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  1. moonslav59
    Well, Sandoval was pitching in the minors, too. Then, he wasn't. How good will he be, if he does return? Better than D May?
  2. moonslav59
    Until Holobetz wins the Cy Young.... LOL!
  3. moonslav59
    This graphic highlights the deadline failure by Brez. I'm not for firing Brez. He's still been a plus, but those 3 should not be starters for a team on the playoff bubble. Maybe one. Maybe two in a pinch. 3 is sickening. Also, is there zero faith in Harrison?
  4. moonslav59
    Okay. You win.
  5. moonslav59
    I'm fine with the trade, but we haven't won the trade, yet. SF has not lost the trade, yet. When we spend the money, assuming we do, it has to be spent wisely for the trade to be a win. That's two big ifs for the trade to end up being more than even. Now, there are also some ifs that are pluses, if one or two of the players we got back do well. You keep pointing to Devers numbers after the trade and Toro's season numbers. You need to look at Toro's numbers since the trade. Devers would be better at 1B for the Sox than Toro, even now. June 6th>> .692 Devers 4 Hrs and 15 RBI .479 Toro 0Hrs and 5 RBI and a negative DRS at 1B. We have not won the trade, so far. Hicks has sucked. Toro has sucked. The others have yet to play for the Sox. The trade scorecard is TBD, but let's not say we've won it, so far, okay?
  6. moonslav59
    Do we get more for Duran or Abreu, this winter or this past deadline? No way we make one of our 4 OF'ers a DH or 1Bman. We also have Jh Garcia. It's just plain dumb to "hold on" to logjammed talent, when you have a gaping hole in the rotation. In reality, an OF'er trade should have been made, last winter.
  7. moonslav59
    Brez did trade: #4 Teel (who would have been #1 or #2 on most teams) #5 Montgomery (a #1, 2 or 3 on most teams) #8 Meredith (a #5 or 6 on most teams) That seems like ions ago, but it wasn't.
  8. moonslav59
    Merrill Kelly did not cost zillions. Ryan and Keller would have cost talent and some money, but no where close to zillions. We could sign Schwarber or Azuna, this winter to DH for way less than the remaining Devers money, but we wont. We already have Yoshida-Romy and Casas to DH. More likely we can split up the money toward some of this.... Sign a 1Bman, a SPer, a closer, rework Bregman's dea and or extend Anthony.
  9. moonslav59
    You brought him up, not me. If that is who Ehrhard becomes, it's not changing the trade to "grossly." True, Ehrhard has a higher ceiling than Eaton, but he also has a lower floor.
  10. moonslav59
    I think Brez viewed YRod as the best bet to make an impact.
  11. moonslav59
    I was adding them to a high quality prospect or player. Was Adam Serwinowski and Van Belle much higher quality? (for Zack Littell) Randy Dobnak & Enrique Jimenez for Paddock? Bratt, Drake & Hagaman for Merrill Kelly? 3 prospects for Adrian Houser? Look, I realize I could be dead wrong on what I thought it might take to get a quality SP'er, especially ones with 2-3 years of control. The fact is, not many quality SP'ers were dealt this July, but I think we had the assets to match or top many of the offers I see above or some deals that were not made. I think Brez got too stingy and refused to "overpay."
  12. moonslav59
    Including Nate Eaton over Ehrhard would have made it grossly. too? Eaton is the textbook replacement player that can easily be obtained on the waiver wire at any given point in time.
  13. moonslav59
    Well, you did say we were going too lopsided towards pitching, and this one was the other way. YRod and Holobetz may just outshine Priester, in time. What really hurts is that Priester seems to be getting even better: 2.19 ERA/2.93 FIP in last 4 GS (6.1 IP per start.)
  14. moonslav59
    I suppose that's true, but Ehrhard is a longshot.
  15. moonslav59
    We keep posting the Devers numbers with SF, and by the way, did you see the nifty play he made on D at 1B the other night? How about these numbers: 4.91 ERA/1.64 WHIP Hicks 0 IP w MLB Sox Harrison & J Bello Tibbs traded away 0 players added with money "saved" by trading Devers. The scorecard is vastly incomplete.
  16. moonslav59
    Even then, with that contract, a trade never crossed my mind.
  17. moonslav59
    Is Bieber going to pitch in 2025? If yes, then change their grade to a C or C+/B-
  18. moonslav59
    True. I do think Bregman could have become the exception and come back to the team after a deadline trade.
  19. moonslav59
    Brez worked so hard to assemble a very deep rotation, even if many looked mediocre or had injury issues, then he trades one of the few who stayed healthy and or did not decline. I have to say, it's hard to plan on losing 4-5 SP'ers, even if one was Sandoval. Houck, Crawford, Dobbins, Winckowski (Gio missed a few starts & Newcomb was let go.)
  20. moonslav59
    I'm not high enough on Tibbs and Ehrhard to say "grossly," but as with all "buyer" trades at the deadline, it was an overpay. The Matz trade seems about the same, as I think we would have left Jordan unprotected from Rule 5 and lost him for nothing, anyway.
  21. moonslav59
    BOS & TOR: F DET: B HOU: B+ NYY: A- TEX: A SEA: A+
  22. moonslav59
    It does seem like it never happens. Bregman does seem to really like BOS. Is it tampering to talk to your own player? Tell him, "Go ahead and opt out: we will pay you $150M/4, this winter." wink-wink.
  23. moonslav59
    I'd have considered Rafaela and others for Ryan. If I was giving up Anthony, I might have included others to get Ryan and Jh Duran. (Maybe Chapman to PHI and someone from them to MIN as part of the trade.) I'm not a huge Mitch Keller fan, but I gotta think we could have gotten him (and maybe Bednar, too) for a package of prospects no other team could realistically match without emptying their farm. Duran & Chapman to PHI Painter, Abel, Mendez, Volloria, Tait, Campbell & Romero to MIN (MIN trades Bader to someone else for more prospects) Ryan & JH Duran to BOS
  24. moonslav59
    Agreed. Every move other AL contenders made look like overpays or gross overpays. It's what you need to do to keep pace with others who are improving. This further highlights the need to take winter additions more seriously, knowing that waiting until the deadline is more costly and counterproductive for future outlooks.
  25. moonslav59
    Well said. It wasn't that I did not like what you were saying about the streaking Rangers, it was my belief that you were being overly optimistic about their holes not being holes, going forward, but you were not affording Sox holes the same hopes. The Rangers just improved via trades. I think they filled enough holes to be better than us, on paper- same with SEA. The Yanks seemingly fixed their biggest hole- the pen. DET & HOU put themselves out of the Sox reach. Only TOR failed to make major deadline gains, but we are 5 behind them. That's 6 teams that look better than us. We still have a shot at beating one of the 6, but those odds fell, last night.
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