Red Sox front office did something right. They got rid of Devers.

[mvp 78]

16 minutes ago, notin said:

For all that talk about Bloom doing some sort of fork in the road third option, he never really did one.  Or much of anything at the deadline…

20 - Pivetta and a bunch of lesser prospects

21 - Schwarber, Robles, Davis

22 - Hosmer, McGuire, Pham, Abreu, Valdez

23 - Urias

He wanted to swing for the fence in '22, but got gun shy for one reason or another. 

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, Old Red said:

Wanted him back? I never wanted him to leave. I’ll say the same thing now as I said last year during the regular season, and postseason that I believe the Red Sox would have been last year, and this year with Raffy’s bat in the middle of the lineup.

So, you'd like him back.

[moonslav59]

33 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

20 - Pivetta and a bunch of lesser prospects

21 - Schwarber, Robles, Davis

22 - Hosmer, McGuire, Pham, Abreu, Valdez

23 - Urias

He wanted to swing for the fence in '22, but got gun shy for one reason or another. 

I wouldn't say Abreu, Pivetta and Schwarber we "not much of anything," but Abreu was in a "sell" trade, Schwarber was a clear "buy" and Pivetta was during a sell deadline, when we traded Workman and Hembree and maybe Seabold was Bloom's real target.

[mvp 78]

12 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I wouldn't say Abreu, Pivetta and Schwarber we "not much of anything," but Abreu was in a "sell" trade, Schwarber was a clear "buy" and Pivetta was during a sell deadline, when we traded Workman and Hembree and maybe Seabold was Bloom's real target.

Pivetta was a reclamation project at the time. Schwarber was injured and most fans generally shrugged their shoulders when it happened. There were a few posters here who prefered Valdez over Abreu for a while. 

[Old Red]

2 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Pivetta was a reclamation project at the time. Schwarber was injured and most fans generally shrugged their shoulders when it happened. There were a few posters here who prefered Valdez over Abreu for a while. 

Schwaber hadn’t turned in to Flintstone yet either.

[moonslav59]

4 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Pivetta was a reclamation project at the time. Schwarber was injured and most fans generally shrugged their shoulders when it happened. There were a few posters here who prefered Valdez over Abreu for a while. 

The Pivetta deal was not viewed as anything speacial.

Schwarber got some buzz, and the injury was a concern, but he was a major offensive player then, too.

The Abreu-Valdez trade was actually criticized by the "WIN NOW" posters, but was a very nice trade at the time, too. Yes, some liked Valdez more, and he has nice OPS numbers, but so what? It doesn't make Abreu chopped liver. Most baseball people knew Wilyer was the prize.

The talk here in HOU was about "losing Abreu" for a catcher the manager wouldn't even make the FT guys over a .180 hitter.

[Old Red]

14 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

The Pivetta deal was not viewed as anything speacial.

Schwarber got some buzz, and the injury was a concern, but he was a major offensive player then, too.

The Abreu-Valdez trade was actually criticized by the "WIN NOW" posters, but was a very nice trade at the time, too. Yes, some liked Valdez more, and he has nice OPS numbers, but so what? It doesn't make Abreu chopped liver. Most baseball people knew Wilyer was the prize.

The talk here in HOU was about "losing Abreu" for a catcher the manager wouldn't even make the FT guys over a .180 hitter.

Schwaber got more buzz when he became FLINTSTONE.😉

[moonslav59]

45 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Schwaber got more buzz when he became FLINTSTONE.😉

That buzz was in your head only.

🙃