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No doubt. I've always had confidence that the system knows when a player is "ready." I trust their calls and timing. The Bogey situation was unique.

Deadline deals have been one of Bloom's brightest spots, although he has remained under the spotlight, except for maybe the Schwarber pick-up.

A. I'm not sure. It depends who is out of it. B. I'm not sure, but we have saved some cash to make deadline moves and still stay under the line. It will depend on how we are looking at the deadline.

I was fully convinced that Ben was about to make a trade or two, using prospects he had hoarded, but he was gone before he had a chance. I think the same of Bloom. He's waiting for the time where he feels we are one major player away from strong "ring contention." We have not been there his whole time, here, but IMO, we are getting closer to that day.

30. Tyler McDonough Potential high-end organizational player. Ceiling of an up-and-down utility player. High floor, but does not have much of a ceiling. Lacks a true carrying tool, but has several average-ish tools. Sum-of-all-parts profile. Strong defensive versatility and contact skills will carry him through the system. 29. Luis Guerrero Potential middle reliever. Ceiling of a late-inning relief arm. On the raw side and needs to improve his command and consistency, but has some of the best raw stuff of any relief arm in the system. Splitter is a potential separator pitch with the ability to miss bats at the highest level. Fastball has good velocity, but is hittable and he will have to show the ability to command it to succeed. 28. Jedixson Paez Potential emergency up-and-down starter. Ceiling of a back-end starter. One of the more interesting pitching prospects in the Red Sox low minors, but has a wide gap between what he currently is and what he could be. Already shows an intriguing three-pitch mix with advanced feel and command for his age. Stuff at present is on the light side, but has already started to tick up. If stuff continues to tick up, projection could change. 27. Ryan Fernandez Potential up-and-down reliever. Ceiling of a middle reliever. Stuff increase in 2022 has significantly changed his profile, but projection is a hedge pending his showing similar stuff when he returns from injury. At his best, will show two potential plus pitches with bat-missing ability. Whether he can maintain these gains remains to be seen, but now is a very intriguing potential relief arm. 26. David Hamilton Potential organizational utility player. Ceiling of an emergency up-and-down utility type. Could stand to remake his swing in order to prioritize line drives and hitting the ball on the ground more in order to better utilize his speed. Lack of defensive ability limits upside. Projects as below-average in the infield and could stand to move to the outfield, where his speed and athleticism would be better utilized.

Toronto adds James Click as VP of Baseball Strategy. Now we have another "Rays North."

Somehow, foreseeing unprecedented selections was supposed to have occured.

More lies.

They may trade for a Luis Castillo type at the deadline or realize they have one, already in Whitlock or Bello.

I thought he was anti-fWAR and bWAR!!!

The 4th window opens in 2023. 1. 2003-2007 (The glory days) 2. 2013 (I know, tiny window.) 3. 2016-2018 (shoulda been 2019, too) 4. 2023- ???

I guess it’s closer than I thought, but 3 yrs of Sale vs 1 of Soto and the AAV difference is still significant.

Sale was making bargain basement salaries for 3 years (2017-2019): $12M, $12.5M and $15M. Price signed for $217M/7 during this stretch, and Sale was better. A better comp would be the Kimbrel trade. He was making FAmoney, at the time, and we gave up 4 prospects for him, 2 of whom were pretty highly ranked on SP near the time of the Nov 15, 2015 trade: 4. Margot Oct '15 6. Guerra Oct '15 13. Logan Allen Oct '15 NR. Carlos Asuage

Nobody is worrying about that.

It's easy to get this way when the farm gets so depleted it produces on Houck in 5 years. (Yes, I went there, again.) Here's the top 10, when the farm was good: 2004: Lester, Youkilis, HRan, Shoppach, Papelbon, David Murphy, B Moss, Pedey, Abe Alvarez 2007: Buchholz, Ellsbury, Pedey, Bard, Masterson, Moss, Lowrie, Bowden, Lars Anderson, Kottarus 2013: Bogey, JBJ, Barnes, Iggy, Betts, Webster, Owens, Ranaudo, Cecchini, Swihart 2016: Moncada, Devers, Beni, Espinoza, Kopech, Groome, Dubon, B Johnson, Chavis, S Travis I think we all thought differently about our top 10, back then.

Because it's one more thing to blame on Bloom?

I get your point. My point is that we will have to pay the largest contract in MLB history and give up 2 of our best prospects to do it. No thanks. For just 2 years? Double no thanks.

Doesn't "returning him" involve placing him on waivers, first, and any weaker team can take him?

Well, technically, Soto could get hurt and give zero.

0-12?

Like I said, so did every other article I read.

Sorry, I looked at games - not GS. GS 15 Urias '16 1 Bumgarner '09 .

For sure. 84 at 19 191 at 20 190 at 21 201 at 22 239 at 23 250 at 24 He had more IP in his first 4.5 seasons (905) than Paxton has in his whole career (754). Paxton has so much more mileage on that arm, left over!!! (LOL)

GS by 19 year olds per fangraphs: 25 Elvis Luciano TOR 2019 18 Julio Rrias LAD 2016 4 Madison Bumgarner SFG 2009 2 Dylan Bundy BAL 2012

I shoulda put that in green.