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We have .680 bats. He's .734 since 2024 (1335 PAs) He's not the big bat we need. His 32 HRs in 1335 is about 15 over a full season. Career, he's about 22 HRs per 650. He's expensive and can opt out. BIG NOPE. N ope on Devin W, too.

I never wanted Bichette, last winter: I want him even less, now. If the Mets paid half his salary, I'd still say no. Bello & Campbell's money would cancel out a big chunk of his deal. Bichette gets $42M x 2 as player options in 2027 & 2028, so we'd actually save money over the long term. I'd do that 2 for 1 trade.

He totally ignored the actual facts and trend. At least he's not disrespectful and does not distort our positions. To me, that is worse than extreme negativity.

That trade made too much sense for me to not happen, but obviously HOU saw the Duran wiring on the wall. When I look at Brez's moves and how he has transformed the pitching pipeline, I have to think he wasn't alone in thinking the foundation he was handed and tweaked was just not all that good. Most of us, even Fred, expected more wins in 2026 than 2025, yet we stand in judgement over Brez with many saying he should be fired, he sucks or worse. I guess we'd be fore firing ourselves, too, because what almost all of us wanted have sucked worse than Contreras, Suarez and Gray. Remember the long threads on Gray not being a #2? Hell, he's been a #1, so far! Contreras was downplayed due to his age, but he's doing better than every available bat except Schwarber. Choosing a pitcher (Suarez) over a big bat was and still is a legit debate, but who can argue that adding Suarez was a bad signing, at least in isolation? To me, in hindsight, had we known we'd be adding Gray and Suarez, we would and should not have traded for Oviedo. I'm not pretending that package would land us a big bat, but we might have added to it and gotten one. BTW, HOU still needs an OF'er, but I'm pretty sure it's still not Duran.

It's BLowe and Jeffers as the most obtainable and helpful two we can hope for. Adames and BLowe could maybe be done, but I'm not sure I want to give up a lot for a 31 y/o SS owed $28M x 5.

Ceddanne is a rarity. I can understand how someone could have serious doubts about his chances at improving. That being said, his improvement was obvious and constant, despite the slumps. He's admitted he was wrong- something some posters have never come close to doing.

I'm moving from ESL to SpEd, next year. I've been in hundreds of ARDs over the past few years- dually served students.

Adames turns 31 in SEPT. He had a 111 OPS+ from age 25-28. It's been 107 the last 2 seasons, which is not bad. 30 HRs per 162 would be very helpful. I don't know much about his defense, but he's been about a 0 dWAR over the past 3 seasons combined. I'd like to get him, but $28M x 5 years from ages 31 to 35 is not near the top of my wish list. I agree on WSH not trading CJ. I'm thinking BLowe plus Jeffers is reasonable.

B-R gives you all you need to know. Hunter Goodman turns 27 in October, so he is in peak prime. He hit .843 last year and is at .856, this year. In his career, he has caught 183 games, DH'd in 76, played RF in 37 and 1B in 12. (LF in 7) Career: .815 at Coors and .777 away. This year, he is at .990 AWAY! (.702 at Coors) In 2025, he was over .800 H & A. ,841 v L and .779 v R He has 43 HRs in the last 365 days. COL hardly ever trades its best players.

While true, I have to think someone offered us more than what he's worth, now. That is how GM are scored- fairly or unfairly.

If they think Anthony will return, we won't get a DH, but yes, I suggested O'Hearn or Horwitz and maybe Jeffers/Goodman could DH when not catching. Abrams, BLowe & Jeffers would be great, but getting one might be all any of us can hope for. BLowe & O'Hearn from PIT? Jeffers & a middle IF'er from MIN? BLowe from PIT & Jeffers from MN is maybe the very best we might do.

To me, it's... Abrams and BLowe Jeffers or Goodman might work. 3 from these 4 might be enough.

Nice. Cheng has a better fWAR (-0.1) than Story and Mayer. Eaton is at +0.2 in just 25 PAs. That's over 5.0 in 650 PAs. How about IKF at 1.1 having the same fWAR as Correa and Volpe? He's better than Bichette (0.9) Lindor & JP Crawford (0.7) Seager (0.6) and of course DHam at 0.3 (with 90 more PAs) T Turner is at 0.2 and Willy Adams at 0.0. The worst 4 primarily SSs in MLB: -0.6 E Tovar -0.5 Story -0.5 L Acuna -0.2 Mayer

In education, the word "exceptional" is often substituted for "special needs," but it is also used for GT (gifted & talented.) There are some SpEd students that are gifted & talented in some areas-- like The Rainman. WE can all agree on one thing, Fred would be an exceptionally bad GM and would be fired day two, anyway, after spending way more than JH allowed.

