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I meant "3B."

That's exactly how I see it. I'd love to be able to keep all our youthful depth. Depth is an important aspect of continued winning, but we have such a glaring weakness on this team, that we simply have to trade from strength to improve our weak area: pitching. I think the defense will improve without any outside additions, as long as we can stay healthy at middle infield. It may never be great, but I actually think the team defense could be near plus, if Story, Mayer and Rafaela stay healthy, all year. C: Wong, ___, Teel (minus) 1B: Casas, Romy (minus) 2B: Story, DHam-Romy (PLUS) SS: Mayer, Story-DHam (plus) 3B: Devers (minus) LF: Duran, Ref (PLUS) CF: Rafaela, Duran (PLUS) RF: Abreu, Rafaela (plus) DH: Yoshida, Ref/Devers/Casas We should be plus or PLUS at the most important positions, except Catcher, and minus at corner IF, also.

Duran is now 15th in OPS and just .003 from #14 Jose Ramirez. The sky seems to be the limit for this guy. 68 XBHs 31 SBs (only 4 CS) Very good defense.

I'm sure glad Casas finally said he was ready for the bigs, again. Duran has been buttah!

Agreed, and if you did a random generated sample, you'd find the same amount of select few that "had it" over their entire career. Even Papi had very similar career numbers with clutch or playoff numbers. Reggie Jackson, too.

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Yes, but I still think Mayer, Story, Romy, Sogard or even DHam may play 3B (edit) before Meidroth. It's no clear choice.

Anthony went 4 for 5 with an HR to bring his AAA OPS to .935. Campbell went 2-5. POR lost 1-0, but Dobbins pitched an excellent 6 IP. GRE won as Monegro 1 hit the opps in 5 IP (2BB & 8K) SAL won 8-7 Arias 2-5 w 2B Taylor 2-4 w HR & BB

He already said he was joking. He's for trading Mayer.

This isn't going to be easy. MIN and KCR are both tied at 70-55, and showing no signs of taking their foot off the gas. We all can see they have a tough schedule coming up, and even play each other, at some point, but to get back into this race, we need to take care of our own business. Hopefully, tonight is the start of a run. We are 4.5 GB KCR & MIN (4 in the loss column) We are 7.5 GB BAL (6 losses) We are 8.5 GB NYY (7 losses) One game at a time!

He won't be one of the two Sept call-ups.

KCR lost. The Yanks are getting ruffed up in the 12th. Let's hope this is the start of a comeback.

That was a big win, but we need more. Spring board this into something special!

Even 2nd and 3rd impressions.

Another HR.

We can't let this one slip away.

It's pretty common. When I used to be on BTV, almost all my trade suggestions gave more value than we got back. I'm not paying there, so I can't see the "values" anymore. That being said, I'd add a couple non 40 man higher ranked prospects to the package, if it's that close.

Mid Game with the Sea Dogs and... Anthony is 3-3 w HR Campbell 2-3 Monegro has a 1 hitter going for GRE in 5 IP (2BB & 8K)

Dobbins pitched a gem for POR. 6IP, 3H, 0ER, 1BB, 7K His ERA is down to 3.17. His .608 OPSA must have gone down, tonight. This is soxprospects.com's summary on Dobbins: Potential up-and-down depth starter or multi-inning reliever. Ceiling of a back-end starter. At his best, will show plus velocity and three secondary pitches that can all get hitters out. Has pitches that move in all directions and confidence that he can throw any of them for strikes. Effortful delivery brings injury and consistency concerns, and needs to improve his fastball command. Fastball can get hittable later in games, and he needs to show he can consistently get left-handed hitters out to profile as a starter, but has developed into one of the more intriguing arms in the system.

His 2024 4.09 FIP is better than... 4.18 Pivetta 4.19 Weissert 4.55 Bello 4.72 Wink 4.76 Crawford 4.78 Sims 4.88 Kelly 5.98 Horn 8.77 Garcia It is nearly as good as Bernardino's 4.01.

91 games in '22 (A-/A+) 78 games in '23 (A+/AA) 77 games in '24 (AA) (He was 20th in PAs on the farm, before this injury.)

2 HRs a game seems low, to me. It feels like 3-4 a game. The HR and unearned runs have killed us. No doubt. The rotation ha started to do better, but the pen has cancelled all gains.

MLBTR reports: Rob Refsnyder turns 34 next March, and the utilityman is considering calling it a career after the 2024 season comes to an end. Speaking with Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, Refsnyder said he is “undecided” about returning for what would be his tenth MLB season, and was even thinking about retirement even before he joined the Red Sox during the 2021-22 offseason. Once this year is over, Refsnyder said he’ll “take it step by step from there and decide what I do….You can still make a big impact not being in a uniform and it’s a lot easier for your family and their schedule.” As per the terms of the contract extension Refsnyder signed in June 2023, the Sox hold a $2MM club option ($150K) on his services for 2025. This option looks like a lock to be exercised if Refsnyder wishes to keep playing, as he has an excellent .298/.384/.472 slash line over 251 plate appearances in part-time duty for the Red Sox this season. Still, Refsnyder is eager to spend more time with his family, and is perhaps keen to start working towards his longer-term goal of working in a front office. I hope comes back. With O'Neill being a FA, we need his RHB.

On the theme of trading Casas, why not go bigtime? Casas, Anthony & Grissom for Kirby (4 arbs left) and Austin Voth (RP w 1 arb year left) SP: Kirby, Nate (FA), Houck, Bello, Gio, Crawford, Criswell/Priester/Fitts/Dobbins RP: Jansen (FA), Sewald (FA), Whitlock, Slaten, Hendriks, Voth, Wink, Fulmer/Crawford/Criswell/Bernardino/Kelly/Booser/Weissert/I Campbell/Guerrero/ Mata/ Murphy/ Horn 1. Duran LF (Ref) 2. Abreu-Refsnyder RF (Campbell) 3. Yoshida DH (EValdez) 4. Devers 1B (Romy) 5. Story SS (Mayer, DHam) 6. Mayer 3B (Meidroth) 7. Wony-Teel C (Gasper) 8. DHam-Romy 2B (Campbell) 9. Rafaela CF (Duran)

You forgot Gio, too. BTW, it's Fried not Fries. I don't think we go that large and long on a FA SP'er, although he is just 30. I like the 2.85 ERA since 2020, and the 3.13 FIP is not far off. 93 GS since 2021 (3.7 seasons) is about 25 GS and 149 IP per season. I think we go for an older pitcher at 1-2 years- like Nate.