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True. So the Bloom major trade situation might read like this... Mazza & Springs for R Hernandez: Pending, but Spring has sprung to life, recently. Betts: forced and still pending (Dugo & Wong look like they will balance out one 60-game season of Betts) Beni: okay and still pending (Maybe de la Rosa comes through, years from now.) Ottavino & German: Good (May be great, if German comes through) Renfroe: Horrific Vaz for E Valdez & W Abreu is pending, but both prospects are looking fine. Diekman for McGuire: Pending but looks great, so far Groome for Hosmer, Ferguson & Rosier

Many games have been decided by bad calls. We might not even know a bad call in the 2nd inning could have changed a L into a win.

He does, but even his strength seems erratic. That throw last night was Ellsburyesque.

Agreed. He did make one good throw, the other day, and I guess that convinced some, he was okay in Fenway's RF.

Did you also see the weak one bounce throw by Dugo. It's like he threw it in slo-mo. No urgency displayed.

Some may be fool's gold.

IMO, the problem is that it is way more than one or two bad calls (per game,) and that is something we have tolerated, because there was never an easy solution. Now, there is.

"Have" is different from "will."

The Yankee farm is top heavy. I stand by my comment.

For sure. A wide majority of calls are right, and the vast majority of easy calls are correctly called balls or strikes. It's rare that a ball thrown right down the middle is called a ball, or a ball in the dirt is called a strike, but that does happen. It's the borderline calls that are called incorrectly, too many times. Some umps continuously get the same calls wrong, every game, and teams are forced to adjust to him. Most umps can't even see the whole K zone 3-D prism and are forced to project where they think a ball thrown 95 mph went. It's an impossible thing to ask an ump to do correctly. Give the guys a break. Make their jobs easier to do. They can then concentrate on other things they need to call- like did the batter swing or not, did the batter get HBP or is the runner safe or out at home.

I think it's great how Bobe2 never repeats himself and always presents fresh and insightful posts, while never endlessly using stats or data- or facts, for that matter.

Like it or not, I think he has the 5 slot for 2024 locked up. What's not to like?

Fangraphs scores: Sox 50 Bello 45+ Gonzalez 45 Wink, Seabold, Walter 40+ Mata, Ward, Song 40 Crawford, German, Bazardo, Wallace, 35+ (16 pitchers) NYY 50 45+ Gomez 45 Thorpe, Beeter, Gil 40+ Marinaccio, Ridings, Garcia, Lange 40 Vazquez, Sauer, Vrieling, Selvidge, Beck 35+ (5 total) So, 45+ Sox 5-3 40 to 40+ Yanks 9-7 35+ Sox 16-5 Which farm is top heavy? Which farm is shallow?

Well, they really haven't. First pitcher taken... 2022: 99th pick (rd 4) 2021: 105th (4th) 2020: 118th (3rd) 2019: 107th (3rd) 2018: 100th (3rd) So, 99th has been our highest drafted pitcher in 5 years.

Abreu now has 113 BBs and 31 SBs to go with that .828 OPS.

Wait till they catch the Astros hacking into the system!

How much do you really know about these guys. Hell, you didn't even think Whitlock was anything that special, and he was in your back yard. We are deeper than you think, and much deeper than we have been in almost a decade.

Not really with robo umps.

Some other notable numbers on the farm, with just a few days left to the end of the season: Kavadas .286 26 85 .449 OBP/ .563 SLG/ 1.012 OPS 100 BBs in 116 gms (142 Ks) and 52 XBHs in 378 ABs Rafaela .303 20 82 .347 OBP/ .545 SLG/ .892 OPS 62 XBHs in 462 ABs and 27 SBs in 112 gms Nathan Hickey .263 16 62 .415 OBP/ .522 SLG/ .936 OPS 63 BBs in 75 gms (78 Ks) Marcelo Mayer .280 13 53 .399/.489/.887 17 SB and 0 CS in 91 gms Brainer Bonaci .262 6 50 .397/..385/.782 28 SBs in 108 gms and 89 BB-89 Ks OPS (75+ PAs) .977 Meidroth FCL/SAL .896 M Bleis FCL .892 Mieses WOR .892 A James DSL .889 Casas FCL/WOR .874 Romero FCL/SAL .872 L James FCL .872 Sierra DSL .859 Duran WOR .852 Sikes GRE/SAL .844 Lugo GRE .838 Wong

I love your originality. No blah, blah, blah from you.

