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Sale is going to be electric. Leon & Devers are going to be heroic.

I'm not concerned. Sox pitchers vs LHBs .610 Kelly and conned ways .631 Kimbrel and bits .643 Barnes and noble .647 Brasier burger .670 Workman's comp .670 Wright brothers .424 Sale as in freakin' .672 Price is right .691 ERod n nod .727 Porcello & Mortadella .733 Eovaldi & I got nothin' Note: .420 Poyner .551 Hembree .665 Johnson

Maybe he's our designated beaner.

Back-to-back Jacks!

Agreed.

He's a Yankee killer. He got the rest he needed. He's the man!

Tiny sample sizes for the most part- small otherwise. 1.448 Pearce (29 PAs w Sox) 1.245 Betts (79) .971 Beni (74) .964 JDM (79) .761 JBJ (59) .755 Leon (33) .729 Moreland (50) .690 Nunez (64) .661 Kinsler (28 w Sox) .515 Devers (52 but killed 'em last year) .346 Vaz 1.462 Voit (24) 1.123 Stanton (78) 1.096 Judge (61) 1.015 Sanchez (44) .889 Hicks (67) .879 McCutchen (24) .751 Walker (31) .733 Torres .687 Andujar (72) .632 Gardner (59) .512 Didi (75)

Didi is playing hurt, Voit's sample size is too tiny.

Makes sense with Sale & Price going game 1 & 2. Leon is not as great with our pen, so once the starter is removed, we may PH even with a lead. It's nice having Swihart as a 3rd catcher, so we can do this more easily.

Bregman is a tough cookie!

Bases loaded- bottom of the 7th, I'm not sure I'd feel all that great seeing Poyner come in, anyways.

Oh, I missed it. So, Kelly in- Hembree out. Wright and Workman in. 3 catchers as I hoped. I like it.

Could we get Carrasco for JBJ and 2 or 3 from Johnson, Velazquez, Chavis or Ockimey? Would that plus signing Martin, Allen and Familia and adding Carrasco makes us better than this year? (No Kimbrel, Kelly or JBJ)

(Again, I'm for keeping JBJ, but there is reason to think about a trade.)

Leonys Martin. Isn't Carrasco & Martin > JBJ & Brian Johnson? Granted, we'll have to give more than JBJ and maybe martin costs more than JBJ next year, but that should be close.

I'd replace Kelly with Poyner, but I agree, this one is most likely.

The moral of story is don't mess with... CHRIS FREAKIN' SALE !

I don't think signing Cody Allen, Pearce and a solid set-up man is "complacent." I'm going on the assumption that we may have a budget about $35-39.9M over the luxury limit. That might allow for us to fill high priority needs with free agents and minor trades only. If we lose, all bets are off, and I think Henry will spend what is needed to make us the favorites for 2019. I'm just not sure trading JBJ helps us, unless he's part of a package for someone like Carrasco AND DD signs a capable CF'er who will not be a (big) drop off from JBJ. I don't disagree that it might happen, but I think the chances are much higher after 2019. If we win this year, we may look to retool and reset the tax, and maybe he could be dealt, so we can keep Betts or Bogey or both.

OPS by Slot BOS NYY 1. 1.028 > .786 2. .759 3. .871 > .719 4. .968 > .957 5. .796 > .775 6. .684 7. .667 8. .607 9. .704 > .702 Big differences in RED

Not asking too much at all. Feel the breeze from all the brooms!

Thanks. The downside is the chance we go down 3-0 and then have to wonder about bringing in Sale or not, or maybe bringing him in during an inning. I agree, if Wright gives us 2 solid innings, Sale could benefit from coming in after him to start the 3rd inning, but I think Kimbrel might need the "residual" help more than Sale. I don't think your idea is a bad one, but I would not want to try it for the first time at this point in the season.

I'm not sure we have a lot of high priority slots to fill other than closer. We will have a need for set-up pitching and maybe 2B or 1B vs LHPs, but we may have enough budget space to fill all these needs without making a major trade. I can see us trading JBJ after 2019. We will be facing a much tougher budget, and JBJ will be going into his final arb year. Maybe we sign Cody Allen, Pearce and a solid set-up man and roll the dice. We can make an in season trade or two, if needed.

Here are some 2018 numbers we can hope to improve on next year... Listed in order of most PAs .717 JBJ 535 PAs- hopefully he can stay near .800 all 2019. .677 Nunez 502- maybe give us .750 next year .731 Devers 490- give us more PAs and .800+ .758 Moreland 459- last year we blamed the toe for the second half swoon. .511 Leon 288- That's about as low as anyone can go and still play a lot. .540 Vaz 269- More PAs and maybe closer to 2017's .735 would be nice .613 Swihart 207- Needs to hit better to play more. .708 HRam 195- Must all be replaced .901 Pearce 165- One area we need to replace in kind .604 Kinsler 143- Replacing the offense is easy- the defense, not so much (Pedey?) .744 Lin 73- not likely he improves on this .652 Travis 38/ .520 Phillips 27/ .322 Pedey 13- We'll see. On the pitching side... 4.17 Johnson (99IP)- Some hope here 3.18 Velazquez 85- Hard to imagine a big improvement, except maybe with IP'd. 6.08 Pomeranz 74- Yipee! 4.39 Kelly 66- Not that hard to improve on 2.74 Kimbrel 62- This is priority #1. 3.65 Barnes 62- I'm hopeful here. 4.20 Hembree 60- Could see a gain here. 3.33 Eovaldi 54- Maybe Wright, Johnson and Velazquez can replace him. 3.27 Workman 41 - Maybe more innings next year 1.60 Brasier 34- Probably less quality but more quantity of IP'd. 5.63 Thornburg 24- Huge disappointing season. 3.22 Poyner 22- More innings expected here 7.41 Cuevas 17- maybe let go for rule 5's or free agents 3.69 Walden 15- Hard to know. 3.77 Smith 14- arb cost might force non-tender. 8.10 Scott 7- Hard to know. (No Beeks 12.79 in 6.1 IP)

Who plays less, so Swi plays more?

They are really good, and maybe CLE, but to me, HOU is better, on paper.