Early Trade deadline deals the selling Sox should make

[mvp 78]

8 minutes ago, Donnie Sadler was short said:

why trade Contreras?..we have control thru '28 (team option) at $18 mill per year

If punting on this year and potentially next. Actually resetting the franchise the way they should have done in '22.

[notin]

20 hours ago, Sthpaw777 said:

Only reason Duran is still here is because Breslow wanted the moon for him and no team wanted to do that. Teams would like him but he has to be realistic about each players current worth on the market and to the team.

What did Breslow want for him?  Duran had the good enough seasons behind him and good enough control ahead of him.  I’d think the asking price should have been fairly high…

[notin]

16 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

If punting on this year and potentially next. Actually resetting the franchise the way they should have done in '22.

Deal Contreras and in the off-season sign 4’0” Andrew Vaughn since they should have acquired the StatCast hero last year before he started blasting baseballs all over the Midwest…

[Sthpaw777]

41 minutes ago, Nick said:

Any chance we can stash away Campbell's salary off the books? What needs to happen?

Put him in a trade 🤷‍♂️

[Sthpaw777]

7 minutes ago, notin said:

What did Breslow want for him?  Duran had the good enough seasons behind him and good enough control ahead of him.  I’d think the asking price should have been fairly high…

I believe he wanted teams young controlled top pitching prospects. My guess is something needed to be added to that to make it happen since young controlled starting pitching seems to be worth more to teams than what they thought of Duran 

[notin]

36 minutes ago, Sthpaw777 said:

I believe he wanted teams young controlled top pitching prospects. My guess is something needed to be added to that to make it happen since young controlled starting pitching seems to be worth more to teams than what they thought of Duran 

I never heard anything like that, which is meaningless.  Have any links?

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

Well we let a good one get away in Bregman. 

Bregman is on pace for 12.7 HRs/600 ABs.

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, Nick said:

Well we let a good one get away in Bregman. 

He wont hit .800 and have 20 Hrs in any season going forward.

He may not even do one of those by itself.

He's 32.

He's hit over .801 twice in his last 6 seasons and one of those was his 114 gm 2025 season.

He's hit over 20 Hrs three times in his last 6 seasons, which includes the 2020 COVID season.

[mvp 78]

11 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

Bregman is on pace for 12.7 HRs/600 ABs.

Noted team leader and game planner has improve CHC's wRC+ by 4 points. BOS's wRC+ has tanked without him and his ipad. 

[mvp 78]

2 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

He wont hit .800 and have 20 Hrs in any season going forward.

He may not even do one of those by itself.

He's 32.

He's hit over .801 twice in his last 6 seasons and one of those was his 114 gm 2025 season.

He's hit over 20 Hrs three times in his last 6 seasons, which includes the 2020 COVID season.

Don't care. Breggie's ipad worked for Roman. 

[moonslav59]

Just now, mvp 78 said:

Don't care. Breggie's ipad worked for Roman. 

Over-rated.

[FredLynn]

On 5/18/2026 at 9:10 AM, mvp 78 said:

It doesn't feel like Durbin is a core player. Maybe bench player? 

Durbin isn't worth the shoes he plays in.

[moonslav59]

4 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Durbin isn't worth the shoes he plays in.

There is a chance he improves.

[mvp 78]

33 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

There is a chance he improves.

Oh sure. Hard to be one of the worst 5 players in MLB year in and year out if given several chances. How many chances should he get though?

[Larry Cook]

On 5/18/2026 at 10:03 AM, mvp 78 said:

Contracts that are up by the end of '27:

Gray - decent value to trade

Yoshida - eat the contract and can trade

Contreras - decent value to trade

Chapman - decent value to trade

IKF - no value

Story - no value

Sandoval - no value

Coulombe - very little value

Oviedo - little value

Houck - little value

I wonder what bres-slow could get for a quality closer like Chapman. 
 

if we do keep Chapman and do not make the playoffs,  is that another “Duran wasted opportunity” for bres-slow? 

[mvp 78]

9 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

I wonder what bres-slow could get for a quality closer like Chapman. 
 

if we do keep Chapman and do not make the playoffs,  is that another “Duran wasted opportunity” for bres-slow? 

Something a little less than this due to Jhoan's years of control. Maybe you just get one prospect instead of two? 

4. Phillies acquire RHP Jhoan Duran from Twins for C Eduardo Tait and RHP Mick Abel (July 30)

One of the hottest available names in the reliever market came off the board as the Phillies added significant firepower to their bullpen in the form of Duran, who brings with him triple-digit fastball velocity and secondary stuff to match. Duran pitched to a 2.01 ERA with 53 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings for the Twins this season. Tait, the Phillies' No. 4 prospect as ranked by MLB Pipeline, is an 18-year-old backstop with power potential who was recently promoted to High-A. Abel, ranked No. 2 in Philadelphia's system for several years after he was drafted, had since fallen to No. 6, but he's continued showing improvement, posting a 2.31 ERA in 13 starts as a 23-year-old in Triple-A in 2025.

 

[Larry Cook]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Something a little less than this due to Jhoan's years of control. Maybe you just get one prospect instead of two? 

