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The punishment is not for honesty. 🙃

From soxprospects.com... Portland season ends The Sea Dogs season ended on Sunday as they finished 1.5 games out of the final playoff spot. Their final roster can be found on our Rosters page. Blake Wehunt did get a cup of coffee with Portland during its final week, and he allowed five runs over five innings in a start on Wednesday. Portland announced their team awards, with Anthony being named the team's MVP. Isaac Coffey won the Pitcher of the Year award, Campbell was named the Defensive Player of the Year, and Elih Marrero won the Charlie Eshbach-Citizen of the Year award.

I can agree with that. although miracles do happen. I'd say we fell below 20% a while ago. We are easily under 5 or 10%, now.

I get your point, though. Realy. I do. It only feeds the JH & Co. sham machine to keep falling for the idea we have a chance. (Although I never felt we had a chance at a ring, this year.)

I hope the rats can survive.

Randy A's OPS+ is 110. It is 127 w SEA only (43 game sample size.)

I just hope the ship doesn't have a big battery or sharks are circling.

Unnamed lefties might be Bernardino, Booser and or Horn, but I am fully onbaord with adding a good one, this winter. I'd also like to see a RH RPer like Sewald added.

I might even put Meidroth ahead of Yorke on a few positional depth charts. At 2B, one could argue all these guys would be above him on the depth chart: Mayer or Story, Campbell, DHam, Grissom, Meidroth and maybe even Romy and Sogard for 2025, anyway. By 2026, maybe Arias and others could have passed Yorke. There is a good chance that even if Yorke does well with PIT, he won't do better than 2-3 players we kept over him.

I'm hoping we make 2-3 more like that one, over the winter. Our farm is unbalanced. We can wait for years to right the unbalance via drafts and IFA, but this helps speed up the process.

Yup, and this repeating after ASB declines really sucks.

SEA does have Raley, too, so maybe they don't want Abreu, even if they part with Haniger in the trade, but we don't want haniger or Garver, unless we dump Yoshida. So, most likely, no Yoshi, haniger or Garver in any trade, but yes, Abreu to TEX, Smith to SEA with Casas for a pitcher like Miller. If it's Castillo, the money does not jive for BOS.

I could see us make him an offer, but it would not come close to $32M/2. Maybe $9M/1 with a team option for $6M in 2026 and a $1M buyout.

The third team involved makes more sense, if Abreu is going to be part of any trade w SEA, involving Wilyer.

I seriously doubt they want Yoshi. Maybe nobody wants him, even if we pay all but $6-9M a year for them to take him. I'm not so certain they feel they like Haniger over Abreu, but we'd need to give way more than Abreu for one of their SP'ers, even if we take Garver and Haniger off their budget. I would not give Casas & Abreu for Castillo, Garver and Haniger, as the money makes it all but impossible JH would approve, and the values just don't match, anyway. Maybe Casas, Abreu and Wink for Garver OR Haniger plus a cheaper SEA pitcher could work.

No doubt, maybe even 10 more losses, easily. It's not a lie to have thought we had a chance when we were doing well, and I don't recall anyone saying they felt we were ring contenders, even at our peak, so who are the "liars?"

Here is my top Sox manager list over the last 60 years: 1. Tito 2. Dick Williams 3. Cora ...a very distant 4th and 5th: John Farrell and Jimi Williams

If you meant "contender" for a ring, then yes, but nobody here ever came close to saying they believed that to be true. As in playoff contender, we were, and in a longshot sense, still are, halfway through September. As for "liar," being a liar mean you knew the truth and said a falsehood, knowingly. If anyone believed we were contenders or even a ""true contender," then they were not lying, unless they knew they were. Big difference between Pollyanna and lying. When the season started, I did not expect us to be contenders, unless a whole lot of things went right. I listed about 20-30 what ifs and suggested we might need 75% of therm to "go right," to have a chance at playoff contention. When the team was playing very well, I started to believe we could make the playoffs, and my main reason was because other teams looked severely flawed. (They still do.) I knew it wasn't going to be easy. I hoped we did more at the deadline, but doubted we would. Maybe I was a bit of a pollyanna, but it would not have taken much for us to have 4-5 more wins, than we do and be right in the thick of the WC race. I seriously doubt we win 6 in a row, but if we do... LOL!

