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We now have 39 players on the 40 man roster with some expected winter additions to be made. While Wikelman and Perales might improve the look of the team, we still have a pretty lengthy list of players I would call expendable or easily replace. My first to be DFA'd list: 1. Llovera 2. Jacques 3. Weiss 4. Gillaspie 5. Dalbec (traded?) Trade candidates: Mata (out of options) Refsnyder (if we add a RH'd OF bat) D Ham (not much ML MI depth on the farm may keep him around.) E Valdez (the man without a position and likely not a good enough hitter to DH) B Walter (may not bring back enough to give up on him) W Mills (not sure about this guy) Urias (was mentioned as a possible non tender and may make $5M in arb) N Robertson (I think we keep him around.) McGuire (Only if we add a catcher) Dugo (Only if we add a RF'er- most likely a RHB.) Sale (If we don't have to pay too much of his contract)
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Drohan really fell off a cliff in the second half. Scott is likely no better than any other catcher we can sign on a minor league deal. Others are either too far down in the minors to be selected or just not promising to risk a 26 man roster slot in hopes they develop into something worthwhile. I guess if Drohan and Penrod are not selected, nothing is lost, but what hopes do some of the bottom 3-5 on our 40 have?
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Word is we protected only Wikelman and Perales- not even Drohan.
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All 7 players who received a QO rejected them. Ohtani Bellinger Chapman (reportedly turned down a $100+M 4 or 5 year extension offer.) Gray Nola Snell Hader Does the QO's to these pitchers make Montgomery, ERod and Imanaga all that more appealing?
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I'd keep Gambrell, Scott and maybe Penrod over Jacques and a couple others.
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The Herald reports... The Red Sox will have to navigate this pivotal offseason without a key member of their scouting department. As first reported by ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel on Monday morning, Justin Horowitz is leaving Boston for Pittsburgh, where he’ll be the Pirates’ new director of amateur scouting, Horowitz first joined the Red Sox organization as a baseball operations intern in 2012. By September 2020, he was special assistant of amateur scouting.
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LOL. I don't care we get us a few.
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Maybe likely lost to Rule 5? Gambrell? Scott? Anyone else?
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Lots of poor fielding 2Bmen on this list
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I'd do it, but one year of a guy who can't stay healthy is not something we need more of. We need dependable, innings eating and reliable starters.
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Serious upside, but the average of 12 GS and 72 IP over the last 3 years seems like more of the same. That beng said, I'd probably do it.
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It may have been knocked over.
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Imagine all the Williams HRs in yankee Stadium, or so the thinking went.
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A healthy Story at SS, no Kike and Rafaela in CF should make for better up the middle defense than 2022, but 2B is kind of unknown. Urias has a -1 OAA at 2B from '22-'23 -2 DRS (zero career) +1.0 UZR/150 (about average) An upgrade on D would be nice at 2B.
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We could sign Duvall & Garver Trade Dugo & Urias for Donovan (Keep Crawford) C- Gaver/Wong 1B Casas 2B Donovan SS Story 3B Devers LF Duran/Refsnyder CF Rafaeal/Abreu RF Duvall/Abreu DH Yoshida SP Gray Bello Sale Seth Lugo Pivetta LR Houck, Crawford, Whitlock (Murphy) SR Jansen, Martin, Wink, Schreiber, Bernardino/Mata/Kelly Again, I'd prefer a better upgrade of the rotation, but something like this might be more likely.
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I'm worried about Garver's D, but this does solve some line-up issues, nicely. The 3 positions I listed were 2B CF/RF C If we go cheaper on the rotation than I hope, something like this would help.
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I listed Soto and would love to have him. It does not matter that he hits lefty or plays LF, because he transcends all else, but we'd still need a RH'd bat on top of getting him. (We could trade Dugo and stay even on the L-R numbers, but we'd still need a big RHB. At what position?) I did not list players I felt were not good fits.
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I like Urias. I think he can bounce back. Reyes is a capable back-up. I am thinking we could use a few more players we can count on to be very good on D and O. I'm not sure who is out there to make a major upgrade in RF to a RHB. I'm not sure the catcher position is the area we should spend major resources on upgrading. I know you like the idea of a 3B upgrade and a major shuffle, but we've hashed that out enough.
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I'm okay with all our everyday positions one-by-one, despite losing Turner and Duvall from a team that sucked on D and dropped off a cliff on O, late in the year. However, we lack true star power at all but 3B, 1B and maybe SS. We do need a big RHB or lead off hitter with a high OBP. Getting both would be nice. To me, our weakest 3 positions, in order are: 1. 2B 2. CF/RF 3. Catcher As I have said, too many times, already, I'm all for spending almost everything on the rotation. None on the pen, despite a shortage of LHPs, there. Little on OF or 2B, but a RH'd power bat or RH'd high OBP guy would be nice. My point was made after the idea that we might just get a #1 and #4 SP'er. I figured we'd have a lot of budget space for upgrades in the field and line-up. It was in this context, I suggested a major upgrade or two at everydsay positons.
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Better than 2023. 29th in fWAR at -0.9 If we could get some RHB with power or serious OBP skills, we could not spend on a RHB for RF.
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MLBTR listed possible winter trade candidates. Here are some I think we might be interested in: SP 2. Burnes 4. S Bieber 5. Glasnow 6. Cease 16. SEA SP (B Woo, B Miller or E Hancock) 18. Blackburn 2B/SS 3. Willy Adames 9. H-S Kim (RHB) 10. Torres (RHB) 11. India (RHB) 14. J Polanco (L-R w power) 21. Donovan N/R T Edman OF 24. Luis Robert Jr. (RHB, but not likely traded) 1. Soto, but he is really a LF'er- something we have a lot of. 8. Grisham, CF but he bats lefty. N/R Castellanos ®, Santander (L-R), Lane Thomas ®, T O'Neill ®, Margot ® C N/R S Perez
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If I hafd to bet, I think this is what we will do. A #1 and a #4 (maybe like Clevinger, Giolito or Flaherty, at best but probably worse.) Gray & Flaherty or Seth Lugo. If they do this, does it mean we go large on a positional upgrade at 2B, OF or catcher?
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I was going to say something, but didn't want to stir the pot.
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I'm not sure Breslow has the same concern about D as Bloom. Rafaela could solve the OF defense by hitting just well enough to stick in CF. If he does not, then it comes down to Abreu or Duran in CF. At least we have multiple options, but at some point, we are going to need someone we can count on, or go outside the system and get one. With Anthony beating on the door, I doubt we go large & long on an OF'er.
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I'd say Duran is a significantly better LF'er on D than Masa. Duran showed a big improvement on D, last year. Was it a fluke? Can he continue to improve. (As of now, I would totally avoid placing Duran in CF. Maybe someday, he can be good enough on D to play in CF.) If Dugo goes, I agree, I think we add a RH'd RF'er, so the other OF'ers will not really be affected.
