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  1. moonslav59
    I mentioned that in another post, and we may decide to DH him 8-10 times rather than give him 4-6 off days, since we need hos power bat in as many games as possible. (This assumes he hits lefties well enough, otherwise- just give him 4-6 days off against tough lefties and never DH him.)
  2. moonslav59
    And the teams with better hitting need to be consistently good at that all season.
  3. moonslav59
    Agreed. I seriously doubt had we gotten Breggie (or Suarez) first, we'd have offered any more than we did for Alonso, had his talks been afterwards.
  4. moonslav59
    Are you saying you'd have given Arias, Tolle and Early for Neto? (3 "suspects" for a 2 year wonder/proven asset)
  5. moonslav59
    Less than two weeks later we traded for Contreras. (Yes, Alonso was first choice at 1B, but the limits of wanting to also sign Breggie- their plan A- probably kept them for getting both.)
  6. moonslav59
    You are basing your choice on who you think is best and adds more value. In a sense, you think Devers maximizes efficiency. I happen to think the 3 guys listed adds about the same value but in 2 different ways: 1. different positions 2. spreading the value added over 3 slots vs 1 slot.
  7. moonslav59
    The lines and odds are set by how many people are betting on one outcome vs the others. The bettors set the odds-- not some vastly superior ranking system.
  8. moonslav59
    DHing Abreu so Duran can play the OF is not an option.
  9. moonslav59
    No.
  10. moonslav59
    No way they felt Harrison was going to equal Devers. You are correct.
  11. moonslav59
    Perhaps, but until we add a RP'er, I think some starters will begin the year in the pen and not in AAA. Plus, AAA does not start at the same time as MLB.
  12. moonslav59
    I think Brez was working hard to get a big bat- KMarte, Paredes, Neto and maybe some we never heard about. I think he knows the offense is going to be under a microscope and any failing will be on him. Call that "heat" or pressure to improve, but I think he knows where our weak spots are. He will not be given a pass. he shouldn't get one. I will say this: I've never seen a Sox GM make more moves and changes in less than 3 years, and I'm talking trades/signings and systemic & philosophical changes. Now, one can argue the amount of trades/signings may not be a good thing, when so many were not top quality players or even somewhat quality- some were busts.
  13. moonslav59
    Teams usually will grossly overpay for pitching, so maybe we can swing a deadline deal- maybe through a third team- where we give a pitcher to a contender- they send prospects to team 2 and we get a big bat.
  14. moonslav59
    It's closer than you think. If Devers was a plus defender it would be better.
  15. moonslav59
    For what we gave up for Contreras, I think it was the right choice, but the context of not adding another big bat is what hurts the most. I like that we improved a lot on defense and with pitching, and overall we are plus over 2025, but I had hopes for bigger gains and more focused additions. I like saying quality over quantity. While many of Brez's trades were sideways, we basically added 5-6 pieces, instead of the the 3-4 higher quality guys I hoped for. Suarez, Gray and oviedo could have just been Suarez or Suarez and Oviedo. (1 or 2 not 3) Contreras, Durbin & I K-F could have been Neto and Contreras or Alonso & Durbin, or Bregman and Contreras. (2 not 3.)
  16. moonslav59
    I doubt they wanted all 4 of those prospects, but if so, the answer was a no brainer- NO! I would not trade 3 of those 4. I don't trade 2, if they were both Tolle & Early.
  17. moonslav59
    I really wanted Alonso and maybe more than Bregman, but once we lost out on both, I was happy with the pivot to Suarez. Had we added Neto, Paredes or KMarte, we'd be stronger than with Durbin- for a while, anyway. Let's see how improved pitching and defense works out. Can it outweigh the dynamic of losing 1000 PAs from Devers, Breggie and Ref and adding maybe 600 from Contreras and maybe 400 more from Anthony.
  18. moonslav59
    This is one way to look at it. If Gray and Contreras do not do well, one could come back to this in September and say, "I'd rather have Devers than Contreras and Gray."
  19. moonslav59
    I have us ranked about 5th or 6th in MLB. I'm not seeing that as "massive." I had hopes we could get to #3-4 with just 3 major moves. We made one major move (Suarez) and two semi-major moves (Contreras & Gray.) We need some things to go right, as all teams do. I think we have more fall-back options than most teams, if someone gets hurt, especially with the rotation. Our OF is four FT'ers deep. Suddenly, our infield has decent depth, but is lacking in star power (emphasis on power.) Our pen looks solid but not very deep. 1B is not very deep, unless Casas and Romy are healthy. Our catching position has more depth than before.
  20. moonslav59
    They may have "went after Alosno first," because he was about to sign, and we had to decide. I think Bregman was always our top choice, and that is why we would not bid highly for Alonso. I doubt we'd get both, but with no Contreras ($18M) I K-F ($6m) and no Suarez ($24M), maybe we could have afforded both. Maybe not. We may have had to have said no to Gray to get Alonso & Bregman. I'd rather have Suarez and Breggie or Suarez and Alonso than two everyday players and just Oviedo.
  21. moonslav59
    I'm glad we kept trying, and maybe the demands were too overwhelming. Maybe not.
  22. moonslav59
    I share the deep concerns about our constant unwillingness to make deadline moves. To me, it is a reflection of our GM's refusal to overpay (Money and or prospects) for top talent. We have seen it played out in all the near miss FA non signings, but also in trade talks like Neto and Paredes, KMarte and others. At the deadline, the overpay part of trade talks are amplified, hence the stand pat results, year after year. There is merit in not grossly overpaying for "the one guy," and when you think maybe one guy might not be enough, anyway, it does make some sense to just say no, but at some point you just gotta agree to overpay. On Schwarber, the thing was, it was NOT an overpay. We got him cheaply due to his injury. Aldo Ramirez was not a big chip. We got lucky, in some ways. The Pivetta trade was a dump of Workman, so that does not count.
  23. moonslav59
    We might still have more deadline trade chips than others on this list, especially if we have unusually good health with our SP'ers.
  24. moonslav59
    Kutter may outpitch Cole in 2026, so would that still keep the Yanks one step up or two steps back.
  25. moonslav59
    On defense... Rafaela>Abreu>>Anthony>>Duran Duran should DH the most of all OF'ers with Anthony second. Abreu should only DH as a mechanism to get him rest while keeping one of the few power bats we have in the line-up more often. Rafaela should never DH for obvious reasons. (I'd avoid playing him at 2B unless as an ingame emergency/flex issue.)
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