Bell "trying to intimidate others?" Get real.

I thank you for the positive attitude you have always shown towards the team you root for.

Have you really researched Sox prospects all that much? No "inkling they can pitch in the bigs." That's a pretty low bar you set to go on and neglect all pitchers beyond Bello & Mata. Now, what I'm about to say may not mean much, because our pitching prospects have been so scarce and underwhelming for many years, but this farm system has more quality and quantity of promising pitchers in a long time. We've already seen Crawford show signs he can "pitch in the bigs." Wink and Seabold, not so much, but the book is not closed on them, just yet. Beyond those that have pitched in the bigs and Mata, we have plenty of hopefuls, and I'm not talking long shots to "make the bigs." Frank German: .495 OPS Against in AA/AAA (63K in 49 IP) 0.90 WHIP He could easily be a very good set-up man or maybe even a decent c loser. Brandon Walter: .585 OPS Against (75 Ks and 7 BB in 58 IP in AA/AAA) Wikelman Gonzalez: .623 OPSA (121 Ks in 98 IP at A-/A+) Chris Murphy: .665 OPSA (136K in 134 IP AA/AAA) 1.24 WHIP Thaddeus Ward: .601 OPSA (66 Ks in 51 IP on 4 teams-rehabbing) Farther away or a longer shot: Luis Perales: .523 (50Ks in 36 IP at FCL/A-) Shane Drohan: .690 (157K in 130 IP) 1.26 in A+/AA) Tyler Uberstine: .657 (101 K in 92 IP at A-/A+) AJ Politi: .602 (74K in 64 IP in AA/AAA) Jacob Wallace: .670 (74 Ks in 55 IP at AA) Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz: .561 (42 in 38 IP at FCL/A-) Jedixson Paez: .523 (50Ks in 36 IP at FCL/A-) Juan Encarnacion: .642 (129K in 113 IP A-/A+) Luis de la Rosa: .626 (58Ks in 49 IP (FCL/A-) Others: Noah Song, Victor Santos, Ryan Fernandez, Angel Bastardo, Noah Dean, Luis Guerrero, Reidis Sena

Here is an update on some Sox prospects: The Bloom Additions via Trade: (OBP/SLG/OPS) .387/.573/.960 Enmanuel Valdez (2B/DH) 54 HRs/112 XBHs in his last 815 ABs .399/.424/.823 Wilyer Abreu (RF) 45 XBHs in 441 AB, 112 BBs this year with 30 SB/3 CS Vazquez .366/.339/.705 Max Ferguson (2B) 61 SBs/ 5 CS .359/.371/.730 Corey Rosier (OF) 40 SBs/ 5 CS Groome .335/.400/.735 David Hamilton (IF) 69 SBs/ 8 CS (heating up, recently) .306/.429/.745 Alex Binelas (IF) 25 Hrs & 47 XBHs in 424 ABs (147 Ks) Renfroe .315/.460/.775 Ronaldo Hernandez © 13 Hrs & 39 XBHs in 359 ABs (Mazza & Springs) .312/.429/.741 Christian Koss (IF) Most ABs in system at 473 (Aybar) .349/.489/.838 Connor Wong © 15 Hrs & 35 XBHs in 323 ABs .316/.412/.728 Jeter Downs (IF) 16 Hrs in 284 ABs, 18 SBs/ 4 CS (Betts) . ERA/ OPS Against Pitcher (IP, K/BB) WHIP 2.77/.495 German (49 IP, 63/19) 0.90 (w Ottavino for nothing) 3.06/.630 Seabold (82 IP, 85K/18 BB) 1.09 WHIP (Workman & Hembree) 3.70/.626 de la Rosa (49 IP, 58/21) 1.17 (Beni) 3.73/.617 Winckowski (51 IP, 52/13) 1.12 (Beni) 3.95/.670 J Wallace (55 IP, 45/7) 1.46 (Pillar) I'll cover others, later.

No, and it's not like Beni lit it up all the time with KC, either. I think he's on the IL, now. Plus, the money saved on the Beni trade allowed us to sign Renfroe and make the worst trade in a long time. I mean, the Beni trade has to be a plus just for that alone!