW Thad...
  14. johnlos

    Kaleb Ort appreciation thread

    Agreed. Just think more people should be aware of what goes into these roster decisions. Rooting for the guy for sure--even more so when he gets compared to Casey Fossum in the KOat
  15. johnlos

    Kaleb Ort appreciation thread

    I was previously accused of working for Scott Boras--so my posts must be getting better!
  16. johnlos

    Kaleb Ort appreciation thread

    He's the biggest punching bag I've seen on SoSH this past year with more than a handful of posts wishing him off the roster. Rationale for keeping the 31 year-old Ort on the roster--despite mediocre in-game performance--is summarized in this The Athletic piece from last September. Tl;dr: he...
  17. johnlos

    What does 2023 look like?

    To answer the original question "What does 2023 look like?" A dutch angle. *Photo courtesy of Jomboy but somehow it looks even worse in the bottom half
  18. johnlos

    2022 Rule 5 Draft

    Honestly pulling for Ort--he gets called out on here than anyone not named Pedro Sandoval
  19. johnlos

    2022 Rule 5 Draft

    Nice we got Politi back. Good minors stats but didn't show this spring (6.23 ERA, 1.38 WHIP in 8.2 innings)
  20. johnlos

    Baseball America Top 100 ‘23: 5 Red Sox

    Still can't get over all these prospect guys rating Yoshida at the bottom of or outside the top 100 prospects in baseball. Longenhangen doesn't have Yoshida in his top-112 (https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2023-top-100-prospects/), and as that imminent big leaguers piece^ indicates he does indeed...
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