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Come on, dude, thinking of using trash cans is pure genius!

Narvaez had decent numbers on the farm and actually saw his OBP improve from A+ to AA to AAA. His AA sample size is tiny, and his SLG improved from A+ to AAA. His AAA sample size is 762 PAs, and he was largely viewed as a "defensive first catcher," but maybe the short-changed his offense profile. A .371 OBP is very nice and his winter ball numbers (90 PAs) were off the charts good. While OBP is hard to translate to the bigs, sometimes it does. Narvaez has a .315 OBP, this year, which is not great or even good, but it's not horrific for a first year catcher. Now, about his power: his A+ SLG was .391 and his AAA was .400. Neither is great and might indicate that his .426 MLB SLG is not to be something we can expect going forward. Nevertheless, his MLB sample size is now over 420 PAs. He hit 21 HRs and 33 2Bs in 762 PAs, which comes to about 19 HRs and 26 2Bs per 660 PAs. That's not great either, but it's pretty good, and for a catcher, it's pretty decent. In 2025, within the context of catchers in MLB, he is currently ranked out of 34 Catchers with 250+ PAs... 2nd DRS +12 9th in fWAR at 2.9 10th in ISO at .184 14th in OPS at .746 (16th in OBP and 11th in SLG) 14th in wRC+ at 102 He's certainly been a top tier catcher (top 15 out of 30.) One could argue he's top 10 out of 30 FT Catchers. The MLB league averages for catchers are... -3 DRS .307 OBP .394 SLG .701 OPS .156 ISO (This counts all back up catchers.)

Things are a lot tighter than we wanted. The Guardians actually have a shot to catch DET for the ALC division title, but either way, our top competition is CLE or maybe DET, SEA or NYY. The Yanks play tonight, but all other meaningful games are over, today. Here is the breakdown: 85-67 NYY (WC1) 85-68 DET (ALC or WC2) 84-69 HOU (T ALW/WC2, as of now) 84-69 SEA (T ALW/WC2, as of now) 83-70 BOS (WC3, as of now) _____________________ 81-71 CLE -1.5 (1 in loss column) _____________________ 79-74 TEX -4.0 (pretty much out of it) 76-77 KCR -7.0 (hanging by a thread) 75-78 TBR -8.0 (the thread is thin)

Good to know. This way he can stay in AAA as long as needed. Maybe he ends up in the pen, but they probably start him at Woo. Soxprospects.com projects this: MLB: Crochet, ______/Giolito, Bello, Sandoval, Harrison (kinda puzzling) w Criswell in the MLB pen. Crawford & Dobbins are listed as "Inactive." AAA: Tolle, Fitts, Early, Uberstine, Drohan & PB Starters: Perales, Jack Anderson & Isaac Coffey w Sandlin & Mullins in the AAA pen. They project the AA rotation as Holobetz, Wehunt, Paez, Clarke & Aita (E Rivera) w Dean & Rogers in the AA pen. A+: Valera, Fajardo, Witherspoon, Phillips, Eyanson, Tygart & Neely (That's 7) A-: Travieso, J Bello, Y Ruiz, M Patton, D Brown, B Morgan Inactives: Monegro, Duffy, Judice & C Cason Something has to give: some will be moved to the pen, but some may be traded.

I was curious and thought maybe it was a typo. Sorry, Max. We both have been among Cora's stronger supporters.

$156M/6 was HOU's reported offer. That's kinda like what Story got, when you factor inflation. DET supposedly offered him $172.5M/6, so the HOU offer kinda seemed low. I think he might get $150M/6 or $135M/5, this winter- tops.

I agree, but I do not think it will be at 1B. I think they will roll the dice with Casas. I think they will not offer Lowe the arb. They will use Campbell and Romy as depth. Maybe, they get Jh Garcia or Duran to learn how to play 1B, too. I think we'll sign Suarez, if Bregman bolts or trade an OF'er and sign Suarez or Schwarber to DH. That's where we get the big bat. One could argue they have (too much) faith in Mayer at 3B and get the big bat at 1B or DH. Getting Marte for 2B is an option, but he's not really a 40 HR guy.

