I think if you are ok with "soon" being next year, you'll be happy.
Mayer
Drohan
Rafaela
Yorke
Wikelman
Hickey
Guerrero
These guys are all AA or higher this season and could be on the MLB roster next year at some point.
2025 could include at least partial years from guys like:
Roman Anthony
Kyle Teel
Luis Perales
Brainer Bonaci
Chase Meidroth
Blaze Jordan
That's a lot of names. Some won't make it. Some should be traded. The pipeline is much closer than some people realize.
Duran is a bad CFer. If Abreu or Rosier (???) is on the roster, they are playing defense instead of Yoshida and Duran is playing LF.
Rafaela should be the CFer. Abreu is athletic enough to be a RFer in Fenway. He has a good arm.
moon, he didn't play ANY OF until 2021. Initially, he was just an IFer. He is a good SS, but when they put him out at CF he had natural instincts and was a revelation. They know what his defense is at SS. They only put him there once a week to give him the reps just in case.
Now, good players leaving to suck and bad players leaving to be good is much closer to irony. However, since there are exceptions, it's not really irony either.
He played every non-double header game except for one while with WOO and that was him ramping up. That's pretty much fulltime especially on an Alex Cora roster.
It's loser baseball to play a guy with a worse bat against left handed pitching just for shits and giggles. I guess some people are just playing for the future rather than trying to win now? Duran isn't a better defender than Refsnyder either.
He has a 907 OPS against LHP. He needs to be playing somewhere every time a lefty is starting. If he's starting, at least one of the following has to sit: Yoshida, Duran, Verdugo, Turner, Duvall.
Who is giddy? Who is saying that they are turning a corner and the season is looking better? They are playing the f***ing Royals. If they don't go 7-3 in this stretch, it's a disaster.
Rodon: 27 IP, 6.01 xFIP, forearm injury, hamstring injury, out for the year?
Paxton: 75 IP, 3.69 xFIP, 1.3 fWAR, potential QO offer at the end of the year?