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That's basically it in a nutshell. Sure, we do have other options, but it's not for Devers to demand a different option than the one his bosses chose, perhaps just temporarily. It's not easy making traded in early May. Someone mentioned the "rental" O'Hearn from BAL, but BAL is just 6 GB a wildcard slot, and why would they help a team ahead of them in early May? "Go get another 1Bman," right now means Anthony Rizzo. Maybe Dalbec or Chavis can be obtained. Sure, those are better options than Devers.... NOT!

Silly you. Now you talk of DFA'ing someone over one incident, and for all we know, he may end up at 1B, anyway. Not doing what is best for the team is not being a bad teammate. Good one. One of your best.

Once again, you create a position I do not hold. I want Campbell at 1B not Devers. I also want the GM and manager to run the team, and not a player. If they want Devers at 1B, I feel he should do what his basses want. Keep "loving it, loving it, loving it" all you want, but this is not good for the team and all Sox fans, but one: you.

For 37-39 players on the roster, correctomundo. "Outta town" is not easy for a $300M man. The best we could get is prospects, and that is not what this team needs.

Indeed. Even if Casas never plays for Boston, again, it doesn't mean Devers will be the permanent 1Bman. It's easier to find a plus 1Bman in the winter- not in early May. I was thinking- perhaps just hoping- Devers would want to play 1B over DH'ing, since he seemed to say he liked being on the field, when the opps were at bat. Who knows, maybe if he ends up playing there, he will like it. We may never find out. In all likelihood, Devers was always destined to end up at DH by the end of his deal. It happened sooner than he expected, and sooner than maybe what Bloom & Co. promised or intended. Things change in life, and his defense at 3B was not improving. Somehow, he fooled himself into thinking he was a decent or good enough 3Bman on defense, but he wasn't, and that aspect of his game hurt the team. He was still always a big overall plus, but moving him to DH helped the team. Now, moving him to 1B could help the team. Personally, despite me talking about Devers to 1B for a half a decade, I'd prefer Campbell at 1B to make way for Mayer, if Brez and Cora think Devers at 1B is the better solution, then that is what any good teammate should do. Does Papi need to have a sitdown with Devers? I'm not sure Cora, alone can get him to agree to the idea. Maybe, Devers will eventually come around, but the team does not need this, right now, or ever.

It seems weird that Brez had to go against statements/promises made by Bloom to Devers about him being the "long term" (or whatever words were used) 3Bman, and then he repeats the same mistake by telling Devers to "put his glove away for the whole season," knowing Casas is a china doll, and we have no 1B depth in the system. I think Brez was dumb on this but not a liar. I think Devers is not being a team player, and if he wants the fans on his side, he might want to reconsider his stance, as he did with the whole DH fiasco.

I seriously doubt any GM or manager ever makes a promise that say "forever." Every player, coach, manager and GM knows situations change and so do what may be asked of players based on those changes. BTW, it's not a lie, unless the statement made was known to ne untrue by the person saying it. If the person meant what they said, but changed their mind, usually based on a changing dynamic, it was not a lie. I know some like to invent their own meanings to words, but I think the idea was that Devers would be the FT DH, all season, They meant what they told him, and I supposed they should have, could have and maybe even did says something like, "This is what we want you to do, all year, but things can change." I happen to think that is something everyone should assume, but apparently, every contingency needs to be spelled out for some players and supposed fans of the Sox. I'm not sure I ever saw a fan cheer on strife in a team, but hey, I'm open-minded: have at it.

Cheering on insubordination is so "you."

MLB OPS Leaders at the 20% mark in the season: 1.241 Judge (almost 160 points ahead!) 1.085 Alonso (some here wanted him signed) 1.032 Ohtani (does this guy never slump?) .989 Aranda (the Rays' 1Bman) .988 Bregman (the notorious "slow starter.") .977 Schwarber (cue the what if) .959 Carroll (the man from AZ) .950 Abreu (glad we didn't trade him) 35. Devers .834 (Didn't take long to "learn his new position") Some top ERA Leaders: 1.05 Fried, 1.116 Senga, 1.48 Mahle, 1.67 H Brown 6. Yamamoto 1.80 7. Pivetta 2.01 8. Crochet 2.02 9. Nate 2.03 10. Luzardo 2.11 19. M Boyd 2.75 21. Imanaga 2.82 22. Lugo 2.84 28. Wacha 2.96 29. Sugano 3.00 35. Woo 3.25 & 37. Castillo 3.29 Near the bottom: Verlander 4.50, Nola 4.61, Cease 4.91 and.... 2nd to last at 79: Houck 6.10

I was thinking maybe Mullins and Kelly.

A player's job is to play where the manager tells him to and do the best he can to help the team. So, the GM and or manager made a mistake. That does not change the fact the player is expected to do his job, too. My boss makes mistakes, too. I don't tell him, I'm not doing my job, because you made a mistake.

Sounds like a relatively inexpensive option. BAL may wait, until they are farther out, as they are just 6 GB the last WC slot.

