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Per Abraham... Per a source, #RedSox 2B Dustin Pedroia had surgery on his left knee at NY Hospital For Special Surgery today. Story soon at @BGlobeSports Per the #RedSox: Pedroia had cartilage restoration surgery. The surgery was described as successful but there is no indication how much of next season he will miss. “Anticipated that Pedroia would return to games in approximately seven months" Pedroia: Steven Wright had the same surgery with the same doctor on May 8. With the early start this the season, Pedroia would miss 50+ games if he turns in that time frame.

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Hopefully, this is the last surgery Pedey needs, and it helps him stay healthy all year long.

Last time I checked, it's our off season now.

Most small sample sizes are skewed one way or the other by one great or bad series.

.801 playoff OPS is not what kept the Nats from ever advancing.

Haley was taken last year, then was returned. I could see Shepherd or Buttrey (maybe Stanki) being protected, then dropped when we sign someone. This might be more likely: Jalen Beeks Danny Mars Justin Haley Kyle Martin Jake Cosart Shepherd or Buttrey

Agreed. If they took HRam plus more prospects, I'd think about it.

While I agree, there are sometimes unique circumstances that over-ride what seems clear as day. Votto wants to stay in Cincy. The fans love him. They are not a real poor team looking to cut salary. He makes them money, despite his huge salary and the percentage of their budget he takes up. It does seem like they do better trading him, but there's more to it than just surface examination.

They had a nice core of cost-controlled players under team control for 3-4 years. They chose to rebuild. It was not a slam-dunk decision. They also have more spending capabilities than a team like Miami.

I was told for years that the CWS were not going to trade Sale, Quintana and others. This was long before the blown-up by the media uniform cutting incident. Quintana was actually my number one choice due to lower salary and one more year of control. I had hoped we'd have saved many of the prospects traded away, so we could have gotten both of those guys plus maybe Abreu. Maybe we'd be without Pom or Kimbrel of maybe even Thornburg (and Groome) if we got lucky.

Yeah. His range is probably too limited for 2B, and turning DPs could be scary. He looks to be a 1B/DH type and emergency 3B back-up type. We nned a 1B/DH, but we cannot trust in him for day one.

Good point. Despite his huge break-out year, players like him are a dime-a-dozen. Give me your priority list, please. I'm all ears.

So true, but that's what people kept telling me when I dreamed of Chris Sale in a Sox uniform.

Could be, but if we sign a 1Bman, it goes down a lot. HRam's ability to play 1B is also a factor, especially if we sign a DH type like JD Martinez. Travis looks like he took a step back last year, so Chavis can certainly leap frog him. I wonder about Chavis at 2B.

Fall League Update: Swihart is 6 for 13 with 5 walks and 2 Ks. He has been catching. Chavis .314/.351/.429 Travis is 4 for 17 with 3 BBs. Brentz is batting .147 in 34 ABs with 1 HR. Chad de la Guerra .235 but has 2 HRs in just 17 ABs. Ty Buttrey 1 ER in 3.1 IP Owens is still wild. Time to DFA the poor kid (7BB in 5IP)

Stop picking on our elders!

Agreed.

I'm thinking the same thing. Same with Betts. We need big years from at least two of these guys: Betts, Beni, Bogey, JBJ or HRam. Only HRam is past prime. If that doesn't happen, we could possibly get a monster year from Devers or something surprising from Pedey or Vaz.

I know about Bird, and I wish he was on our team, but I thought of him, too, when I mentioned several to many Yanks could decline next year like our young and mid-ranged players did this year. (We had no old players.)

I caught a lot of flack for saying I felt the 2917 Sox lacked "fire and desire" as well as "focus". I'm hopeful we see a noticeable difference next year. I think that might be one reason we hired Cora.

I don't think our amount of injuries were that much as compared to the norm. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think we might have been at about the mean for days lost to injury. Players playing hurt is another matter, and it is hard to quantify. Certainly HRam's surgery confirms he was playing hurt, and it was obvious Pedey was, too. The Betts and Bogey injuries seemed real to me. I agree on your basic assessment on where our players will be next year, except for Smith, where you expected "about the same". Unless he misses 4 months, I don't see how he gives us worse than 2017. As for LH'd RP'ers, we have Scott and maybe R Ross, but more importantly, we have several righties that do really well ve LHBs: OPS against .572 Kimbrel .641 Taylot .671 Kelly not bad... .720 Maddox I do think we look for a lefty RP'er, unless we feel Thornburg will be back sooner than some think. We might also make the choice to put Brian Johnson in the pen. However, with the 5th starter in question, keeping Johnson stretched out might make more sense.

DiMaggio .383 Bench: Wally Moses .340 Matt Batts .391 Billy Hitchcock .341 Vern Stephens went crazy after 1948: 1949 .290 39 159* (.391 OBP) 1050 .295 30 144* (.361 OBP) * led MLB The '49 Sox had none of their top 10 PAs guys under a .350 OBP. They had 3 guys over .400 and 5 over .390! 2 guys had 159 RBIs!!!! 1950 was even better! 5 of the top 10 players were over .413! None were under .361. 8 were over .377. 4 guys with 27+ HRs and 2 guys with 144 RBI. Never made the playoffs those 3 years!

Agreed. Improving on Moreland could be a big plus. I think we add one great bat or two really good ones, somehow- someway. More from Devers, Smith, Maddox, Workman and maybe something from Ross and/or Thorburg could be a big plus. No Pablo, Rutledge and a few others is addition by subtraction.

They could experience what we experienced this year: just about very returning player declining, even those at ages of normally seen improvement.