Look at Ray Ray Run

Agree 100% Deals like that are for one year wonders or teams at the back end of a window.

These guys don't get to be elite professional athletes by not caring about starting and playing. That's the competitive nature that drives them.

And heck, I'm happy for the guy. Really gotten to like McCann as a player and teammate in his time here. Ill hate to see him go but excited for him to get paid and rewarded for all his hard work.

Yeah, and why would McCann want to sign somewhere to be a back-up? He was already pissed the Sox signed Grandal and that he wasn't starting; he's just been a pro about it. He doesn't want to stay here and catch 1 out of every 5 days I'd guess.

I don't think McCann would have any interest in coming back; he has one chance to get paid and start somewhere to finish off his career. He's earned it. Plenty of great pitchers have had personal catchers, but their personal catchers weren't all-star caliber player. McCann has made himself a lot of money, and the Sox can't sink that much into catchers imo. Pretty strong words from a former Cy Young winner with a half decade in baseball.

Stone just said he's never seen a connection/bond/relationship like the McCann/Giolito one in all his years in baseball.

A game thread Visionary. Can't believe Lucas f*cked up the perfect game. Texted my old man in the 2nd inning that this was a perfect game in the making; Pirates have quit on the season, two "OK" players they do have are out, they weren't being patient and have never seen him or his change. The pace was in his favor and them swinging early was a great sign. The walk sucks, but NO HITTER!

Never forget when Rick Renteria called it a luxury, and not a strategy, for James McCann to catch Lucas Giolito. Dumb. As. Shit.

nice call here ?

Gio gonna be kicking himself when that walk is what makes this a no-hitter instead of a perfecto in 5 innings.

now we're back

I do; i think these guys are using streams or something. the cable services are showing thome.

Moncada's ball was not hit hard at all.

Brault wanted absolutely nothing to do with Anderson or Abreu.

The DBacks will offer a QO to Ray regardless of what happened this year, no?

Will Tim Anderson make an out tonight?

Goins used to be a hell of a defender. He's still a real good one. He just never figured out how to hit. He was elite at 2nd base defensively when he was younger with the Jays. Agree though that he's not better than Yolmer at the role anymore.

? why do people spread twitter rumors started by randoms with 8 followers? there has never been a single person who is close to the sox or situation that has ever said he might quit.

Don't mistake it; they both lied to the team. The difference was Plesac got caught by a monitor and Clevinger somehow didn't.

? Nice video, Zach. Never forget! Although I think the Indians know Plesac isn't as good as he'd been.

Agreed, and while everyone should take it equally seriously I don't think it can be overstated that Tito has heart problems and they have a SP recovering from cancer.

guy hasn't thrown strikes since he was 12. Sox don't need another guy with zero command. He makes Cease look like Greg Maddux.

The problem with this is Cease doesn't need to be as good as Lynn in one individual season; not even close. Lynn has 1 year + 1 month left of control. His value is projected around 4-5 fWAR. Let's give PV (Present value) fWAR an increase in value of roughly .4 times - just because the Sox could technically win this year with their roster. That means, Lynn's fWAR is worth roughly 7 fWAR on the high side. He's making roughly 12 million over that time; a nice 1.7 million per WAR. A heck of a bargain. Cease is projected to be woth 2 fWAR next year and .3 the rest of the way this year. Putting his PV at 3.22 fWAR at a cost under 2 million. .62 million per fWAR. Obviously we need to give greater weight to the 7 fWAR over the 3, but the value in their deals aren't that far off. The major difference is while Cease has 3.22 fWAR in PV, and Lynn has 7, Cease has roughly +9 addition fWAR in FV. Putting his entire deal at 12.22 fWAR compared to Lynn's 7. Even with the emphasis on PV, there isn't enough value difference between the two to warrant even a straight up swap IMO.

Nice depth piece.

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