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This could all happen by mid or late season '25. I do think replacing RHB O'Neill with LHB Anthony would necessitate a trade of LHB Abreu for pitching, and we'd have to add a big RHB, somewhere. We are loaded, everywhere but 2B/SS, unless you think Story will rebound or Campbell jumps the LHB Mayer. I'm not sure they view Gasper as being the back-up, or they would be playing him at catcher, now, more than Heineman. I'm not sure Luetge is all that good, and I still have hopes ICampbell or Weissert. We might also see Sandlin, Fitts, Dobbins or Murphy rise up and win a slot on the 26, at some point in '25.

He gave up nothing I will fret about and got something useful, including a pitcher with 6 years of control (Priester.) I like the overall moves. I wish we had done more, but I don't know what teams were asking for what was out there. I can't help but think we could have offered more that what Fedde got, without going top 8 or 9, but who knows. We still have the same long term hopes and are better off in 2024.

According to soxprospec ts.com, we lost the following ranked prospects near the deadline: 12. Yorke (might have moved up to 10-11) 13. Lugo 15. Paulino 28. C Coffey 29. Portes 37. Zeferjahn 50. Walter (DFA) Other than moving up by attrition, I doubt we see many major jumps or falls. I'm guessing they go like this (not my picks:) 1. Anthony (1) 2. Mayer (2) 3. Teel (3) 4. Campbell (5, was 22) 5. Bleis (4) 6. Perales (6) may fall some, due to injury 7. Cespedes (6) injury will not help 8. Sandlin (9, was 12) 9. Fitts (8, was 9) 10. Meidroth (11, was 14) 11. Arias (14, was 25) 12. E R-C (16, was 23) 13. Zanetello (10, was 13) 14. Jh Garcia (23, was 49) 15. Castro (17, was 15) 16. Dobbins (21, was 24) 17. Early (24, was 47) 18. Jo Garcia (18) 19. Jordan (19, was 16) 20. Mullins (27, was 42) 21. Romero (26, was 27) 22. Valera (42, was NR) 23. D Reyes (43, was NR) 24. B Horn (32, -) 25. J Paez (38, 48) 26. Gonzalez (20, was 8) 27. Monegro (25, was 21) 28. Ascensio (NR) 29. Riemer (NR) 30. N Dean (46, NR) 31. Wehunt 32. Guerrero (30, was 28) 33. L Cohen 34. Ingrassia 35. D Kirwin 36. I Coffey 37. Hickey (33, 17) 38. Gambrell (34, 32) 39. Rogers (52, 37) 40. S Nunez (53) Dropped from top 30: Penrod (22, was 35)

Yes, I've mentioned it being a waste to have a platoon DH and take up two roster spots, but consider this: Yoshida does not play OF, anymore, and he's worse than Ref in the OF. EValdez is likely just as bad at 2B as Yoshida is in LF, but 2B gets more chances to be exposed. I guess EValdez can play LF about as badly as Yoshida, so if we replaced Yoshide with Valdez, not much changes, except Ref DHs vs LHPs and not corner OF. That means we need another RHB for 25, like maybe O'Neill extended. Either way, Yoshida isn't going anywhere, so Valdez should. He won't bring back much, but he does have an excellent bat vs RHPs.

For sure. I hope we do more deals like this. We need to trade from excess strength areas to beef up our pitching, even if some don't work out. We still have duplicated values that can't possibly all play near FT over the next 2-3 years: OF: Duran, Rafaela, Abreu (Ref '25>Campbell '26), Anthony, EValdez 2026 or later: Jh Garcia, Montgomery, Castro 2027 or later: Cespedes (infield?) Bleis Middle IF is more mediocre, but still has quantity (although some may end up in the LF) Story, Mayer, DHam, Romy, Grissom, EValdez (LF/DH) Meidroth 2026 or later: Campbell ('25?) Romero, Riemer 2027 or later: Cespedes, Zanetello, Arias, Alcantara C/DH: Gasper, Hickey, Jo Garcia, Brannon

There will always be hindsight complaining, if Yorke turns into a peppermint patty and Priest is defrocked. I like the strategy. So far, I like this deal and hope we make more like it.

Anthony (3-4 w BB) with 2 dingers, tonight. Promote him! Campbell & Teel 2-5 No Mayer in line-up. Sikes 3-5 w HR ICoffey is 8-2 (3.84) after 5 IP, 3H, 2ER, 3BB, 2K GRE is up 7-0 through 5. E R-C: 5IP, 3H, 0ER, 1BB, 3K Romero 3-3 w HR & 2B (.832, now) Bleis 2-3 Gotta think some guys will be promoted to fill the holes of traded players- not just for that reason, but because they have earned it and could use a greater challenge. Anthony, Mayer, Teel & maybe Campbell, Jordan or Dobbins to AAA Maybe... Jh Garica, Castro, Romero & E R-C to AA Valera, Cohen (maybe Dean) and Arias to GRE

Devers' smile is a repeatable skill!