And the team is 12-13 in those 4 weeks. Pretty sad. The whole staff has a 3.37 ERA in this time period, and the worst pitchers have been... 14.40 Bello (5 IP) 8.64 Slaten (8.1) 7.50 Chapman (6.0) 5.06 Early (26.2) 4.50 Kahnle (8.0) 3.27 Watson (11.0) All the others are at 3.00 or below. Coulombe, Whitlock, Guerrero, Moran and Gamboa have throw 22 IP and allowed 3 ERs--a 1.23 ERA. Weissert is at 2.45. The other SP'ers besides Early at 4.50 are: 2.10 Suarez 2.14 Gray 2.78 Bennett 3.00 Tolle

I'm sure Duran will tell all, once he gets the boot.

I'd say our two top needs are big bats and a SS. A decent hitting or big bat hitting SS and and the same at 2B would be ideal, but DH or C would fit, too. SS: We aren't getting Witt, Lopez, McGonigle or Colsen Montgomery, but CJ Abrams at #5 in SS fWAR this year might be available. Neto at 14th would be hard to pry from the LAA. For those who want Willy Adams, he has a zero fWAR this year. He has the same OPS (.705) as IKF. The hope would be he can return to his old form, but I'm tired of hearing that. Abrams is at .864 and would be the prize. I doubt MIN trades one of their 3 middle infielders Kreidler (.877) Lee (.750) or Keaschall (.647) 2B: B Lowe at .815 looks like the best target at 2B. Arraez is at .812, but I think his decline will return. KMarte is at .790, now and may also be declining. He's still owed a chunk of change, too. Gleyber Torres (.790) might be the easiest to acquire, since he is a rental on a team going nowhere fast. C: I gotta go with Ryan Jeffers (.949) as he could DH, too. I've wanted him for years. Goodman (.856) has some decent road numbers, so he's not all that COL padded. He can DH, play 1B and corner OF as well. DH: Yordan (1.031) would be super costly. Soto (.975) is too expensive for JH. O'Hearn (.820) or Horwitz (.842) could be a target. Realistically, maybe Abrams would be too costly, but he'd be my #1 target. Maybe the best we could hope for is BLowe and Jeffers/Goodman/O'Hearn/Horwitz. Is that enough to give up some future for?

Sox OPS at 2B (.619) and SS (.600) are the worst in MLB- no surprise. It's nothing new. Story was the last major attempt to fix the issue, and then Bogey bolted a year later.

It's sometimes hard to ignore comments to posts by those on ignore, but it does make it easier by avoiding it all. At least Fred doesn't lie and distort what others say, so I can tolerate his extreme negativity. To each his own.

I've always felt that 3 ER in 6IP is not better than 2 ER in 5 IP or even 1ER in 4 IP, and in recent years, with SP'er going less and less IP, maybe we should keep track using my criteria over 3 ER in 6IP. (Hell, why isn't 4 ER in 8 IP even better, then? Same ERA and less taxing of the pen.) 4ER or less in 8 IP+ 3ER or less in 6 IP+ 2ER or less in 5 IP+ (at least 1 ER or less in 5IP) 1 ER or less in 4IP (at least 0 ER in 4 IP should count.)

Ah yes, Tolle only went 5 IP (3ER) 14 games ago, and Bennett went 5.1 (2 ER) 13 games ago. My bad. For some reason I was thinking 5 IP was the cut off. The last bad start by a Sox pitcher was 15 games ago. Early vs TEX: 4.2 IP 11 Hits 6 ER 2 BB & 3K

Durbin had a great June, last year, too.

Several players from the 2025 team were approaching prime or at peak prime. They should have done better and not just the same. A few players were young enough that projecting improvement was not justified. Call it the "sophomore slump" and some players have down seasons year 3 or 4, too, but too many are doing worse (Durbin & Mayer), way worse (Narvaez) or are hurt (Anthony.) Blame Brez and ourselves for hoping for better than what these guys have given us, but these 4 hurt us badly. (Durbin is seeking redemption.) Abreu plateau'd in peak prime. Duran fell sharply just as he reached the "peak" years. Yoshida is in prime and got worse. Story was already past peak prime, but not so far past that this type of cliff dive was to be expected. The injury seemed like a near blessing, Wong bounced back. Rafaela continued the normal bell curve rise as he gets closer to prime.

You think Duran will be good in 2028 (his final arb year) ?

I wish these two the best, but honestly, I'm not counting on any value added. I'm not writing either off, but we can't plan on a return.