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BTV Yanks: 8.1 Beni (2+ month rental) KCR: 7.4 (Beck Way 4.6, TJ Sikkema 2.0 & C Champlain 0.8)

Maybe Sox fans are over-valuing Beni. It wouldn't be the first time.

99:1, yes.

None named Vaxx?

Opinions are fine, but can you enlighten us on what aspects of the game you think Devers is even equal to Soto on? Age progressions: (Red= led league) OBP Age: Soto/Devers 19 .406/ Minors 20 .401/ .338 21 .490/ .298 22 .465/ .361 23 .401/ .310 24 TBD/ .352 25 TBD/ .379 SLG 19 .517/ Minors 20 .548/ .482 21 .695/ .433 22 .534/ .555 23 .484/ .483 24 TBD/ .538 25 TBD/.602 Old School: Career per 162 games Soto 700 PAs .291 34 103 (78 XBHs, 11 SBs, .965 OPS) Devers 695 PAs .285 34 108 (80 XBHs, 6 SB, .866 OPS) It's not a big tilt in Soto's favor in some areas, but if he improves in ages 24-25, even his old school his numbers should eclipse Devers'.

Fenway's LF allows us to "hide" a poor fielder without it burning us, too much, but that is only an asset when the guy you are hiding can hit and knows how not to run into outs on the basepaths.

It's very hard to make big moves way ahead of the deadline. It does happen, but not all that often. Bloom only had so much to spend, this winter, and he chose to spend in to fill just a few of the many open slots we had, and hoped in system players could man the other slots well enough to get us into the playoffs. He could have spread out Story's money to get a mediocre 1Bman, RF'er, 2 RP'ers and 4th OF'er. Would we be any better? I thought the rap on Bloom was that all he got was mediocre players in hopes they'd have career years. Honestly, was it crazy to think... Dalbec & Shaw could play well enough, until Casas was ML ready? After all, Dalbec had an career .819 OPS going into 2022 with 33 HRs in 497 career ABs. What GM would have gone out and paid for a 1Bman? Kike would man CF like he did in 2021? Wacha, Hill and some kids might hold down the fort, until Sale & Paxton got healthy? (Okay, this might be a close to crazy, but these guys damn near did it, except Sale's comeback was less than 2 games.) Bogey & JD would get over 100 RBIs, this year. Whitlock and Houck in the pen would make it better than the decent 2021 pen. To me, the biggest gap and mistake was RF and the JBJ trade, and the lack of a back-up for JBJ and Kike, until Refsnyder was given a chance, anyway. The rest made sense, at the time, considering the budget constraints and desire to not hurt the farm for 2022, only.

What other team has built their rotation up so well, they are in reach of the best record in the AL, and they can still offer to trade a controllable SP'er at the deadline, like they are reportedly doing, now? https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/07/astros-willing-to-listen-to-offers-on-controllable-starting-pitching.html

Is the deal contingent on him getting vaxxed?

I'd put the odds at 99:1 Cora is back. 98:2 Bloom is back.

I'm not for paying Bogey what he will end up getting, and that was before 7-39.

To revisit the 2023 budget framework: Luxury Tax Dollars ($Millions) 31 Players on 40 Man, now SP 25.6 Sale 8.5 Pivetta (Arb 2 of 3) .72 Winckowski (pre Arb) .72 Crawford (pre Arb) .72 Mata (pre Arb) .72 Bello (pre Arb) minor Seabold (pre Arb) minor Groome (pre Arb) RP 9.4 Barnes 4.7 Whitlock 3.5 Diekman (if we can't trade him, now or this winter) 1.5 Brasier (Arb 3 of 3, if he's not traded or DFA'd by '23) 1.1 Taylor (Arb 2 of 4) 1.1 Davis (Arb 1 of 3- no options remaining) .80 DHern (Arb 1 of 3) .73 Houck (pre Arb) .73 Schreiber (pre Arb) minor Danish (pre Arb) minor P Valdez (pre Arb) minor K Ort (pre Arb) C .72 Wong (pre Arb) .72 R Hernandez (pre Arb) 1B ~1.0 Cordero (Arb 2 of 3) .73 Dalbec (pre Arb) 2B 23.3 Story 1.3 Arroyo (Arb 2 of 3, if he's not traded or DFA'd by '23) 3B ~25 Devers (Arb 3 of 3) SS .72 Downs (pre Arb) LF ~6.0M Verdugo (Arb 2 of 3) CF .72 Duran (pre Arb) RF ~1.5 Refsnyder (Arb 2 of 3) That's about $122M for 31 players. Add a few $Million for the other 9M combined and $16M for player benefits, and we'll be around $140M before spending a dime on additions. To get to the threshold, we could spend $92M. For those who want us to extend or re-sign Bogey and Devers, here's how that might look, minimum: $26 x 5 Bogey $29 x 7 Devers (add $4M to projected arb cost) That's $55M. If it's true we are re-setting after this season, then that leaves about $51M to fill all the rest of the slots not filled by in system players. Let's play best case scenario and figure Casas can play 1B, next year, and one young starter can take Hill's 5 starter slot. We need to fill the 1/2 slot (Nate) and the 2/3 slot (Wacha), unless you think our 5 man rotation will be Sale, Paxton, Pivetta, Winckowski and Crawford/Bello/Mata (or Whitlock). We also need a catcher and CF and RF, unless you want to go all year with Wong/RHern at catcher, or Refsnyder/Duran in RF and CF FT. And, who DH'es? Dalbec/Cordero? LOL!!! How can $36M fill SP1 SP2 C 1B CF RF DH Unless Henry opens the wallet, again, what good does it do to sign Bogey? We ain't winning by bringing the same team back minus JD, Nate, Wacha, Hill, Kike, Vaz and Strahm, or by filling all their shoes with $36M.

This guy needs to work on his power numbers! LOL

The only way he takes that is if it's the top offer. He may pull a Correa and go short term, in hopes he busts out in 2023, and then gets a big contract, if that's the best long term option he gets.

Has there ever been a year under Henry where we needed a CF/RF'er more than this year? Cora would rather bench Duran than play Verdugo in RF. Cora would rather play Duran in CF than Verdugo. Doesn't that speak volumes? Jackie Bradley has 280 PAs. Nuff said!

More like disloyalty is a two way street, these days.

The deadline in August 2nd. Many Gms wait until the end, in hopes desperate GMs will up their offers at the last moment.

$110/5 is close to insulting. Story got more

I’m still glad Henry is our owner, even during times when he “skimps.”

He thinks it worked.

Or even $150/6. They balked at the Story signing at close to that.

It means he thinks he sucks in CF and RF, or he’d have played there, this year.

The thing is, even if we could get back in the race, is it worth the long shot gamble and try? The extended future has to be top priority, now. We have a lot of money to spend on5-8 slots, this winter.

3 is usually the charm, but in this case it might be the camel’s back.

Some have said “whatever it takes.” Others have said $150/6, which I’d be fine with, but I doubt he accepts. I think he gets $200/8 or $170//6 but not with Boston.