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  1. moonslav59
    Buehler and Houck (and Newcomb and Fitts and ...)
  2. moonslav59
    I hear you. That stretch after the ASB and beyond the trade deadline is as tough as can be, so I still think we should be as best positioned as possible by then. but we could say the same if the two stretches were reversed.
  3. moonslav59
    Someone like Mitch Keller might eb available, as his pay goes up and out of PIT's reach, soon, but he's not an impact starter. If they added Bednar, who has one arb year left, maybe we could make it worth their while. We need to find controllable guys, who might be high end on salary for teams looking to trim salary, but they have to be good players, who rate to still be good over the rest of their contract. How many guys/teams like that are there? Even if TEX turns seller, they won't trade Nate. If STL turns seller, there is still Arenado (3B until Breg returns then 1B?) and Sonny Gray? Helsley is a rental, but we have Chapman. Willson Contreras is a salary dump, who now plays 1B and could be our 3rd catcher (2nd? Hmmmm.) MIN won't trade Lopez. Maybe Cincy parts with a Sp'er, if we take on Candelario, who I'm not even sure is healthy or can play 3B/1B. Any other ideas like this?
  4. moonslav59
    I'm not sure he will be Schwarber '21 cheap, but I'm okay with rentals, if they don't cost us Arias, Tolle, Clarke of any higher ranked prospects. Bleis for Ozuna? Sure. Cespedes? Probably. Mullins & Jordan? Probably.
  5. moonslav59
    Huh? Saying a guy was indecisive is not praise. Pointing out how he missed on just about every major signing, several times, is not praise. The only thing he did well was build up the farm, which was made easier when you finish in last place, so often and you trade players for prospects and get comp picks for letting all your stars walk.
  6. moonslav59
    .757 is borderline elite, these days... LOL! He's got 37 HRs in his last 680 ABs, If he stinks, then we can get him for peanuts.
  7. moonslav59
    You think he'd be selected, if not protected? We do have a pretty full OF, even 2 years from now, and Jh Garcia is in front of Bleis. (Cespedes and KC may end up in the OF, too.) I could see Bleis included in a deadline trade.
  8. moonslav59
    SEA wouldn't take Nav, KC, Masas and $5M a year for Cal.
  9. moonslav59
    We could have traded Casas, but I think we insisted on including Masa without enough cash going the other way. I can't remember all the trade suggestions I made to SEA, many involving taking back salary like Garver's and or Haniger's to help balance out Masa. I think one was Masa, Casas & Abreu for Woo plus their two salary dumps. I think the main talk was Masa & Casas for Castillo and his big contract, but SEA did not want Masa, or maybe they wanted us to pay way more cash than we wanted to include. I'm not sure what else was out there. I tried things like Masa and ___ for Arenado, but not Casas.
  10. moonslav59
    Bloom, and it's not even a close call. Grissom wilted. Gio wilted. Sale was grafted onto Jack's beanstalk.
  11. moonslav59
    Depends on a lot of things. Trades. We could trade for O'hearn or Hoskins and play Romy/Toro at 2B. (DHam when Toro is at 3B, but that is not an optimistic sight to see.) KC's play in AAA. How well the guy(s) playing 2B do from now until AUG 1st.
  12. moonslav59
    Good point, but I just don't like the idea of trading for a rental. Now, getting out from under a big chunk of Story's contract has real appeal. Opening up SS for Mayer, does, too, but the idea made much better sense, when we viewed Campbell as our FT 2Bman. Now, Story looks better there. Romero is to iffy. Arias is too far away. Cespedes might be worse on D than Campbell. Romy/DHam does not have much umf. If we got a 1Bman, I'm not sure Romy/Toro at 2B does either.
