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I think the loe OPS by Stallings, this year is an outlier. If they think McGuire has the same profile as Stallings, then fine.

Are they open to trading Bleday?

I don't "want to trade" Casas, but we have urgent needs and you can't get a guy like Lopez for Nick Yorke and scraps. If we could, I'd do that. Do we have a need at 2B and CF? Would you rather trade Rafaela? Do we have a need at SS, if Story stays at 2B? You say you'd rather trade the higher -valued Mayer? To me, I don't see any FA SP'ers that would meet our needs, plus the ones that are close would cost so much, we'd have little left to fill the other 4-6 slots in high need. That's the only reason I see making a trade for a low-cost SP'er as the best option. It's not because I want to trade our future 1Bman. Now, I might not be as high on Casas as some, here, but I value him highly enough that I think he's worth 2 years of an ace-quality SP'er like Lopez. Who costs more? deGrom or Mancini? (The money saved allows us to get Mancini & Swanson or Nimmo.)

Yes, although both sample sizes are small. .839 Romero in 56 ABs FCL & Sal .834 Anthony in 45 ABs FCL & Sal Let's add a third name: Chase Meidroth: 1.029 in 64 ABs in FCL & Sal Also, Brooks Brannon is 6 for 13 with 5BBs in FCL.

So, trades like Betts for 5 yrs of ML'er Dugo and near ML ready Wong & Downs?

You are assuming Casas steps right into a plus producer at 1B, where guys like Hosmer or low cost FAs like Mancini, Abreu, Bell or maybe Santana may outperform him in 2023, anyway. It's harder and more costly to try and fill SS, CF and SP slots.

Yes, 39.7 to 35.0, but I'd still give more- like a player who is a bubble 40 man roster guy we can include and not be so squeezed, this winter. Winckowski, Seabold, RHern, Downs... I'd love to try and pry Stallings from them, despite his -0.8 BTV score. Casas, RHern and Seabold for Lopez & Stallings. Accepted as a Major Overpay on BTV.

Would Judge take: $42M $42M $41M Opt out $30M $26M $24M $20M Team option w $5M buyout That's $125M/3 or $210M/6 or $225M/7.

We have about 5-6 major holes, and if you look at who we currently have to fill those slots, 1B has more hope than SS, CF, RF, SP and RP, maybe C, too. That is even after trading Casas! If you had to choose which position to leave as is, which would it be? CF: Duran, Ja Davis SS/2B: Arroyo/Downs RF: Refsnyder/ (Dugo w Pham in LF?) 2 SPs: Bello, Crawford, Wink 3-4 RP'ers: Crawford, Wink, Barnes, Taylor, German C: McGuire, Wong, RHern 1B: Hosmer, Dalbec, Arroyo, Cordero (Jordan/Kavadas) As bad as it looks, I don't see 1B as our biggest or even 2nd, 3rd or 4th biggest high need area.

You don't get a pitcher like Lopez without giving up a top prospect. 2 arb years instead of throwing money at deGrom will help us to sign Bogey or Swanson and lock up Devers.

I think only Wink graduated, this year- maybe Seabold and Crawford, too? Only Houck and Dalbec have been significant additions from the farm in a long time, unless you count Whitlock. It takes time to build up a farm, and the rise of several DD farm additions has helped, a lot, and was rather unexpected. The farm has now, or will very soon, reach the point where we can start expecting to have meaningful and cost-effective additions to the big club on a yearly basis, unless we trade a mess of them away out of desperation, this winter. I'm all for one major trade involving prospects, like for Lopez from MIA, who has 2 years remaining, but I'm not sure Bloom sees something like that in the works, or it's against his philosophy. He must be feeling the pressure to win in 2023 while trying to remain balanced. IMO, I think Casas is the piece that can get us a key return, and even though 1B has been a weak area for quite sometime, finding capable 1Bmen should be an easier thing to do than a solid SP'er. Signing Abreu might be an option, or we could spend everywhere else and roll the dice, again, on Hosmer/Arroyo/Dalbec/Cordero (Jordan-Kavadas) going forward. Here's another look at expected ETAs of our top prospects per soxprospects.com: 2023 2. Casas 3. Bello 7. Mata (mid) 8. Walter (late) 12. Murphy (mid) 13. Wong (back-up catcher?) 14. EValdez (mid) (2B/DH?) 23. Seabold 25. Downs 27. German (mid) 31. Kelly 2024 1. Mayer (late) 4. Yorke (mid) 6. Rafaela (I'd say maybe late '23) 26. W Abreu 29. Drohan 32. Binelas 35. R Hernandez 36. Koss 2025 10. Paulino 15. Wikelman 16. Jordan 20. Hickey 22. Kavadas 24. Bonaci 33. McDonough 37. Uberstine 2026 5. Bleis (might be our top prospect by next season) 9. Romero (looking real good, so far) 11. Anthony 19. Perales 21. Coffey 28. Rodriguez-Cruz 30. Brannon 34. Paez

I'd give Casas and another piece for Lopez in a heartbeat.

I won't be surprised, if we only add one SP, but it better be a very good one- like Lopez. To me, we are losing Nate, Wacha and Hill, so we should add 2 solid SP'ers. In think we should, but won't, count on Sale & Paxton as one solid SP'er at 33 GS'd. Pivetta should be counted as a 4/5 SP'er. They probably will add Whitlock to the rotation, and they might count on one prospect to take the 5 slot, so it might look like this: SP1 ______ SP2 Sale/Paxton SP3 Whitlock SP4 Pivetta SP5 (Sale/Paxton) Bello/Mata/TWard/Crawford/Wink/Seabold/Murphy/Walter I'd rather trade for an ace and QO Wacha for this... SP1 ___ACE via trade___ SP2 Sale/Paxton SP3 Wacha SP4 Pivetta SP5 (Paxton/Sale) of a prospect Whitlock in the pen.

College Football begins! My Domers are 16 point underdogs at Ohio St. Time to "Wake up the echoes!"

Since July 8 29-17 BAL 27-20 TBR 25-20 TOR 20-29 BOS 18-30 NYY On June 26th, the standings were... 53-20 NYY 42-31 BOS 40-32 TOR 40-32 TBR 34-40 BAL Exactly flipped from the records since July 8th!

But no rings, so they suck, people say.

You've said that a lot, this year, only to regain hope, over and over.

Kavadas since 2021 2021 (65 BB in 62 games) 50 walks in 47 games at ND (.473 OBP) 15 walks in 15 games at FCL/A ball (.448 OBP) 2022 (98 BB in 109 games) 54 BB in 59 at A ball (.453) 32 in 37 at A+ (.472) 12 in 13 at AA (.400)

Kinda small sample size. Kavadas was at .821 before tonight. 0-3 w 2 BB dropped him to .790, which shows just how small the sample size is.

Yanks lose 9-0. It would have helped the Sox for TBR to lose, but this still feels good.

Just stay calm and sya to yourself, "There is always next year."

Leaving him in long enough to let up 5 runs, doesn't help.

It's the reason Brasier has stuck around so long. As soon as you are really close to DFA'ing him, he goes on a mini-streak. Rinse-repeat... I really would prefer he not come back, next year, but I get a sneaky feeling...

I don't disagree.

Before getting shelled @ BAL on Aug 19th, Brasier retired 10 straight batters in a 3-2 win v NYY, a 3-0 win v NYY and an 8-3 win @ PIT.