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Moreland again huh? I think I’d have prefered a broken Nunez.

well christ, he played 20 years. lol

Basically. That's how I feel abut it too

Sure our farm has been lopsided when it comes to Positional vs. Pitching. The Sox traded away a lot of prospect positional talent over the last few years, but they also held-on and promoted so much of that pool of prospect talent too. Our farm system got weaker for many reasons. It was going to get weaker no matter what eventually. As far as using positional player prospects as trade chips to net pitching... that's just how it's been for us. My view is that, at least in one area, we were good at drafting/(International) and developing. Could've been worse. We could've sucked in both areas of drafting and development. Our biggest obstacle was the market itself when we needed to trade for pitching. Otherwise, it's not really a bad thing. Look how many positions we've filled through our farm the last few years. 6...6 & 1/2? That's not bad. last offseason there were major Personnel and Scouting Dept. changes that we won't really see the results from right away. But I believe the organization is well aware of the past failures of drafting and developing pitching and some of those changes were made as an attempt to address this. In theory, flipping one strength for another team's strength isn't a bad thing... on top of that, it's a very common way to do business in MLB. Again, I think we got bit by a very thin, thus expensive, Pitching Market at a time when our biggest need was pitching. It sucks. But I do look forward to a more balanced farm system some day. Until then, we have to hope for a more balanced market for our biggest needs.

More so for Ozuna I think.

Nah, Signing JD would lengthen our line-up. You won’t hear me complain next year about it, unless it really doesn’t make sense or it’s just not workng for an extended period of time.

Think I meant to write signed-off. Angels were on his no-trade list.

Well, I’m sure somebody has to sign something for any trade to go through.

just to keep updated, Kinsler just signed w/ the Angels. per MLBTR:The Tigers will receive right-hander Wilkel Hernandez and outfielder Troy Montgomery, according to Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press (Twitter link). Montgomery ranks higher on MLB.com’s list of Angels prospects (No. 20 to Hernandez’s No. 24). Not that I was expecting anything from the Sox.

When we had Ortiz I was fine with it. If we get JD I'd be fine with it. Still, It's not what I'd do... and I also think it shouldn't be written in stone. As the season progresses we can get a feel for how we need it. Ex: Say 2 months in, XB's and/or Beni's BA & OBP is through the roof but still no power and Betts is looking like he'll put up 30HR again, I'll be looking for a change.

Johnson and Wright for one year of Machado. That's my first and final offer.

Relievers are getting signed at a steady pace today

Kinsler is available, as someone mentioned earlier i think.

I'm closing my window. It's cold out.

Exctly, Machado doesn't even want to play 3B. Now he's just some expensive infielder we can't put anywhere.

No silly. Pedroia was the one who called.

It'd be 3 month rental of Dozier. how much could they possibly want?

That would definitely change things for me. I hope so. I really don't want to spend another season complaining about Mookie leading off. Even for me it gets old. LOL We get JD, I won't care. I didn't care when we had Ortiz, but after his retirement, the batting order needed a re-think IMO.

That's when we get Dozier ... if need be.

"Right now Cora is making noises like he would like to set the first two in the lineup as Betts and Beni." Unfortunately, I read that too. Ugh. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Thats the plan. Or at least thats my plan anyway. I'd like another SP as well before the winter is over.

'Free floating bodies' included

I can see the interest. I can also see why the O's would like to get something nice out of a trade than otherwise wait until he's a FA and get what a compensation pick? when he's signs with another team a year from now??? My question is what we'd have to trade for a season of Machado and would it even be worth it. Sometimes teams, in my opinion, get a little greedy and unrealistic. One season isn't much to work with. There's a chance he wouldn't sign an extension anyway. Plus, in his case, it sounds like he doesn't want to play 3B anymore- which wouldn't help us. Would Donaldson make more sense? I've no idea what his contract looks like though, I'd have to look it up.

Yeah yeah.. it was meant to be more of a knock on Projected WAR than a knock on you Harmony. Cheers and Happy Holidays:)

Projected WAR... Oh, see, we've identified the problem.