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  1. moonslav59
    Brez has done a lot to improve the pitching on the Sox, but right now, the farm is way out of balance with the offense having a commanding lead in promising players. 1 Arias, 2 Gonzales, 3 Primera, 4 Godbout, 6 Schaffner, 8 Hull, who may jump in the next rankings. 12 Mataczynski, 14 Shelar & 15 Soto are just getting started. Countin #13 Cespedes, there are 9 bats in the top 15. Some of the top ranked pitchers may be over-ranked. 5 Valera could be for real but had major surgery. 7 Delzine is 18. 9 Holobetz, 10 Wehunt, 11 Phillips and others don't impress me.
  2. moonslav59
    Changing criteria when judging the Sale trade and his injury history vs future expectations and these other guys. Granted, these guys weren't Sale quality, but many had very nice ERA+s over the previous 1-2-3-4 years, and we could use just a 100 ERA+ guy or two right now.
  3. moonslav59
    Add to this the Belloyips and that's 5 guys with only Houck known to be out all or most of 2026. Crochet was our clear ace. He turned 27 this year. Houck was the ace before Crochet arrived. He just turned 30 and is younger than Crawford. Crawford was the 2024 team leader in IP and had a 102 ERA+ from '23-'24. He turned 30 to start this season. Bello gave us 486 IP in the previous 3 seasons with a 106 ERA+, including 123 last season. He's just 27. Oviedo was the unknown and is only 28. soxprospects often slotted him as our #5-6 starter early and mid winter. He had a 110 ERA+ over the previous 4 seasons but just 274 IP. Also, Sandoval missed over half the season after bein expected back at the end of 2025. Early went on the IL before we traded him: he's still on the IL. Count their time missed and we are over a combined 5 SP'ers missing all their starts.
  4. moonslav59
    It's not "unable to adjust," IMO: he tries to adjust too much.
  5. moonslav59
    While I agree they need some rest, Abreu is far from struggling. He's been our best batter post ASB (qualifying PAs) He's at 1.007 since the start of the Yankee series (8 gms) 1.006 last 30 games We do have Sept 10th and then quickly the 14th off. (The 21st is our last off day before the Sept 27 final game. 3 days off in the next 24 days.
  6. moonslav59
    Don't be thinking I'm moving on from 2026, just because I'm drooling over next year's line-up: 1. L Antony LF (Jones/White) 2. R Meas 2B (Story/Sogard/Seigler) 3. L Abreu RF (White) 4. R Contreras 1B (Romy) 5. S Rutschman C (Gasper/Wong) 6. R Rafaela CF (White) 7. S Gasper/R Jones DH (Story/Romy) 8. R Durbin 3B (Story/Sogard) 9. R Arias SS (Story)
  7. moonslav59
    OPS since ASB: .638 Rutschman w BOS (.534 overall since break) .529 Wong .399 Narvaez Updated SOX OPS post ASB 1.495 Gasper (seems we're past calling it luck) 1.483 Jones (better than Refsnyder ever was) 1.409 Raman (like a candle in the wind) 1.389 Rogers (we hardly knew ya) 1.126 Story (was strong post ASB, last year too) .891 Abreu (he's no Papi, but who is?) .846 Contreras (maybe the IL break will help) .799 Sogard (he's won me over, finally) .789 Yoshida (long forgotten) .750 Durbin (back to earth but not the underworld) .721 Seigler & .717 Monasterio (came through when needed) .650 Duran (finding .650 to is liking) .642 White (Ceddanne woulda caught that homer, tonight)
  8. moonslav59
    He was the bat we needed.
  9. moonslav59
    So... 1. L Anthony LF 2. R Rafaela CF 3. L Abreu RF 4. R Contreras 1B 5. S Rutschman C 6. S Gasper v R/ R Jones v L DH 7. R Story SS 8. R Durbin 3B 9. R IKF v R/ S Sogard v L 2B (Seiler would be fine v R, but he's in AAA)
  10. moonslav59
    Roman's fragility is worrisome.
  11. moonslav59
    He's out of the rut.
  12. moonslav59
    Earlier to say proving bad, but point taken.
  13. moonslav59
    He was the bat we needed.
  14. moonslav59
    Ain't proovin' nutin'
  15. moonslav59
    Wehunt pitched well. Could he be added and promoted? Romy are 4-5, Romero 3-5 and Arias 2-5 in a game delayed and tied 3-3 in the 10th. POR won 5-4 as Brannon (21 and .938) and Godbout (.867) homered, The Sea Dogs faced Eyanson, who did well. Ronny Hernandez homered, and GRE is 3-3 in the 7th. SAL lost 1-0 as Tolbert and Judice pitched well. Primera went 2-4 (.948)
  16. moonslav59
    People seem so sure of a lock-out. I suppose there could be one, and even if it doesn't it could effect things like the R5 draft. No biggie.
  17. moonslav59
    Well, the Mead and AR trades go fully against this idea. Both have one year left. We traded away over 20 years from the future for 1.3 years from each.
  18. moonslav59
    Mead does give me better hopes for 2027, but I wasn't ready to give on 2026. Nor Brez, as evidenced by the AR gamble.
  19. moonslav59
    The Sox have had a bunch of injuries, but maybe the killer one was Mead. Probably no Mead injury, then no need to try and beef up the O with the AR trade. We trade for a SP'er instead.
  20. moonslav59
    I'm not sure why the O's not wanting to resign Rut matters much. Word is the Yanks were ready to overpay, too. The O's worked the big overpay well. Most deadline trades range from overpay to huge overpays. That's why dealing in winter is better, and Brez did a lot of that. The trade was a big gamble. It looks horrible now. It can only become close to a wash, if all the guys we gave don't work out.
  21. moonslav59
    Nobody is saying it wasnt a huge overpay. I'm not sure there will be a lock-out.
  22. moonslav59
    Hard to support the trade, but I still think it made some sense at the time. We needed help on O after the Mead injury. Our catcher offense was horrible, and Wong was not likely to stay over .700. (He has not.) It was a big gambe at the time, because it had 2 hinges: Rut's health Rut's questionable offense To me, the worst part will be if what we gave up turns out good>great. I like the effort, but the results have sucked, so far. I'd rather see Mean & Rut trades than Bloom's nada. Your point about JH not bucking up for big signings is why we need to try big trades.
  23. moonslav59
    Good idea, or with 9 RP'ers now, let's go "pen game!"
  24. moonslav59
    The Sox IL, DFA'd & AAA team: SP: Crochet, Houck, Crawford, Oviedo, Burgos/Paez RP: Whitlock, Slaten, Guerrero, Kelly, Rivera, Samaniego, Bastardo C: Rogers & Baez 1B: Contreras & Romy 2B: Mead & Rodgers SS: Arias & Cheng 3B: Seigler & Romero LF: Yoshida CF: Eaton & Ward RF: Campbell DH: Casas & Brannon
  25. moonslav59
    Might as well give him a shot at starting again. His run as a RP'er might be over.
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