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I would love to see Gray come back but it’s likely 50/50. Sad the season ended for him the way it did. I like Roman Anthony of course but I’m not in the camp of thinking that he is the next great power hitter for this team. So far just another injury prone young ball player. I really do not like watching anyone like him leading off. Arias of course needs a long look in spring training. If he is able to make contact with the ball, he should start somewhere. This team needs people who actually can see the ball and hit it. This was certainly a magical season in many ways. Getting to where they got with the 4 A lineup they fielded most nights was an incredible accomplishment. In the end not so much.

If I heard what I’m pretty sure I heard, Tracy had never seen this 22 yearl old pitch. I haven’t been following AAA AA closely lately but I have to assume that they have no pitches left down there. I feel sorry for whoever this kid is.

If Crochet alone comes back and AR is healthy, for me that is all it takes. I would assume that Houk would go to the bullpen. Might be where he belongs anyway. Oviedo who knows right. he might help at some time.

Once again, I hated seeing two promising young pitching prospects traded but one thing that I don’t think has been mentioned - Do some of you think that we will never get a healthy Crochet back, how about Oviedo and Houck? I’m assuming we will at some point either this year or next. I like their chances of being more productive than either of the promising rookies traded. We got a beast back in the Mayer trade- a guy that will help us right now. I don’t think that we sacrificed much with respect to the future.

I don’t think Narvaez going will have any effect on this team at all. Now, bringing a new starting outfielder as well as a new starting shortstop etc. could have a great affect on a group of guys who have played as a team for a good stretch of time now. We’ll see how it all works out.

I’ve mulled this trade over for awhile now and as much as I hate trading solid pitching prospects, I’m liking this trade right now. I’ve never been a big fan of Narvaez and we replaced him with a real good one. I’ve always liked Wong as a second catcher. Our team has obviously been playing at an elite level and one of the things that hasn’t been mentioned is that the chemistry of what we have going was not changed at all with this move.

We just keep scratching our heads and saying how long can this roster keep this up and this roster just keeps on keeping it up!

I’d be ok with that too.

Love to see CJ Abrams playing for us but at what cost?

They’ve made baseball fun for me to pay attention to again.

It’s got to drive the data driven analytical folks nuts because in many ways it just isn’t explainable. it’s a whole bunch of professionals playing as one for each other.

` It has been a magical season. I’m glad Tolle is still in a Red Sox uniform. Trading anybody for anybody right now might possibly screw up what we already have. A group of guys many of whom have either been journeymen or career minor leaguers are playing together and winning. Whatever the formula is it’s working.

After the Mead deal we don’t have much to deal if there is interest in keeping Arias which i think they should. I would be surprised if any substantial deals for us get done.

Good for him! I remember Joe Foy well.

Kind of a tough call with Duran for sure right now but personally I’m ok with him out there. In general, I don’t like the concept of platooning and going lefty righty. The team has something going right now and for the present I wouldn’t mess with it much.