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I agree with this. I'd prefer to keep Abreu, but if they can only get a good deal out of moving him then do that. Duran and Abreu are similar enough that it's more important to get Anthony in the lineup and figure it out from there if you really believe in Rafaela as the everyday CFer.

I agree. From Nomar complaining about the grounds crew to Papi yelling at the official scorer, the whole process stinks.

Duran has been straight up bad in LF. He has massively regressed. I don't know what's going on there.

Who would be the DH? My optimal roster construction still has Raffy at DH.

I don't think there are gut punch losses this early in the season for an under .500 team. It just doesn't seem possible.

The problem with Bloom's draft strategy is that he picked HS bats that take longer to develop which just slowed the timing of providing help to the big club. He did a decent job of drafting and hoarding, but didn't help the BoSox and wasn't really great at identifying pitching.

Cora is not picking the players. All over this board, people are overstating what some of these players bring to the table. Duran is a 104 wRC+ guy right now (16th ranked LFer in MLB), but people say we can't possibly trade him. Why? What about his 745 OPS is untradeable? For a leadoff guy, his bb rate is 22nd for LFers. Yuck! Abreu has been a consistent performer every year he's been in the league. If you pair him with a weak side platoon bat (easy to find and maybe it's Jhostynxon), you're golden. It's similar with Houck. Everyone is mad at Bailey for ruining Houck. Houck wasn't very good before Bailey showed up. If it wasn't for Bailey, Houck would have never made the AS team. People thought Bello was going to be a #2. When he didn't end up being that guy, they had to blame anyone but the player. It makes no sense. Maybe just take a breath and stop overrating these guys? This team is fine, but they will be on the outside looking in of any sort of real playoff run without massive roster changes.

And up to the pitchers' ability too.

He didn't have any sort of ST and struck out basically every at bat the first few games. It's safe to ignore those PA's at the moment.

They have stressed "pull Air" but haven't really done so. They are really just piling up the k's. It's a rollercoaster ride offense.

Or good luck

Narvaez has played A LOT. Sox need a better backup.

Bello ate his Wheaties

Wong slowed up at the end. Went to the dugout and ignored Cora. WTH?!?!?

Impossible right now

Shut up OB

Sox make a lot of pitchers look CY worthy.

LOL x 3

Anthony is good at hitting velo. We’ll see how he handles Baz. Duran can’t handle it.

Nice to see a quick inning from Bello

10 day IL, oblique

I’m sorry you had a bad weekend because the lowly Sox beat your fave.

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