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Since Wednesday, Nunez and Devers have 4 HRs and the rest of the team has 1 HR (Leon).

This offense needs help.

Nice play by Benintendi on carom.

The cascading effect of Papi in the booth.

Honoring the 2007 team and Mike Lowell today. Farrell should be fired and Lowell hired as the new manager before he leaves the ballpark today.

Living in MA and losing to the Yankees sucks, but misery loves company. Losing to the Yankees and living in NY is just torture.

Unlike Devers, there will be no question whether you have been rushed.

LOL!! Back up the truck and sell off the veterans before it is too late. get Ben back and let's do another $200 million/year last place rebuild for 3 years.

Don't they think about what they are going to do with the ball before the ball is hit.

Pablow got $17.5 million/year for 5 years and you think Boras is only going to ask for $7-10 million for XB? I think you will be very disappointed.

Bold, yes, but DD can do better than that.

Of course, it is Henry's call, but he should wake up and realize that the Red Sox don't have close to the buzz they used to have in that town, and they have been in first place all season long. If he wants to generate interest and rating, he should get into and win a death match with the Yankees.

When it comes down to beating the Yankees in a pennant race versus staying under the luxury cap, you spend the money. Maybe living thousands of miles away from the east coast makes you more laid back about this, but I live in the belly of the beast in NY and I intensely want to beat these bastards. That is what the customers want. Beating the Yankees in a close hard fought race will bring excitement back to Fenway and Boston, and that has been lacking since 2013. Even winning The Division last season did not revive the lack of enthusiasm for this team. The franchise needs this pennant race and they need to go down fighting hard. If the Yankees add Garcia, Gray/Darvish, Robertson and Kahnle and we add only Nunez, DD will be blamed for losing to them. Spend the money DD! Losing to the Yankees is not an option. You will be despised if the Yankees beat us this season. You had the better team to start the season and you are blowing it. Fix the holes and right the ship.

I have this nagging feeling that Brian Cashman is about to eat DD's lunch before the trading deadline passes.

If they were trying to recoup some of their investment on Pablow, that was almost as dumb as if I tried to recoup some of my investment on ENRON by buying more of it after the executives were put in handcuffs.

Tell me more. Have you seen him?

The base running has been atrocious and dumb, not at all effectively aggressive. I think it has damaged our run production. XB's base running rocks yesterday cost us a minimum of 2 runs. That is huge. We should have won yesterday in a blow out. Not on extra innings.

Yes, I get that, but apparently DD did not by thinking that Benintendi and Moreland were enough. There were a number of available big bats and none would have been as good as Ortiz, but they would have been a big improvement over what we have.

You admit that some regression was to be expected by some players. You just did not expect across the board regression, especially from the young guys. The young guys across the board in 2016 had very good to excellent seasons. How much more could you realistically expect them to improve in 2017? Was Mookie going to hit 40 HRs, JBJ hit 35 and XB hit 30? Even if they did so, I don't think that makes up for the difference for losing Ortiz. If DD wants to add the "last piece " to win a championship, you don't do that by adding a big piece to run prevention while losing an equally big piece on the run production side. The math is actually that simple, and it is playing out in real time. Even if we win the Division, I don't expect a sweep like last year because we have Sale, but I don't expect a deep run, because our offense is inconsistent and lacks punch. The notion that a full season of Benintendi and adding Moreland would be enough to cover the loss of Ortiz is playing out as I thought it would. It was a ludicrous plan.

DD did a great job swapping our prospects for the most important pieces on this year's team. He slipped up trading Shaw and not adding a more potent bat.

Hopefully, this means that they will not get Sonny Gray.

Yankees Acquire Jaime Garcia July 30th, 2017 at 8:30am CST • By Steve Adams The Yankees and Twins have agreed to a trade that will send left-hander Jaime Garcia from Minnesota to New York in exchange for Double-A right-hander Zack Littell and Triple-A lefty Dietrich Enns, the Yankees announced on Sunday. The 31-year-old Garcia will bring some stability to the Yankees rotation, having logged a 4.29 ERA with 6.9 K/9 against 3.3 BB/9 and a 55 percent ground-ball rate between Atlanta and Minnesota this season. He’s worked six or more innings in 15 of his 19 starts this year, which is especially encouraging for a Yankees team that features a deep bullpen — particularly following the trade that netted them both David Robertsonand Tommy Kahnle from the White Sox. Garcia is a free agent at season’s end, making him a pure rental. However, the Yankees reportedly plan to continue their talks with the A’s regarding a longer-term rotation piece, Sonny Gray, even after completing the Garcia trade. Whether those talks come to fruition remains to be seen, but Garcia alone is a nice step up for a Yankees rotation that recently lost Michael Pineda to Tommy John surgery. The veteran Garcia, who comes with a solid postseason track record and a World Series ring (2011 Cardinals) will join Luis Severino, CC Sabathia, Masahiro Tanaka and Jordan Montgomery in the starting five. Garcia’s stint with the Twins lasted less than a week. Minnesota’s declining play and lengthy winning streaks for the Royals and Guardians have created a seven-game gap for the Twins in the American League Central, which is steep enough for the front office to sell off some short-term assets. The Twins, though, agreed to pay the remainder of Garcia’s $12MM salary when acquiring him from the Braves in exchange for right-hander Huascar Ynoa, and they’ll reportedly pay that figure down to the pro-rated league minimum for the Yankees. Minnesota will remain on the hook for about $4MM in this trade, which effectively amounts to buying a pair of prospects that the Twins clearly feel to be superior to the player they initially surrendered to acquire Garcia. Littell ranks 22nd among Yankees prospects on MLB.com’s midseason top 30 list. (By comparison, Ynoa ranked 22nd in a weaker Twins farm system.) Littell, 21, was the Mariners’ 11th-round pick back in the 2013 draft and landed in the Yankees organization as part of last November’s James Pazos trade. After a strong 2016 campaign split between two Class-A levels, he’s taken another step forward in 2017. In a combined 115 1/3 innings between Class-A Advanced and Double-A, he’s worked to a 1.87 ERA with 8.5 K/9, 1.8 BB/9 and a 52 percent ground-ball rate. MLB.com’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo write that Littell has three average or better offerings with above-average control. The 26-year-old Enns isn’t considered to be one of the Yankees’ best prospects, but he has an excellent track record of results in his minor league career. The Central Michigan University product has never posted an ERA higher than 2.94 in a full season, and he’s worked to a 1.99 ERA with 9.3 K/9 against 2.0 BB/9 in 45 1/3 innings between Triple-A and a Rookie-level injury rehab start this year. Enns is on the 40-man roster, though he was just added this past offseason, so he has two more option years remaining beyond the 2017 campaign. Yahoo’s Jeff Passan first broke news that the two sides were moving toward a deal. MLB.com’s Jon Morosi first mentioned that Littell could be involved in the deal. ESPN’s Buster Olney tweeted that talks were at the “1-yard lins.” FanRag’s Jon Heyman tweetedthat there was an agreement. Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that Enns was also in the deal (Twitter link). Darren Wolfson of 1500 ESPN and MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand added details on the financial component (Twitter links).

I read and heard stories about how Ortiz studied video and how he would point out to the younger guys the tendencies of the pitchers etc. He was huge leader of the offense not just on the field but in helping the kids.

He is having a cascading effect especially on the pitching staff, but on the team as a whole in that he is a true stopper. But Sale will not be enough without some consistent improvement in the offense just as Ortiz was not enough without Sale last year.

I don't see a lot of run production coming from those lineups, but i do like Betts in the 4 hole