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  1. moonslav59
    Do you think Rafaela did better than you expected in 2024? Do you think being asked to play so much SS affected his offense, at all?
  2. moonslav59
    No, they won't. A three way deal has a better chance. The Astros need a 1Bman, but I doubt they part with a top, young SP'er to get Casas.
  3. moonslav59
    Roman AnthonyKristian CampbellMarcelo MayerKyle TeelBraden MontgomeryFranklin AriasLuis PeralesYoeilin CespedesJhostynxon GarciaRichard FittsMiguel BleisDavid SandlinChase MeidrothMikey RomeroElmer Rodriguez-CruzJohanfran GarciaHunter DobbinsYordanny MonegroJuan ValeraPayton Tolle
  4. moonslav59
    Our OF and possible depth/prospects: LF: Duran, Abreu, Campbell, Refsnyder (Jh Garcia) CF: Duran, Rafaela, Anthony, Campbell, Abreu (Bleis) RF: Abreu, Anthony, Campbell (Montgomery) Our Middle Infield and possible depth/prospects: SS: Story, Mayer, Romy, DHam, Meidroth, Campbell (Romero, Arias, Riemer) 2B: Story, Campbell, Mayer, Grissom/DHam, Meidroth (Romero, Arias, Cespedes) Surely, we can part with one player from each group.
  5. moonslav59
    How many current owners would we rather have than JH? (I have no idea.) I do know many are way cheaper than JH and or are not very good at hiring good baseball men to run their team. Everybody wants the LAD owner who spends and spends (and has a mega revenue line.) Here is what the Dodger paid for pitchers, this year: 0 GS (out for playoffs- pitching) Ohtani $70M ($46M x ??? Lux) 22 GS (out for playoffs) Glasnow $32.5M ($27.3M x 5 Lux) 0 GS (out for playoffs) Yamamoto $18.3M ($27.1M x 12 Lux) 16 GS (out for playoffs) Bueler $8M x 1 (same) 7 GS (out for playoffs) Kershaw $5M x 1 (same) w $5M player option (Gavin Stone and Dustin May- out for playoffs) Man, we thought we had injuries.
  6. moonslav59
    Good afternoon, back at ya! If JH won't spend big on a SP'er, he should not just allow a big trade, he should demand one for a SP. Use the budget on the pen and a RHB (catcher?) and SP'er depth.
  7. moonslav59
    I'd trade the three guys mentioned for Finnegan, and Abreu and DHam to TBR for Fairbanks and Diaz, then trade Casas to SEA for Bryce Miller. Sign Tanner Scott, Danny Jansen and Nick Martinez and call it a day. SP: Houck, Martinez, Miller, Gio, Bello (Crawford #6 or long relief) RP: Scott, Fairbanks, Finnegan, Hendriks, Slaten, Whitlock, Fulmer, Crawford 1. Duran LF 2. Diaz 1B 3. Anthony RF 4. Devers 3B 5. Campbell 2B-Mayer 2B/SS 6. Story SS- Mayer SS 7. Yoshida-Refsnyder DH 8. Wong-Jansen C 9. Rafaela CF (Maybe Campbell in CF?)
  8. moonslav59
    RHB Diaz would be a nice get. He's owed $10M in 2025, and has a $12M option for 2026, so might be on the block. That could work out even better, if we trade Yoshida or Casas. His OBP dipped but is .373 career- something we could use.. Meidroth for Fairbanks looks good, to me, too. (I'd like to know, if we feel comfortable with Grissom or Campbell/Mayer at 3B, if needed or Devers is moved.
  9. moonslav59
    Yup, and I feel like we'd have made the playoffs, if we went over for just this season... assuming our other additions were not like Gio.
  10. moonslav59
    I like the high K rate for Fairbanks and see him as a possible closer. I think you talked me into Nick Martinez over Flaherty. Ideally, it would be Martinez, Tanner Scott, Fairbanks and Finnegan. I think we could get the two "F's" wihtout losing a major piece to 2024, other than maybe Abreu, who may be blocking Anthony (and Campbell to a lesser extent.) I'd be happy with those 4.
  11. moonslav59
    I'd say bare minimum. Do you consider Flaherty as better than NM? Could getting Fairbanks be better than Finnegan, as well as a larger package needed.
