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.574 Bichette .590 Naylor .637 Alonso .663 E Suarez .692 Bregman .700 Okamoto

Exactly. If not for a couple good half seasons after 2019, Bregman would have had horrible numbers, but hey, he's a great clubhouse guy. That's gotta be worth $35M+.

Yup, with Mayer/Romy at 3B. Us armchair GMs suck the most, yet are the most vocal about firing Brez.

Cora? LMAO! The guy couldn't even bring himself to politely ask Devers if he'd even consider just thinking about trying a 1Bmans mitt on.

Even our final offer was too much, so mistakes made or not by our FO, it all worked out for the best on that singular non move, IMO. The Contreras trade is looking real good, right now, but the season is long. I just wish we'd have added another big infield bat, or at least bigger than Durbin/IKF. I thought the pen could be helped by starters who did not make the rotation, but we have already gone through all of them and even had to start Rivera.

Chapman won with the Rangers in 2023, too.

To add to the pen, then no IKF signing, or no Oviedo trade- trade for a pen arm not him. Hindsight there woulda been nice, but I think the Suarez and Contreras deals are looking pretty good. Sonny Gray needs to comeback.

So, would people like Brez more if he... signed Alonso over the Contreras trade signed Bregman over Suarez traded for Nate not Gray

Are Contreras and Chapman the only 2 Sox players with WS rings?

Okay, Dr Phil.

We used to speak of the unbalance on the farm with crappy pitching, then it swung to pitching and too few bench pieces on the farm that were ML ready everyday players. Now, with so many pitchers on the IL, the farm only has 3 pitchers on the 40: Bennett was in AA last year Anderson & Rivera were just added to the 40 a few days ago. Everyday players: Gasper, Cheng, Campbell, Eaton, Sogard & Seigler. I gotta think if we add a pitcher to the 40, we may cut one of these everyday players loose. but then again, we could just cut Watson loose. IL: Gray, Slaten, Crawford & Sandoval (Uberstine) / No everyday players on the IL at BOS or Woo, except Matt Lloyd.

line-up 1 Duran LF 2 Contreras 1B 3 Anthony DH 4 Abreu RF 5 Story SS 6 Mayer 2B 7 Rafaela CF 8 Narvaez C 9 Durbin 3B Pitcher: Ranger Suarez

While all true, Brez must have been counting on something from the kids plus Contreras & Durbin to replace this: .905 Devers (334 PAs) .838 Refsnyder (209) .821 Bregman (495) .790 N Lowe (119)

Mad enough to make heads roll, supposedly! LMAO. Next, we'll hear they are upset for letting Moncada get away.

They must have been blown away that another team would play him at SS, and somehow that convinced them they failed DHam. Not.

If they hired the assistant before the hitting coach, that would be typical Sox logic.

Yes Beni left at 25 y/0 with a 107 OPS+ and went to 101 from ages 26-31. Verdugo lest at age 27 with a 104 OPS+. He's been 79 at ages 28-29- peak prime years. Okay, Ref is past prime. but he and Romy did much better after joining BOS.

Devers, Bogey, Beni, Vaz, Verdugo, Refsnyder and others got worse after leaving and many were not post-prime.

Winning two in a row brings out the best in us! 🤣

I'm not sure a .605 DHam would have made a difference. He did better in 2024 under Cora & Co.

YRod has bolted up the stats list. Nobody in the system has more PAs and a higher OPS (1.037) Arias and Tucker are higher but have less PAs. Arias leads the system in HRs at 7, with YRod at 5. Ferguson has shot up to 1.000 but apparently forgot how to steal bases (3 w 2CS.) I lost faith in Cespedes, and now he's at .879. Godbout is now over .800. The ERA leaders with 16+ IP: 0.51 Futrell 0.54 Eyanson 0.86 Bennett

I do think one reason we held onto 5 OF/DHs was to cover for a possible sophomore slump by Anthony. Mayer was not handed the job, and we added IKF, Durbin & Monasterio over the winter as coverage. Campbell was handed the FT job, last spring, and we had very little behind him, but there was some hope for a DHam-Romy platoon. We started this season with Tolle & Early in AAA.

