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Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out... [rewr!] ...your dead! [rewr!] [clang] Bring out your dead! CUSTOMER: Here's one. CART MASTER: Nine pence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! CART MASTER: What? CUSTOMER: Nothing. Here's your nine pence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! CART MASTER: 'Ere. He says he's not dead! CUSTOMER: Yes, he is. DEAD PERSON: I'm not! CART MASTER: He isn't? CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better! CUSTOMER: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment. CART MASTER: Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. DEAD PERSON: I don't want to go on the cart! CUSTOMER: Oh, don't be such a baby. CART MASTER: I can't take him. DEAD PERSON: I feel fine! CUSTOMER: Well, do us a favor. CART MASTER: I can't. CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. CART MASTER: No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. CUSTOMER: Well, when's your next round? CART MASTER: Thursday. DEAD PERSON: I think I'll go for a walk. CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do? DEAD PERSON: [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy. [whop] CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much. CART MASTER: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

A good primer for today's rule V deadline: https://www.overthemonster.com/2020/11/20/21579098/boston-red-sox-rule-5-groome-mata-seabold-wong-rosario-potts-bazardo-pedroia-hall-stock I agree that Potts/Rosario/Wong/Downs/Groome/Seabold will all most likely be added to the 40 man. Bazardo was on the outside looking in IMO but apparently had a really strong showing in fall instructs as his velo ticked up substantially per scouts. Maybe they'll keep 7? This article suggests Castellanos and Joan Martinez could be kept as well, but I'm not bullish on them. The cuts to the 40 man will be interesting. I don't think Pedey is gone just yet because there has been no smoke from the FO about it. If there was, we'd be hearing about a press conference today.

Yeah, which means they could non tender a lot of these guys and still keep them in the system (Stock, Brewer, Springs, Walden) if they wanted to. Helps clean up the 40 man and still keep some AAAA guys around for depth.

Last year, Sox grabbed three non tender guys: Plawecki, Pillar and Peraza. Sox non tendered Osich and Marco Hernandez.

I remember.

Pablo Sandoval was pretty damn recent.

Makes sense to me.

Maybe. With his play style, it was certainly likely that he'd continue to get beat up along the way hindering his production. The Red Sox would have been a far better team and far more enjoyable to root for if he had stayed healthy. If he had a press conference tomorrow and said "Laser Show 2021," you know Red Sox Nation would erupt.

Name recognition IS a variable though, just not a great one for long term success. Players are brought to new organizations all the time based on their star power rather than their expected value on the field.

Brasier shouldn't be on that list either.

At least it throws out redonkulous trades that have no basis in reality.

There's an outside chance that they would go this way, but his lack of control puts him in the pen most likely.

(x) Doubt

Even if he was healthy, he'd be on the outside looking in unless he wanted to play until he got to 3,000 hits some time in his 40's.

No one has seen him pitch in over a year. He is a converted OFer, correct? Maybe his bat finally came around!

Why is Aybar a RFer?

Yes, that's a problem with nearly any BTV approved trade. Just because the numbers line up, doesn't mean it's feasible. BTV isn't sophisticated enough to determine what a player's value would be to a particular team.

Yes, 100%.

According to BTV, they have the same trade value.

Barnes Brasier Eovaldi hernandez Houck Pivetta ERod Sale Taylor Vazquez Bogaerts Dalbec Devers Beni JD Verdugo Mata Groome Rosario Wong Potts Seabold That's it really. Everyone else could be replaced rather easily. The rest is just preference in ranking the other guys.

According to JAWS, he's right behind Carew. 7th all time. If I had a ballot, I'd vote for him. Pedroia is 20th per JAWS. I wouldn't vote for him.

I agree that it would be easy to keep both. I'd rather have them over a guy like Marcus Wilson.

I bet a team like Pittsburgh would be all over that move.

According to BTV.

In addition to bringing Gettys into the organization, the Red Sox also brought back a minor-league free agent of their own according to the linked transaction log above, re-signing left-handed pitcher Enmanuel De Jesus. De Jesus was signed by the Red Sox out of Venezuela back in 2013 and has made it as far in the system as High-A Salem. The 23-year-old (he’ll turn 24 in a few weeks) spent all of 2019 in Salem, pitching to a 3.58 ERA over 130 2⁄3 innings with 122 strikeouts and 42 walks. There’s not a huge ceiling here, but the potential for an up-and-down depth starter certainly exists if things progress well. Expect him to start 2021 at Double-A Portland.