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And if they held him out until 2022 out of an abundancy of caution, wouldn't that be best in the long run anyway? This team clearly isn't on the trajectory for a championship, there is no reason to worry about Sale's current health unless he takes some dramatic turn for the worse.

Some down market, eh?

As do I. I think he's just the placeholder until they find a competent replacement (Downs???).

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The conservative approach IS bringing him back in the 2nd half and rolling him out slowly. I'd be more concerned if they wanted to push him faster.

Profar got 7M AAV BTW. I'd pass.

Well, we can have that discussion about Dalbec when the time comes. I don't think Dalbec is going to play 2b this year so my argument at the beginning was not comparing the two of them, but rather Chavis vs Arroyo.

@JonHeyman Red Sox tried hard for Profar before he agreed with Padres

He has made zero adjustments since getting called up. He had an amazingly hot stretch at the beginning of 2019 which is greatly skewing his numbers.

This makes no sense. This isn't even a coherent argument. Dalbec hasn't had the swoon that Chavis has gone through. Chavis has had a 671 OPS since 5/5/19. That's more indicative of his future success than his PAs before the scouting report got out on him.

Not sure he's deserving of 540 more at this point. He has a huge hole in his swing and never came close to adjusting.

SoxProspects has projected him as the starting 1b in WOO.

First 14 games: 1237 OPS Since then: 671 OPS I don't think he's going to figure it out. Seems like he never was able to adjust. For reference, Arroyo has a 643 career OPS (719 since 2018).

Yup. They aren't slotting him into a closer's role or anything. He's just a guy to stash in WOO. They already have much better options to round out this year's pen, which they didn't have last year at this time.

I think they've already hinted that they are fine with Arroyo starting. I think we saw at the end of the year that Chavis was phased out of 2b. He only appeared at 2b in 4 games (even partial) last September. His defense is just bad which is why he wound up with more innings in LF than 2b after having zero professional innings in the OF prior to 2020.

Even if they are playing well, they won't "go for it." Not this season anyway.

I agree that Bloom isn't getting the top tier guys this season.

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Grotz had a 2.69 FIP in 2019 (14 appearances). They've picked up pitchers with worse pedigrees.

That's exactly what they should do. Even for C level prospects.

He's trying to add depth to the org as a whole (the "building back up" gimmick). Only problem with that is he needs to add some top end guys too.

I think Arroyo gets the most reps (for better or worse) this year.

If they could keep Arauz on the roster for a full year, they definitely can keep Whitlock on the roster. Whitlock is a much more valuable player. It'd be dumb to return him.

A much better version of Brockstar.

I could see taking Happ over Eovaldi due to Eovaldi's health concerns. Perez is sturdy, 8+ years younger and has a higher fWAR over the past 2 seasons. Pivetta is a post prospect who isn't a lock to make the opening day roster. Perez > Happ > Eovaldi > Pivetta Eovaldi has a higher ceiling than the others, but he'd need to stay healthy for once.