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He is Chris Freakin' Sale, again!
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If we find a way to move Yoshida, without paying a huge chunk of his deal, I think we talk Ref into one more year- promising him he will DH vs all LHPs and some righties. Platoon Ref and Abreu at DH. 1. Duran LF 2. Campbell 2B 3. Casas 1B 4. Devers 3B 5. Abreu-Ref DH 6. Story SS 7. Anthony RF (Abreu) 8. Wong C 9. Rafaela CF (Anthony) Bench: Gasper or Heineman at C, DHam, Romy and Ref/Abreu/Rafaela (whoever is not starting)
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And 6 HRs in 11 games! He was our first pick in '22, had some injuries and struggles, but maybe is coming into his own, now. Some of Bloom's head-scratcher moves are looking a little better over time. (Many are not or are already past the grading point.)
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I cut him some slack. You can tell this losing stretch is killing him. It's hard to be perfect.
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Does he care about flack?
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Tight budget.
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This was certainly one of the best winters for mid-level signings (under $15M AAV.) It happens to be the one year we go above $15M to sign Gio, which many would have considered a mid-level signing, too. $16M x 2 Wacha $15M x 3 Lugo $14M x 1 Flaherty $13.25M x 4 Imanaga $14M x 2 Manaea $7.5M x 2 Fedde Others: Lorenzen 0.6 fWAR Gibson 1.9 fWAR at $13M/1 Severino 1.8 fWAR at $13M/1 Montas 1.5 fWAR at $16M/1 Lynn 1.1 fWAR at $11M/1 We paid $19.25M x 2 for Gio
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2025 Unrestricted FAs at positions the Sox need: Burnes, Fried Flaherty, Kikuchi Heaney, Severino, Pivetta, Lorenzen, DeSclafani, Bieber, J Quintana Morton, Verlander, Scherzer, Cobb Player Option: Snell ($38.5M) & Wacha ($16M) Nate has vesting option of $20M based on IP Montas has a mutual option at $20M RP: I'm not sure what top RP'ers are FAs other than Jansen, Sewald, Graveman and a few others.
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Also... Flaherty ($14M/1) 3.0 fWAR (We could have signed him and not traded for O'Neill and been under the tax line.)
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It took 545 PAs for MLB pitchers to figure out how to get him out. That's a pretty long time. Bobby Dee could never adjust to their adjustment and hit .599 after those first two seasons of .891 batting.
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Soxprospects.com is usually pretty conservative, when it comes to saying "acquisition" in its projected roster for the next year. Right now, they have that designation for the #1 SP slot and the #2 RP slot. SP1 ___ SP2 Houck SP3 Bello SP4 Crawford SP5 Criswell/ SP 6 Priester (They don't list Gio, at all.) RP1 Hendriks RP2 ____ RP3 Slaten RP4 Whitlock RP5 Bernardino RP6 Kelly RP7 Booser RP8 Fulmer/ RP9 Winckowski
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Spent the day watching football, which I haven't done in a while. Texans played a tight game, and they look pretty good. Just watched the Sox game, and I gotta say, they look like toast. I'm still clinging to a thread of hope, but we wasted a nice game by Fitts. The D bit us again, but the pen has just been brutal for way too long, now.
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Yes, they were outplayed, but I also think they were out-coached/game planned. Obviously, they were over-rated. I was hopeful they might end up highly ranked due to a relatively easy schedule, compared to the past ones. I'm not sure what the solution is to fix their program woes. Maybe, it just can't be fixed, as long as they keep the rigorous academic requirements. Not many other can pull it off, either.
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Clean sweep on the farm, today. Anthony went 3 for 6 w 2B. Campbell & Teel got 1 hit, each, and Meidroth walked twice. Grissom, who walked 4 times, yesterday, walked 3 times today and went 1-2. POR won 8-5 as Romero homered, again (.909.) Sikes walked 3 times. Jordan 2-4 w 4 rbi. B Gonzalez hit his 20th in the GRE 5-4 win. (3-4 .845) Reimer went 2-4. SAL won 13-3. Ingrassia went 2 scoreless. Arias 2-3 w 2BB and is up to .709, now.
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This loss today seems to kinda like the final nail, although I am not giving up.
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Yes, it was a good winter for those signings. I'm not sure we can or should count on that, this winter. As far as Dale's comments on ace vs 5 man rotations, I have to say it has to be better to add a really good pitcher over trying to upgrade 3-5, at once. Trying to improve the rotation by upgrading the #5 a little bit, doesn't do it for me.
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Thanks for making it more clear. I was thinking it was later than 4/11.
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C: Wong, ___, Teel 1B: Casas (Devers/Meidroth/Romy) 2B: DHam-Romy/Grissom, Campbell SS: Story, Mayer (Romy/Sogard/Campbell) 3B: Devers (Meidroth/Romy/Campbell) LF: Duran, Refsnyder (Campbell, EValdez, Yoshida) CF: Rafaela, Duran (Campbell, Anthony) RF: Abreu, Anthony, Refsnyder DH: Yoshida (Ref-Abreu) I count 17 good player options for 13 slots.
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He does offer hope we have a better back-up at SS than Rafaela/DHam/Romy/Sogard. I only hope he and Story don't overlap time on the IL.
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The Dalbec DFA was always pending. Only the Casas injury kept it from happening earlier. Maybe he ends up getting another MLB look with a team hurting at 1B, 3B or DH. He did have a couple decent stretches with the bat, including the first 545 PAs of his career at .819 with 33 HRs and 62 XBHs. That's pretty amazing, considering he had a 310 PA stretch in the middle of those 545 PAs at .651 w just 11 HRs. It all went downhill, starting with his 0-12 in the 2021 playoffs. He finished with a .599 OPS over his final 3 years with BOS (449 PAs.) Good luck, Bobby Dee. You will probably need it. Fitts was going to be protected Rule 5, anyway, so let's see what he can do. His GS since JUL 27 IP/ER 5/2 6/1 6/2 5/1 5/3 6/2 6/0
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We shoulda called up E. Alvarez, yesterday! LOL
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I'd like to see a graph on pre-ASB.
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First 71 games vs Second 71 games and fWAR 3.3/0.6 Houck 3.9 Total 1.9/0.0 Crawford 1.9 0.5/1.2 Bello 1.7 0.7/0.8 Pivetta 1.5 0.8/ 0.3 Criswell 1.1 Everyday 2.7/4.0 Duran 6.7 Total 2.2/2.0 Devers 4.2 1.6/1.3 Abreu 2.9 0.9/1.6 O'Neill 2.5 1.1/0.5 Hamilton 1.6 -0.1/1.2 Rafaela 1.1 0.8/0.1 Ref 0.9 0.0/0.7 Yoshida 1.0/-0.3 Wong 0.7 0.0/0.5 Romy 0.5 0.3/0.1 Casas 0.4
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RHP Bello broke that mold. (Pivetta, too.)
