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Leadoff batter Nick Yorke had another tremendous game at the plate, going 3 for 5 with two doubles and a home run. He's up to .435/.458/.826 in his first five games with the Drive.

Peacock was never on the 40 man roster and was on a minor league deal. That seems like a fair and obvious exception.

Ryan Brasier had a fourth straight scoreless appearance...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/08/red-sox-acquire-brad-peacock-from-Guardians.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 7.64 ERA in the minors in 34 IP. Gotta be a step up from Robles!

Isn't hindsight wonderful. Why not mention Kimbrel? BTW, Bloom just acquired Brad Peacock. Forget the hindsight: good move or bad? RP'ers are pure guesses at the deadline. Bloom guesses wrong. Get out the firing squad.

Are there enough high spenders to sign all those SSs to meg deals? Man, Baez just took himself down a couple notches.

1. Schwarber DH 2. Devers 3B 3. Martinez LF 4. Bogaerts SS 5. Verdugo RF 6. Dalbec 1B 7. Vazquez C 8. Duran CF 9. Munoz 2B No Renfroe.

Could be viewed as the most important game of the year, to date. Pivetta vs Patino 7:10 Start Time Hopefully, Renfroe is in the line-up. GO SOX!

It's a slam dunk. It might be better than 50-50 we extend him, so he won't opt out.

FA SSs: Story Seager Correa Baez Semien Simmons

The site is a mess. They have this: Kike 1.0 yrs Schwarber 1.3 years Others, including Bogey 1.5 yrs

One SS that may fly under the radar as so many big-named ones will be signing, this winter, is Simmons. The guy is the best defensive SS and is not a bad hitter. He won't be cheap, but he won't cost half of Correa. Even if we don't trade Bogey, this is a pretty solid IF: 1B: Devers 2B: Arroyo 3B: Bogey SS: Simmons The OF would look good: LF: Verdugo CF: Kike RF: Renfroe 4th: Duran Dalbec would be on the bench or traded.

I don't disagree. Just finding a comp, Sox fans would know about.

The closest one is Cash.

That makes him equal to like a Jeter Downs.

Words to live by.

While Correa is a GG SS, I'm not sure he's top 3 on D, but he'd be a big gain on defense over Bogey. So, what's they idea? Trade Bogey for a pitcher and sign Correa and a pitcher?

I know many disagree, and I can't say teams cannot win with a subpar defensive SS, but to me, it is an essential priority for a team to win consistently. It would instantly make our staff better- all 13 to 14 of them. Yes, one move improves 14-15 slots on the 26 man roster.

The money saved by trading Bogey might allow us to get a great SP'er via free agency or two very good ones, instead of the one we were probably planning on adding, anyway.

Indeed. I can understand the whys, and I share in the frustration. I know sometimes people speak out of anger and lash out with statements that don't capture their whole position. I get that.

Well said.

To me, defense starts at SS (maybe catcher.) I don't want to trade Bogey, so maybe moving him to 3B, Devers to 1B and finding a great defensive SS is the answer. I realize that squeezes out low-paid Dalbec and pretty much means Bogey will opt out and never come back.

I'm not asking for stellar. Just one improvement would help. I realize it's not easy, and I have no answer, at this time. (You know, if I have no opinion, it's not an easy issue.)

He's bringing in scrubs up by 3-4 runs, in hopes that he can save Whitlock for one run situations. The problem is, bringing in anyone but Whitlock, quickly makes it a 1 run game... EVERY GAME! You are right, we can't use him for 2-3 innings, every game. If we turn him into our closer, who can go 1 IP 3 out of 4 games, we lose the only set up guys worth a grain of salt (other than maybe Ottavino), so we'd never even be able to present Whitlock with save opportunities. Cora has a lose-lose choice to make, every game. Blaming Bloom and Henry makes way more sense than blaming Cora, but I still think Bloom has been a genius. He prevented what I thought might be a 2-3 year cliff. People should go back and look at least year's roster, and not just the 26 man one. The guy built an amazing team with a very limited budget and limits on trading prospects for short term gratification. Our pen was our strength for much of the year, but because they nearly all imploded at once, Bloom should be fed to the wolves for getting Robles and Davis wrong. For not foreseeing a total meltdown by our lights-out closer. For not knowing DHern would get hurt, among others, and just about everyone not named Garrett would implode at once. Look, I get how the GM is always the ultimate "buck stops here" guys in an organization, but really? Bashing Bloom over Robles and Davis? Had Bloom not gotten Whitlock in Rule 5 and Kike& Renfroe in free agency, we'd be talking about getting a high draft pick, next year. This year has been a miracle, yet many can't seem to appreciate it. I'm not trying to sound holier than thou. I'm frustrated as hell, too. I wish we'd have chosen a better RP'er or two than the two we got, but RP'ers are hard to figure out. Even Kimbrel has struggled since the trade. Blaming the GM and manager are as old as baseball, itself, but that doesn't make it right in every case.

I'm always for improving the staff, and not by getting a better 4th or 5th starter. Improve from the top, is my motto, but as we have seen this year, good pitching can get lost, when basic plays are not made, and we need to get 4-5 outs some innings due to missed plays. I'm not even talking about the errors, and there were plenty of those. I'm talking about non error plays that other teams make easily. I'm talking about the very few nice plays that other teams seem to make several times a game. Even the best pitchers can't do all that well needing to make 4 outs an inning. Yes, I'm exaggerating, but our defense is pathetic. Our BAbip against blows everyone away. If it wasn't for BAL at .311, we'd be over 20 points higher than the next team! And, before anyone argue that opposing teams are hitting our pitching harder than others, the data shows they are not. We have the 6th best Hard Hits Against percent in the AL and 9th best in MLB. That's upper tier. We have the 12th best GB% in MLB. I have to think we've allowed the most IF hits in the league. It's really quite sickening. I'm all for boosting the staff in a major way, this winter, but ignoring the defense would be a major mistake. I don't have a simple answer. I don't want us to trade Bogey or Dalbec. I don't think trading Vaz will help. Moving Devers to 1B could easily backfire, while squeezing one of our low pay hopes (Dalbec) out of a spot in the line-up. Maybe, because there is no easy solution, nothing will be done. I think signing Marwin was a feeble attempt at improving our defense. I don't think adding a great defensive utility player is the answer for 2022. Any ideas?