I'd love to take a chance on him. Maybe the Angels prefer only one project-type in the outfield with Moniak, who can play CF and better fits the handedness of Ward/Trout/Renfroe/Phillips. Seems like they've decided to go for it, so it's possible they have better uses for the 40-man roster spot than Adell.
I was mildly interested when I thought Sanchez might have a decent platoon split. But he doesn't. Pass.
None of this is wrong, but I'd have to imagine that Dalbec has a lot more value to a club that isn't competing and has an opening at 3B, and thus should want to see if Dalbec can flourish with a different hitting coach, etc., and emerge as a real starter. 70 power, playable defense at 3B, and a pretty good batting eye are a decent set of carrying tools if he can get the hit tool to within range of acceptable, and if I'm running the Oakland A's, say, I might well be interested. Jace Peterson is their incumbent at 3B: a 32 year old utilityman, and then they have Zack Gelof in AAA.
I got excited for a second when I saw the headline because I thought it might be Luke Voit, who might have some value for us, but Sanchez? Hard pass.
Mondesi is an odd one. He was 3rd in MLB in sprint speed in 2016 & top 12 through 2020. Then in '21 he dropped to 99th & then missed most of '22 with a torn ACL going back to the base on a pickoff throw.
Yeah, I doubt Duran would have much value to them. I would see they'd take someone like Josh Taylor for him.
At times it will be whoever Cora decides needs a semi day off as well as match ups.
If Josh Taylor is actually healthy we kinda need him; we're pretty thin on LHP relief.
Hurst would be a close second, but yeah. And I'm not just playing the results, Hurst was red-hot coming in. I'll never forget him shutting out the Jays for the almost-clincher. Before a postseason run that included two brilliant WS starts and a third CG win in the ALCS, he had a run of four CG (two shutouts) in September, plus a meaningless throwaway last start against the Yankees.
| Competitive Balance Tax Threshold | $233,000,000 |
| Active AAV/Payroll | $162,070,833 |
| Est. Arbitration AAV/Payroll | $18,769,382 |
| Est. Pre-Arbitration AAV/Payroll | $5,565,000 |
| Estimated Player Benefits | $16,500,000 |
| Estimated Minor League Contracts | $2,250,000 |
| Pre-Arbitration Bonus Pool Contribution | $1,666,666 |
| Proj. Tax Payroll | $182,487,499 |
| Proj. Tax Payroll (Active + Est. Arb + Est. Pre-Arb) | $206,821,881 |
I think this will add some offense behind the plate. The old rule of thumb is to build up the middle and the Red Sox probably have the weakest "up the middle" of any team in baseball at this point.
I think Spotrac is the least accurate of the sites that track this, but they are similar to Cot's or Fangraphs.
It's strange. I just looked at his statcast page and he's underperformed relative to his batted ball profile every season except his rookie year. Last year was particularly drastic re his slugging:
Looking at their spreadsheet, it appears the main difference is including all potential bonuses as guaranteed AAV. Which if they want to be sure they are under is probably the correct thing to do.
Martin appears to be reported at 2/$17.5m everywhere else except Spotrac which has it as a 2/$13.5m. Weird discrepancy. It looks like Spotrac is missing the $4m signing bonus. Cots on the other hand has him at $7.5m per year for some reason?
Merrifield has played more games at second base than he has in the outfield. He would be a good RH option in the outfield and might be worth the financial hit.
I go with your suggestions. Sign Andrus and Iggy. Actually both decent players. Don't trade players for a shortstop. Red Sox got what 20 million under the cap? They can snag one or two of them. My only exception to this is for a trade is if the Red Sox can get Kim Ha- seong. I guess something will happen before spring training starts.
Whit also has an OPS+ of 92 over the last 300 games. He just isn’t any good anymore. No way I trade assets for him when I could just sign a comparable player for free.
and he always seems to hit bombs over the Green Monster. Now until spring training should be very interesting for Chaim Bloom and our Red Sox.
I really don't see a place for him here with Turner likely being the primary DH. To go along with his defensive woes I seem to remember an issue with pitchers preferring to throw to other catchers. @jon abbey might be able to shed a bit of light here
I think Sanchez's reputation as a bad defensive catcher is maybe a bit overstated.
38 homers and a gold glove? Heck yeah.
Sanchez would have to pay the Sawx to let him even get an invite to ST. Very Very hard NO!
Concur. I can't f'in stand Gary Sanchez. Just seeing his pukey face makes me want to punch him.
Any insight on his ability to play CF? He had 44 games there last year and 30 in 2021, and then one other inning in CF over the course of his career.
Duvall grades out remarkably highly in OAA in CF: 2 OAA in 210 innings in 2021, 3 OAA in 382 innings in 2022.
This team desperately needs right handed hitting or LHP will dominate them. Duvall still put up a good split. vs leftys last year (0.844 OPS), so if he is used as a platoon bat/4th OF he would be a great addition to the lineup. He has also graded out pretty well defensively over his career, with even pretty good marks in CF.
This is music to my ears Jon. Thanks a lot. Only thing that would make this news better was if the Yanks signed him to a multiple year contract with Judge numbers
How is Duvall defensively? I was on board for him as a bench bat before Story went down. A reasonable trade for Kim and signing Duvall and Iglesias would be a decent recovery.
