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He'd be 7th behind Sale.

I'm pretty sure everyone needs pitching. It's the one thing I end up micromanaging all year.

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Duran CF Downs SS Casas 1B Refsynder RF Cordero LF Stewart DH Wong C Fitzgerald 3B Sanchez 2B Hernandez SP

Sanchez is less durable than Eovaldi.

I'm not a Robbie Ray believer.

I'm not sure the Yanks have a top 10 rotation.

2022 FCL Squad making a run during the 6th inning of today's MLB game (7 runs). Juan Chacon single Johnfrank Salazar double Bryan Gonzalez SF Ahbram Liendo single Darel Belen walk Migues Bleis walk Ronald Rosario single (ties game) Juan Chacon walk Johnfrank Salazar walk Luis Ravelo single

It could be a big gulp depending on how the other guys pitch.

What a motley crew the Sox have assembled. They have Eovaldi at the top of the rotation after a mid-career breakthrough in both durability and effectiveness. Sale might be incredible – he usually is – but how many innings he’ll throw is an open question. He’s starting the season on the 60-day IL with a fractured rib. And those two are the safe options! Can Pivetta and Houck pitch to their talent level, giving the Sox two innings-eating mid-rotation arms? Can Hill spin curveballs past batters yet again? Is Wacha better than the 5-ERA, 5-FIP pitcher he’s looked like for the past three years? Is Paxton’s elbow intact? I couldn’t tell you the answers to any of those questions, and I doubt Boston’s coaching staff could either. I can talk myself into this group cobbling together a good performance in aggregate, particularly if Whitlock chips in a few starts when he’s not excelling in relief. But that assumes health and effectiveness from five of the seven pitchers I just named, and the reason that the Sox were able to acquire many of them is that either their health or effectiveness is in doubt. It could be another long season of early pitching changes in Boston, but if they spike some injury luck, it could also be an excellent year. I think you could talk me into taking teams 13-15 ahead of the Sox (Marlins, Angels, Rays).

Konerko had only 2 seasons that were better than France's 2021 and both of those were less than 10% better than France's 2021.

I mean... If you look at fWAR and wRC+...

BTV accepted the trade.

BTV accepted the trade.

@EdwardHand8 Some notable #SP60 moves Brayan Bello up to #5 Miguel Blies up to #8 Brandon Walter up to #9 Kutter Crawford up to #16 Ceddane Rafaela up to # 19 Christian Koss up to #22 Fitzy up to #24 Zack Kelly debut at #37 Jeter Downs down to #13 Gilberto Jimenez down to #18

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BTV accepts: Kelenic Souza Suarez White for Dalbec Duran

Souza's 2017 skews his career numbers. Of his career fWAR, 69% comes from 2017. 42% of all his HR's and 38% of all his SB's were in 2017. The only year his OPS exceeded 720 was 2017. I don't see a fit for him here. Would he even be an upgrade over Refsnyder at this point in his career?

2018: -0.4 fWAR, 84 wRC+ 2019: did not pay 2020: 0.1 fWAR, 59 wRC+ 2021 -0.2 fWAR, 51 wRC+ On a one year deal for 1M. Seems like at age 33, that's a 0 guy to me.

Robles was given a MiLB deal because of the visa issues. I think they are going to put him on the roster, they just don't know how soon he'll be ready. Garza seems to be at the bottom of the power rankings.

Should be. I don't know how long it'll take him to ramp up. His visa issues pushed back his ST debut until this week.

My Netflix algorithm must be pretty messed up if it didn't push that to me.

Statcast did not like his season last year. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/johnny-cueto-456501?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb His velo looks unchanged from previous years?

Going into ST, I think most of us thought the pen would be: Barnes 2 of Wacha, Hill, Whitlock or Houck Brasier Sawamura Taylor DHern Strahm Diekman Clearly, it was a left heavy pen in a division without a lot of lefties. Due to the Sale injury, Wacha and Hill both made the rotation for now. Taylor is also injured and he was replaced by Davis another lefty. DHern again showed his limitations and was optioned to AAA. He was replaced by Valdez, who I had pegged as a DFA candidate. Tyler Danish is on the team for now, but will probably be dropped when the rosters shrink back to 26. Kutter Crawford was throwing straight fire and forced his way into the picture. The current pen: Barnes (closer) Whitlock (high leverage/piggyback with Hill) Crawford (multi inning) Brasier Diekman Sawamura Strahm Davis Valdez Danish Who is the set up man? Sawamura? What do we expect out of Diekman/Strahm? If Barnes falters, do we go to Whitlock or try someone new like Crawford? This bullpen still has the mediocre 2021 feel to it. Can it be better than last year?