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Aaron Judge
Age 22 - A+

283 / 411 / 442
853 OPS
285 AB
8 HR
25.3 K%
17.5 BB%

Justin Gonzalez
Age 19 - A+

266 / 386 / 442
828 OPS
346 AB
15 HR
18.9 K%
13.4 BB%

Not stating any opinion, just putting the numbers out because I was curious.

That engine is revving so hard. I hope he donates his body to science one day. What an incredible athlete.

You’re downing your sixth blue moon watching the Durbinator with a Pedroia- esque moonshot grand slam to halt a 5 game losing streak. The day after Bregman hits 3 HR, To make it about a .950 OPS with 9 bombs over the last 30 games.

The Blue Moon Genie pops out of the next bottle with one of his Faustian bargains. The can get the Commissioner to make an exemption and you can trade Durbin straight up for Bregman and his contract.

You get Bregman with all his playoff experience to head this stretch run. But you also have him for 4 more years at $30M/yr.

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Think of watching Narvaez and Durbin early this year. Take .100 points away from where they were. 😂

Look at this absolute nonsense. What on earth is happening?

I am so happy for Durbin. That’s the most Pedroia-esque quote of all time. Perfect.

I don’t think I can project the physical and mechanical maturation of pitchers I’ve never seen, as well as the Yale graduate in biomechanics who pitched 12 years and revamped two franchises pitching pipelines in the last decade. That would seem really hard to do with people I’ve never seen. I have a full time job and two kids. I’m pretty busy.

I don’t think going on the internet is equivalent to someone with access to data I’ve never heard of, let alone know how to analyze. And who is paid millions of dollars to do so, and who’s entire life is devoted to doing that, and who’s entire life has been spent doing nothing else but baseball.

Baseball runs thru my whole life. But probably not as much as the hypothetical person described above.

I watch 150+ Sox games a year. Read everything about the Sox I can. Read Sox Prospects.

I still don’t think I could likely do that better than Breslow.

Maybe you do.you truly believe you could. In your heart of hearts. And if so, god bless your cotton socks. But I really don’t want to argue with that type.

A no hitter I guess? Even a complete game shut out tomorrow couldn’t do it I don’t think…

Bobby Witt Jr
26 years old
279 / 350 / 450
103 H
13 HR
22 2B
1 3B
30 SB
4.9 bWAR

Salary:
$26M / $26M /$26M / $26M / $26M / $26M / $26M / $26M / $26M

Ceddanne Rafaela
25 years old
287 / 327 / 464
117 H
13 HR
27 2B
3 3B
15 SB
4.7 bWAR

Salary:
$6.2M / $6.2M / $6.2M / $6.2M / $6.2M / $6.2M

fWAR

Yordan Alvarez
Dillon Dingler
Bobby Witt Jr
Kevin McGonigal

bWAR

Kevin McGonigal
Yordan Alvarez
Bobby Witt Jr

Then again, how Breslow has treated outward clubhouse issues, it’s entirely unpredictable.

^A ride.

In the spirit of the fun of the last two weeks, I propose that anyone who wants to buy in to having fun and enjoying the team without bickering about who thought what would happen with the season, be welcomed for good ball talk, and good faith.

Take it from an old fan. As you get older and you just want to be invested in the season to make the summer fun. You’ve got young kids, a busy job….you want on August 15th to be able to kick back and be invested in the outcome as a Red Sox fan.

Get excited and think about best case scenarios. You being mad or disappointed in them isn’t going to alter the direction of the franchise. But when things are good, be irrational. Be fanatic. That’s the origin of the word ‘fan’.

Best feeling I’ve had since Ceddanne’s walk off ice in the veins shot last year. Great couple weeks everyone!

25 years old

2024 - 3.0 bWAR 85 OPS+
2025 - 4.9 bWAR 97 OPS+
2026 (86 games) - 4.0 bWAR 120 OPS+

A platinum glove calibre CF, with a propensity to come through in big moments, with great speed and durability

6 more years AFTER this one, at $6.25M a year. There’s not even a bad backend of the contract. He’ll be a year younger at the end than Bregman was this offseason.

And that last year is a team option! If 31 year old Ceddanne isn’t worth $6.2M a year in 2032 dollars, then you don’t even have to pay him. Which I hope they would even if he was hurt or struggling, just out of appreciation.

At the standard current FA evaluation of 1 WAR = $9M to 10M, he basically paid for the entirety of the extension with his production last year, and has almost done it already this year.

Soto will be paid more than the entirety of the extension every year from now till 2039.

Genuinely curious if there are a couple bargains I’ve forgot about or missed throughout the league, please let me know.

Really happy for him. Dude signed for $10,000 nine years ago. Ten grand. And turned it into $50M between the age of 16 to 25. While navigating an entirely different country and culture. Going from a Caribbean island to the Winters of the east coast. At 5’10, 165 lbs. What a remarkable, mature young man.