http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/14/the-case-for-alex-cobb/ 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/2018/03/14/the-case-for-alex-cobb/#comment-15949 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:04:45 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=36243#comment-15949 Teachdad046
I agree that they’re not signing Cobb with a $232M payroll. Unfortunately. And next year is just as bad. BTW the Porcello 2.0 WAR for ’17 is from fangraphs where he was, in fact, the fourth-best starter by WAR for the Sox. Which is odd because I thought fWAR was FIP-based and Porcello gives up a lot of homers.

]]> http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/14/the-case-for-alex-cobb/#comment-15948 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:54:01 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=36243#comment-15948 I completely agree with everything you wrote, Cam. But there’s a fly in the ointment, isn’t there? Signing Cobb would most likely result in the Sox exceeding the $237 million salary cap and cost them the highest tax, no? I’m also curious that you chose Porky as the Sox Number Four Starter. Based on what? By WAR he was seventh (!); by rotation he started the opener and then, as we all sadly remember, the ‘rotation’ was a mess with ERod, Price, and Wright all missing significant time. But other than the cap, I totally agree…

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