moonslav59

Interesting rankings, especially Cespedes 9th. I'd put him and Bleis near 30th, if not lower, but all these guys are pretty fungible.

That's for sure. What will happen if Durbin out OPS Bregman, Nad Contreras out OPS Alonso?

It makes up for the 2nd round pick we lost signing Bregman.

Gotta count the side pieces, too, if they amount to anything, but yes, this was the basis of the trade. I love the comp pick we got, too, and we've had great success with those picks, even if they are not our highest pick. 2025: Phillips (2nd pick Priester trade) & Godbout (3rd pick...Pivetta) 2023: K Campbell (our 5th pick... Bogey) 2022: Anthony (our 3rd pick... ERod)

How about revisiting the KMarte talks: Mayer, Bello & Sandoval for KMarte (The AAV is almost even.) Mayer & Early is also accepted on BTV, but the added AAV would put the Sox over line 3.

Well said. There will always be a beef, if we keep trying to replace Devers' big bat with players like Contreras, though, but that's a separate issue. This looks like a very good trade, as of now. Now, maybe Harrison pulls a Priester on us, and Durbin becomes the next Grissom, but we'll see.

Let's hope not. It's nice we have 40 infielders on our 40! Just in case!

9 years at $16.25M. Not all "suspects" are created equal.

I would not call the Bregman heavily deferred contract a failed 1 year contract as we likely miss the playoffs without him. The worst Brez only FA signings: $21M/1 Buehler $10M/2 Hendriks _________________ Meh signings: $38.5M/2 Giolito ___________________ TBD: Sandoval, Suarez, Kiner-Falefa ___________________ Best FA signings: $11M/1 Chapman $2.3M/1 Wilson _______________________________________ Extensions: Crochet, Chapman, Anthony, Rafaela, Bello, Campbell _____________________________________ Worst Trades: Devers for scraps Sale for Grissom The deadline deals in '24 for Garcia & Sims Scraps for DMay TBD: Priester for Holobetz plus (Yorke for Priester) several players for Sonny Gray same for Willson Contreras Ziehl for Sandlin & Hicks (Schreiber for Sandlin) and many minor trades this winter. Fajardo for Bosser (Fajardo later traded) Moran for Gasper Best: Several prospects for Crochet Harrison plus for Durbin Ammons for Slaten 2 pitchers for O'Neill Dugo for Weissert & Fitts Jordan for Matz

Now, the longer term deals and control years: 8 years + option Anthony 7 years + 2 option years Campbell 6 years Crochet & Rafaela 5 years Suarez 4 years + option Bello Pre-arb (4+ years) : 19 players on the 40!!! Tolle, Anthony, Abreu, Narvaez, Durbin, Slaten, Wiessert, Sogard, Kelly, Moran, Watson, Samaniego, Monasterio, Seigler, Bennett, Eaton, Uberstine, Gasper, Cheng 25 players with 4+ years of control!

I think I K-F offers us a fine utility player that is a big plus on defense at 3B, SS and 2B. Is that worth $6M? Maybe not, but we have to say it or else JH is not a cheapster.

He's pre-arb, so probably the minimum, which is like $820K.

There was a tremendous amount of roster turnover- beyond the filling of vacated FA roster slots. Not many major players were traded, but a ton of pitchers were swapped out and a ton of infielders were added.

Years of control: 1: Gray (mutual option) & Sandoval 2: Chapman (team option) & Oviedo, Romy, Houck, Masa 3: Contreras, Story & Whitlock (team options) Duran, Crawford, Casas Wong, Kelly All the rest are 4+ seasons

The gift that just keeps giving! Durbin (for Harrison plus) Tibbs for D May Hick plus Ziehl Jose Bello- future Cy Young winner.

Before I saw this trade announced, I was about to relay a 3 way trade I saw on BTV that looked doable: To BOS: Paredes To HOU: Nootbar To STL: Soto Made some sense for all teams.

...or Duran!

Could this be the depth chart by position? C: Narvaez, Wong> Contreras (emergency only), Seigler, Gasper (AAA Thaiss) 1B: Contreras, Romy, Casas > Monasterio (Hickey) 2B: Mayer, Romy, Durbin/I K-F, Cheng, Monasterio, Sogard, Seigler (Romero) 3B: Durbin, Mayer, I K-F> Monasterio, Seigler, Sogard, Eaton, Romy SS: Story, I K-F> ??? LF: Anthony, Duran> KC, Masa, Romy CF: Rafaela, Anthony/Duran> (B Ward) RF: Abreu, Anthony > (Eaton) DH: Duran/Masa/Casas LHBs & Romy/KC RHBs

Okay. I should have said he's showed he can play 3B very well, but hasn't proven anything at 2B, yet. Mayer at 2B is a question mark, too.

The why is that if they first prove they are great, their extension will be at a much higher cost, or they will see dollar signs in their eyes and "want to see what the FA market has to offer." Sound familiar? This is done to help prevent the next Betts & Bogey situation from happening. We will likely miss on some. Last winter, we heard some wondering on why we extended Rafaela & Bello so early. I'm not hearing that anymore.

Nope. The signed him on April 2nd.

To me, the power question and overall offense performance is our biggest worry, at this point.

Actually, the defense might be better, if either is not playing. I K-F is a GG 3Bman and very good at SS and 2B. Rodgers is a GG 2Bman. Durbin might be a better defensive 3Bman than Mayer (not 2B though.) The other infielders look good on D, too.

The pen does have some concerns, and the depth is lacking, unless we can use our starters there. That assumes few SP'er injuries, and these days, that's nearly impossible to expect. Slaten returns, but we lost Wilson & Bernardino. Moran, Watson & Kelly are questionable.

Agreed. I thought last years was very good, too, and it was. We even felt we could spare priester, it looked so deep, but we ended up adding Tolle & Early before planned and had to trade for D May and start de Leon, late in the season. No doubt- depth on paper is precarious. Last year, our #2 (Houck) sucked and then missed his las 22 starts. Our #5/6 (Crawford) missed the whole season. Our #4/5/6 (Sandoval) missed the whole season. One of our plus de[th starter, Dobbins, pitched very well, then missed half the season with an injury. Newcomb, Fitts and other spot starters did not do all that well. The two additions- Buehler and DMay sucked.. Gio & Bello did fine. It's largely unknown, and we've recently traded some of that depth away (Harrison, Dobbins. Fitts, Perales & Clarke,) but we still look pretty good down to our #8 & 9 guys: 1. Crochet 2. Suarez 3. Gray 4. Bello 5/6 Oviedo 5/6/7 Crawford 5/6/7 Sandoval 8/9 Tolle & Early