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I'm fine with 2-2-1-1-1, but no day off between all the single games. Play game 4 and 5 in the afternoon and game 6 and 7 at night. (No day off between 5 and 6)

He also said the Yanks "can't hit Keuchel."

I've seen him in person, but he was over 50, so maybe he had shrunk by then. (I'm just under 5-11 and he looked more than an inch shorter than I am.)

Sox prospects.com reports that Jeremy Barfield says he has re-signed with the Sox. He's the guy who hit 9 HRs in 13 games and 27 in 92 games after coming to the Sox farm system from my hometown Sugar Land Skeeters (Independent League). Read more about their choices of the farm's top players by position: http://news.soxprospects.com/2017/10/2017-soxprospectscom-all-stars.html Here are the award winners... http://news.soxprospects.com/2017/10/soxprospectscom-2017-season-end-award.html

Maybe 5-9 1/2

On Stanton... Jason Martinez from the MLBTR chat, doesn't seem to think the Marlins will get much for Stanton, if the team takes all the salary. Here's the exchange: 6:01 What do you think is realistic for the marlins to expect back if they take on none of Stanton's salary? Jason Martinez: 6:02 Even if they can clear the entire salary, I have to think they'd land at least one Top 50 prospect. This is why I don't think the Giants have any chance. Baseball America has these big spending teams top ranked prospects listed like this... (mid-season) NYY 3 G Torres 36 B Rutherford 49 C Frazier 56 C Adams 71 E Florial 73 J Sheffield BOS 6 Devers 87 Groome 96 Chavez LAD 17 W Buehler 35 A Verdugo 60 Y Alvarez 74 W Calhoun SFG 86 C Shaw Cubs none It looks like a 3 team race, if it comes down to money and top prospects: the Yanks, Dodgers and Sox. Note: MLB.com has Groome at #42 and Chavis at #92.

I was young, too, and Yaz was pretty old.

Pedroia 6743 career PAs When he swings at and puts the ball in play, his OPS is .. .860 in just 367 PAs (under 5% of first pitches) He has 3474 PAs with on 0-1 count, so we can surmise he swung and missed or took the first pitch for a strike 53% of the time. He took the first pitch for a ball 2902 times 43% of the time. Once he goes to 1-0, he ends up at a .916 OPS. Once he goes to 0-2, he ends up at a .716 OPS. You can't just look at his numbers with an 0-0 count. By taking the first pitch so often, he sets in motion another dynamic that has to be figured into the data, not just the .860 OPS when he rarely decides to swing AND makes contact. Look at it this way, when the first pitch is throw for a strike (called or swung at) or swung at and put in play, Pedey puts the ball in play for just 11% of those incidents 367/3841 or less than 10% of the time. (367+3474=3841) I'm no math expert, so correct me, if I am wrong.

He could work out well here. He was only in TB one year, another diamond in the ruff career year by the Rays.

If Miami takes Bogey, it will be to flip him. Same with JBJ. I'm not sure I'd give both, as I'm not sure we can fill both holes plus 1B/DH and SP'er. Assuming they find a team to flip a B to, I'd offer 4... Bogey or JBJ Chavis, Travis or Ockimey Groome or Mata Houck, Beeks, Scherff, Brannen or Shawaryn (last resort, add Flores to this list) If they want Holt, Swihart, Marrero

fangraphs has updated its 40 man roster and option totals. Here's the low down... Zero Options Rutledge Swihart Marrero Johnson Hembree Leon Vazquez Pomeranz One Option (no player permission needed) Elias Workman Thornburg JBJ One Options (needs player permission) Holt Two Options Hernandez Scott Ross Velazquez Taylor Lin Maddox Travis Barnes C Smith ERod Price Kimbrel Betts Three Options Sale Bogaerts Devers Benintendi

My hope is he can be a useful utility player who can be a serviceable 3rd catcher. This would allow us to Ph for our catchers without worry of a later injury. If he can play LF, C and maybe a c orner IF position (or two), he'd be valuable to us or another team. First, he has to show he is over the injury and can hit well. He's out of options, so it's basically now or never for the Sox & Swi.

I'd add the promising Flores as well.

Scott was out for the rest of the year, so there's no "tipping his hand" argument to make. Our opponents could not possibly gain any advantage by knowing or not knowing. I'm not sure about a direct quote, but it appears in these two articles from MLBTR: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/10/red-sox-notes-scott-gardenhire-ausmus-swihart.html As several have pointed out (including CSN New England’s Evan Drellich, on Twitter), it’s rather confounding that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told the media just yesterday that he wasn’t aware of any Sox players that required offseason surgery on the very day on which Scott was undergoing this procedure. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/10/hanley-ramirez-undergoes-shoulder-surgery.html Shoulder issues plagued Ramirez throughout the season, but he had not previously given any indication that he was set to go under the knife, as Rob Bradford of WEEI.com notes on Twitter. And president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said less than a week ago that he was not aware of any players who’d need surgery. (Of course, it was later announced that lefty Robby Scott underwent a procedure that very day.) It's not a big deal to me. It's certainly not even close to a fireable event. It does seem a bit absurd to me that a GM either... 1) did not know 3 of his players were getting surgery, including one on the day he said it. 2) lied about players needing surgery for no possible reason. 3) nobody told him, and there is a major communication problem between the GM and medical staff. I'm not sure which one of these answers make him look best... maybe #2? Again, it's not a big deal. There's just not much else to talk about with the Sox at this moment.

I'm fine with any reason given. I just think it's absurd for a GM to not know it or forget it.

Tipping his hand on Scott? Absurd.

Why don't you tell me why you think it's not absurd for a GM to know one of his players is having surgery and two more will be shortly. I think my position does not need explaining any more.

Yea, probably, but it was pretty absurd.

Cozart or trade for the next Didi Gee.

To me, Hosmer is not someone I dream of. He's more a nightmare to me. He'll likely get 4 years. That's signing up for 4 years of mediocrity from a position most known for power and offense- something we need badly this winter. 25 HRs over the last two years is fine, but that's about what we got from Moreland for just $5.5M and 1 year. We need better. We must do better than Hoze.

The thing that gets me is that apparently one major reason he fired JF was because of faulty communication. What kind of communication is DD having with his medical staff? "The buck stops here," is apparently not something DD aspires towards. (Note: I am not even close to calling for DD's firing.)

I read somewhere Pedey will not have surgery. His issue cannot be corrected any further by more surgery. Nunez is a FA, so it's not really our problem, unless we choose to make it so.

I'm not for trading Porcello.

I hope it's either good or bad- not in between. If he comes back strong, hurrah! If he never comes back, we save $22M in 2019. Just don't repeat 2015 or 2017!

That hardly ever works, but I'm all ears. I'd say no to this.... Porcello (21M x 2) Pedey ($56M/4 and $12.5M a year on luxury budget) Total: $98M (Luxury: $33.5M) for AGon ($21.5M x 1) Scott Kazmir, assuming he passes a physical- ($16M x 1) Total: $37.5M (Luxury: $38M) -- OR-- AGon ($21.5M) & Brandon McCarthy ($10M) Tot$31.5M (Luxury: $34M)