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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. moonslav59
    I think Brez viewed YRod as the best bet to make an impact.
  5. 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."
  6. 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.
  7. 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.)
  8. moonslav59
    I suppose that's true, but Ehrhard is a longshot.
  9. 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.
  10. moonslav59
    Even then, with that contract, a trade never crossed my mind.
  11. moonslav59
    Is Bieber going to pitch in 2025? If yes, then change their grade to a C or C+/B-
  12. moonslav59
    True. I do think Bregman could have become the exception and come back to the team after a deadline trade.
  13. 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.)
  14. 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.
  15. moonslav59
    BOS & TOR: F DET: B HOU: B+ NYY: A- TEX: A SEA: A+
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. moonslav59
    And winters, too (Buehler.) We also saw Bloom trying to trade for Graterol. We did unload Price on them, and he pitched just 114 innings with the Dodgers, so maybe that makes it not so bad.
  21. moonslav59
    No, it's not, and I'm fine with bringing up how Devers has not helped SFG for almost a 2 month sample size. I do not think Devers will keep playing like this. I think he will be a decent defender at 1B and hit .850ish for the next few years. He's agreed to play 1B for SF. That sucks from our view in BOS, but he's finally doing the right thing on taht front. I think we did well to rid ourselves of a player who was out to challenge our management team, and hopefully we will spend the savings, this winter and over the next 8 seasons. The "selfishness" talk is valid, I suppose, but I never got any hint of that until the Casas injury and the push for him to play 1B. I think the whole move to DH was blown out of proportion, but maybe I'm wrong. The talk of his getting fat, not being a top batter and being a bad teammate is not to my liking, but his last few months with the Sox put the bad teammate issue up for debate, to say the least. Before that, I think he was a great teammate. Being a Yankee killer makes anyone a good teammate.
  22. moonslav59
    My guess is it might have taken... Duran, Clarke and Early/Sandlin (maybe Romero, too) of Abreu, Campbell and Early/Sandlin Maybe, I'm wrong. Maybe they'd want Abreu, Campbell & Clarke. I'd probably try to sub eearly for Clarke, but would maybe say yes, anyway. You gotta overpay for controlled pitchers, but really, the time to make trades for guys like Ryan or Keller is December. I still wonder if we tried to 3 way a trade: Duran or Abreu (and maybe Chapman, if we also got Jh Duran) to PHI Painter (and others from PHI), Campbell, Clarke & others from our farm to MIN Ryan and maybe Jh Duran to BOS
  23. moonslav59
    I felt better after the 2024 deadline, for two main reasons: 1. We had a better outlook on Danny Jansen, Lucas Sims, Luis Garcia & James Paxton than we do on the M & M brothers, while giving up no major prospects. 2. We were closer to being in a seller mode than this season, and yet we still seemed to do better, at the time. Of course, only Jansen added any value, but the others had hopes as good as or better than M & M.
  24. moonslav59
    I'm glad for Romero, and I am one to think Jordan will never be a good MLB player. Romero was once ranked 7th by SPs.com. Injuries were part of the reason he fell sharply in the rankings. He's now #10, after the Tibbs trade. He's got 30 XBHs in 66 games at AA. (.756 OPS) He's an okay defender at 2B & 3B- two positions we need help or depth.
  25. moonslav59
    We may not even make the 6th seed anyway. You haven't seemed very optimistic, lately, either. If we do, we won't win a ring, just like other 6th seeds. Thanks for adding support to my point.
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