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I heard that it was more like a Beni for prospects trade. I don't think they expect to get MLB talent back.

DSL guys come with much less fanfare. Casas was a 1st round pick who had already been promoted to high A when Jiminez was in Lowell. He's also projected to be ready either this year or next. Song has a legit MLB arsenal right now. If it wasn't for the Navy, he'd be in the discussion for opening day roster this year. Jimenez won't be here until 2023 most likely. He's just a little too far away.

Should make the Sox rethink not grabbing him then.

That decimal point was decimated.

Swing? Yes. 2B? No.

Love to give 5 year contracts to 32 year olds that just had a career year!

Silver anniversary of bizarre Wade Boggs injury (6/9/11) by Chris Jaffe June 9, 2011 The 1986 season looked like it might be a historic one for Wade Boggs. He entered the year widely considered the best pure hitter in the game. He’d won batting titles in two of the previous three years—and this was back when batting average was still the undisputed king of how the public gauged a player’s offensive contributions. But 1986 looked like the year Boggs might do the unthinkable: Attain the long-sought Holy Grail of a .400 batting average. George Brett had threatened to do it in 1980 but fell short, ending at .390. Ted Williams’ .406 in 1941 was still the last time anyone had achieved it. As June began, Boggs was right there, hitting .404 on June 6. Sure, there was a lot of season left to play, but he’d also hit .402 from June 12 onward in 1985. That made it interesting. That month The Sporting News would run a cover story pondering if Boggs could hit .400 for the year. Boggs slumped a little bit as June reached its second week, but then a bizarre incident helped derail his hopes: He took off his cowboy boots. Or, more precisely, he tried to take off his cowboy boots. In a hotel in Toronto on June 9, 1986, Boggs tried to use his foot to pry off the cowboy boot from his other foot, only to have things go rather badly. Instead of losing his boot, he lost his balance and fell ribcage-first into the arm of a couch. Ooph. And just like that, the world-class hitter looked like a Keystone Cop. It would be purely funny, except Boggs felt like he could barely breathe after hitting the couch. He bruised his ribs badly and could barely take a deep breath. He could only pinch hit in the next game (where he drew a walk). After playing all the next three games (with only two hits), Boggs had to leave a game early on June 15 because his ribs weren’t getting better. By this time, his average was down to .380, and he wound up missing six games. When Boggs finally came back, he wasn’t quite the same and ended the year with a .357 mark, nowhere near .400, but still enough to lead the league. Injury or no injury, he wasn’t going to hit .400. His average was already down to .389 when he took his tumble, but it came right as talk about his chances to do it peaked. And the injury itself was so weird. That combination made it one of the most memorable baseball injuries of the era. Here are other baseball events celebrating an anniversary or “day-versary” (an event that took place X-thousand days ago) occurring today. Here are some others, with the better ones in bold if you just want to skim.

