Having 5 players who can't all play at once is causing them to be out of rhythm and underperform.
Duran looks terrible. Anthony is off to an awful start. Bad roster construction!
The settle was Suarez I thought? Durbin's deal just replaces a bullpen contract or whoever else Breslow would've acquired at that point in the offseason.
They could be good acquisitions, but still not equal value for losing a top of the order foundational bat. You can still lament the loss of said good acquisitions in terrible trades later on (particularly the Tibbs for May deal).
Kershaw had one of the greatest pitches of all time in his repertoire. Early just has a lot decent pitches. They are both tall, white lefties. Hard to really compare the two otherwise. Eary's stuff moves in and out. Kershaw's was really up and down.
Is your argument now that the Devers trade was good, but Breslow just made two STINKERS after? That doesn't make anything better. This org isn't able to evaluate their own players internally now so they'll just trade their good prospects away for pennies on the dollar?
Yuck!
Harrison was basically traded for the comp pick (Marcus Phillips). Sox didn't see a fit for Harrison here as he wasn't really taking to the pitching dev.
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