mvp 78

Let Roger go to TOR.

Left Jeff Suppan eligible to be selected in the expansion draft.

Traded Aaron Sele plus for Damon Buford and Jim Leyritz

Traded Jamie Moyer for Darren Bragg.

Traded Canseco and Wasdin and $$$.

Early on, Wong's defense was looking pretty strong, but it has taken as step back. His framing is bottom 5 of all catchers above 100 innings.

On TalkSox, hyperbole is the main course.

Mayer hit his first AA tater yesterday, but is sitting today. https://twitter.com/RedSoxPlayerDev/status/1666616322447364096

And Cora was a decent defensive MIFer too. It just doesn't make much sense to me. Career 10 DRS at 2b, 20 DRS at SS.

@redsoxstats Yoeilin Cespedes just hit his first home run in the Dominican. The reports on him are extremely exciting. Guessing he is in Florida soon. @SoxProspects Yoeilin Cespedes gives the DSL Red Sox Blue a 5-2 lead with a two-run homer (1) in the bottom of the fifth inning. The 17-year-old infielder is #41 on the #SP60. He was signed for $1,400,000 back in January.

Also, saying "if we use 160 innings as a full season" is a little silly as he's only pitched over 160 innings TWICE in his 12 years pitching professionally (even including MiLB innings).

That's because it's heavily weighted towards his 1.7 fWAR over the previous 68 innings. 40% of all his fWAR since 4/1/21 has come just the past two months!

JD typically starts off the year hot. I expect him to fall back to earth at some point. I'm not sure what effect Petco will have on Wacha if any. Wacha's currently on pace for 187 innings which would be a career high. Seems unlikely? He'll probably hit the IL at some point and we'll see reduced effectiveness afterwards. IDK.

WOO's 4th or 5th starter. Garbage arm.

And defense should be relatively cheap to acquire. I don't understand why he just ignored it for SS/CF/2B and seemingly elsewhere. It's clear that he's trying to get to a future season to add Rafaela/Mayer and some other missing pieces from the minors. That doesn't help us out now. He also said that the team would be competitive now and that it would be awesome. I just don't have faith that he can create a team that can really be consistent year to year. In 2021, it was still largely DD's team. Not every young player has a smooth transition to MLB either (see Casas). What is Bloom's fall back plan? Does he have one? Doesn't seem like he does. He adds to the bottom of the 40 man roster so that the Sox can be an 81 win team rather than a 71 win team, but why not take the 81 win team and make it a 91 win team with better talent at the top of the roster?

Valdez is just horrible at 2B. I get that he can hit RHP, but he is just terrible out there.

Brasier finished 2022 strongly too!

White flag. From OTM today: Three and a half years of this nonsense. The goal of the organization is to win baseball games, not derive the slightest of edges from decreasingly important spots on the field. If Corey Kluber and Nick Pivetta aren’t good enough to start, maybe they never were, and if you’re forced to turn to Matt f***ing Dermody to stay above .500 in mid-June, at what point are you the problem? Bloom’s best two moves, by far, have been signing Masataka Yoshida for far above MLB consensus and drafting Marcelo Mayer at the fourth pick when he fell due to contract concerns. These were a) a well-thought out move with a huge upside and A move that fell in his lap and, because he ran the Red Sox and not the Rays, he was able to execute. In both of these cases, the Red Sox used their status as a behemoth to bring talented people on board. They are the exceptions to Bloom’s rule. His tenure, so far, is defined by stunts like the Darmody Affair. So why does this brilliant and often charming guy keep kicking the can on a championship series, only to deny he did so once it’s left his foot, in front of scores of witnesses? It’s not a rhetorical question, and the answer hasn’t changed since he was brought aboard: It’s because this is a five-year plan, always has been a five-year plan, and he is working to that end. It’s plain as day, but he just won’t say it. He thinks you can’t handle the truth, or acts like he does because ownership says so, but they deserve each other at this point — and, as fans, we deserve better than Matt Dermody, for every reason there is.

Jose Awfulman.

In the steroid era too.

Inside you there are two Cohens...

It wasn't great. Sox team starter fWAR last season was ranked 18th. CHW at 15 was 3.4 fWAR higher (needed Hill and Wacha to be twice as good to make up the difference).

Henry thinks he's too smart to have to do that.

No, he cares too much about the small market clubs. He really hates Cohen.

RIP to the Iron Sheik.