MARGO ADAMS, THROWING HER CURVES By Howard KurtzMarch 2, 1989 NEW YORK, MARCH 1 -- "Margo, over here!" "Margo, look over your left shoulder!" "How about crossing your legs, Margo?" Move over, Jessica Hahn. Hit the road, Donna Rice. Amid a battery of popping flashbulbs, Margo Adams, the former paramour of Boston Red Sox star Wade Boggs, made her public debut today at the Broadway offices of Penthouse magazine, for which she has just told all (and, in next month's issue, bares all). Appearing in the magazine's "Bimbo Room," so nicknamed for previous media sensations who have slept with rich and famous men, the dark-haired Adams, dressed in a pink polka-dot blouse and skirt that perfectly matched her fingernails, displayed a bright, bubbly style as she recounted her tales of locker room lust. Adams, for those with only a passing interest in either baseball or sex, burst into public view last summer with a $12 million lawsuit against Boggs, Boston's five-time batting champion. The suit was recently reduced to $500,000 when a California court ruled that Adams could not sue Boggs for emotional distress. Last weekend Boggs declared himself "ecstatic" over his partial victory in the lawsuit. "One thing has to be put in perspective," he said. "I did not commit a crime. It's not like I did drugs, or shot someone, or ended up in prison. You know, there are a lot of red-blooded American males out there ..." Today, the microphone belonged to Adams. And since this was an audience of grizzled sportswriters, the questions, as you would expect, were serious. "Where is the wildest place you've ever had sex?" one asked. Adams, 33, paused a beat and flashed a winning smile. "I know you'd just love me to say 'on the mound at the ballpark,' " she said. "And I'm not saying I would have said no. I think the wildest place we ever had sex was probably on the bathroom counter, and if that disappoints you, I'm sorry." Margo Adams did not disappoint her audience today. "What the hell, this is better than talking to Dwight Evans about his swing," a Boston Globe sportswriter declared. Adams says she made 64 road trips with the third baseman since the 1984 season, unbeknown to Boggs' wife Debbie and their two children. Adams says Boggs paid her $60,000 to $100,000 a year to be his companion. Among other things, she would buy and iron his clothes, since his sartorial taste was "kind of yucky." Through four seasons, Boggs would send her flowers and champagne and initiate erotic conversations over the phone, Adams said. She would serve him double-anchovy pizzas wearing a garter belt and stockings. But when the couple split up last year -- in part, Adams says, because she learned he was seeing other women -- Adams asked Boggs for $100,000 as a sort of severance payment. She had, after all, quit her job as an Anaheim, Calif., mortgage banker to tour the American League with him. Boggs at first denied the relationship and asked the FBI to investigate what he called an attempt at extortion. Adams went to court. The affair, which had been conducted in full view of Boggs' teammates, suddenly hit the sports pages. In the Penthouse piece, for which Adams was paid $100,000 -- a sum that could rise to $500,000 if the issue sells well -- Adams takes partial credit for Boggs' .356 career average, saying he hit better when she traveled with him. Sometimes, Adams said, Boggs would ask her not to wear panties to the game to help him break a slump. Adams described Boggs as a selfish player obsessed with his personal statistics. She also reported his disparaging remarks about some teammates, such as his comment that outfielder Jim Rice "thinks he's white." But it was her graphic descriptions of the sexual high jinks of other Red Sox players -- some of whom were said to have teamed up in me'nages a` trois, while others entertained girlfriends in the same hotels where their wives were staying -- that stunned the team's training camp in Winter Haven, Fla. Pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd even suggested that Boggs see a psychiatrist for what Boggs himself has described as his addiction to sex. Adams, poised and polished behind the lectern, said today that she had "great sex with Wade," but would hardly characterize it as his main obsession. "If he had a sex disease and thinks he was oversexed, I didn't get that sex," she said to hearty laughter. "Why didn't we spend more time in the room? Why did we go out every night with the guys? ... It wasn't me who said no to sex." Asked repeatedly what lessons she had learned, Adams spent much of her time blaming herself for the adulterous affair. "People say, 'Were you a victim of Wade?' No. When you date a married man, you make yourself a victim. Wade didn't break my heart -- I allowed that to happen ... "How could I ever have considered myself a smart girl? I mean, where was I? I must have been off on vacation during those four years, or my brain was somewhere else." Adams said she had placed her "faith and trust" in someone "who basically has to conduct his life as a liar and a cheat in order to carry on the relationship. What a stupid thing to do." But if she became Boggs' road mistress with both eyes open, why does he owe her anything? "I was a helpmate, a traveling companion, a lover, a girlfriend," she said, the words tumbling out in a torrent. "And I more than lived up to everything I promised Wade. And it breaks my heart that we couldn't part as friends. It shocked me that it happened that way." Adams said she never pressed Boggs to leave his wife and that it was she who broke off the affair, although her "biggest fear" was whether she would "be strong enough to really stay away from him." How, then, did Boggs betray her? Adams' answer came down to money. "When I asked for the $100,000, I thought that was one year's income" under their "oral contract," she said. Adams said she rejected an offer from rival Playboy because it was primarily interested in nude pictures of her, whereas Penthouse also liked her for her mind -- or at least agreed to devote two issues to her saga. "Playboy said, 'Your career will take off after this,' " Adams said. "Well, I'm a mortgage banker ... and that's not what I need in my career. I wanted the story to be told, along with the pictures. And they are fabulous -- I've seen them." Margo Adams seems to like ballplayers. Another lover, she said, was former Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey, with whom she says she has remained friends. But she also portrayed the baseball world as filled with immature men who spend night after night drinking in bars, distract themselves with a steady stream of groupies and brag about it afterward. Pressed to name names, Adams listed a half-dozen Red Sox players who she said behaved themselves -- Roger Clemens, Rich Gedman, Bruce Hurst, Dwight Evans, Bob Stanley and Marty Barrett -- and said people could draw their own conclusions about the rest. "They are unbelievably protected ... What I say is not going to change baseball. Everyone knows it's gone on for years," she said. The blue-eyed brunet suggested that reporters who cover the teams know far more than they convey to their readers. "I've never been able to understand the handicap sportswriters work under, when you see people come in at 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning with girls on each arm, and they make a couple of errors that day," she said. "Luckily for Wade, he is so focused and he is so good ... it doesn't affect him. I mean, you're looking at a man who was able to live two separate lives for four years."