Agreed, but nor really unprecedented. The 2019 team had super high expectations and started out 11-17. 2020 was historic, and we started out 10-20. 2022 has some high promise after 2021, and we started out 10-19. 2024 started out okay, but then we had a 4-11 stretch in early May to go from 18-13 to 22-24.

soxprospects.com is one of my favorite websites. They do a pretty good job providing information on the team's prospects. Of course, they get some rankings wrong, but they are pretty accurate most of the time. Here is a look at their top 5 prospects from 2003 to today. I took the liberty of selecting the best 5 from their Spring, Summer and Fall rankings. Any lower ranked prospects that did well were added in parenthesis. (Highest ranking that year provided) Sometimes I left our prospects who graduated that year or soon afterwards, if I listed them in previous years. 2003: 2 Lester, 1 Youkilis, 2 HRam, 1 Freddie Sanchez, 4 Shoppach (D Murphy & Jorge de la Rosa) 2004: 1 Lester, 3 Pedey, 1 Youkilis, 1 HRam, 5 Papelbon (B Moss) 2005: 3 Pedey, 1 Papelbon, 1HRam, 3 Anibal Sanchez, 4 Abe Alvarez (Buchholz & Lowrie) 2006: 1 Papelbon, 1 Ellsbury, 4 Pedey, 2 C Hansen, 5 B Cox (Masterson & Cla Meredith) 2007: 1 Buchholz, 1 Ellsbury, 4 Pedey, 4 Masterson, 3 Bowden (D Bard, Doubront & Reddick) 2008: 1 Buchholz, 1 Masterson, 1 Lars Anderson, 3 Lowrie, 3 Reddick (Middlebrooks & Casey Kelly) 2009: 1 Anderson, 1 C Kelly, 2 Bowden, 2 Reddick, 3 D Bard (Tazawa, Westmoreland, Fife, Alex Wilson) (Pretty crappy farm.) 2010: 1 Kelly, 2 Reddick, 2 Anderson, 3 Kalish, 4 Rizzo, 5 Iggy (Workman) 2011: 2 Iggy, 1. Kalish, 1 Middy, 2 Ranaudo, 3 Doubront (Barnes) 2012: 1 Bogey, 1 Middy, 2 Barnes, 3 Iggy, 4 JBJ 2013: 1 Bogey, 2 JBJ 3 Barnes, 3 Webster, 4 Owens (Betts & Margot) 2014: 1 Betts, 5 ERod, 1 Swihart, 3 Margot, 4 Cecchini (Vazquez, Devers, Kopech, T Shaw) 2015: 3 Devers, 1 ERod, 1 Moncada, 5 Beni, 4 Margot (Dubon) 2016: 2 Devers, 1 Moncada, 3 Beni, 5 Kopech, 3 Espinoza) 2017: 1 Devers, 4 Houck, 1 Groome, 2 Chavis, S Travis (Beeks) 2018: 3 Houck, 2 Casas, 4 Dalbec, 1 Chavis, 2. Mata (Duran) 2019: 5 Houck, 3 Duran, 2 Dalbec, 1 Casas & Chavis (Bello) 2020: 4 Duran, 1 Casas, 2 Downs, 3 Mata, 5 Jimenez (Song & Yorke) 2021: 4 Whitlock, 5 Houck, 3 Duran, 2 Mayer, 1 Casas (Bello) 2022: 3 Rafaela, 1 Casas, 4 Rafaela, 3 Bello, 3 Yorke (Anthony, Abreu) 2023: 1 Anthony, 1 Mayer, 3 Teel, 4 Rafaela, 2 Bleis (Dobbins) 2023: 1 Anthony, 1 Mayer, 3 Rafaela, 3 Teel, 2 Bleis (Abreu) 2024: 1 Anthony, 2 Campbell, 2 Mayer, 3 Teel, 5 Montgomery (Meidroth, Tolle, Early, Fitts, Valera) 2025: 1 Anthony, 1 Tolle, 2 Mayer, 2 KC, 2 Arias (Early, Perales, Sandlin) 2026: 1 Tolle, 2 Arias, 3 Early, 4 Witherspoon, 5 Valera (Eyanson, Gonzales) Graduates still on the Sox: 2021 Whitlock & Houck 2022: Duran, Crawford, Bello & Wong 2023: Casas & Kelly 2024: Abreu, Rafaela & Slaten 2025: Anthony, Mayer & Campbell

I know what the word suspect means and that it rhymes with prospect. Apparently, someone graduates from prospect to suspect when they meet your criteria. To say Story is not "suspect" is about as wildly absurd as you have ever been, and that's saying a lot. Words don't mean what only you want them to mean. Thinking they do is epic cluelessness.