I think that cat of ours thought she was a dog.

Okay, I thought you were blaming Cora for choosing not to play his best bats, when you said, this.. I think it's pretty obvious that Cora gets the blame for the lack of good hitting on the Sox. He simply didn't play his best guys.

We face a RHP, today and it's a day after night game, so I'm going with Wong as the catcher. He is also belo's binky. 1. Duran 2. Story 3, Bregman 4. Yoshida 5. Lowe 6. Wong 7. DHam 8. Eaton 9. Rafaela

Bregman and Abreu got hurt. Devers got traded. None are Cora's fault. Romy and ref may be among our "best hitters" but not against RHPs, so they should not be playing in 121 games, unless they PH in almost every game they do not start. Narvaez will come close and might have reached 121 had he not gotten hurt. Plus, he'a a catcher and many "FT'ers" get about 120-130. The next guy is DHam at 88 games. Are you saying he should have gotten 121? Anthony not being called up earlier is on Brez not Cora, and the injury is not Cora's fault, either. Too bad your guy, casas, got hurt and didnt get to 121 with an .820 OPS.

We had a cat that would go for walks around the block with our two dogs. She watched them do their duty and learned to go outside, so we did away with cat litter. (We have a dog door to our big fenced in back yard.)

Somebody said Perales is out of options, next year, so there would be some issues, if he's not ready for the bigs. (I guess he could start on the IL.) soxprospects.com has him with 2 options remaining. Anybody know about this?

I agree. If Campbell can play 1B, Casas at DH looks better to me. Romy could play some 1B, 2B and DH vs LHPs and some RHPs, as Mayer, Casas and Lowe are all LHBs and some struggle vs LHPs.

It goes beyond this second half, which is actually just a month. He was horrible for much of the start of 2024 and has shown serious regression since way back in 2019: He had a 157 OPS+ from 2018 to 2019, then... 117 113 134 (not bad in '22 but still far from '18-'19) 122 116 126 2020-2025: 122 He turns 32 at the start of the 2026 season.

At the QO cost, sure. I'm not sure what he gets on the FA market. I'd be interested.

3B would be, and Duran in CF is questionable and a big step down from CR. (Maybe Anthony in CF and Duran in LF would be better.)

I do think Cora is a better communicator, and he has made statements near some past deadlines that give us reason to think he views things with a little more urgency. I'm not sure that is the plus many here seem to think we've lacked from year-to-year. I think Cora would be a plus GM or CBO, or whatever title they give him.

I have two female dogs- 7 and 8, or should I say the two dogs have me. Both are mixes and mid-sized. I could not handle another one.

Houck is out until 2027- his last arb year. Still- pretty awesome depth, when you consider we lost Priester and Buehler and likely Gio. Also, Whitlock and Wink are permanent pen arms, now. Add Perales to the list. (Mullins will probably start 2026 in the WOO pen.)

Post of the Month.

I may be going out on a limb, but Narvaez is a keeper. Wong's D has improved, but he needs to hit over .680-.700 to be barely a plus.

Bregman did not give us the RH's power bat we needed, for sure, but I'm sure glad we did not bring back Mr. IL himself, T.O.... 2025 O'Neill: .205 8 24 (.705 OPS in 180 PAs) Breggie: .272 17 59 (.820 OPS in 459 PAs) $40M is a lot. The one year aspect made it okay, and we would not be where we are today w/o Bregman.

It's a bit uncommon that two vets having a really good season, in their prime, both slump pretty badly at the same time. The weirdest part of it is how epic the Breggie slumps is: .438 OPS for Bregman since AUG 23 (.516 in last 30 days) Gio's "slump" is more about the uptick in BBs: 18 BB in 33.2 IP in the last 30 days. (3.68 FIP) 34 BB in 106.2 IP beforehand, but a 4.33 FIP

Agreed.