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I agree, seems an odd move. Abreu, McAdams was suggesting would be the main piece.

The Boston Red Sox have a new-look rotation ready to take the AL East by storm in 2025, but they might not be done rounding it out just yet. According to MassLive.com's Sean McAdam, the Red Sox have spoken with the San Diego Padres about possibly trading for starting pitcher Dylan Cease. Boston's interest is leaning more towards "due diligence" than "aggressive pursuit," per McAdam, but there have at least been preliminary discussions of some kind.

I do this and fast if I'm the Sox.

I like Grissom and am loathe to give up on him, but his defence at 2nd is questionable (and that's being charitable) and so I don't see a scenario in which he could move to 3rd and definitely not SS. So it leaves maybe the outfield if he can play left and Bregman is at 2nd? He'll be the next Dalbec if he ends up stuck in AAA. Unless there's an injury things look bleak for him here.

Cutter with a lingering knee injury and Bello with shoulder sorness to open Spring Training Injury Roulette.

Hell of an attitude to bring to a discussion board.

Agree on point 1. Disagree on point 2 and 3. But we shall see in time one way or another. I'd love for you to be right that he'll end up valuable to us (and used).

Hardly explainable why a light hitting DH who can't run, can't play defence and is on a contract absolutely nobody would pick up even if it was at half value on the free list right now is suffering disapproving rhetoric? Goodness me.

An annoyance is probably too strong. But if he's available for £8m on the free market, we're not bringing him here. If he's available for even less but we had to give up a prospect, we're not bringing him here. Every year/every team there's a player that gets more heat than most (and perhaps more than they deserve). A counter movement always arises from people that think he's getting hard done by. That's what is happening here. Because I'm pretty sure that in my two scenarios above, not even the counter argument people sign him under those terms. Regardless, every respected RS journalist has posted this off season that the Red Sox are trying to find ways to move him. He's not wanted. That this point needs to be argued for so much, is quite surprising.

The point is he wasn't getting DH spots either, even following good days. Cora (and I believe Breslow) doesn't rate him. That seems obvious enough to me.

I do, For me he's a one tool, light hitting DH. But it's not about my opinion, (apart from his contract, I don't dislike having him around), but if you think Cora wants him on this team, you've either not being paying attention or forgetting how he treated him for parts of last year. There were days and weeks where he was getting questions on why he wasn't playing Yoshida DH against righties (or at all in the field), and he was glib, almost dismissive on times This happened routinely, I feel like a lot of you have forgotten this. A 2 minute google and you can find these sorts of comments coming out a lot last year - Yoshida played like twice in the next week after this quote. I remember Cora getting ratty about it when pressed. Like I said, it;s not what I think is going to happen, or how he is viewed, it's what Cora is telling you if you watch him talk about the guy. I get the impression (this is just a hunch) that Breslow sees him in not much a better light. If he was available for £8m a year, we would't be bringing him here. If they can find a way to give away his contract, he's gone. That people think he is going to start a significant amount of games in left field this year, just to get him in the lineup, blows my mind.

Cora said it once, and if you think it was for any other reason than trying to add value so they can dump him I think you're in for a surprise. Cortillo, McAdam's and Meloni all think this as well. Cora and Breslow clearly don't rate the guy. I don't blame them. Also Bregman is not playing 2B so Massa can play. Nobody is playing anywhere just so Masaa can play. He's an afterthought, an annoyance. Not a part they're figuring stuff out around.

Not happening - Masa is not taking the field in left.

Alex Bregman’s CBT hit will be $31.7 million after deferrals, source tells MassLive. Cortillo

I can't see a place for Grissom bar injuries. He has no flexibility in his position and just lost his only one. Hamilton to stay for sure.

I think Abreu is going to get his hits against lefties this year. A hunch anyway.

One thing I think it's fair to say - for all the s*** the FO has taken this off season (a lot of it deserved) they deserve some credit, too. They got the best pitcher that was traded, and signed the best position player that was available (bar Soto). As well as fortifying the rotation. Not too shabby. I can't shake the feeling there's more to come as well. As I mentioned earlier, Casas doesn't feel safe to me yet. Grissom is all but done.

He'd need to have a monster year to opt out of $40m a year. I don't think there's much of any chance we see him opt out.

Rafaela is going to be paying CF. They mentioned it again to day - just the one position for him and it's that. They're going to live with his bat and take his elite defence. Duran Rafeala Abreu is an elite outfield defensively. If we can get Devers over to 3rd base, we've got the chance to make the infield defence pretty tasty, too.

Quotes here. “My understanding of it is Mission One was getting to camp and then talks would happen or not happen after that,” Crochet told reporters. “As far as that side of things, I like to leave it to my agent. I just like to come out here and focus on playing ball.” “There’s always pros and cons to everything,” Crochet said. “I think that the long-term security is definitely something attractive. As players, we like to look out for our family first. But with last year being my first taste of starting, part of me also wants to see what I could do with the full season of innings workload “(I) was on a short leash. Part of me wants to see what I could do in a full season before, I suppose, locking myself into a certain bracket of player.” Could mean anything at this point. I don't foresee an extension happening any time soon though. And to be honest, I'm okay with it. We still don't know for sure what we have with him and he's not selling himself cheaply I wouldn't think. For the extra cost, I'll take the extra security in extending him at the end of the year.

Breslow said rather pointedly the other day that the most important thing is to keep Devers healthy (while discussing where he'd play), as he's so vital to the teams offence. So I hold out hope that was the prelude to him moving.

If they move Devers - I do think it will be at least to be playing 1B half the time, rather than full time DH.

I hate the deal if it's for him to play 2B. He's a GG winning 3rd baseman and our current one is absolutely terrible out there. If he replaces Devers at 3rd I'm very much onside with the deal. Leave space for Campbell win that 2nd base job (or Grissom). Can't shake the feeling Casas isn't safe yet, mind. There's been too much noise (and too often) for me to think he's safe yet.

I'be be surprised if either a RP coming in and/or Crochet gets extended now. Crochet mentioned yesterday (paraphrasing) that while and extension could be interesting, he kind of wants to see what he can do this year so that he can negotiate under his true value. Make sense. I think we're probably done now. Arenado must be feeling sick right now. Unless they do have that one remaining crazy deal up their sleeves.

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