  13. moonslav59
    Nice article. You don't see a whole lot of sideways trades at the deadline (Vet for vet) but maybe we trade Duran or Abreu for a 1Bman and RP'er. A team like MIL might part with Hoskins for something other than prospects. (Note: I'm not for trading multiple years of Duran or Abreu for a rental 1Bman... or rental anything. I could see us trading one for a controllable player that fills a weak position.)
  14. moonslav59
    What's the over/under on Devers BBs? 7?
  15. moonslav59
    Maybe with communication skills, but Brez is bold: Bloom was timid and indecisive. Bloom wilted under pressure.
  16. moonslav59
    It's Kristian with a "K." I only bring that up over the grief you gave me for calling Tyler "O'Neal." This is about winning, now, but also about having KC play everyday. He'll be back. I doubt he's the next Grissom.
  17. moonslav59
    I'm wondering if the ask for Eldridge ever progressed to us offering back a lower ranked prospect with Devers.... like Devers plus Mullins & Romero for Eldridge & Hicks. (No Harrison or Tibbs.) It would have probably taken more...like Bleis & Cespedes or Sandlin.
  18. moonslav59
    Well, we can't call Brez a wimp. The guy is bold and decisive, but still carries the Sox torch on miscommunication and botched personal relationships. What baffles me is that we are so dysfunctional that apparently nobody ever sat down one on one and even asked Devers to play 1B. (Telling him to, would have been better than what we did.)
  19. moonslav59
    I meant to put Paez in BOLD. I did put Hickey and Drohan in BOLD, but do not think they will be protected. I doubt Monegro is, either. I don't see a big roster crunch, this winter, but maybe that is based on my hopes that we spend all our winter budget on 2-3 players and not 4-5 or 6. Mullins is a close call, to me. I know Bleis is kinda far away, but you don't see any chance we protect him? I can see us trading Jordan & Monegro.
  20. moonslav59
    Yes, I meant that, but I did mistakenly say Brez talked to Devers. My bad. The only "talk" was, sadly, through the media. Do these guys ever learn anything? They keep rinse and repeating the same mistakes.
  21. moonslav59
    Trades for longer term players are usually made in the winter. They are usually less expensive, too.
  22. moonslav59
    We have to take one game at a time, and the team can't look beyond the next game, but we can. We absolutely have to make our move, right now. No game is easy, but the games we have scheduled up to the ASB are ones we can and have to win. The games after will test us about as much as one could imagine. Games before ASB: 3 @ SFG 3 @ LAA 3 v TOR 3 v CIN 3 @ WSH 3 v COL 3 v TBR We have 6 games vs the two ALE teams ahead of us, plus these next 3 vs a very good SFG team. The other 12 are games we must and should win each series. (8-4) If we can go 5-4 in the tough ones and 8-4 in the others, we can probably be sitting pretty well going into this brutal post ASB stretch: 3 @ CHC 3 @ PHI 3 v LAD 3 @ MIN 3 v HOU (Trade deadline before game 1) 3 v KCR 3 @ SDP 3 @ HOU This is 8 straight series vs good to very good teams.
  23. moonslav59
    Jh Garcia might be my #2 or 3 by November.
  24. moonslav59
    Soxprospects.com has... 3. Arias 4. Perales 5. Tolle 6. Valera 7. Jh Garcia 9. Romero 10. Clarke 11. Early 12. Sandlin 13. Bleis 14. Cespedes 15. Gonzales (1. Anthony, 2. Mayer, 8. Dobbins will graduate.)
  25. moonslav59
    Detroit kinda stands alone atop the AL at 48-27. The next 11 teams are within 7.5 games of each other. 43-31 HOU ALW leader 43-31 NYY ALE leader WC 41-33 TBR +3.5 on #7 40-34 TOR +2.5 on #7 39-37 BOS +0.5 on #7 37-36 CLE -0.5 37-36 SEA -0.5 37-37 MIN -1.0 37-38 KCR -1.5 36-38 LAA -2.0 36-39 TEX -2.5 (Even BAL is still "in it" at -6.5)
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