http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/10/13/assessing-the-sluggers/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/10/13/assessing-the-sluggers/#comment-14790 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:42:14 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=28202#comment-14790 I agree completely. After the Sandoval, Rusney
Castillo contracts and Hanley Ramirez’s crappy 2017 season, how could they even contemplate the gargantuan investment in players and money and the massive degree of risk in acquiring Stanton.
J. D. Martinez can serve as the big bat at a fraction of the cost and not present the risk of bankrupting the team!

]]> http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/10/13/assessing-the-sluggers/#comment-14779 Sat, 14 Oct 2017 05:46:05 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=28202#comment-14779 Considering that Stanton will be drawing nearly $30MM/yr for the latter 7 years of this contract, it would seem to be futile to hope that he might opt out in 3 years so as to minimize the long-term damage to his new team. This is a contract so awful on the face of it that suddenly the Miggy and Pujols contracts don’t look like outliers. No sane team should want to be stuck with this–it is impossible to imagine what Stanton would have to produce to make the next 3-5 years worth the inevitable decline to follow. An oft-injured, high-priced complainer–the Sox might have their quota already.

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