Sox Therapy: For Future Considerations

Boston’s offer on the table to J.D. Martinez is $125 million for 5 years, according to “source”. (Yeah, thanks, Boston Herald.) But what are the penalties under the new CBA, and is Boston likely to incur them, if they make that deal? In short: hefty, and yes.

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: Please Delete This Thread

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Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 2011 Results

Congratulations to Jose Bautista on winning his first MMP award!

Player Name	pts	ballots	1sts
Jose Bautista	163	13	8
Matt Kemp	154	13	0
Ryan Braun	140	13	0
Jacoby Ellsbury	138	12	0
Roy Halladay	128	12	2
J Verlander	125	13	1
Cliff Lee	115	11	2
Miguel Cabrera	108	13	0
Clayton Kershaw	73	9	0
Dustin Pedroia	68	10	0
Ben Zobrist	57	8	0
Joey Votto	55	9	0
Adrian Gonzalez	45	9	0
Jered Weaver	19	6	0
C Granderson	19	5	0
Ian Kinsler	19	6	0
Evan Longoria	18	5	0
CC Sabathia	16	4	0
Alex Gordon	16	3	0
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Sox Therapy: The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Lightly Tinted Shades

For the first time in about a decade the Red Sox have a farm system that can best be described as “thin.”  Despite that the Sox are in pretty good shape as the core of the roster is relatively young and club controlled for 2-3 more seasons which is plenty of time for things to be built back up.  With that in mind I want to consider a few guys currently in the system who in my opinion could be breakout stars in 2018;

1B - Josh Ockimey - Likely Start Point*: Portland (AA) - I’ve liked Ockimey ...

Hall of Merit: Miguel Tejada and Placido Polanco

eligible 2019

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 1940 Discussion

The Reds defeated the Tigers in seven games in the World Series. The Homestead Grays and Kansas City Monarchs won their respective leagues. Vote for your top 10.

Player			SH WS		BBR WAR
Johnny Mize		32.0		7.4
Lou Boudreau		29.4		6.0
Luke Appling		29.4		5.4
Hank Greenberg		31.3		7.1
Arky Vaughan		30.7		6.3
Joe DiMaggio		31.3		7.3
Ted Williams		30.1		6.4
Stan Hack		26.3		5.5
Rudy York		26.0		5.3
Joe Cronin		23.6		4.0
Billy Werber		27.2		4.5
Dolph Camilli		25.5		5.0
Lonny Frey		25.1		5.9
Charlie ...

Hall of Merit: 2019 Hall of Merit Ballot Discussion

2019 - (December 2018) - elect 3

Top 10 Returning Players

Luis Tiant (240), Sammy Sosa (238), Kenny Lofton (236), Andruw Jones (220), Jeff Kent (207), Ben Taylor (197), Johan Santana (186), Buddy Bell (139), Bobby Bonds (124), Jorge Posada (105)

Newly eligible players

Player Name	bWAR WS	WAR7	JAWS	HOFm	HOFs
Roy Halladay	64.7	225.5	50.6	57.6	127	45
Todd Helton	61.2	316.5	46.4	53.8	175	59
Andy Pettitte	60.8	228.7	34.1	47.5	128	44
Mariano Rivera	57.1	272.5	28.9	43	214	30
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Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 2011 Ballot

For 2011 each voter should rank the top 15 players from all leagues combined.

Balloting is scheduled to close at 4pm EDT on 7 February 2018.

Anyone can vote, even if you do not normally participate in Hall of Merit discussions. If you have never participated in an MMP election, just post a preliminary ballot in the discussion thread by 6 February 2018.

For detailed rules see one of our previous ballots.

Sox Therapy: Where Is The Offense…It’s Right Over Here

FanGraphs released the Red Sox’ ZiPS projections today and I think it is somewhat enlightening.  With the daily “there are no new updates on J.D. Martinez” updates I think it is worth taking a gander at how the team projects.  I used wOBA because it is a nice neat number to go with and compare year over year;

1B Mitch Moreland - 2017: .326 - 2018: .320
2B Dustin Pedroia - 2017: 331 - 2018: .321
3B Rafael Devers - 2017: .344 - 2018: .341
SS Xander Bogaerts - 2017: .321 - 2018: .335
IF Brock ...

Hall of Merit: Roy Oswalt

Eligible in 2019