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SEA is #29 at .607! SDP #27 at .633 NYY #22 .648 PHI #21 .663 NYM #20 .665 CHC #19 .670 DET #16 .673

I really don't think the offense is this bad, and I doubt we finish in the bottom 10 in runs or OPS, but to start they year, I had hopes we might finish near #10.

I've never been as high on Romero as others, but it's nice to see him stepping up his game. We may need him sooner than we expected. .258 IKF .314 Durbin .364 Story (The team's three worst batters in 2026.) 6th worst: Monasterio .508 7th worst: Mayer .586

Big surprise of 2026.

My bad. I thought we were facing a lefty.

Holobetz pitched well again, today. 4IP 3H 1ER 2BB 9K. The pen pitched 5 scoreless (3 hits, 3 BBs and 4Ks) Arias remains hot, going 3 for 4. He's up to 1.342. Kutter got drilled in his first start in over a year: 3 IP 6H 5ER 1BB 5K (3 bombs given up) The game is still in progress.

...and vs a lefty.

Yup. Our pen is 23rd in fWAR at -0.3. (23rd in FIP and 16th in xFIP.) We are 25th in OPS (.646.) 23rd in wRC+ (87.) It's interesting to note that the Phillies are tied with us at 46 runs scored.

Facing a lefty, tonight... l Anthony DH .656 R Durbin 3B .314 L Duran LF .495 R Contreras 1B .790 L Abreu RF 1.101 R Story SS .364 L Mayer 2B .586 (Pretty sad that this the 5th best OPS.) R Narvaez C .440 R Rafaela CF .807

That has been a major sore spot. Matz has been his best addition, so that says a lot. How would you grade his overall deal record that was presented?

Remember, part of the justification for trading Duran for an infielder (or pitching before we added Gray, Oviedo & Suarez) was that the "step down" from Duarn to Yoshida/Romy at DH was not going to be as great as the "step up" at whatever position we filled with the return for Duran. Now, we may view it as a step up from Duran to Yoshida at DH. Isn't baseball wonderful?

Yes, Chapman worked out very well. My point was, "We said the same thing last winter." Many felt replacing Jansen & Martin with Chapman & Wilson was "neglect" or something similar. IMO, we counted on SP'er depth to fill the 2025 pen needs, and that barely happened due to so many rotation injuries.

There has been a lot of talk about all the bad moves Breslow has made since taking over. I'm not defending all of his moves, and most of them are clearly still in the TBD category, but I'd like to see how others grade these trades and transactions: Major: Traded Teel, Meidroth, Montgomery & Wikelman for Garret Crochet Extended Crochet Traded Devers for Kyle Harrison, Jordan Hicks, James Tibbs & Jose Bello Traded Sale + Cash for Vaughn Grissom Signed Alex Bregman Signed Lucas Giolito Signed A Chapman (later extended him) Extended Brayan Bello, Rafaela, Campbell & Anthony Traded Clarke, Fitts & Galle for Sonny Gray & $20M Traded Dobbins, Fajardo & Aita for Willson Contreras + Cash Signed Walker Buehler ________________________________ Moderate: Signed Patrick Sandoval Claimed Romy Gonzalez off waivers Traded Harrison, DHam & Sandlin for Caleb Durbin. Monasterio & Seigler + Comp pick Traded Verdugo for Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert & N Judice Traded Santos & Robertson for Tyler O'Neill Traded ERod for Carlos Narvaez Traded Ammons for Justin Slaten Traded Priester for Holobetz, Y Rod & Comp Pick (Marcus Phillips) Traded Jh Garcia & Travieso for Johan Oviedo, T Samaniego & A Guzman Traded Tibbs & Ehrhard for Dustin May Traded Jordan for Steven Matz Traded Booser for Y Fajardo Signed Liam Hendriks Signed Justin Wilson Signed IKF Traded Schreiber for David Sandlin Traded Yorke for Quinn Priester Traded Coffey, Paulino & Batista for Danny Jansen Traded M Lugo, Zeferjahn, Kavadas & Vargas for Luis Garcia Traded Riemer for Ryan Watson Traded Luis Perales for Jake Bennett Traded Sandlin, Hicks, PTBNL + Cash for Gage Ziehl Traded Guerrero for Tristan Gray, Murphy for R Hernandez, Bernardino for B Ward & Hoppe for L Heyman ___________________________________ Minor: Traded Urias for I Campbell, cash for Heineman & G Cooper, Bolivar for Paxton, Portes for L Simms, Gasper for Moran, Newcomb for cash, Grissom for I Jackson Signed: Criswell, Chase Anderson, Dominic Smith, Sean Newcomb Claimed Gasper & Cheng off waivers ____________________ Did I miss any significant deals? (Draft and IFA signings not included)

Contreras is at .790 and we hoped for about .800. Good post, though.

Many felt Chapman was not going to be enough. Some even felt Hendriks was going to be or become the closer. We had lost Jansen & Martin from 2024.

We heard this before 2025, too. I'm not defending the pen neglect, but it worked out okay, last season.

...and losing trade value by the week.

The farm went 3-1, last night, and while wins on the farm is not a high priority in any MLB system, it's not a bad thing. There is not much else to be uplifted by going on right now. Some prospects are off to very encouraging starts, but it's early and these sample sizes are tiny. Valera has 16 Ks in 8.1 IP and while 3BBs is not great, he's only allowed 4 hits. Bennett has started 3 times and has a .289 OPS Against with WOO. soxprospects.com started the winter projecting him to begin the season at AA, so this is nice. Cheng is no rookie, but he's making a AAA case to be called up: 3 HRs in 30 ABs and a 1.346 OPS. He even hit for the cycle a couple nights ago. Gasper is another non-rookie off to a nice 1.258 start.) Capra (1.089) and Delay (1.024) also help make our AAA depth look a little more promising than we thought it was in March. Thaiss is at .917, and Nate Baez is at 1.010 with POR. Arias has looked good with a 1.303 OPS in 5 games. Cespedes (.913) might finally be showing he was not over-hyped. Salem has been the surprising team, so far (in just 7 games, the Ridge Yaks are 6-1.) 1.100 Skylar King, 1.075 Andrews Opata and 900's for Stanley Tucker, Ty Hodge, Anderson Fermin & K Salazar. Top Salem pitchers: OPSA/ERA Dylan Brown .301/0.00 Ethan Walker .517/1.29 Adam Bates .635/3.18 Devin Futrell .297/0.00 Gibel Galvan .663/6.23 Wuilliams Rodriguez .517/4.91

Being a free agent is a big part of that. 2024 was his last arb year, and we signed him for 2024-2025, so it wasn't like true FA "market value."

If these two continue sucking, I'll be glad we "settled" at a fraction of the budget hit.

Vocabulary is not Red's thing.

Someone else will start hitting as Abreu comes back to earth, but it may not be enough.

True dat! I don't hear many posters saying that about Duran.

It's time for Suarez to start earning his keep. While it's not even the middle of April, yet, this seems like a game we kinda/should have to win.

It may not be "easy" to swap Mayer and Story at SS & 2B, but that would help, too. Line-up changes are not very impactful, but why not move Abreu to the 2 or 4 slot?