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Brez wanted Devers to play 1B, and he never did. We know that, for sure. Either Devers refused, or Cora was too chicken to ask/tell him too. Okay, okay, Cora loves his players and never wanted Devers at 1B, this year, so he just followed his golden heart. It must be that Brez was too chicken to tell Cora to tell Devers to play 1B. (My head is spinning.)

We aren't getting Peralta for Bleis & Cespedes, even if we add Sandlin & Mullins.

27% (23 out of 85 games) or 28% of all PAs, this season. I'm fine with the platoon of Abreu .832 v R and Refsnyder ,972 v L. BTW, we could play Abreu FT and platoon Duran, instead. vs LHPs: .606 Abreu (.219 BA, since that is what you like) .547 Duran (.213 BA)

I can't wait!

That was kinda the point I was getting at. I think Bregman is a great team leader type. I'd try hard to extend him to 2-3 years, but I'd go 4-5, if needed to keep him here. I like Rafaela, Narvaez, Mayer, Anthony, Abreu and Romy. Refsnyder might retire, but I'd bring him back for one more, if he wants to. Story and Yoshida are about as untradeable as can be. I don't think either is a cancer in the clubhouse, so we probably keep them around. I think Duran is the most likely big-named player to be traded, perhaps this deadline for prospects or longer controlled a younger player(s.). Wong, DHam and Grissom are all tradeable, but none will bring back any real value. I'm not sure what to think of KC, but I'm certainly not ready to give up on him. We do need to give up something for something good, so we may have to decide on some young players to trade. Our pitchers are either one and dones or all worth keeping in hopes a few improve. The only ones I'd trade, beyond the soon-to-be FAs are Kelly and maybe Guerrero and Fitts, but I'd hope the return would be for better pitching.

Only 5 pitchers in our whole farm system have pitched more innings with a lower ERA: 2.17 Early 1.84 Rivera 1.97 Mullins 2.27 Criswell (not a prospect) 2.44 Sansone 3.14 Holobetz

Do all our players need to go?

We have more hits and less errors in this game. BB's 0 by Sox batters 4 by Jays batters

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Schreiber, too. Nick Robertson? Chase Shugart? I could go on....

Newcomb's doing better than Priester. What about him, too?

You guys think Cora is dumb. Why bring in a lefty to pitch to Romy?

You forget, we got the great pitching prospect back in that deal, too: John Holobetz.

A little Burdi must be almost ready to be activated. We also have our own 3 H club: Houck, Harrison & Hicks.

or, to insure we sell not buy.

It's time to try anyone else in Kelly's 26 man roster slot.

Your optimism is unending.

How many guys has Narvaez picked off?

I spoke too soon. He ends up walking the next sub .600 batter to load up the bases- then walks the #9 batter. Hey Max, does he have enough BBs, now?

Max, 2 HRs in the first inning sucks. There is no spinning that fact.

Another sub .600 batter burns us. At least we didn't walk him with the bases loaded. Geeesh!

If you were talking 2020 to 2024, I'd agree, but last winter saw a significant uptick in spending. Of course, if you subtract the Devers trade, which makes a sense, it wipes it out, but the fact is, we are still over the tax line. That's not getting cheaper. This winter's spending budget will be telling on our spending trend.

We will not get Peralta without giving back serious quality. Painter will likely cost us 2-3 high level prospects: if not two from Anthony, Mayer, KC and Garcia, at least one plus one or two from Arias, Bleis, Cespedes, Tolle, Clarke or Valera.

KC has been walking a lot at WOO. I doubt he gets walked in MLB, upon his return. He's 5 for 18 at WOO, since his demotion. He has 7 BBs in those 6 games. Is that enough to earn a trip back? I'm not saying no, and the way DHam is hitting, I can see the reasoning, but the L-R thing looms large and Sogard is the comp to look at there. He's at 1.000 in the last week.

You really want to give up multiple top prospects for a rental and unknown?