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Probably never crossed their minds, although some new minds are coming in.

Refsnyder has our best OPS vs LHPs since 2021. Story is going to have to pick up some RH'd bat slack, but yes, Duvall and Rafaela have a lot to do to help make up for the loss of JT.

Wikelman was not sharp, today, in POR's loss: 5IP, 5H, 2ER, 3BB, 5K Teel homered! (2-4) as did Binelas. Anthony 2-4 as was Jordan

Ideally, we could just buy all our needs: 3 SP'ers 1 big RH'd bat that can play RF 1 solid LH'd RP minor league depth that is ML ready in April (middle IF, OF, 1B, Pitching) I've all but given up on this dream. I think trades may be the way we fill 1-2 of these slots, and we have to give to get.

Yoshida is such a ground out machine.

Turner will not take the option, so he will be a FA. We rarely bring back our guys who reach free agency, and with Yoshi so well suited for DH, I think JT is as good as gone. I would like to see us bring back Duvall, as long as the cost and years are not too much. I don't really want Duvall in CF, and since Duran and Ref are best suited for LF, I could see an OF like this: LF: Duran, Refsnyder (Yoshi/Abreu/Reyes) CF: Rafaela, Abreu (Duran/Reyes) RF: Duvall (Abreu/Refsnyder/Reyes) If we can't get something useful for Dugo, I'd keep him and maybe trade Duran while his stock appears high. LF: Abreu, Refsnyder (Yoshi) CF: Rafaela (Abreu) RF: Dugo (Abreu)

Not untrue, but it works better than your ownership group overly loyal to Cashman.

More lies and more obsession with posters not the Sox. I disagree with Max, Bell, notin and many others, often. It rarely gets heated, because they don't lie or twist my positions into strawmen. I'm not "playing the victim." I'm giving a reason why I post, so much. Another is that I don't live near or work with any Sox fans. I'm still not sure why that bothers you, but clearly it does. I guess it happens to the sanctimonious types like you, sometimes.

He was at 2.60 for us before today.

Robertson was obtained by trading Kike to LAD. He could amount to something useful, someday. Weiss is a waiver wire dumpster dive.

With Yoshi moving to DH, Duran and his defense might be best served in LF.

Yes, and they need to change their philosophy, at the top, as in spending patterns.

Exactly, and if the kid never amounted to anything, what was lost? Same with the JD failed trade and the subsequent drop in draft slots on the comp picks. He thought he was "worth more."

Neither is obsessing over posters on a Sox blog and their number of posts. I have OCD. This is one of 3 places I channel it. If it bothers you, just put me on ignore. What's your excuse?

It gets worse when the team is losing. I admit, I have not helped make this place more inviting and keep arguments going on for too long. I'm not expecting any others to admit their part in the "endless banter," but I'm not arguing with myself.

I could see us resigning Duvall, then trading Dugo or Duran.

Shoulda done i when his stock was higher.

I'm not, nor ever have been, a "Bloom fan." I don't see or judge players as machines. I've played the great game of baseball for many years and wish I still could. I watch just about every play of every Sox game, and really enjoy watching some players way more than others, and it has nothing to do with metrics. JBJ was my fave for a while. I tend to enjoy watching great D, as that was about the only thing I was good at in baseball- that and BBs and baserunning. My first favorite player was Tommy Harper, when he played in Milwaukee- where I liked in the late 60's. I happen to like numbers, and I don't understand why people think fans who like numbers can't enjoy the game, like they do.

Me 2.

No. I said that in response to you saying we should trade Duran, because he has more years of control. One could ask why you hate Duran.

Look under the bus.

You guys have worse logic than my middle school students. I wanted us to offer Betts $400M/14, and I'd like to still see him in a Sox uniform. Just because I don't think that trade was Bloom's choice doesn't make me his "fan." I rooted for him to do well, unlike some here. Beni is a shell of his old self. Bogey has not produced well in 3 years. JD had a one year resurgence, but has missed some time. JT was better. Vaz? Really? You crack me up!

Here is the foundation Bloom left. I'm listing DD players and prospects, too, because Bloom resisted trading any of them. ML or ML Ready C: Wong, McGuire (Scott) 1B: Casas (Dalbec) 2B: Urias, Reyes (EValdez) SS: Story (DHam) 3B: Devers (Meirdroth) LF: Duran, Refsnyder (Rosier) CF: Rafaela, Abreu RF: Verdugo DH: Yoshida SP: Bello, Sale, Houck, Crawford, Pivetta (Murphy, Mata, Walter, Drohan, Gambrell, Hagenman) RP: Jansen, Martin, Whitlock, Schreiber, Winckowski, Bernardino, Joely (Kelly, Robertson, Mills, Guerrero, Jacquez, Weiss, Llovera, RFern) Late '24 to late '25 C: Teal, Hickey (DH) 1B: Kavadas (DH), Jordan 2B: Yorke SS: Mayer 3B: Bonaci, Lugo OF: Anthony, K Campbell, Sikes, B Gonzalez, Ferguson SP: Wikelman, Dobbins, I Coffey, Bastardo, Song, Penrod, Sena RP: Liu, Hoppe, Troye, Denlinger, Broadway, Webb, BBell 2026> C: Joh Garcia, B Brannon, Lira 1B: Sierra 2B: Ravelo, Alcantara, Arias SS: Cespedes, Romero, Zanetello, Riemer 3B: A Anderson, C Coffey, Paulino OF: M Bleis, A Castro, Yuten, Ascencio SP: Perales, Monegro, E R-C, Rogers, Duffy, Paez RP: Cepeda, Sena, JRam, JEncarn, L de la Rosa It remains to be seen how well these guys work out. I happen to think it is a significant improvement over the foundation of 2020, but so much is on paper and speculative. Many of Bloom's initial draft picks we HS players, but he did end up getting some impactful prospects, who graduated under him or will soon via trades and Rule 5, most notably Whitlock, Wink, Wong, Abreu, EValdez, Bernardino & Z Kelly. I'm not happy or sad about Bloom's firing. I kinda feel bad they sorta made him out to be the fall guy, when I don't really think this was all his plan and chosen winter spending budgets. Lord knows, he made some doozie mistakes, and too many significant ones, too. His record on low budget pitching additions was likely his downfall. I do think others were right to point out his inability to pull the trigger on near miss trades and signings was a major fault, as well. I wish him luck, elsewhere, as long as it is not a team in our backyard.

Teel, Mayer, Anthony and Wikelman are projected at Portland to start the 2024 season. I wish I still lived in Portland.

The swinging pendulum. Even Theo admitted he got away from the balanced approach, too much, but he was nowhere near like any of the 3 that followed.