4. Phillies acquire RHP Jhoan Duran from Twins for C Eduardo Tait and RHP Mick Abel (July 30)

One of the hottest available names in the reliever market came off the board as the Phillies added significant firepower to their bullpen in the form of Duran, who brings with him triple-digit fastball velocity and secondary stuff to match. Duran pitched to a 2.01 ERA with 53 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings for the Twins this season. Tait, the Phillies' No. 4 prospect as ranked by MLB Pipeline, is an 18-year-old backstop with power potential who was recently promoted to High-A. Abel, ranked No. 2 in Philadelphia's system for several years after he was drafted, had since fallen to No. 6, but he's continued showing improvement, posting a 2.31 ERA in 13 starts as a 23-year-old in Triple-A in 2025.

 

If we are out of contention by July, is this something bres-slow will consider? 

[Duran Is The Man]

3 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Oh sure. Hard to be one of the worst 5 players in MLB year in and year out if given several chances. How many chances should he get though?

Durbin is THE WORST in MLB in OPS. the Nationals have a second baseman named Nasim Nunez that is just ahead of him. like Durbin, i fully expect Bresloverpay to trade some of our young pitching for this loser too....

[moonslav59]

3 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Oh sure. Hard to be one of the worst 5 players in MLB year in and year out if given several chances. How many chances should he get though?

I've spoken of the length of his leash several times, recently.

Story, Duran and IKF, too. (Story took care of that choice for Tracy.)

[Duran Is The Man]

23 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I've spoken of the length of his leash several times, recently.

Story, Duran and IKF, too. (Story took care of that choice for Tracy.)

Q: what do these guys all have in common?

Cal Raleigh, Bo BIchette, Fernando Tatis Jr, Steve Kwan, & Manny Machado

 

 

 

 

 

 

A: like Duran and Story, they're all in the bottom 20 in OPS

[JoeBrady]

36 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

Q: what do these guys all have in common?

Cal Raleigh, Bo BIchette, Fernando Tatis Jr, Steve Kwan, & Manny Machado

 

A: like Duran and Story, they're all in the bottom 20 in OPS

I could make a WS favorite from the number of guys that have started slow.

I could make a WS favorite from the number of guys that disappeared in the 2nd half of 2025.

That's the nature of BB.

[Duran Is The Man]

39 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I could make a WS favorite from the number of guys that have started slow.

I could make a WS favorite from the number of guys that disappeared in the 2nd half of 2025.

That's the nature of BB.

i know that. everybody here wants to dump Story, Durbin and Duran for their extremely slow start. i wonder if Mariner, Padre, Mets and Guardian fans want their guys dumped too.

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

Q: what do these guys all have in common?

Cal Raleigh, Bo BIchette, Fernando Tatis Jr, Steve Kwan, & Manny Machado

 

They are all guys all of us would have praised Brez for getting us last winter.

[JoeBrady]

58 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

i know that. everybody here wants to dump Story, Durbin and Duran for their extremely slow start. i wonder if Mariner, Padre, Mets and Guardian fans want their guys dumped too.

There is a portion of every fan base that will write off players after a 0-4 day.  The RSN has more of them, but every team has some.

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, Duran Is The Man said:

i know that. everybody here wants to dump Story, Durbin and Duran for their extremely slow start. i wonder if Mariner, Padre, Mets and Guardian fans want their guys dumped too.

Just circling back on this, I wish that some of the fans tried to apply some logic to it.  When Story goes cold, there is every possibility he is in permanent decline.  When it happens to Duran, he is far too young to have simply lost his skills.

[Duran Is The Man]

47 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

They are all guys all of us would have praised Brez for getting us last winter.

probably so...but for myself, i didn't want Bichette for the money he wanted.

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, Duran Is The Man said:

probably so...but for myself, i didn't want Bichette for the money he wanted.

I didn't want him at half the money he wanted or 2/3 of what he got.

[mvp 78]

13 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

If we are out of contention by July, is this something bres-slow will consider? 

Who knows? Maybe. Can he even pull off a trade though? 

[mvp 78]

10 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

There is a portion of every fan base that will write off players after a 0-4 day.  The RSN has more of them, but every team has some.

The problem is that it's not one 0-4 day. This Monday is Memorial Day and the team is WAY below .500. This has been 8 weeks of failure.

[notin]

On 5/18/2026 at 10:20 PM, moonslav59 said:

We unloaded 10+ players by trade, 10+ to FA and 10+ prospects.

10+ Traded: Fitts, Harrison, Dobbins, Bernardino, Hicks, Jh Garcia, DHam, Grissom, Guerrero, Sandlin, Murphy

10+ FA or DFA: Bregman, N Lowe, Giolito, DMay, Matz, Wilson, Criswell, I Campbell, Refsnyder, Toro, Winckowsi, Burdi

10+ Prospects: Perales, Drohan, Hoppe, Clarke, Fajardo, Aita, Travieso, Galle, Mata, Riemer, T Gray, Paez (R5)

I meant at the trade deadline, where the bulk of the activity is within 48 hours…