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We might not have a real 40man roster crunch, this winter, but I agree on Casas. People see some studs jumping to the bigs and think anyone and everyone can. Sure, some GMs might wait too long, and the super 2 rule keeps some deserving prospects down, but there is nothing about Casas that screams he is ML ready now or will be in just a couple hundred more PAs. BTW, he is rule 5 in winter 2022, so he likely will be given a shot at some point in 2022, assuming he is deserving of one by then. Speaking of this winter's 40 man roster issues, we do have a few rule 5 players we will or may want to protect. Jarren Duran (if he's not added before December) Jeter Downs Brayan Bello Gilberto Jimenez Josh Winchowski Maybe? Thaddeus Ward Durbin Feltman Frank German Kelb Ort Tyreque Reed Let's say we protect 6-7 from this list. They fill the 6 free agent slots vacated by Barnes, ERod, Ottavino, Marwin, Santana & Workman, leaving us at 39 or 40. We certainly will be active in the free agent market, perhaps hyper active. We will need at least a closer (re-sign Barnes?), a top set-up man (bring back Ottavino?) and a SP'er (ERod back?). Here are the possible trade and DFA candidates currently on our 40 man roster: Trade someone who will be a FA after 2022? I think not. JD (has opt out, this winter), Bogey (opt out after 2022), Eovaldi, Kike, Plawecki or the 2021 team option players: Richards, Perez & Andriese (Sawamura-option after '22) More likely, some players from this list: Brandon Brennan Marcus Wilson Matt Andriese Hudson Potts Franchy Cordero Connor Wong Eduard Bazardo Jay Groome Jonathan Arauz I see 4 or 5 easy names on this list, which might be how many FAs we sign.

This was in an article I read, yesterday: Here's a roundup of expert predictions for the Red Sox's fourth overall pick from recent 2021 MLB Mock Drafts. Carlos Collazo, Baseball America: Jack Leiter, RHP, Vanderbilt Keith Law, The Athletic: Kumar Rocker, RHP, Vanderbilt Jonathan Mayo, MLB Pipeline: Jordan Lawlar, SS, Jesuit Prep (Dallas) Kiley McDaniel, ESPN: Henry Davis, C, Louisville Prospects Live: Jack Leiter, RHP, Vanderbilt Michael Dault, Through The Fence Baseball: Jack Leiter, RHP, Vanderbilt

Others said trade Swihart, because we had Vaz. Wish we'd have done that, while his stock was high.

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Winckowski was even invited to spring training (and did well). He will likely be in AAA by the end of the season. The others are more "long shots," but they have the tools and are more promising than many other low level players. The money saved allowed us to sign Renfroe. I would not trade Renfroe for Beni, right now- straight up. Our farm was weak and thin. You can't fix it with magic.

If I had to guess, Duran comes up sometime between the end of the Olympic games and September. Casas between June 2022 and September 2022. Downs & Bello September 2022. Jimenez, Yorke & Aldo Ramirez maybe 2023. Seabold maybe as soon as he's he's healthy.

No, but I'd like to see Chavis get at least one more long look, this year, and maybe we can decide, once and for all, if he deserves a 40 man roster spot, this winter and in 2022. I hate leaving these borderline players in limbo- never knowing one way or the other. If we can pick up a better 1Bman without losing anyone too promising, bring him on!

We go to Maine every summer, so we miss the hottest month, but yes, it's over 90 everyday from June 1st to October 1st, and in the 80's and 90's most of May and October. The long hot summers rival Maine's long cold winters- both are 4-5 months long..

Several factors: 1. The super 2 team control rule (that date just recently passed) 2. The Olympic team commitment. 3. He just changed positions, recently and does not have that many games in CF under his belt. Reports are he is still learning the position. 4. Players like Cordero & Kike deserved long looks in the OF. 5. Not all .900+ hitters are sure bets to do well in the bigs, especially right off the ground running. 6. We don't know what Bloom & Co. know. Why not trust they know more than we do? Can they be wrong, at times? Sure. Either way: too early or too late.

Yes, it counts, but the sample size is tint, and Dalbec needs a change of scenery- quick. Why discount my most recent small sample sizes on Dalbec but us them against Chavis?

MLB Only Dalbec .717 Career (265 PAs) .595 2021 (173 PAs) .657 last 28 days (65) .618 since May 8th (the day Chavis was called up) Chavis .730 career (573 PAs) .758 2021 (33 PAs) .667 last 28 days (24) .758 since May 8 (his call up date in 2021)

What does that matter? They both have sucked, recently. I'm fine with giving people long looks, but Chavis deserves a long look, too, and his career and 2021 MLB numbers blow Dalbec's away. If you want to hold his 2021 "recent" AAA numbers against him, that seems as arbitrary as my cherry-picking the worst cutoff points on the slumping Dalbec & Santana.

You're all over the map. It's career MLB OPS for Dalbec, but AAA 2021 OPS for Chavis that counts?

Not sure? You already responded to my post that listed this... .422 Dalbec in his last 54 PAs .595 Dalbec this year .188 Santana last 27 PAs .530 Santana this year Santana did start off well, for a few games, and he did deserve a shot, especially because we'd have lost him had we not called him up, and 2 guys went on the IL, but he has tanked recently. He's the next guy on the hot seat, or we could have a double hot seat for Dalbec & Santana.

Even .469 is better than Dalbec, recently. That's the point. It's not about having confidence in Chavis, who has actually done something in the bigs, already- and pretty recently, too.

Nor should having the best catching prospect in all of baseball. Catchers are hard to find. If both turned out to be great, the trade value of one would be enormous.

Chavis hitting .650 is a plus over Dalbec hitting .450 or Santana hitting .200, recently.

It's .758 in MLB, this year, not AAA. Granted, it was just 33 PAs, but his career MLB OPs is .730 over almost 600 PAs- a bigger sample size than Dalbec's.

Dice-K's career 4.45 ERA was not really horrific. (4.52 with the Sox) It was 4.14 his first 2 years with the Sox and 4.18 his first 4 years (to age 30). How about these forgettable names and their ERA with the Sox: 6.52 Jin Ho Cho (58 IP) 6.50 Sun-Woo Kim (71 IP) Not so forgettable: 4.50 Hideo Nomo (198) 3.72 Byung-Hyun Kim (97) The Memorable: 3.58 Tazawa (312) 3.09 Okajima (250) 2.19 Uehara (226)

.758 is like 200 points better than Dalbec and Santana, especially of late. .422 Dalbec in his last 54 PAs .595 Dalbec this year .188 Santana last 27 PAs .530 Santana this year Chavis is no savior, but if he can just hit .650, it would be a big plus. I also think he has the potential to hit .750 to .780.

Stallings has turned into a decent catcher and has 3 years of control left. Putting aside the whole idea of drafting for position with the #1 pick, which hardly anyone advocates, I'm not even sure that's their highest area of need- long-term. BTV also has their 10th highest valued prospect listed as a catcher (Rodriguez). If they really need a young catcher, maybe we can trade them Ronaldo Hernandez for Adam Frazier (.864) with 1 more year of team control and Cole Tucker (OF). Then, we can draft Davis at 4.

Maybe we could trade him straight up for that guy named Beni, who plays for the Royals.

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Will do, my man. Will do.

Boone is a genius. Extend him, now!