His DRS was solid in 2022. He is a competent shortstop far superior to any of the other options on the Sox roster, which is all they need until Story or Mondesi get healthy. They do not currently have a competent, healthy SS on their 40 man, or have you not been watching the games?
Have you not noticed how many mediocre to horrendous teams there are across baseball this year? Citing their judgment as proof your argument is correct is far from convincing.
Maybe.
I think we’re making more or less the same point: Bogaerts on this team doesn’t make much difference, wins-wise.
If Xander was here, Hernandez isn’t playing shortstop, therefore we don’t have 13 errors from the position. How that translates to wins, who can say, but they probably allow a good bit fewer runs
From quick beer math they've given up 25 unearned runs this year. (I could be off on that total haha) Does anyone know if there is anywhere that breaks those unearned runs down from errors by position? Would be really curious how many unearned runs Hernandez epic failure as a SS has created.
Unless your argument is that those teams aren't even trying to win then the fact that none of those mediocre or worse teams had any interest in him twice for the league minimum should tell you something
Fangraphs has Kike the SS at -4.4 defensive runs above average. Sox as a team are actually a little better than I might have guessed -- 23rd at -6.7, ahead of Atlanta and Baltimore.
Yea, I've seen his advanced fielding numbers. Those are easy to find on fangraphs and BRef. Was wondering if there's a breakdown by unearned runs by position anywhere.
People would be freaking out. Mostly because those Xander numbers aren't evenly distributed. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=bogaexa01&year=2023&t=b#month
This is not remotely accurate. Out of 22 players with at least 900 innings played at shortstop in 2022, he was tied for 3rd worst DRS in the league.
I like to see those unearned runs numbers by Hernandez as well as that Enmanuel Valdez at second. Valdez was pretty bad fielding as Hernandez. They both would make good trade chips at the deadline.
things may be close to unraveling in SD
Third highest payroll after the Mets and Yanks, and an empty cupboard after the GFIN Soto (et al) trades.
My understanding is it's the opposite. It's a top ten market and O'Malleys grandson who bought the team is a guy who likes his data. At the same time I think the city and team have dumped a tremendous amount of money into the area to revitalize it. Kind of a perfect storm for spending.
For 1B, between Hosmer (bottom of sheet) and Croneworth, you're looking at 16 this year, then 19, then $21M.
I think that's the gist of it. He's spending money to try to win the city's first championship. And the fans, used to spend-thrifty owners and firesales, are buying in on the championship aspirations (hence the booing this weekend).
Oh shit, I didn't even put that together when I heard the Bally news.
Well sorta. They may have forgot they also compete with the beaches which is a bit cheaper. If they’re winning, it’s not an issue
Well at least Bogaerts' contract stays fairly flat. Machado appears to be quite backloaded, which is exactly where you want to be paying a guy who will be in his mid-late 30s.
| 2014 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 77 | 85 | .475 | -- | 3 | 17.0 | dnq |
| 2015 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 74 | 88 | .457 | -- | 4 | 18.0 | dnq |
| 2016 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 68 | 94 | .420 | -- | 5 | 23.0 | dnq |
| 2017 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 71 | 91 | .438 | -- | 4 | 33.0 | dnq |
| 2018 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 66 | 96 | .407 | -- | 5 | 25.5 | dnq |
| 2019 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 70 | 92 | .432 | -- | 5 | 36.0 | dnq |
| 2020 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 37 | 23 | .617 | -- | 2 | 6.0 | Lost in Division Series (Dodgers) |
| 2021 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 79 | 83 | .488 | -- | 3 | 28.0 | dnq |
| 2022 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 89 | 73 | .549 | -- | 2 | 22.0 | Lost in NLCS (Phillies) |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres | NL | MLB | SDN | General Manager | 37 | 41 | .474 | -- | 4 | 9.5 | -- |
If you call Gwynn a singles hitter, then same for Wade Boggs (Gwynn had more HRs per AB, not by a lot though, than Boggs).
I mean, buying what? I guess they could effectively fire Nelson Cruz and Matt Carpenter and add a DH, but otherwise they are pretty stocked already.
The 90s Indians were largely built from the draft or trades for young players they then broke in as rookies : Thome, Belle, Manny, Brian Giles, Charles Nagy and Jaret Wright (among others) were drafted. Bartolo Colon was an IFA. As for the rookies-from-elsewhwere, in '89 they traded one year of Joe Carter to SD for a young Carlos Baerga and Sandy Alomar! Then in '91 they acquired a young Kenny Lofton for his rookie campaign.
They are 37-41 so there have to be some holes, right? Catcher? Upgrade at 1B or CF, or one of the rotation spots and/or bullpen? I get that they can expect some improvement from Machado and a few other guys, but enough to make up that deficit?
That 91 draft (Manny) woof
That may be true, but they really threw a lot of money (and talent, in the case of the Soto trade) at a 2022-24 window. If they don't win, and Soto walks (or is exorbitant to sign) I'm not sure that far-off talent will be enough to energize the club before Xander, Darvish, Machado, Musgrove, and Croneworth turn into $100M to $120M per year of averageish production.
Agreed.
