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Steamer seems to be weighing performance prior to 2023 a little to heavily for Castillo. For example, his HR/9 has been 1.28 the past two years, but it projected it to decrease. Also projected his FIP to be lower than 2023 or 2024. As with all things, Steamer is a fun little toy just like BTV.

tOPS+ away from SEA: 116 for Castillo last year Why trade for a declining Castillo? They need guys at the top of the rotation, not the middle or bottom.

When did you see Tolle pitch?

If you're in for 11, you may as well accept the final 2.

No kidding. 🙃

Their GDP is at an all time high right now. He's going to take a bath on this one! He'll have to assume approximately 175B of government debt.

Not sure it's allowable.

I've never heard the 40 man called the foundation before. Sometimes you come up with definitions that I'm not aware of. Maybe others are? Chat, is that true?

If there are fans still holding the Jackie Robinson tryout against the new ownership, they really need to move on. Feel free to be mad at Yawkey, but sheeeeesh.... AI could have just said "they let one of the greatest players of this generation go to another team over a few dollars." I would say the distorted or overlooked history of John Henry is that the dude is rather aloof and has thought there was one simple trick to building a franchise. He tinkers every few years and has veered the team off its initial course that was most likely to be competitive year to year (strong farm and strong spending like the Dodgers and Yankees).

From. My. Cold. Dead. Hands. The new stadium will feature a Neil Diamond hologram performing every 8th inning. Also, the scoreboard and all announcing will be run by AI.

It's not a pivot. They will start collecting players from the DR in hopes of enticing Soto to join.

Scientists have found out that there's actually SURGES of activity in brains before they die. This is the only way things like this can be explained.

It's been 4 days since the Thanksgiving rumor of him signing with the Sox. The dum dum who "reported it" said Soto would be in Boston this weekend making everything official and that an announcement would come the middle of this week (which makes zero sense because if it's official and Soto is in town, you'd just announce it right away). A day later, the "report" about Soto's sister looking for apartments was put up on the bad place. As there has been no further corroboration, we're going to need either another wacky gossip story to get us going or an excuse as to why Soto is not announced by Thursday. Any guesses as to what happens over the next few days? Soto didn't sign because he failed the physical? Mets swooped in after there was a handshake agreement? How about a nice MYSTERY TEAM? Werner, Sam and Bres all on board, but Henry pulls out at last second?

Sox need TOTR guys, not more 3/4/5 guys. At his best at age 35 after missing out on a few years, he'd be a 3. With that PR hit, it's not worth it.

Murphy is the foundation? Didn't you want to DFA him the other day?

A drop for Robles makes much more sense as he's been a very volatile player the past few seasons. Wilyer has been a plus hitter since he was called up (135 wRC+ in '23, 114 in '24, 117 overall). In 2023, they played him in CF too much which skewed his defense negatively. He's clearly a corner OFer.

Yes, they should lose the Monster by tearing down Fenway and building a completely new stadium elsewhere in the city.

He pitched all last year in Mexico and no MLB team took a flier on him. Dude is toast. He's the last guy the Sox should take.

The weirdness was a Boras construction.

That's a miss?

Wow, this guy was bang on with the Soto contract amount!

Feels like “Ohtani TOR sushi party” type stuff to me.

When people are relying on the guy holding the door open at Dunkies for Soto news, you know you’re hard up.

Those reports are not to be trusted. It's from some schmoe who has never reported anything more than scores from the local peewee football game. Soto was offered it, there's not a chance in hell he accepted.

Here are some of the lefties that I've seen mentioned: Angels: Jack Dashwood, LHP Health has been an issue for the 6-foot-6 lefty drafted in 2019 as he’s thrown just 40 innings over the past two seasons combined (10 in 2024). He has a low-90s fastball and a decent mid-80s slider that he used to post a 17/2 K/BB ratio over 10 AFL innings this fall. He’s 27, but could be a potential Rule 5 target as a useful lefty reliever. Braves: Luis De Avila, LHP (No. 15) The Braves first got De Avila in the Rule 5 Draft -- the Minor League phase -- in December 2021. At the lower levels of Atlanta's system, he missed bats and got a lot of ground-ball outs in 2022 and 2023. He was effective at Double-A in 2024, with a 3.74 ERA that would have placed him fifth in that category in the Southern League had he thrown enough innings, to go along with a 1.68 GO/AO. He missed a lot fewer bats (79 K’s in 101 IP), but he is a lefty with a track record. Padres: Jagger Haynes, LHP (No. 20) The Padres rolled the dice on drafting Haynes as a raw prep lefty in the final round of the shortened 2020 Draft, and he’s shown glimpses of promise without much production. He had Tommy John surgery and didn’t make his official pro debut until 2023, only throwing 25 1/3 innings that year. He was healthy in 2024 with mixed results at High-A, which probably means he’s too far away for real Rule 5 consideration, but his fastball-curve combination from the left side is intriguing. Of these guys, only Dashwood seems like a guy Breslow would target. Why snag the next Booser in Rule 5 when you can get something better in FA though?