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We can call these kids the "Tater Tots."

The next nine games will be a true test. We may get Abreu, Grissom and or Yoshida back during the stretch, but it may not be enough. Day off (My guess on who starts) PHI (Crawford) PHI (Pivetta) PHI (Houck) NYY (Criswell) NYY (Bello) NYY (Crawford @TOR (Pivetta) @TOR (Bello) @TOR (Crawford)

Amazingly, we are just 1.5 from the WC, and nobody is between us. Of course, we are also 1.5 games from being 11th in the AL, too. We seem destined to end up at .500.

Nobody went to their concerts: they were too crowded.

You must have missed his first AB. He may have earned a DFA before today, but not based on today.

Reverse jinx.

Before today, he did have 10 BBs in 25 IP, but only 10 hits (no Hrs, just 1 2B and 1 3B) makes it no so lucky. He had a 0.800 WHIP and a .404 OPSA!

I guess they thought giving all the SP'ers an extra days rest was worth the trade-off. The pen gets the day off, too, so all one IP guys will be available on Tuesday. I'm not defending the choice, but it does make some sense, when you look at 3 of our SP'ers with an ERA over 6, the last 4 weeks.

Pivetta and Jansen. O'Neill and Martin need to comeback and play well to have some trade value. McGuire and Anderson have little to some value.

Bad time for Bernardino to have his first bad game.

No Abreu love? His off-arm splits are as bad as Duran's.

Looking like the April Sox, again on D.

Is this the only game you've watched, this year? Vs RHPs 1.045 Devers .928 Refsnyder .895 Abreu .877 Duran .804 Wong .782 DHam .758 O'Neill .687 Valdez .571 Smith .609 Rafaela .570 McGuire .334 Grissom Vs LHPs 1.092 O'Neill .926 Wong .879 Ref .715 Devers .542 Duran .450 Abreu .627 Rafaela Overall (125+ PAs) .932 Devers .908 Refsnyder .854 O'Neill .854 Wong .829 Abreu .782 Duran .613 Rafaela

Even if we are buyers, none of these names are even close to a target I'd want. Also, OF, 3B, 1B and DH are not our high need areas, even as jsut rentals. We need SP'ers and middle IF'ers. More likely, we sell.

I'd move Yoshida down a bit and add Ref around #6. I'm not on the "sell wagon" just yet, but if we are 5 games over .500 (yea, right!) or under at the deadline, I'd trade all 4 FAs to be and think about trading McGuire, too (1 year left.)

I don't think the idea was ever to spend as little as TB, but to try and do some of the things they do to keep the budget lower than it got to be under Theo, Ben & DD. It is not something new with JH. I tried to get Billy Bean, as we all know. We really need to have a big signing go right, for once. It's been a long time. (JD?)

True. Maybe after July from the pen, but I doubt much. I don't think Henriks and Fulmer = Jansen and Martin, so I do think we add a pitcher of two. To me, 2 SPers would be min. 2 SP'ers and a SP/RP would be better.

BTW, what's your favourite colour?

Sorry, Ted, but let Ref go? Just because he isn't signed into 2026? I'm fine with trading O'Neill and starting Rafaela at SS to make room for Anthony, but trading Ref makes no sense on a team dying for RHBs. Don't be so harsh on McGuire, either. Our staff's success has been helped by his work with them. 2.41 ERA w McGuire 4.18 ERA w Wong While his .604 OPS has hurt, he has been rather productive with his few hits. His 14 RBI in just 110 PAs ranks him higher than Wong and many other Sox players like Duran, O'Neill, Ref in RBI per PA. I'm okay with giving the kids a shot, when ready, and most of the big 3 are very close to ready, IMO. I do want us to maximize their years of control, too, and not waste one on 2024. That is a factor to consider, too. I'd be okay trading McGuire, Valdez and O'Neill to make room for the big 3, but only if they are truly ready and we don't lose a year of control.

He doesn't stink, but he did drop in the recent sp's rankings despite a couple players graduating from the ranks. He has got off to a nice start in AAA- a four game sample size at 1.009. He was once ranked 5th in our system, dropped to 11th in Spring, and now is 17th- behind Paulino, Castro and Wikelman.

One of those 3 was in a 144 game season. That team was on pace for 90.2 wins.

This looks just awful. No Devers. No O'Neill. No Abreu. Now, watch us score 14 runs.

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I have mentioned extending Pivetta, even before his resurgence last year and this year. It might be more costly, now, but I could see it happening. His stint on the IL is concerning, and I don't trust Sox docs to judge the likelihood of further injury, but every pitcher, these days, is a dice roll on injury. I'm not expecting a major rotation addition, but losing Jansen ($16M), Pivetta ($7.5M and Martin ($7.5M) does allow us to add a SP'er and still cut spending, again for 2025. Replacing O'Neill's $5.9M with another equally costly RHB DH/OF-1B type should not be too hard. We don't have big arb raises pending. Arb 3: McGuire & Joely Arb 2: none Arb 1: Houck, Crawford, Duran will get significant raises, but first arb years are not usually all that big. (also, Dalbec, Reyes & Heinemena are ARB 1s) IMO, we can spend the exact same as this year and use the $38M on departing FAs to pay for arb raises and a decent SP'er in the $14-20M range. If we look at this year's success or semi-success stories (so far), it could be someone like: Lugo $15M x 4 Imanaga $13.3M x 5 Stroman $18.5M x 2 Wacah $16M x 2 Manaea $14M x 2 R Lopez $10M x 3 Flaherty $14M x 1 Next year's crop has some that will be out of JH's price range, but here is one list I found: Burnes Fried Flaherty Pivetta Lorenzen Scherzer Beiber Corbin Morton Stripling Heaney Kikuchi

It can't happen without JH's approval, but I'm not sure Brez would choose to di it, even if allowed. I'm not sure Brez would even trade a 4-20 prospects, unless he had reason to not believe they have much hope in making the bigs. I would not be surprised, if he has identified a vet or two plus a 4-20 prospect or two he thinks are expendable. There are also a few possible logjam positions, like OF and catcher that could create a trade situation, like trading McGuire (or Wong, if we have the guts or faith in Teel) or Abreu/Rafaela to make room for Anthony. There is no logjam at middle IF or the rotation, but we could throw in someone like DHam or Valdez, to get a high need pitcher or better middle IF'er. Where do posters see the most likely tradable player or position? C: Wong, Teel, McGuire (Jh Garcia/Hickey) I say maybe. 1B: Casas (Dalbec/Kavadas/Jordan) I say nope. 2B: Grissom/Story/DHam/Valdez/Romy (K Campbell/Zane/Yorke) Nope, unless we trade mediocre depth for an upgrade SS: Story/Mayer and DHam/Romy (Romero/Cespedes) Nope 3B: Devers (Meidroth) Nope LF: Duran, Refsnyder, Yoshida, Abreu (Lugo) Maybe CF: Rafaela, Duran, Anthony, Abreu (Bleis) Maybe RF: Abreu, Anthony (Ref in short RF parks) Maybe DH: Refsnyder, Yoshida (Lugo, Valdez) Not likely we can trade Yoshida. SP: Houck & Pivetta (last year), Crawford, Bello & Criswell/Whitlock (Fitts, Perales and nada) Nope RP: Jansen & Martin (on last years,) Hendriks & Fulmer (more for 2025,) Slaten, Bernardino, Whitlock, Weisser and Wink/Campbell/Kelly (Guerrero) We better not! Chime in: who is the most expendable good player or prospect we can trade that can bring us back something of value at SP and or 2B? We aren't getting even a #3 SP or sure bet 2Bman for Bleis, Lugo and Valdez