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  1. moonslav59
    We really cannot afford to have two platoon OF'ers who are awful vs lefties. Carrying one guy like Refsnyder can be very useful, but I can't see having 2 of the 4 bench slots going to short-side platoon OF bats. One is for a catcher and one has to be for an infielder. One hope is that Anthony can continue his good splist vs L's and R's, if and when he is promoted. Rafaela seems equally bad vs L's & R's, so counting him as a "platoon bat" is a bit deceptive. His defense does make up for much, if not all of his lack of O. This looks pretty good, in isolation, but the roster suffers greatly by having 5 OF'ers. LF: Anthony CF: Duran-Rafaela platoon RF: Abreu-Refsnyder platoon Since Campbell can play CF, having 5 OF'ers does not really make sense, especially with Mayer beating down the door for a middle infield shot. Also, Rafaela's ability to play a decent 2B and close to passable SS, does help give Cora some flexibility, if he goes this way. Some tough choices lie ahead.
  2. moonslav59
    They may trade Grissom & Jordan.
  3. moonslav59
    I think everyone has Arias higher than Romero, but he likely needs more time to be ML ready than Romero. The defense of Arias is already ML ready, IMO>
  4. moonslav59
    He has 2 options left, so why not? I won't be surprised if he's put on the IL, tomorrow. Something is not right.
  5. moonslav59
    I have no issues with saying that Yoshida does not fit the roster. Yes, it was poor roster "construction" when we signed him. My point was about the term "roster manipulation." Nobody has explained how that fits this situation. That term implies something like a fantom IL stint to open a roster slot, keeping a prospect off the 40 to gain an extra year and keep a roster slot open for someone you don't want to lose or to keep roster depth. I'm sure there are other examples, but I don't see any that apply here. Yoshida has options. Playing on the big club, AAA club or not playing at all has not affected the 40 man or 26 man roster, so what is this so-called "manipulation." I'm also not sure why the fact that they aren't DH'ing him in AAA while he works on his D is "BS," either, but I won't wait for you to explain. It seems strange and questionable. I just don't see how roster manipulation or BS fits the situation. We could have dealt with the roster construction over the winter, but chose not to do it. Calling that BS could make sense, if that's what you meant.
  6. moonslav59
    MLB.com Sox injury update: May 18th Romy May 19-21 Buhler June Fitts Mid June Crawford ("at the earliest") June, at the earliest Yoshida Midseason Sandoval After All Star Murphy
  7. moonslav59
    That was the kind of start where you end up reading the pitchers went on the IL, the next day. Man, Houck looks awful.
  8. moonslav59
    I can see being upset, and feeling he was mislead, but the circumstances change, like the often do, and the team needs a change. The leaders felt moving him was the best idea, at the time, and he seems to be balking at the idea. I will say, I'm still a big Devers fan.
  9. moonslav59
    I would call it silly to call it that. What's the manipulation? Are they trying to keep open a roster slot on the AAA roster flor Binelas, and for what? It's not like he needs to be kept on the 40 man AAA roster, or we lose him. I do agree the whole idea of having him work on his D without being on a minor league club as the DH, while he does it is mystifying or "BS" as you call it, but I see no purpose in doing this as a manipulation of a roster slot. Maybe, I'm missing some rule or reason why it benefits the team by doing this, and if someone points it out, I'll be happy to apologize for calling the "manipulation" aspect "silly."
  10. moonslav59
    What's up with out 4 slot in the batting order? (.528 OPS) .687 Story (43 PAs) The only guy with a higher 4 slot OPS than overall (.653) .551 Casas (53) Overall: .580 .545 Refsnyder (11) Overall: .918 .528 Abreu (53) Overall: .931 .231 Campbell (26) Overall: .774 Our .690 first slot isn't very good, either (.310 OBP.) almost all Duran. Our 7-8-9 slots are hitting a combined .695. MB is hitting .708 overall!
  11. moonslav59
    Minor league roster manipulation? LMAO!
  12. moonslav59
    MLB OPS Leaders (140+ PAs) 1.274 Judge 1.051 Ohtani 1.047 Alonso .998 Schwarber .951 Bregman (9th in wRC+) 8. Abreu .931 (11th wRC+) 16. Devers .888 (18th) 59. Campbell .774 (58th) ERA- (20+ IP) 26 Fried 16. Crochet 46 18. Bello 48 40. Dobbins 67 69. Whitlock 81 74. Newcomb 86 103. Buehler 102 168. Houck 146 (180 in sample size)
  13. moonslav59
    The Sox are 5th in OPS and 12th in wRC+. 9th in ERA- and 8th in FIP 18th in DRS & 15th in OAA On paper, these numbers show we are about 10th. We have the 13th best record in MLB. We are 5.5 GB the best record (same distance to #26) We are 2 games from the 7th best record in MLB, while 2 ahead of #21.
  14. moonslav59
    I'm not sure Grissom can ever be even okay at any position. His D will not add value, no matter where he plays. We need a 1Bman, so I think they moved a semi-hot hand to 1B, just in case. He's not hot, anymore.
  15. moonslav59
    He's still got to get to the bigs, and has to spend more time at AA and AAA, before we start talking about a utility role on the Sox. He's played just over 40 games at that level. I do not think he's ML ready, now. DHam can play decent D at 2B (only) and is a great base-runner and PR for stealing bases. He's got others to leapfrog, too, beyond DHam and Romy: Mayer & Grissom AAA (Sogard, Toro & Eaton)
  16. moonslav59
    If the owners were smart, LOL- good one!- they'd offer to raise the min salary to $2M, year 1 and up to $3M by the last year of the deal. That would get a big chunk of players to lobby for passage of a deal that involved some sort of top end player salary limit of a semi-hard team spending cap. Shorten the pre-arb & arb years. Between these two offers, you'd be giving more than half the players on the 40 a big raise or chance to make more. I think the Sox have like 17-18 players who are not pre-arb or arb, and a few of them were extended before they reached arb or free agency.
  17. moonslav59
    I've thought Campbell at 1B is the best option for over a week. Calling up Mayer makes more sense than a DH timeshare, Anthony at DH or some sort of Refsnyder- ___ platoon at DH. C: Narvaez 1B: Campbell DH: Devers 2B: Story SS: Mayer 3B: Bregman LF: Anthony CF: Duran RF: Abreu-Refsnyder (platoon) Bench: Rafaela, Wong, Ref/Abreu, Romy (DHam?)
  18. moonslav59
    I think many felt Casas would hit better than Yoshida over a full 2025 season.
  19. moonslav59
    He's on the 40 and not the 60 Day IL. He has options, so what is the manipulation? And what for?
  20. moonslav59
    Does seem strange that Yoshida is not DH'ing in AAA.
  21. moonslav59
    This is important, and although they may have mishandled the move to DH, that was not really done on a whim, either. I'm sure Sox GMs discussed the weak defense at 3B for years, and thought of ways to fix the problem, but chose to let it go for another year. Has the Bregman opportunity not come up, Devers would have played 3rd for another year, or at least until Mayer was called up. The Yoshida injury helped make the decision an obvious one.
  22. moonslav59
    Nope. With SS only 80 game sample sizes count. He may never come back to this site, once Devers' hot streak reaches 80. (We can hope, anyway... LOL)
  23. moonslav59
    You did Get me, but why would you want a guy with an 80 game OPS like that?
  24. moonslav59
    I'll bet on Devers at 1B by June 15th, at the latest.
  25. moonslav59
    It's the only sample there is.
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