Saying what? Yorke was likely never going to even get a look with BOS. He had 4-5 guys ahead of him and was Rule 5 in December. I hope he does well with PIT, but I think we simply have to keep making deals like this, knowing some won't work out. It is one way to try and fix the unbalanced nature of our farm system between non pitchers and pitchers. This year, we drafted more pitchers and more of them highly. We added D Reyes through IFA. Last winter, Brez added Slaten, Fitts, Sandlin and Judice. (Weissert, I Campbell and a few others were not prospects, but have just a year or two in the bigs.) I'm applauding the effort, knowing full well, some of these deals will not work out.

I doubt SEA wants Yoshi, unless they can dump Garver and/or Haniger, and they still might want some cash for 2026 and 2027. We don't know how they value Castillo, but most people view his type of contract as front end for value and back end for sunken costs, so maybe they would be interested in some sort of deal involving Yoshi and Castillo plus Garver and/or Haniger. Of course, what else we add would be the clincher. Maybe they like Abreu taking Haniger's place, Yoshi taking Garver's place and some cash saving to pay for a pitcher.

Not at all. I've been saying most assume it was spent on Gio, or allowed us to afford him. That may be true, but we also cut $10M from the budget, so one could say it went all to JH & Co, or one could say it went to affording Henriks and O'Neill. The fact is, Brez had precious little to work with and blew all but the $6.8M paid to O'Neill and Criswell. JH & Co. take the most blame, but Brez is not blameless. The team is doing as expected, so to me, Cora gets little blame or credit.

I think we wait the 3-4 weeks needed to add another year of control. That would also give us time and space on the 40, since neither need to be added to the 40, until we want them on the 26. Remember, you can't have anyone on the 60 day IL, until after opening day, so you can't create slots on the 40, before opening day with them. My guess is maybe one is on the opening day, especially Anthony, if we trade Abreu. Campbell gets added once the extra year is earned. Maybe may be added over Campbell, if he's healthy and looks better in ST'ing. Meidroth will not be on the 40, until midseason, at the earliest, unless a corner IF'er gets hurt.

$21M+ for O'Neill is a "No Brainer," even if we move Yoshida? Certainly, there is room for thought on this. My guess is someone can sign O'Neill for $25-30M/2 or $39-42M/3. If we end up paying just $6M a year on Yoshida and O'Neill takes the QO, we'd be paying $28M for our DH, and for a guy who is hurt a lot. I'm thinking long and hard on offering O'Neill a $15M deal as a FA or a $25M/2 extension, right now.

Did I hear Hendriks just got a cortisone shot in his elbow?

2B has been near the bottom since 2018. Even then, we hastily signed Nunez in February and had to pick up Kinsler, mid summer just to not stink up the winning vibe. That being said, once we settled on DHam at 2B with Romy vs some LHPs, we had a guy with a plus WAR. I'm not saying I'm happy going into 2025 with a DHam- Romy/Grissom platoon at 2B, but I would feel better about that than what we've seen over 5 years, and I still think we see Campbell or Mayer by May. Most PAs at 2B since 2018 (OPS/DRS): 544 Arroyo .739/13 412 Holt .763/1 396 Story .737/6 375 Nunez .615/-15 341 Vadlez .656/-11 304 Kike .901/0 254 Chavis .711/2 141 Kinsler .598/0 131 Marco H .584/-1 123 DHam .556/8 119 Marwin .511/0 100 Reyes .627/-6 91 Arauz .468/ 89 Peraza .553/-3 88 Urias .743/-2 83 Grissom .398/1 55 Romy .694/-1 51 Iggy .914/0 44 Y Sanchez .322/0 40 Sogard .550/-1 39 Westbrook .434/0 36 Lin .294/0 29 Owings .322/0 26 Pedey .361/-1 24 Turner .708/0 23 Downs .581/-1 (17 Chang, 16 Lopez, 15 Phillips, 15 Rafaela, 12 Wong, 11 Gasper, 7 Motter, 7 Munoz, 6 Vaz, 3 Betts & Short, 2 Bobby Dee & 1 Swihart & Devers) 40 second basemen in 7 years! .667 Team OPS -11 DRS, -20 OAA and -0.4 UZR/150 Of course, we don't need stats to remind us how bad it has been. I do think we should be okay for 2025, as whoever does not play SS can win the 2ZB job or platoon: Mayer/Campbell/Meidroth DHam/Grissom/Romy Utility: DHam/Grissom/Meidroth/Romy/Sogard/ EValdez