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With Slaten out, we really need Whitlock and CHapman to be as great as 2025 plus someone like Weissert to turn it around. So far, Moran has looked really good, despite 3BBs in 8 IP. He has 10 Ks and has allowed only 4 hits (0.875 WHIP.) Slaten (IL) and Samaniego (1.2 IP) have not allowed an earned run to score (6 IP total.) Watson, Coulombe & Uberstine have looked shaky. Kelly & Weissert have sucked, although Weissert's 1.222 WHIP is better than some others I listed as being just "shaky." I'm wondering if Sandoval or Crawford can fill a void or two. At some point, we may try Tolle in a pen role. OPS Against at WOO: .077 Guerrero (4 IP) .289 Bennett (13.1 as SP) .317 Uberstine (7.0) .363 Martinez (9.2) .567 Sandoval (3.1) .572 Anderson (9.2) .609 Olds (7.1) .610 Webb (7.1) .689 Tolle (10.0) Only Bennett & Tolle are already on the 40

The NL has 13 of 15 teams between 9-6 and 6-9. The worst and 3rd best are 3 games apart. The Pirates are 9-5, so really 14 teams are in a 3.5 game range. Only the Dodgers at 11-3 stand out. The AL has the top 13 teams all between 9-6 and 6-9 with nobody standing out. The Sox are 5-9 and the CWS are 5-10. All teams are within 4 games of each other. We are about one game away from the 1/10 point of the season.

Crazy how all ALE teams are within 3 games of each other. All ALW teams are within 2 games, pending the HOU-SEA late game. If someone said we were 3 GB first place and 2 GB the 4th best record in the AL on April 11th, nobody would be upset. Crazy start to MLB.

Those Dodgers pad their run totals. LMAO. Hey, we scored 5 in one inning!!!

This makes too much sense.

The Sale trade looks bad in hindsight, but I liked the deal at the time. The Priester trade looked bad, last year, but it is still very much TBD. Tibbs still has zero MLB PAs, so that one could also be TBD. The Buehler signing sucked, and Sandoval isn't really paid enough to get all huffy about. There really are not a ton of bad deals. His drafts have been very good. IFA signings seem to be doing okay.

Sox have 9 losses. 8 AL teams have 8 or more losses. 13 of 15 teams have 7 plus losses, so this is still very much wide-open. The two best AL teams have just 3 losses less than the Sox. Only the Yankees have a run differential of more than +4.

Let's hope this is the real Suarez.

What team is dressed up as the Red Sox?

Eyanson- kapow! 4.1 IP 0 Hits 0 ER 0 BB 7 Ks

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.