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Plawecki DFA

How about that Plawecki CERA?

@chadjennings22 No roster moves announced, but Brayan Bello and Yolmer Sanchez are in the Red Sox clubhouse.

Rich Hill is throwing off the mound at Fenway to Trevor Story today.

They're due.

I wasn't a huge fan of the Story signing to begin with. If he can't be a 100 wRC+ guy, that's a bad contract.

Hard disagree on the bold text. As for the starting rotation: Eovaldi goes tonight and hopefully he can bring back the nastiness. Pivetta is a cause for concern as he started off the season strong and was a workhorse last year. Kutter has thrown 3 straight solid starts. Winckowski has had 5 out of 6 starts be above average per the GameScore metric (currently on COVID IL). Hill is a who knows??? Do they call up Chris Murphy in an emergency role or go bullpen game with DHern starting?

@JeffPassan An alleged serial burglar stole more than $650,000 of jewelry from Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco’s car in June, according to court and police records obtained by me and @pinepaula. Nearly $550,000 worth has not been recovered. Strong Manny losing his diamond earing in Pawtucket vibes. https://twitter.com/KingLeBenj/status/1550522764594855941 It's his fault. He must have been doing the Mitch Hedberg "I can't tell you what hotel I'm stayin' in, but I can say that there are two trees involved. They said, "Let's call this hotel "Something...Tree", so they had a meeting; it...it was quite short. "How 'bout Tree?" "No, Double Tree." "Hell yeah! Meeting adjourned!" I had my heart set on "Quadruple Tree"... damnit, we were almost there!" joke.

Well, you were right to be concerned about those two spots as well.

What a BOOB.

@TheSpenserSmith Happy FSL Pie Slice Infield Shift Restriction Day to those who celebrate! Starting today, each field in the FSL will have chalk lines extending from the CF-facing tip of second base to the edge of the OF grass. Infielders cannot stand here pre-pitch. https://twitter.com/TheSpenserSmith/status/1550452508891529216

...by a damn coffee boy!

The 4 Northmen of the TalkSoxalypse

I need to relitigate if they took too long to DFA Hanley Ramirez.

A better plan would have been someone that could have rotated between 1B/OF in a platoon if something failed. Schwarber was apparently too expensive/long term. They were correct in not signing Brad Miller, who seemed like a Bloom guy. Joc got 6M to be a platoon bat, could that have worked at 1b short term?

Yes, DD was/is a good GM. Bloom seems to be a good one as well. They just have two different philosophies. DD cares about the MLB squad at the expense of the rest of the system. Bloom cares about the whole organization and wants to supplement the MLB squad from the farm, not just through FA/trades. DD chose right in keeping Raffy over Moncada/Kopech. Even the Kimbrel trade, while probably too heavy in prospects, didn't really come back to bite the Sox. Aside from the Thornburg trade, he did a pretty good job.

It prevents 2 slots being filled at high dollar from FA. Bloom has only signed one high dollar guy. If he retains Xander and extends Raffy, that doesn't mean he won't bring in other guys, they'll just be much cheaper than $20M JD. With the pitching depth in the upper minors, maybe they are planning on using the farm rather than FA to supplement the MLB squad. If that's the plan, I'm ok with it. Same with the bullpen. The FA market isn't that great this year anyway.

What was the 2022 plan? They brought a short term 1B in? Shaw? When Shaw failed, what was the backup? Shaw had been s*** for a few years so it would have been reasonable to expect him to flame out again.

At the end of 2020.

Yes, Coffey was rising right before the draft and it's not shown in national rankings, similar to how Romero was showing late power that started pushing him up late. Each team has their own scouts and their own draft strategy. I just can't say that Keith Law could compete with the Sox one on one if it came down to it. I bet Bloom's board year over year would be better than Law's.

Number of real-life trades: 345 Number of those trades accepted by our model: 327 Acceptance rate: 94.8% Average margin of error: 1.7 And here are the records of a few recent trades that our model got right: Craig Kimbrel to the Dodgers Matt Olson to the Braves Mitch Garver to the Rangers Max Scherzer, Trea Turner to the Dodgers Kris Bryant to the Giants Kyle Gibson, Ian Kennedy to the Phillies Javier Baez to the Mets Francisco Lindor to the Mets Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals Lance Lynn to the White Sox Nate Lowe to the Rangers Blake Snell to the Padres Jameson Taillon to the Yankees Steven Matz to the Blue Jays Jeff Hoffman to the Reds It would be interesting to have them explain trades they got wrong and why.

Eovaldi vs Gausman

https://twitter.com/fangraphs/status/1550465847650656259 In a race for a playoff spot, every edge matters. Yet all too often, for reasons that extend beyond a player’s statistics, managers and general managers fail to make the moves that could improve their teams, allowing subpar production to fester at the risk of smothering a club’s postseason hopes. Red Sox After a tantalizing 23-game debut in 2020, Bobby Dalbec was subpar last year, hitting the ball very hard but striking out 34.4% of the time (second among all players with at least 400 PA) and finishing with a 107 wRC+ and 0.5 WAR. Even that version of Dalbec would be an improvement upon the current one, however. The 27-year-old is hitting .205/.286/.344 (76 wRC+) with a 31.3% strikeout rate and a barrel rate that’s dropped by more than half relative to last year (from 20.2% to 9.5%). Lately, he’s been serving as the short half of a platoon with Franchy Cordero, who himself has been pretty bad (.225/.299/.372, 87 wRC+) while striking out 32.4% of the time. The Red Sox do have a first baseman of the future in 6-foot-5 lefty Tristan Casas, who topped the team’s prospect list and was 16th on our Top 100 heading into the season (he’s currently ranked 15th overall). Armed with a more mature approach at the plate and better contact skills than Dalbec, he wasn’t exactly lighting up the International League (.248/.359/.457) before suffering a right ankle sprain on May 17. After making a four-game rehab stint in the Florida Complex League last week, he’s likely to rejoin Triple-A Worcester this weekend. It’s asking too much for him to step into the big club’s job so soon, and so the team, which has gone just 5-12 in July after a 20-6 June, will need additional help. The Nationals’ Josh Bell and the Marlins’ Jesús Aguilar are both pending free agents who could fit, as could the Marlins’ Garrett Cooper, who has an additional year of club control and could also help in right field, where the team is below replacement level as well. Dalbec was the leading photo of the story.

Kavadas is going to be in Portland by the end of the year. Does he start knocking on the door of the top 10? Dude just mashes.