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I mean, we're at that point in the offseason.

Stock was good. Sorry that you have an unending love for two losers like Weber and Valdez.

No. Robert Stock 0.2 fWAR Valdez 0.1 fWAR Weber 0.0 fWAR

Total projected payroll is 62M.

We watch on MLB.tv using an Amazon Fire Stick. Very dangerous for him.

@AdamMcCalvy The Brewers have signed righty Robert Stock to a Minor League contract with an invitation to big-league camp. He pitched in South Korea last year after appearing in the Majors for the Padres, Red Sox, Cubs and Mets from 2018-21. The only good 2020 reliever.

The combination of trading their best MLB players and development.

Don't stare too hard.

Quite a fall for that guy.

IDK, I guess I'm just not a long term Springs believer. We'll have to see how it goes. Seems like Rays get guys to pop for a year or two then they fall off the map. I think Springs won't be worth the 10M when the contract reaches that amount.

https://www.milb.com/player/skylar-arias-670404 The Red Sox signed left-hander Skylar Arias to a minor-league contract for the 2023 season, per the club’s transaction’s log. He will be assigned to Double-A Portland and he awaits his spring training date assignment. Arias comes to organization drawing comparisons to another big time left-hander in Chris Sale. While playing at Tallahassee Community College, his coaches compared his delivery to that of Sale’s. “I think it’s pretty cool. To be compared to someone who’s had success at the highest level for such a long time,” said Arias. “That’s kind of been my comparison for awhile now. I don’t see it but maybe the arm slot and we both throw weird.” The new Red Sox minor leaguer offers a three pitches in his repertoire, a low-90s fastball, low 80s slider and low-to-mid 80s changeup according to Baseball America. “He has an unusual four-seam fastball that’s heavy with side spin, but lacks hop, moving almost like a sinker from a flat vertical approach angle. This allows the pitch to play above his below-average velocity. “His slider is far and away his go-to swing-and-miss offering, with a whiff rate above 50 percent despite accounting for a quarter of his usage. From a shape perspective his changeup may be his most intriguing pitch. It sits 82 mph with average velocity separation from his fastball. He does an excellent job of killing the lift on the pitch, which gives it plenty of tumble. It also has hellacious run,” wrote Baseball America back in December 2021. Arias comes to his third organization after spending parts of seven seasons in Cleveland and the White Sox system. The Florida native is excited about his new opportunity with the Red Sox organization and is prepping for spring training. “Right now I’m still waiting on a report date to spring training. The offseason has been going very well and I’m ready to get going with an awesome organization,” said Arias. “This game can be very challenging and you have to learn to enjoy the ups and downs and learn from it. I’m very excited to meet my new teammates and coaching staff.”

Seems like a fair compromise to me!

He's getting in soon. Just a matter of time.

Springs is 32.8 even with the new deal?

I have a sneaking suspicion that Adalberto will be a favorite of my kids if he ever healthy as his name sounds an awful lot like "Alaberto" which is how my daughter used to incorrectly pronounce one of her favorite restaurants when she was younger. However, there's a good chance my kids will never see him on the tv.

I agree on all accounts. Rose has done his time and should be in.

But still earned a hold. It was Paplebon that lost it by giving up 3 in the next inning.

We knew he was injured because he went on the 15 day IL with hip inflammation and it was reported that it happened while he was working out. It was first mentioned in June that he had "hip tightness" and he quickly went on the IL. They reduced his workload dramatically. The surgery he had in September was on the same hip. How was it a different injury?

I can't believe they babied him last year by injuring him.

He had direct first hand knowledge of the prospect and first hand knowledge of Springs and Mazza. Bloom had the upper hand in the trade and seemed to blow it.

I disagree that Andriese is a bad move. Garrett Whitlock, Boston Red Sox “The [changeup] I throw now, I started messing around with during Tommy John recovery. I had my fastball and slider, and I knew that I was going to need the third pitch if I was going to still be a starter. Obviously, this was before coming to the Red Sox. When I got to spring training, Matt Andriese helped me a lot with it — things like how to throw it and how to really use it in counts. “I’d had a changeup before, but it was never really that good. It was always too hard. Then I saw the video of Pedro Martinez talking to Dan Plesac about why his changeup had been too hard: he’d been using two dominant fingers to throw it. So he slid the ball over a little bit, and used two non-dominant fingers. That kind of deadened it a little bit, so during TJ rehab, that’s what I did. I moved it over to my ring finger and my pinky. Then I played catch with it every day and developed a feel for it. “[Andriese] said that pretty much everyone will tell you, ‘Throw it the same way as your fastball, throw it the same way as your fastball,’ but that’s not really how he visualizes it. He visualizes it as like, ‘Throw it like a well-completed pitch, but always focus on pronation.’ He said to focus on making sure you get the ring finger through the ball, to really get that spin you’re looking for. That’s kind of what I focus on, making sure I’m getting that ring finger through the ball. Everyone naturally pronates, so as long as your hand is on top, you’re going to naturally pronate through the ball. “I’m looking for more of that three o’clock, nine o’clock — that sideways spin — but I have no idea what the spin rate is on it. I’m just trying to miss barrels. I’ll go to our analytics guys to see how it grades out, and they tell me that the grades are good, so as long as they’re happy with it, and it’s getting outs… that’s all I’m worried about.” Without Andriese, Whitlock may not have a changeup.

For 4M? It's a good gamble. Last year's $$$ is just a sunk cost.

Seen people mention Chafin. Sheffield's low k rate doesn't seem all that enticing as a reliever.

Whitlock is coming off an injury plagued season and hasn't been a fulltime starting pitcher in a while. His most ever IP is 120 back in 2018 and hasn't thrown 80 since. Bello threw 150+ last season. My guess is Whitlock is on an innings limit this year more so than Bello.

Perez seems to be a good defensive first catcher. Probably the ideal 3rd catcher on the depth chart. Good pop times and framing.