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15 days might be just about what Wright needed to be at 100% or so. It doesn't hurt. I guess we'll see Velazquez game 5.

I guess their trying to go from 3 HRs a year to 5.

Wright should hit 3rd- studies show the worst hitter should go there!

I'd have chosen the ranges like this: 81-90 91-92 93-94 95-96 97-98 99-100 101-102 103-104 105+

With Wright as the DH? Brilliant!

Look at some Sox numbers over these player's first 3-4 years... OPS Betts: .812-.820-.897- .803 Bogey: .660-.776-.802-.746 JBJ: .531- .832- .835- .726 (All three showed a significant drop off after three straight improving seasons. It's more like "Senior slump".) Pedey:.823- .869- .819 Beni: .835- .776 (1st season was only 118 PAs)

Everytime he has a window to show what he's got, he's out hurt himself.

Also, Nunez and Pedey are bot better hitters than Swihart and JBJ.

lol!

Yes, of course. I would not trade Holt. We won't get much in return, for one thing, and we may need him later. Any recent word on Marco?

We don't have deep ML ready minor league depth, but I like our immediate depth at each position. C: Leon and Swihart both on the ML roster gives us immediate catcher depth few teams have. 1B: With HRam and Moreland sharing duty, one can move to FT, if the other is injured with very little drop off. Then, we have Swihart & Travis in the wings. 2B: We might have the best back-up 2Bman in MLB in Nunez. We're super deep here beyond that with Marrero/Holt. Marco, Lin and Quiroz. 3B: Once Pedey returns, we'll have Nunez as the back-up here, again an excellent sub. After Nunez, we have Marco, Marrero, Holt and Lin with maybe Chavis ready by August. SS: Nunez is not the best SS on defense, by far, but he swings a good bat. Beyond him, we have Hernandez, Marrero, Holt and Lin. OF: Our OF depth is not great, but we can put JD in the OF and play HRam and Moreland or use Nunez at DH. That's pretty good. We also have a bunch of guys who aren't really true OF'er, but they can play LF pretty well: Nunez, Swihart and Holt. We can also use Moreland in a pinch. I like our depth now, but down the road, not so much.

I'm not so sure we'll need him. If there's an OF'er injury, we'll use JDM, Swihart and when Pedey is back, Nunez. If a 1Bman gets hurt, we have Moreland or HRam and would probably call up Travis or use Swihart before Holt there. If Pedey returns, Nunez will push Marrero of the roster, unless there's another IF injury, whereby Marrero stays and Holt remains in AAA. If an IF'er gets hurt before Pedey returns, then yes, Holt would and should get the call up over Lin or Chavis. There just this one specific scenario within a specific time frame (Before Pedey's return) where Holt gets called up over someone else, IMO.

Exactly, and even if he returns to the .727 hitter he was in his all star season, who is he ever going to PH for? If we won't use him for his better- than- normal utility IF'er offense, we certainly won't use him for defense! His only real value is his ability to fill-in (notice I did not say play) at 8 positions. This allows a manager to "use up" his entire bench as he see fit, knowing he has Holt at the end of the bench "just in case". I'm sorry, but that has little value compared to Swihart, who is likely a better hitter and can catch or Marrero, someone who can actually field better than all of our opening day infielders. There's more value to marrero as a late inning replacement player than to Holt. Just stash Holt in AAA and move on. Once Pedey returns, we'll have Nunez as the guy that can play 7 positions and Swihart who can play 3-4, including the 2 Nunez can't play.

A story on our OF & OF depth... https://www.overthemonster.com/2018/3/21/17145004/red-sox-depth-chart-outfield-mookie-betts-jd-martinez-andrew-benintendi-jackie-bradley-cole-brannen A story on the IF & IF depth... https://www.overthemonster.com/2018/3/20/17140572/red-sox-depth-chart-infield-brock-holt-deven-marrero-xander-bogaerts-rafael-devers

Yeah, we really need another injured pitcher right now.

Don't know- don't care. I think he's hurt.

Based on like 8 IP in ST'ing games? Wow! You are harsh!

Balance.

ST'ing ERA (6+ IP) Starters in Red 0.69 Walden 0.96 Poyner 1.08 Hembree 1.29 Barnes 2.00 Price 2.25 Smith 2.45 Johnson 2.77 Haley 3.21 Sale 3.55 Elias (1 GS) 4.91 Porcello 5.68 Kelly 6.23 Workman 6.75 Velazquez 8.53 Scott 9.00 FRod

ST'ing OPS leaders (20+ ABs): 1.263 Beni 1.038 Devers (If these two have break out seasons, watch out!) .960 Bogey .941 Betts (Did I hear someone worrying about these two?) .925 Vaz (Was this all from one big game?) .920 Holt (Prove me an idiot, Brock! I dare you!) .911 Leon (Did someone say DFA Leon?) .908 Travis (Nice to see the power we all have hoped would come.) .886 Swihart (Looking like a lock for the 25 man roster more and more.) .859 de Jesus .763 Moreland .749 JD M .730 HRam .700 Tavarez (Ho hum) .623 Marrero (Doubled is OPS in the last few games) .610 de la Guerra .569 JBJ (Getting his slump out of the way early.) .399 Lin (Lost his chance for the opening day 25.) .336 Selsky

Yes. I don't see us as being below average at any position, although we might end up there at 1B-maybe catcher by year end WAR numbers that don't count how well a catcher gets the most from the staff he catches. We look to have a nice top 3-4 starting pitchers, which helps for the post season. We have a great closer. I thought our offense would improve even before we signed JD, so I like our O. Our OF defense is great. Only our infield defense looks like a clear negative, but I think we can overcome it. Our pen depth looks good, but it's always somewhat of a roll of the dice.

Awesome. I think I was on my couch.

He did make over $4M in MLB-- not that it guarantees happiness in life.

I'd probably give Wright 2-3 more starts before calling him up.

The men's room?