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The Red Sox next need a 5th starter on 4/13.* That happens to be Cooper Criswell's next scheduled start - in fact, the WooSox were skipping Brian Van Belle to keep him on that schedule.
Bello today on 6 days rest, then Crawford, Whitlock, Houck on regular rest followed by Criswell on regular rest seems logically how the team will play this.
In terms of OBP, Rafaela is 10th on the Sox behind Wong, Casas, Story, Hamilton and McGuire of the guys you mentioned. I'm not sure anyone is thrilled with Dalbec, Abreu, Reyes or Valdez right now. None of them have a wRC+ higher than 19!
At the end of 2021, FanGraphs didn't even have him listed in the top 41 in LAA prospects.
Soto has been DFA'd three times since February.
There has to be a better option than that.
This team had a f***ton of holes. He's done a decent job filling them. Bell just said that he had more confidence that Breslow can figure this out than Bloom and I agree.
He was healthy for a long time in COL, but he's been snakebitten recently. I agree that finding a light hitting defensive whizz would have been a good get. Not sure putting Hamilton at SS in AAA was helping anyone.
He's making weaker contact in the bigs because MLB pitchers are exploiting his impatience. He's been bad at nearly every hitting metric since being called up.
100%.
He traded for Slaten decisively.
He wanted a 2b and got Grissom.
They needed more starting pitcher prospects so he dealt Schreiber for Sandlin who is now one of the more hyped BA prospects.
He wanted to get rid of Verdugo's contract so he dealt him to the Yanks for Fitts, Weissert and Judice.
To replace Verdugo, he dealt Santos and Robertson for Tyler O'Neilll.
That would have been too much work for Bloom for one offseason.