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That's what he signed for with the Yankees who matched the Giants offer per reports. Giants weren't reported to offer MORE.

I just wrote your name on the chalkboard and put a check next to it.

The Yankees aren't invicible in the FA market as they once were. However, I don't see the Sox competing with them at the moment.

Every offseason it's just: work out a trade with SEA, OAK or MIA. We're just playing the hits right now. I've already seen Rooker mentioned elsewhere so I don't think we need to get into it here.

There isn't a surplus unless the young guys can actually play. Until we know that, there's no surplus. It's just a guess. Duran has a lot of value in a trade, but if you realistically want to compete, he should be in CF everyday.

The longer quote I can pull is: “I think there’s a constant calibration. I don’t think an offseason should ever be focused exclusively on either of those things, especially not here… to say that we’ve kind of shifted the dial toward the present at the expense of the future, I think would be a fair characterization.” I don't think that clarifies anything though.

And according to BTV, Castillo's trade value isn't high enough to discuss in depth.

Breslow stated FO and ownership have currently "kind of shifted the dial toward the present at the expense of the future." 🦆⛵

Fine. Seattle's not trading their starters to either the Sox or O's anyway.

I think they could bid against the Yankees if they wanted to. Will they do it for Soto? Zero chance. They haven't been linked at all so there's just no way.

I'm not comparing the Sox to the Mariners right now. I'm just going by what the Mariners GM has stated in public as his goal. "If you go back, and you look in a decade, those teams that win 54% of the time always wind up in the postseason and they more often than not wind up in a World Series, so there's your bigger picture process," Dipoto said. "Nobody wants to hear 'the goal this year is we're going win 54% of the time.' … One year, you're going to 60% and another year you're going to win 50%; it's whatever it is. But over time that type of mindset gets you there. … "If what you're doing is focusing year-to-year on ‘what do we have to do to win the World Series this year’ you might be one of the teams that's laying in the mud and can't get up for another decade, so we're actually doing the fan base a favor in asking for their patience to win the World Series, while we continue to build a sustainably good roster." He believes in 54 percent and the nonsense about "sustainability" (aka being el cheapo). Because of this, I don't believe he's going to trade his starters. He'll probably wait until their final year of control and maybe even until the last trade deadline.

Uh, ok?

They would bid against the Yankees from time to time, but I'm not so sure how often they actually won or if the Sox were just driving up the price. An example of direct competition was Mark Teixeira.

https://www.draysbay.com/2024/10/10/24266903/where-will-the-rays-play-in-2025?utm_source=cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cup-of-coffee-october-11-2024&_bhlid=b93b389f502014704f8efcdae224e58daf13928f This has a decent amount of ideas as to where the Rays may end up playing next season.

On the East Coast of FL, our bigger issue was all the tornado damage prior to the hurricane landfall. We were planning on sending supplies to the West Coast, but we are going to be using them locally instead. More tornados touched down in FL on Wednesday than in any other 24 hour period in FL's recorded history.

Seattle probably isn't going to trade their pitching anyway. They'll diddle around the way they always do and be a middle of the pack team for a while cause their GM only wants to get to 85 wins.

Mayer, Campbell, Meidroth

He always had an issue with BB's and an issue with injuries. That he stayed healthy was the big turnaround for him.

I don't know why you thought he'd start taking walks when he never really did before.

There's a chance Fulmer is NOT protected depending on how his health is looking. Sox would know more info on that that people outside the org. Monegro would not be a great fit for a pen role and would probably get walloped in MLB. I'm leaning towards him not being protected. I think Dobbins is for sure protected. I'm not sure about Garcia. He may be a year away. Maybe a team wants to stash him? He didn't really set the world on fire in AA.

Fernandez looked pretty good in the STL pen.

I think that paradigm is why his limited to a 725 ceiling. If he knew how to take a walk, he'd be a 775 hitter. He's just never going to get there. He just needs to learn to not swing at pitches 2' outside the zone.

Overall, it ended up short. He had a hot stretch that was above expectations, but it was a very JBJesque season of cold start, hot streak, cold finish when you think about it.

Do you think they’d trade Gunnar, Adley or those guys? I don’t. Sox have prospects they’d be willing to deal that the O’s couldn’t match most likely.

No.