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  1. moonslav59
    Primera went 4-4 w SAL, last night! Mason White hit his 14th for GRE as Futrell struggled. Brannon hit his 15th as Rogers struggled badly. Eaton, Romero & Harris homered in Woo's loss.
  2. moonslav59
    A second good start by Sandoval would go a long way, in terms of increasing assurances.
  3. moonslav59
    On the soxprospects.com site (draft history page) they have three rankings listed. BA Ranks 60 Owen Hull 98 Schaffner 102 Mataczynski 125 Shelar 307 Lanman 442 Adetuyi 461 LaFavor
  4. moonslav59
    What MLB pitcher with enough value can we trade? Early?
  5. moonslav59
    We still have Gamboa, Samaniego & Uberstine on the 40 and ready. Suarez should return soon, so that bumps someone from the rotation or pen. (Rivera?) Then, we might see a return from the IL by Early, Kelly and LaSorsa. Crochet, Crawford, Oviedo & Houck seem like long shots.
  6. moonslav59
    Agreed, but even more shocking to me was what DMay got as a FA, so you can see how even pitchers like him have value to some GMs. (Maybe just one GM in DM's case.) $12M with a $20M mutual option ($500K buyout)
  7. moonslav59
    When you see the playing time Cheng, Monasterio and Siegler are getting, it's clear that middle infield and MI depth are a high need areas and will be in 2027 as well, as IKF is a FA. I can see why they might not want to part with Mayer, just yet. The problem is, who had higher value and can be parted with? It's young arms, and then we risk trading away the next Harrison, Drohan or Priester.
  8. moonslav59
    I don't disagree, but then fans also get upset when our deadline are so meh. We don't have any everyday players with promise we can afford to trade. To me, it's going to be a repeat of the Paulino/Coffey & Lugo/Zeferjahn type trades for moderate to minor values.
  9. moonslav59
    With IKF, Mayer and eventually Story looking at returns to health, who gets the short sticks? I'd probably keep Mayer at AAA and demote Cheng for IKF, but to be honest, I'd rather have Seigler & Monasterio on the 26 over Story. (My guess is Story>Monasterio and Siegler & IKF share the utility role.)
  10. moonslav59
    Sounds about right. Not as much upper level movement as I suggested, but this is a common time for promotions. I've been higher than most on Johanfran, but to me, Brannon seems to be the better bat. I agree on others you mentioned as being cut loose. I am pretty sure we try to trade those Rule 5 guys, even though I don't see a major roster crunch, this winter. We do have a lot of players on thee 60 IL, and we don't have a lot of free-agents-to-be, so maybe we get proactive and clear out some space for promotions and off season acquisitions. We don't have many players at AA and AAA that look like they need to be on the 26 to start the year. We've already added so many in the last 1.5 years. There is a glut of middle infielders when you count the ones on the IL, but I think trading Romero frees up one slot and IKF another.
  11. moonslav59
    I see both Davenport (5th) & Lanman (6th) took a little more than $100K less to help create more bonus money for LaFavor, who got about $650K more. These guys know what they are doing. There are still 2-3 unsigned, and the soxprospects.com podcast mentioned how the idea was to sign 18-19 out of the 20, so are we at the point, where we cannot sign one or two more w/o serious penalties? I think they mentioned Offing as a "fallback," in case we did not sign a previous "overslot" guy.
  12. moonslav59
    Yes, yes and yes!
  13. moonslav59
    Of course to get to what the goal is or should be for every team- making then advancing in the playoff- you have to first get to .500, if you start off slowly or worse.
  14. moonslav59
    Just when Abreu's name comes up in an unflattering light, he exploded in a key game.
  15. moonslav59
    Having a solid 3-4 SP'ers and maybe the best 1-2 pen punch is a huge playoff asset. The bats are coming around, and it's pretty amazing that 4 of the expected FT'ers are on the IL or have more or less lost their starter role: Anthony IL Story IL Mayer IL Narvaez (kinda second string to Wong.) 6 of our top 10 to 11 SP'ers are on the IL: Crochet, Suarez, Early, Houck, Crawford, Oviedo and Sandoval just got off it and has 1 GS.
  16. moonslav59
    He gets a $2M signing bonus ($2.374M below slot.) Jace Mataczynski (3rd rd) signed for $2M ($1.24M over slot) Martin Shelar (9th rd) signed for $1.5M ($1.25M over slot) Kaleb LaFavor (10th rd) was expected to be an overslot guy, too, but we'll see, The more I read about these four and some others, the more I like about this draft. I had some doubts, at the time.
  17. moonslav59
    16-2 in the last 18 games. Nobody saw this coming, despite some clues we were not as bad as our previous record indicated. I'm not sure how long we can keep this up. I'm pretty sure we will have a rough patch or two, before the season ends, but I don't see many of the WC contenders looking like they are better. The Yanks and Rays look beatable, too. It's those 3-4 NL teams that look so far away. Maybe I should start believing in the crapshoot playoff idea.
  18. moonslav59
    Least losses in AL 40 TBR 43 NYY 45 CWS 46 CLE 48 BOS & TEX 49 SEA & MIN 51 HOU & BAL ___________________ Run Differential +90 NYY +43 CWS +39 BOS +24 DET +20 TBR +16 SEA
  19. moonslav59
    I'm not sure how much longer I can talk myself from inching over to the buy side of the fence. This has sure turned into an exciting season, and the game are fun to watch. To see how we have done this with so much of our depth playing FT and filling 3/5ths of the rotation is truly a stunning thing to witness.
  20. moonslav59
    A trade could very well happen. (I hope it's not one we regret.)
  21. moonslav59
    Sox are finally back at .500. To those who set that as the goal and cried "Playoff?" what is the goal, now?
  22. moonslav59
    Yanks lost. Rays lost twice. Jays going down hard. O's losing. Rangers got killed. Sox keep winning.
  23. moonslav59
    Story hit .839 in his last 96 games of 2025 (since June 7th.) That may carry too much weight for Brez & Co. Maybe it carries just the right amount of weight.
  24. moonslav59
    Story was around .580 last early June, but turned it around. I'm not so sure Sox management has written him off for his slow start to 2026, which was an even smaller sample size. Maybe for this reason or the contract. I'm not for handing him the job back. I'm just pretty sure the Sox will give him every shot to be the SS again. At worst, he will get a shot at 2B. Sad, but true. If Cora was still the man, I'd be more certain Story will be back. I'm not sure how Tracy thinks, or if Brez is pulling certain strings.
  25. moonslav59
    He's amazing.
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