I agree. I don't like this, at all.

Criswell let up 3 runs in the shortened game, but his ERA is still 3.99 w WOO. POR lost 9-4 in 10. Romero 2-5 (.885) Ferguson hit his first dinger. GRE lost, but Dean pitched pretty well. (2 hits, 1BB and 9 K in 4.2) Arias 2-4 w 2B (1.011) SAL won 11-9, as Encarnacion continued his bashing by going 3-4 w BB, 2B and HR (.925) Nunez & Salazar homered, too. FCL got clobbered, but Azocar went 4-4

Anthony Rizzo? LMAO.

I was hoping Devers would want to play 1B. He's upset they even asked him. Yikes! I guess the best choice is Campbell to 1B and call up Mayer for middle infield. Even with the little life shown by Rafaela, recently, I'd also call up Anthony- sooner, not later.

Maybe Bello will reach the potential we hoped he'd do in 2024. He's got good stuff. Maybe the nice start will give him a confidence boost, which never hurts.

No. Jh Garcia will not be ML ready, this year. We have two top prospects that are ML ready. Shuffle someone to 1B and make room for one. Campbell seems to make sense. Story is an option, but Campbell is taller and has no set position, anyway, right now.

That was a sweet win. We needed one.

True. He should have been in the "acquired" category. He has spent a lot of time on our farm, but that doesn't make him semi homegrown.

I would not trade anything worthwhile for a 1Bman. We have prospects that are ML ready. Just shift someone around and use what we got, or find the next Dom Smith.

These guys need to show something at the big level, but this is highly encouraging. The change is young and new pitching evaluation, acquisition and development seemed to moving at a snails pace for more than a decade, but I will add this: we've heard talk about how we haven't seen great homegrown pitching (especially starter) since the Lester-Buchholz days, and that is very true, but we have been seeing some recent improvements at the ML level over the last 5-6 years. Still, nothing like Lester, but a clear and measurable improvement in quality and quantity of pitchers helping the big club. Several were acquired by trade, Rule 5, waivers and other non draft and IFA signings. Some were not developed only within the Sox system, but the list of pitchers has been an improvement. (I'm not talking about the Crochets and Klubers- I'm talking about prospects or very young pitchers with no or very little ML experience when we acquired them.) Add these guys to the growing list of drafted and IFA additions, where we have been drafting more pitching and spending more IFA bonus money on pitching than before, and the trend is clearly in the right direction. Established homegrown pitchers: Houck, Crawford, Bello Semi-homegrown: Whitlock, Slaten, Fitts, Winckowski, Kelly, I Campbell Acquired: Criswell (37 IP w 2 teams) Weisser (30 IP w NYY) Prospects w ML experience: Dobbins, Guerrero, Penrod, Murphy Prospects w/o ML experience: 4 Perales, 13 Tolle, 19 Clarke, Valera, 10 Early, 8 Sandlin, 16 Paez, 22 Reyes, 23 Cason, 29 Mullins, 30 Delzine, 25 Wehunt, 28 Monegro, 32 Tygart, 36 Ingrassia, 40 Aita, plus Fajardo, Drohan, Mata, Carlson, Rivera, Sena, Neely, Dean, Rogers and others Pretty impressive, despite not seeing the next Lester, as of now.

It doesn't seem like a mega luxury tax works as intended, but only for a couple teams, as of now (LAD & NYM.) I do think it keeps 8-12 teams from spending wildly. Half the league doesn't even care about the lux tax line as they will not spend over the line, even if there was no tax. One way the players may agree to a soft or semi-hard cap would be to have a hard floor cap that significantly rises over a few years and forces the low budget teams to spend way more. Some owners may sell their teams, but maybe that would be a good thing. (Some teams might move cities.) Something different has to be implemented. I'm not sure how or what it can/will be. If the mega taxes were used to force lower budget teams to spend (using the tax money only to increase their spending) maybe it could work. The players would love it, since forcing lower teams to spend much more would only drive contracts up and force higher spending teams to bid more and more. I'm not sure what would happen. I hope there is no lock out, but with radical changes almost a certainty, I think it will.

Likely, but many of these journeymen/tweener kind of RP'ers have up and down seasons and partial seasons. Maybe, we need to try and harness some up seasons. There is no guarantee his AAA success, so far will translate to the bigs, and the whole trial and error process can hurt a team, if every guy we cycle through sucks, but some of the guys we have now are sucking, so what's the harm? (I know, we might demote a guy just as he was about to have an upswing.)

Anthony could play FT LF, starting today. Duran CF and Abreu/Ref RF (or Abreu/Raf.) The only starter affected would be Rafaela, and he would be a super utility guy that would end up booting Romy or DHam off the 26, as the other guy most affected. The Mayer call-up is much more complex, but move of Campbell to 1B would create a FT single position for Mayer: SS (Story to 2B) or 2B. (The Campbell move may "affect his development," but he seems to be a quick adjuster.)