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  1. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Shaw was an absurd choice to make the 2022 roster. And as a pretty big fan of Kiké Hernandez, Red Sox center fielder, I really disliked the idea of moving him to short, which weakened the defense substantially in the two most significant areas. But as it was all in service of staying under the...
  2. chawson

    Cora, Cora, Cora!

    I don't have especially strong feelings about Cora. He seems alright to me, and I don't understand others' disdain for him. I much prefer him to a good ole boy type manager like Valentine or Farrell, and I think given the other negative factors for those weighing a decision to play in Boston...
  3. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    I’m happy to admit that I don’t know! None of us knows the whole scoop behind trade talks. But that’s not evidence that a solution was there. And line drive aside, there really is a finite number of pitchers who can pitch better than Houck, a guy who’s on our team the next half decade. There’s...
  4. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    I don’t know what you want me to say, man. I agreed with you that it would have been a more valuable signing, at least after one year, and supplied relevant reporting. The articles state that Senga only considered teams ready to contend.
  5. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    This is a good one, though Senga reportedly wanted to sign with the Mets. Curious to see how it turns out, and of course whether rostering Yoshida has any effect on Yamamoto. I guess we’ll never know. But let’s get those pitchforks ready anyway!
  6. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    I get that this argument is attractive. It's unfalsifiable. We don't know what we don't know, and we need someone to blame for failing to bring that unknown—which clearly would have solved everything—into reality. In actual reality, it's not an infinite pool of available pitchers. It's a...
  7. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Because for a long time, it genuinely didn't seem like we needed help. On July 31st, here's what our pitching staff's numbers looked like: Paxton - 3.58 xFIP Sale - 3.64 Houck - 3.84 Murphy - 3.87 (in bulk relief) Pivetta - 3.88 Whitlock - 3.89 Bello - 4.04 Crawford - 4.18 Kluber - 5.81 From...
  8. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Oh, whoops! Sorry. Yeah, Jaffe is pretty much only good for HoF stuff. It just immediately reminded me of that kind of bombshell line in the Athletic piece. Maybe that was reported before, but it was certainly news to me that Dombrowski originated the Mookie trade.
  9. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Absolutely not true. It was Dombrowski, in fact. https://theathletic.com/4863711/2023/09/14/mccullough-chaim-bloom-mookie-betts-deal/ One hundred and eight days after the Fenway Sports Group hired Bloom as its chief baseball officer, John Henry’s ownership group authorized a trade of Mookie...
  10. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Again, who? Flaherty (-0.6 bWAR) Lorenzen (-0.4 bWAR) Montgomery (0.8 bWAR, would have cost equivalent of Rafaela/Yorke/Whitlock—we don't have a FV 50 SP prospect like Roby—and Meidroth) Scherzer (1.0 bWAR; would have cost Yorke at least; out for season) Verlander (0.5 bWAR, NTC, cost the FV...
  11. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    We were also plausibly in the shortstop market and had yet to sign Turner (or another DH type who could provide protection for Casas), and were still mandated not to exceed the first threshold. A lot of us wanted to take on Yelich's salary for Willy Adames, or trade for Joey Wendle ($6M) or...
  12. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Well, sure. But try this exercise: How about you go back and identify the exact correct FA signings it would have required to field a contending team and stay under the tax two of the last three years? Also factor that the team was seemingly willing to pay Bogaerts something like 6/$175 if it...
  13. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Because the perception around the league was that he was too rigid/inflexible/indecisive and they need to change the perception. Or because we’re probably about to spend a lot of money/prospects and it’s probably better to get someone more freewheeling for that. And for PR reasons, because...
  14. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    As R(s)HF notes, it’s an exceptionally short list of pitchers who fit this bill, using hindsight. I’d add Gausman to the list too, though you’d be relying on him to be the same guy during his age 33-35 seasons. Possible, but we’ll see. There’s also the likelihood that they always planned for...
  15. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    In my first post on the topic, the plan as I see it would have been to play Duran in LF or CF and Kiké or Verdugo in RF. Totally agree that Duran is not a RF. Okay then where would Duran, a then 26-year-old prospect, have gotten PAs in 2022 after putting up a .925 OPS in April/May? Had...
  16. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Couldn't agree more. And like everywhere else, labor's share of total revenue has shrunk across MLB. Tanking is a scheme, and I'm glad that (outside of rare and conditional circumstances like 2020, maybe) it's simply not possible in Boston. I think the "only way to win is with...
  17. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    This is a big piece! Pitching now is max effort all the time, so injuries are way more prevalent. And far more often than in previous generations, elite production is more often the result of customized performance training systems (sometimes conducted privately by the player) than “true talent.”
  18. chawson

    The Red Sox have fired Chaim Bloom

    Yes of course, and I was among them. But that's not my point. I'm saying that JBJ was not the target to take over right field. The real bet was that Duran, or to a lesser extent Cordero, would seize the job. I'm saying that clearing a lane for an emerging prospect to make the leap from the...
  19. chawson

    Which AL East team(s) would you trade places with right now?

    This is where I'm at too. The Orioles have a mighty pen and position prospects galore. OTOH, they've got rotation questions behind Rodriguez and Bradish, and they don't have a tremendous track record for identifying major league talent over the last five years, and their immense prospect depth...
  20. chawson

    Which AL East team(s) would you trade places with right now?

    You're right, thanks. Okay - I needed a FV cutoff so I wasn't comparing unequivalent top tens across organizations. Those were readily available. Is there another more updated site for individual rankings that uses FV or equivalent? I wanted to go a little deeper than guys in the Top 100 but...
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