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    Larry Lucchino dead at 78

    Well... View: https://twitter.com/tylermilliken_/status/1779489422074875935
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    The Fenway Park Experience

    The twitter snark aside, what actually is this? I can’t be the only one who doesn’t love defense contractors becoming such a prominent part of the Fenway experience. View: https://twitter.com/OverTheMonster/status/1779305090131673429
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    This has been covered up thread. The Dodgers did it because they’re the Dodgers, and no one else is allowed to be the Dodgers:
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Ok, then trade some of them. The idea the Red Sox would have somehow had too many good pitchers at any point over the last four years if they had been more aggressive in free agency is laughable on its face.
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Three posts above you I created an incredibly realistic scenario wherein, with a few smart free agent pitching signings, the 2022, 2023, and 2024 teams all likely would have been competing for the postseason, and have been able to do so without having had to trade any members of a future core...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    You build depth by adding as many good players to your organization as possible. It literally does not matter how you add them. I mean, in the scenarios I posit above, the 2022, 2023, and 2024 teams all do have significantly better depth that those teams did/do in reality. And at no point did I...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Yes, I am just dealing in hypotheticals and the individual names don't matter The point is that the team has opted out of the free agent pitching market for five years, and has no pitching depth as a result. But just to go along with your post, I mean, that seems like a totally fine pitching...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    That was a one-year deal with a player option.
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    The individual names don't matter. It's the broader strategy that does.
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Cool. Then swap them out for Chris Bassitt, or Nate Eovaldi, or Jameson Taillon, or Zack Wheeler, or. . . The Red Sox haven't signed a starting pitcher to a multi-year deal since 2019, because they took a four-year break from caring about the MLB roster, and decided that managing the financial...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Yes, that is my entire point: pitchers get hurt. An incredibly rich team like the Red Sox should therefore be even more aggressive in adding them, thus exercising their economic advantage, not cower from the free agent pitching market like a small market team that cant afford to absorb the injuries.
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    It's not possible for the third richest team in the sport to act like the second?? Here's how easy it would've been for the Sox to build up the depth the Dodgers did, if they hadn't decided to take a four-year break from competing at the MLB level (I won't even mention the names Snell or...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Here's the current roster of MLB starting pitchers under control of the Dodgers: Tyler Glasnow Shohei Ohtani (IL) Bobby Miller Yoshinobu Yamamoto Clayton Kershaw (IL) James Paxton Walker Buehler (IL) Dustin May (IL) Gavin Stone Tony Gonsolin (IL) Their strategy over the past several years has...
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Yes. They signed a free agent pitcher . . . while trading one and letting another one walk, thus totally failing to improve the depth of what was the fatal flaw of the 2023 team.
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    Nick Pivetta to the 15-Day IL retroactive to April 6, with a right elbow flexor strain. (Bernardino called up)

    Yes, they should have. Pitchers get hurt and good teams prepare for that. For a big market team like the Red Sox, they should prepare for it by using their outsized financial resources to build up pitching depth, not be so afraid of pitching injuries that they never sign another free agent...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    Or, as this Over The Monster article says:
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    Dylan Cease traded to Padres

    The Padres were HISTORICALLY unlucky last year - and I don't use that term lightly: By pythagorean wins, they were the 8th best team in all of baseball. If you want to call that "a disaster" and use it as some kind of indictment of AJ Preller's roster construction, you're free to do so, but...
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    Dylan Cease traded to Padres

    A GM's job is to win baseball games, not to continually horde theoretical value in an attempt to win points with people who've read Jonah Keri's book.. Preller took over what was arguably the most irrelevant team in all of baseball (they'd finished under .500 in 6 out of the previous 7 years...
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    Deadspin is Burning

    This is a pretty good tell that you haven't actually read Drew Magary in a decade or so.
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    Deadspin is Burning

    Which gave it a much bigger profile than it ever had when it was pretty much just Will Leitch's personal blog. It became essential reading during Dauliero's tenure -- not because it made such high quality content, but because it set the conversation. Post-Dauliero is really when the content...
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