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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.

That doesn't mean they are only going to sign starters.

They should consider kicking the tires on Rosario or Merrifield.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/11/red-sox-trade-rumors-alex-verdugo.html?utm_source=twitter @PeteAbe Craig Breslow readily acknowledged the Sox are getting calls on Alex Verdugo.

McGuire's catching skills really dipped last season. I'm more worried about what happened to him than trying out Garver.

MLBTradeRumors says 3/39 to the Rangers or Sox.

Seems likely. The trade idea for Tatis is a pipedream. Maybe they try moving Xander and eating some salary?

Tatis has a very reasonable contract. I don't know why SD would move him. I know they want to cut salary, but he's not the guy they should move.

Rosier has 12 games played in AAA. Why would you count him?

He was diagnosed with AFB back in 2011. It really hasn't held him back considerably.

The options are (25 HR's and under 25% K, RHB, OF): Acuna, Betts, Julio Rodriguez and Tatis.

Would SEA want to do that deal? They already have a pretty good SS.

And you need 2 Catchers anyway? I don't see any reason not to pair Garver and Teel unless you see more value in pairing Teel and Wong. However, Wong's skills behind the plate are mainly based on his arm and Teel already has that part down. What's he going to learn from Wong there?

Well, you said "played games."

Or trade Wong?

I'm not assuming the best case scenario at all. I have no idea what kind of Duvall stat you are looking at. Age 28: 157 G Age 29: 138 G Age 30: 41 G injured Age 31: 57 G COVID year Age 32: 146 G Age 33: 86 G Age 34: 92 G

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