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  1. moonslav59
    He can offer enough to help him decide to stay.
  2. moonslav59
    It's highly unlikely but possible, IMO. It's not as complicated as it looks.
  3. moonslav59
    I'm glad our GM doesn't use the recent one month sample size to decide.
  4. moonslav59
    Skenes is still pre-arb, so it's likely impossible to get him, but maybe someone can be wow'd enough. I don't see Alcantara as "the one," but a couple years ago many felt he was going to be great. Joe Ryan is 29, but that's too close to 30. He won't take as much to get, so maybe he's the best we can realistically hope for. Maybe this time, we trade for a younger everyday player?
  5. moonslav59
    i could see the team risking going into the 2026 season with the idea that Jh Garcia RHB, Campbell RHB, Yoshida LHB and maybe Ref RHB could combine to fill the LF position well. Rafaela in CF and Anthony in RF. (Duran & Abreu traded for pitching and infield help.) I'm not saying I'm for this, but it is a viable option.
  6. moonslav59
    I don't believe this. That's Max. My point is that the money we spent on Breg was offset (and then some) by the Devers dump, so we are back at square one in needing to see JH commit to long term spending bigly. If Bregman bolts, he'll have two contracts to "make up" for. As always, I'll believe it when I see it. I'm not predicting he won't spend, but I'll wait it out.
  7. moonslav59
    I've come to believe that, too. I'll still think it's a bad trade, if we don't spend the "money saved."
  8. moonslav59
    Maybe they wanted Mayer and we settled on Teel. I hope we make another Crochet type deal, this winter.
  9. moonslav59
    Me, too. On Masa, how much do we have to pay to trade him for no return? He's owed $37.2M/2 (AAV $18M x 2.) My guess is we'd have to pay $26-29M. Basically, we'd save about $4-6M on a deal like this.
  10. moonslav59
    I said that for years. Devers to 1B, Casas to DH. Yoshida to another team, if possible. If Devers stayed in BOS, it might have been at 1B during the Yankee series.
  11. moonslav59
    He could easily be in the pen to start the season.
  12. moonslav59
    Wait, he wasn't traded?
  13. moonslav59
    Well, he wasn't staying as the DH. Brez made that as clear as day.
  14. moonslav59
    Agreed. No Tucker. No Alonso or Schwarber, either. Bregman was a bit of a surprise, but he was shorter term, and we ended dumping the Devers contract, so the "spending more" is still very much in the air. I do think we make a big trade- maybe two, probably for a #2 SP'er but maybe also a 3Bman, 2Bman or 1Bman. Maybe sign 1-2 mid level guys like Merrill Kelly, G Torres or Hoskins.
  15. moonslav59
    The idea was to play him at 1B, if he stayed.
  16. moonslav59
    I'd say Harrison or Fitts. Criswell might not have much return value. Kelly, Guerrero, Murphy...
  17. moonslav59
    Doesn't Casas seem like an obvious match for Diaz?
  18. moonslav59
    True! Maybe with a bad throw, too.
  19. moonslav59
    The metrics do point to about even on D from 2024 to 2025, but it seemed better to me: 4 much better by observations: 3B: Bregman> Devers SS: Story> Rafaela, DHam C: Narvaez, Wong> Wong, McGuire, Jansen CF: Rafaela, Duran < Duran>Rafaela 4 Close to equal: RF: Abreu, Anthony, Ref =Abreu, Anthony, Ref-Eaton LF: Duran (Anthony)=>Duran, O'Neill, Ref 1B: Toro, Romy, Lowe, Casas=>DSmith, Casas, Dalbec, Romy-Cooper 2B: KCampbell, DHam, Romy, Rafaela= EValdez, DHam, Grissom, Romy-Westbrook
  20. moonslav59
    The only way they sign Tucker is if they trade Duran AND Abreu. Both have high trade value but also serious flaws that have been pointed out endlessly. I doubt we go this route. Instead, we need a 3Bman (Breggie or Mayer?) and 1Bman. I'd add 2B, but Mayer could play 2B or 3B. We need a replacement for Gio beyond returning guys like Crawford, Sandoval & Dobbins. 32 Huge needs- maybe 4. Losing Bregman and Devers' contracts should help, but we have lost of extensions kicking in, including Crochet's & Anthony's. We have trade pieces to fill 1 or 2 of these needs, so the money spent need not be too enormous for JH to handle, but with him, one never knows.
  21. moonslav59
    The Rays constantly trade players as they start to make more money. I'd say the odds are 95% he's a goner. I think they'll get better than DHam for him. They might get better than DHam plus Sandlin or Mullins, if they survive the Rule 5 draft, or they'd probably want Sandlin before Rule 5, too. Their 40 man is not as "tight" was ours. Pete Fairbanks has a $7M club option with $1M buyout. How about Casas, Sandlin and DHam for Fairbanks and Yandy? (I might even add a non 40 man roster prospect like YRod, Bleis, Cespedes or Castro.)
  22. moonslav59
    All true, but I asked if it improved. Average at 3B and SS and up and down at 1B was much better than 2024. Duran was worse. RF was worse. C and 2B were better. Overall, we improved a lot from 2023 and a little from 2024. We still have more to go.
  23. moonslav59
    That nailed it.
  24. moonslav59
    Do you not think our D improved? I've said all along, we allow too many unearned runs and make too many baserunning mistakes. I'm not saying we fixed the problems, but this defense is way better than 2023 and better than 2024. Now, we may lose Bregman, and maybe Casas will be back at 1B. We may get worse, next year, especially if we trade Abreu or Rafaela over Duran.
  25. moonslav59
    Abreu is moving in the right direction with his splits v L. He's less expensive and has one more year of control. He's way better on D and plays Fenway's difficult RF very well. I'm back to choosing Duran as the OF'er we should trade- not because I do not like him, but because I think he'll bring back what we need. (He'd be part of a bigger package.)
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