I mentioned that, but I still think .872 does not detract from "unbelievable" all year long. BTW, clutch is not a skill set.

More Devers numbers: 2nd in IBB with 9 (Seager at 10) 3rd in ISO .300 3rd SLG at .606 4th in XBH 55 (Duran is 3rd at 58) 5th in OPS .900 (.002 from Whitt) 8th in OBP .384 (.001 from Kwan) 9th in BA .306 (.003 from a tie for 6th) 9th in HRs 24 17th in RBI 69 (5 from 8th and 8 from 4th)

He went 1 month at .872, but failed to get many hits w RISP. It just seemed like a small sample size to get so critical about.

Of course, the Yanks, Twins and Royals all won. (The O's lost.)

.872 APR (3 Hrs 7 RBI) .919 MAY (7-19) 1.015 JUN (8-19) 1.107 (JUL 6-23 before tonight)

Yes, his .940 mark on June 30th sucked. (JUst joshin' ya.)

Not to take anything away from the great season Duran has had, Mr. Devers has been unbelievable, all year long, but even more so, of late. He's up to .990! (5th best in MLB and by far his career high.)

If Devers could only get a hit with men in scoring position! Oooops...wait...

Talk about "drama!" I get the strong feeling, we better score, here, of a big L could be our fate.

"Always" is a harsh word. Kenley did carry us for a long time, and had a 21 game stretch from April 20th to July 3rd, where he pitched in 21 games, finished 18 of them and went 3-1 with 12 saves. He could not have had that much drama by only allowing 14 hits and 3 BBs in almost 22 IP (0 HRs) and a .439 OPS Against. He sucked to start the season, and ha ssucked since July 4th. He has not always sucked.

DHam did a wonderful job for us, over a pretty long period of time. His speed was a lethal weapon, too. I'm wondering, if he can still be "that guy." Before today's 0-4, he has struggled, a lot, for over a month. (22 games and 75 PAs) .186 0 3 (.240 OBP .243 SLG .483 OPS and just 5 SBs) I'm not sure Romy and Sogard can combine to do better. I'm not sure Grissom even gets another look, in 2024. We might be back to square one at 2B, after a short break of optimism.

O'Neill has been blundering on D, too, recently.

He has done very well for two months. .271 5 21 in 36 games started since May 31st. .362 OBP is one of the best on the team since then .481 SLG is decent. .843 is what we were getting from Casas. I'm glad we did not just "settle" on Cooper. Sometimes, dumpster diving works: sometimes, it does not.

Smith can hit doubles in his sleep.

Valera with yet another gem: 4IP 1H 0ER 1BB 1K Last 4 starts: 17 IP 1 H 0 ER 3 BB 18 K (Blanco let up 2 unearned runs to lose the win.) Anderson with 2 errors. Zanetello homered

We can argue all day about what Brez did at this deadline. It is likely we argue for weeks and months- maybe longer. Let's take a look at what our closest competitors did at the deadline: How did these teams improve their 2024 outlook? TEX may not be a competitor and they did next to nothing to improve their 2024 team. TBR sold more than bought, so I will skip them. CLE made a couple moves, which is kind of rare, for them: Lane Thomas Alex Cobb (They will likely win the division, so are not really going against us for a WC slot) To the real competitors: MIN Trevor Richards (no big add) Did less than BOS KCR Lucas Erceg Michael Lorenzen Paul DeJong I'd say this is pretty close to what BOS did. HOU Yusei Kikuchi Caleb Ferguson A lot depends on Kikuchi, but I'd say the Astros did slightly better than BOS. (Close call) SEA looks like the did a lot to improve. They certainly DID A LOT! Randy Arozarena Yimi Garcia Justin Turner JT Chargois I'd say they did better than BOS for 2024. NYY Jazz Chisholm Mark Leiter Jr Looks better than BOS BAL Zach Eflin Trevor Rogers Seranthony Dominguez (for Austin Hays) Austin Slater Eloy Jimenez Gregory Soto The O's look like they did the most to improve and way more than BOS, but of course all of this is just on paper.

He certainly still has some significant hope. Pitchers often take time to develop. I think he was a good attempt at balancing the farm. We traded a decent batting prospect for a decent pitcher, who has 6 years of control- like a prospect does. It was a good try, and now we wait and see if it works. Even if Yorke does great, and Priester just okay, it might still be worth it, since we are backed up at LF/DH and marginal defensive 2Bmen.