mvp 78

JBJ also has a long history of tweaking his swing.

I agree. He'll bounce back, but I'm not sure how big the bounce will be. Maybe 85 WRC+?

I love fanfiction.

Nah.

They said last year wasn't the time to win it all and they made the ALCS. Maybe they should just try to win it all more often and get them over the hump? It'll be interesting to see what moon's answer is though.

I think he was hurt last year. I was listing his career stats. Last year was not good, that's for sure.

Yes. I like the argument that a strong farm system will keep a team competitive, but we have relatively recent history that shows that it's not always the case.

His HR rate last year 5 times higher against RHB. I don't know enough about Diekman to give a definitive answer. It's just weird to have that many lefties as most bullpens only have a couple. Again, they need to add pitchers due to the lockout. They need to protect both the AAA and MLB rotations. I'm not against the moves, it's just not what I expected. I expected some dumpster diving for arms, but whatever...

Well, you could also show JULY: .207/.578 and SEPTEMBER: .249/.571. Seems more like August is just a bad month for him? Considering the low amount of innings a reliever pitches, a few bad outings can really skew some stats.

It's weird. The SoxProspects podcast was even saying last week that they didn't think Bloom would add any LHP depth as they already had more than enough. Maybe he's really concerned about slowly easing the SP into this season due to the lockout? Just adding depth for the sake of depth? IDK.

Bobby V was hired because the old guard was out after 2011. Ben wasn't given enough autonomy to make all the calls he needed to make (which is why we saw Sandoval and Valentine signings). I think Henry learned from that mistake, but you never know.

Even with a strong farm system, there were a few last place finishes in 12, 14 and 15.

Will Sox be playing all the away games at Coors?

Bogey is still 29. He’s going to age like a fine wine.

I think he's an NPC.

s***, pay Correa 3 X 125M.

Yes, go find someone for 3-5 years if you want to replace Xander, not 8-10.

TOO and BAD, BYE BYE BYE FELICIA!

10y x 250m x 2

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Fangraphs ranking has been posted. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/boston-red-sox-top-51-prospects-2022/ 1 Triston Casas 22.2 AAA 1B 2023 55 2 Marcelo Mayer 18.6 R SS 2025 55 3 Nick Yorke 19.9 A+ 2B 2025 55 4 Wilkelman Gonzalez 19.3 A SP 2024 45+ 5 Gilberto Jimenez 21.7 A CF 2023 45+ 6 Miguel Bleis 18.0 R RF 2025 45 7 Connor Seabold 26.1 MLB SP 2022 45 8 Brayan Bello 22.8 AA SIRP 2022 45 9 Ronaldo Hernández 24.3 AAA C 2022 45 10 Brandon Walter 25.5 A+ SP 2023 45 11 Jeter Downs 23.6 AAA 2B 2022 40+ 12 Bryan Mata 22.9 AA MIRP 2022 40+ 13 Jay Groome 23.6 AA SP 2022 40+ 14 Tyler McDonough 22.3 A CF 2025 40+ 15 David Hamilton 24.5 AA SS 2023 40+ 16 Blaze Jordan 19.2 A 1B 2025 40+ 17 Alex Binelas 21.1 A 3B 2025 40+ 18 Thaddeus Ward 25.2 AA MIRP 2023 40+ 19 Noah Song 24.8 A- SP 2023 40+ 20 Brainer Bonaci 19.7 A 3B 2024 40 21 Kutter Crawford 25.9 MLB SP 2022 40 22 Eduard Bazardo 26.5 MLB SIRP 2022 40 23 Connor Wong 25.8 MLB C 2022 40 24 Jacob Wallace 23.6 A+ SIRP 2023 40 25 Juan Chacon 19.3 R CF 2024 40 26 Cameron Cannon 24.4 AA 2B 2023 40 27 Josh Winckowski 23.7 AAA MIRP 2022 40 28 Niko Kavadas 22.7 A DH 2025 40 29 Nick Decker 22.4 A RF 2023 40 30 Chih-Jung Liu 22.9 A SIRP 2024 40 31 Matthew Lugo 20.8 A SS 2024 40 32 Frank German 24.5 AA SIRP 2022 40 33 Eduardo Lopez 19.8 A CF 2023 35+ 34 Eddinson Paulino 19.7 R SS 2024 35+ 35 Zack Kelly 27.0 AAA SIRP 2023 35+ 36 Bradley Blalock 21.2 A SP 2025 35+ 37 Enderso Lira 18.4 R C 2026 35+ 38 Chris Murphy 23.8 AA MIRP 2023 35+ 39 Brendan Cellucci 23.7 A+ SIRP 2022 35+ 40 Freili Encarnacion 17.1 R 3B 2027 35+ 41 Jeremy Wu-Yelland 22.7 A+ SIRP 2024 35+ 42 Tyler Dearden 23.7 A+ LF 2024 35+ 43 Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz 17.9 R SIRP 2026 35+ 44 Naysbel Marcano 19.8 R C 2023 35+ 45 Durbin Feltman 24.9 AAA SIRP 2022 35+ 46 Andrew Politi 25.8 AA SIRP 2022 35+ 47 Dylan Spacke 24.0 A+ SIRP 2023 35+ 48 Wyatt Olds 22.6 A SIRP 2025 35+ 49 Bryan Gonzalez 20.5 R RF 2024 35+ 50 Luis Perales 18.9 R SIRP 2025 35+ 51 Reidis Sena 20.9 R SIRP 2024 35+

He's durable and very productive. I'd keep him and Bogey around as the cornerstone of the franchise. Xander can still fake it at SS for a couple more years.

I was hoping for some transactions this AM? What gives?

If I had a choice, it'd be Correa over Seager. Seager is not worth 325.

Seager is not the measure of health either.