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If we take Breslow at his word, it's just to get Houck and Whitlock stretched out, nothing more. They are prepared to start if the rotations needs them to rather than play catch up in March. That doesn't mean Pivetta is sent to the pen. I believe Pivetta will be certainly stretched out this offseason.

You have over and over admitted YOURSELF that you need to have the last word. I don't know why it's ok for you to talk down everyone else as you post over and over and over again.

Yankee fans deserve Hal Steinbrenner.

I think that was Slasher's job. RIP

It would be nice!

Ah yes, because you are someone who truly knows how to refrain from giving their two cents on every f***ing issue.

Tom Werner used the term "full throttle." I'm not going to be overly concerned about 1 year deals like Torres.

We've asked you and Old Red to "just stop" for a long time. Complaining about me is like blaming the weatherman for the snow that's falling. I have no control over your incessant bickering.

When two old men start reving their over priced Chargers at a stop light.

Seems high to me, but I'm no expert.

-3 OAA in 1200 innings at 2B isn't terrible. Valdez had -4 in only 350 innings (-14 in 1200 innings). Reyes was -2 in only 200 innings (-12 at 1200 innings). Urias was -5 in 400 innings (-15 at 1200 innings). Torres is so much better defensively than the guys we had last season.

The only thing we can be sure about for next season: @tylermilliken_ Alex Cora revealed on @NameRedactedPod that the Red Sox will be rocking their City Connect uniforms whenever they’re home on Saturdays. Fridays at home will feature the red uniforms. Rest of the week will be whites. On the road, there’s going to be a lot of gray and the blue jerseys on Fridays. The rotation is alternates for Fridays (home or away) and City Connects for Home Saturday games.

Stay lubed up just in case.

Not sure he'd get to 15 in ARB when Happ and Hoskins got 11 and 12 last year. Devers only got 17.5 in his final year and his numbers far surpass Torres.

Stretch them out now, so that they can go to the pen for short outings and then do a spot start later? Is that spot start going to be 3-4 innings long?

Players always look a little worse in pinstripes for some reason.

The Red Sox still view Tanner Houck and Garrett Whitlock as starters, but also understand the duo could help out of the bullpen, similar to Josh Winckowski’s role last season. Breslow told reporters in Arizona that he plans on building Houck and Whitlock as starters this offseason. “I’m thinking giving them every chance to get built out as starting pitchers makes a ton of sense,” Breslow said to reporters at the GM Meetings. “I think as we start to put into place the pitching infrastructure that we’re working hard to put in place, there will be opportunities to maybe tweak around the margins: pitch usage, pitch shapes, attack plans that can maybe get more mileage out of those guys. I also think just having them healthy and having healthy offseasons and anticipating healthy seasons gives us a better look at what they are capable of doing. So I’m not sure that decision gets made in spring training. My hope is they come in built up, they are viable rotation options and the team needs and how we best kind of put the winning team on the field dictates ultimately (their roles).” C'mon, man!

Torres is not a good 2b, but he's a better player than Verdugo. A one for one trade of those two players would be great for BOS.

Wild. Sign me up on that one.

Just as an FYI, the GM Meetings that are underway in AZ have been cancelled due to everyone getting a stomach virus. Bloom poisoned the well.

Unrelated. One is Puerto Rican and one is Dominican.

They'd be better off NOT playing Masa in LF and having him DH than using it for rest reasons. Raffy only started 2 times at DH last year. Casas only started 10 times at DH last year. Who else is important enough to require rest days at DH to keep their bat in the lineup?

I think that's the best plan.

He played a decent 2b last year.