The original Boggs died after hitting his head on a table when trying to get some cowboy boots on. He was replaced with a clone.

@redsoxstats Houston really needs a LF and C. Boston really needs young pitching. Bloom and Click worked together for a long time. Thinking face @IanCundall Agree with this line of thinking. There’s a potential deal to be made here that could make a lot of sense for both teams with just Benintendi or both players.

So Beni's SSS can be ignored, but Liam Hendrick's SSS is worth a 4 year contract?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/505388389408044517/ This poster just proves my point.

Beni ended the season with a 455 OPS over his last 109 AB's. That carried over into 2020.

Closer than Valentin ever was.

When a journeyman reliever with 3 good years under his belt at age 31 gets that kind of contract...

Here's my 5 faces of the franchise for '93: Clemens/Cooper/Vaughn/Pena/Greenwell Moon's list is Greenwell erasure. Prove me wrong.

Even in center field, there really aren’t any impact regulars who fail to hit for at least some power, and barring something unforeseen, I think a lack of thump will keep Rosario from being a true everyday player despite his very interesting, and in some ways very special, skillset. This guy walked in nearly 17% of his Hi-A plate appearances in 2019 as just a teenager, and he has a chance to be a special defender in center because of his speed and athleticism, though he was only a 50 runner last Fall (I’m chalking this up to a long, weird year during which Rosario was traded). Rosario is also very tough to get to swing-and-miss in the zone, but some of that is because he’s very conservatively poking, slapping, and slashing soft contact all over the infield and not really trying to hit for power. Realistically, he’s a low-end regular in center field, or some sort of weird meta-game role player if the plus defense finally materializes. Basically, they are saying that he'd get promoted because of his speed and his fielding (which hasn't materialized yet). Sox Prospects has his ETA as "late 2022." Could just be a misprint from Fangraphs.

Aside from his time in the Dominican, he's only played 59 games, all at short season Lowell. He's just so far away. Also, he wasn't at the alternate site last year.

How much smaller was the developmental system in the 40's and 50's?

No rush. Just someone stated that his ETA was 2021, which is really wrong.

I think only us weirdos are worrying about it. Most Sox fans probably don't even know it exists.

Clemens 86 - 96 Nomar 97 - 98 Pedro 99 - 04 Papi/Manny 05 - 08 Youk 09 - 10 Pedroia 11 - 17 Betts 18 - 19 Xander 20 - present

Top 15: Prospect Sox Prospects Baseball America Baseball Prospectus FanGraphs Average Triston Casas 1 1 1 2 1.25 Jeter Downs 2 2 2 1 1.75 Bryan Mata 3 4 5 3 3.75 Jarren Duran 4 5 4 7 5.00 Bobby Dalbec 6 3 6 9 6.00 Gilbert Jimenez 5 7 9 4 6.25 Noah Song 11 11 3 5 7.50 Tanner Houck 7 8 10 6 7.75 Connor Seabold 9 11 11 8 9.75 Jay Groome 12 6 11 12 10.25 Thad Ward 8 10 11 13 10.50 Nick Yorke 13 9 7 15 11.00 Aldo Ramirez 10 11 11 14 11.50 Eduard Bazardo 26 11 11 10 14.50 Matthew Lugo 14 11 8 27 15.00

I just heard that Rosario's bat is way behind. If he's only going to be a 5th OFer, I guess you could bring him up. I'd give him a full season in AA and see if his bat can come around.

Nobody would say it's JD. On and Off the field, it's Xander and it's by a wide margin. Just because you're the "best player" doesn't make you the face of the franchise. I think a good argument could be made that Pedroia was the face of the franchise from 2011 - 2017 even though Papi had the bigger moments..