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mr.checkerboards said:
2021 migthve been the worst thing to happen to Alex.

If he never wins that WS picking up bums, I think he spends more aggressively.
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I doubt it. I think his Toronto experience really affected him.

If we don't win the WS in 2021, he's probably out at the end of this season along with Snit. Especially since the Mikey and Riley contracts are starting to look like bad ones. Even the "he's signed all these great players to team-friendly long-term contracts" is much weaker than it used to be.
 
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Y’all stay angry at AA, which is an ok position given how he mismanages the things he does control. But he doesn’t control the budget or FA avoidance. That’s his corporate overlords.
 
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LotteryPick said:
Based on?
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05_never_again said:
I doubt it. I think his Toronto experience really affected him.

If we don't win the WS in 2021, he's probably out at the end of this season along with Snit. Especially since the Mikey and Riley contracts are starting to look like bad ones. Even the "he's signed all these great players to team-friendly long-term contracts" is much weaker than it used to be.
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Blake25p said:
Yeah that darned ole WS, who wants that?
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Just my opinion based on how Alex has acted these past couple years. He keeps trying the trash pile hoping to strike gold again.
 
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Weezy said:
Y’all stay angry at AA, which is an ok position given how he mismanages the things he does control. But he doesn’t control the budget or FA avoidance. That’s his corporate overlords.
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I think he has a gap between what we're spending and the upper limit of a budget, and he's choosing not to spend it.

Not using the money saved on these long-term deals (although admittedly on a couple of them they don't look like money saves at all at the moment) elsewhere just doesn't make any sense.
 
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AA is afraid he's going to lose his job by virtue of having a big trade or FA acquisition go awry.

The irony is that he'll eventually lose his job continuing to strike gold in the trash pile. In a bigger market or with an owner that paid more attention to actual baseball team performance, he might have already been shown the door.
 
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If AA offered anything of remote value for Devers without Boston eating a large portion of that contract, he should be fired immediately. You mean to tell me that you are ok shelling out 245 million for an out of shape, primary DH into his mid 30's, but somehow you wouldn't give Freeman 6/160?

GTFOH.
 
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AV_12 said:
James Wold is only 22?? That kid might be a mega star man
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He is really good. He's carrying a pretty high BABIP for a guy that K's as much as he does and isn't a super athletic freak like Acuna/De la Cruz/etc. But at minimum, he looks like he is gonna be a Matt Olson type of hitter.
 
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Carp said:
He is really good. He's carrying a pretty high BABIP for a guy that K's as much as he does and isn't a super athletic freak like Acuna/De la Cruz/etc. But at minimum, he looks like he is gonna be a Matt Olson type of hitter.
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He’s 6’7 and plenty athletic, but not sure what correlation is as he’s just a different player than the guys you mentioned. What hes on pace for at 22 is gonna put him in a different category. He’s just scratching the surface
 
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AV_12 said:
He’s 6’7 and plenty athletic, but not sure what correlation is as he’s just a different player than the guys you mentioned. What hes on pace for at 22 is gonna put him in a different category. He’s just scratching the surface
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I didn't say he was unathletic. I said he isn't an athletic freak like Acuna and De La Cruz (guys who carry a high BABIP despite high K rates, in part because of their elite athleticism).
 
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