  12. moonslav59
    It's not going to be easy to replace Jansen, and if they count Hendriks as an even swap, that will be a big risk. (Note: they probably do count it as just that.) Counting Fulmer as Martin's replacement would be even worse. Counting Gio as Pivetta's replacement is probably the closest to reality, but it is still a big gamble. I think we'd need to add 3 high quality pitchers to improve the staff over 2023. That's not counting Hendriks, Fulmer and Gio. To me, this is the MINIMUM NEEDED! A RHB, maybe at catcher will probably happen, and maybe we also try to add another Criswell or two, but I seriously doubt we add more than 3-4 quality players. (Trading Abreu for one is a push and is not "adding." IMO.)
  13. moonslav59
    Ideally, I'm sure Sox ownership would love it, if we could keep the farm stocked, so a continual infusion could be counted on. Then, we might be able to stay under or "just under," every year and stay highly competitive. If this became the norm, then going over, for a year or two, now and then, would be acceptable, but never 3 years in a row. The penalties, now, go beyond just financial, so keeping the farm strong can take a hit, when you get penalized. I do see a way, if everything goes right or mostly right with our additions, and we don't get killed by injuries, we could build a competitive team, without going over the tax line in 2025. Going up to $2-3M from the line, would give us a hefty winter spending budget (AAV) and enough to fill 3-4 slots with quality players. (2-3 slots with high quality.) Plus, we could trade to fill 1-2 slots and have less players to divide the AAV budget into, thereby increasing the expected quality production.
  14. moonslav59
    Had we gone over every 2 years out of 3, that would have been much better, too. Also, going over the one year we had decent comp picks coming our way was dumb as hell, although we still ended up with K Campbell with one of them.
  15. moonslav59
    From the 2024 Tax budget, we will be losing... AAV $17M Sale $16M Jansen $7.5M Martin $7.5 Pivetta $5.9 O'Neill ~$19M combine: $4.2M Turner opt-out, $2M Joely, $1.8 D Jansen, $1.5M McGuire & G Cooper, $1.4 Paxton & L Garcia, $1.3 Chase Anderson, $1M D Smith, $0.95 Sims and others. This totals to over $70M. We have some arb raises, but not many and all 3 are ARB 1's (Duran, Houck & Crawford.)
  16. moonslav59
    Only 5 teams have gone over in '22 and '23: NYY, LAD, PHI, NYM & SDP. PHI & LAD did in 2021, but that was before the new agreement, so I'm not sure that counts as 3 straight. Projected over for 2024: NYM, LAD, NYY, PHI, so 4 teams are looking at 3 straight. (SDP reset.) ATL, HOU, TOR and TEX will be over in 2024. (ATL, TOR & TEX were over in '23 but not '22, so they are at 2 years and HOU first year.)
  17. moonslav59
    Well, with a FT DH, it's hard to do. Also, we saw him change his resting strategy from 2023 to 2024. To me, I'd rather have Devers DH 10 games than sit 5 games. Same with Casas.
  18. moonslav59
    Good point. Abreu-Ref would be LF and Anthony RF.
  19. moonslav59
    Lackey did okay, once he got over the injury, but we ended up trading him. Clement did well, before the freak injury. Others were Tiant, Eckersley, Saberhagen, Cone, Seaver, Jenkins, Viola, Moyer, Smoltz, Avery, Tom Gordon (to pen), Burkett, Frank Castillo, Portugal, Penny, Masterson & Dempsey
  20. moonslav59
    There is a lot of talk about trading the LHB Abreu, but maybe we trade Rafaela and go with Anthony in CF and Abreu in RF.
  21. moonslav59
    Of course. I'd say 99% for 2025, it's 3B Devers, 1B Casas and DH Yoshida/Ref. 2026, maybe it's 95%, but things might change. Even if Yoshida is off-loaded, I'd still doubt we move Devers or Casas to DH. They may "rest" some days, there some days, but not as a FT option or 2 man share. (Maybe we see an EValdez-Ref DH platoon in 2025, if we trade Yoshida.)
  22. moonslav59
    This makes sense, and Bloom did invest in the pen. He spent more AAV on Jansen ($16M) + Martin ($7.5M) than on total SP AAV for any year, I can remember. '23: $10M Kluber + $4M Paxton = $14M '22: $7M Wacha + $5M Hill +$6M Paxton= $16M '21: $10M Richards + $5M Perez= $15M
  23. moonslav59
    We could always just keep Yoshida and hope he hits better the rest of the way, take the hit on his contract, while not paying for him to play somewhere else. That likely means keeping casas at 1B and devers at 3B for 3 years, or trade Casas for pitching.
  24. moonslav59
    If Trout agreed to DH ONLY, I'd trade Yoshida, Story and Giolito straight up.
  25. moonslav59
    I read that Whitlock is open to doing whatever the medical staff recommends for him to stay healthy.
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