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Right. How could I forget him?!? Also, Chase Anderson has been pretty good, before and after that one bad game: 2.77 ERA, 3.14 FIP and .516 OPS Against in the 6 games before April 25th's game. 0.00 ERA, 2.89 FIP and .297 OPS Against in the 3 games after April 25th.

Indeed. Maybe Olivarez, Benitez or Judice will surprise. Also, major leaguers in Slaten, Weissert and maybe Campbell.

What would Romero & Anthony get us? Sometimes, drafts don't work out as planned. We seem to focus on those drafts, a lot.

It would be very hard for him to be any worse.

Agreed.

But, but, but O'Neill has a better UZR/150.

O'Neill must not have known men were on base.

Here is an amazing stat: Team ERA- (Look at the difference between 1st and 2nd) 67 BOS 80 LAD 81 NYY, PHI 84 KCR 85 ATL Our SP'ers have a 59 ERA- (PHI second at 66, KCR 3rd at 78.) Some more bunched numbers FIP- 81 PHI 84 WSH 87 BOS 92 CLE, DET, MIN 93 SEA, BAL 94 KCR WHIP 1.07 SEA 1.10 LAD 1.11 BOS, BAL 1.15 DET 1.16 PHI

Copy cat.

I'd rather have O'Neill on D in LF than Duran. Rafaela in CF is the boost. Romy at SS is fine.

I really thought our defense was going to significantly improve, this year, but then Story and Grissom went down. Grissom is back and Rafaela/Romy have done fine at SS on D. The pitching has been shockingly good, when you look at all the injuries. I felt the O would be about 10th in MLB, despite the loss of JT. I figured O'Neill & Abreu would improve on Dugo enough to make up for part of JT's loss. I hoped Story and Grissom's improvement over last year's joke on O with our keystone combination, that we'd e at least even with 2023. The drop in league offense might mean we are not as bad as we look, comparatively, but here are some numbers: 15th in Runs (I know some want to point to the 17 run game as skewing the numbers, but take away a few runs from that and we'd still be around 16-18th.) 17th wRC+ (3 from 14th) 12th in OPS at .714 (.10th place is just .715) 11th in OBP (.317) 10th in SLG (.398) I'd say, overall, we are around average. Some more timely hitting and we can rise in the runs rankings.

MLB's top 18 prospects (updated): only 2 are pitchers. (10 of the next 38 are pitchers.)

Speaking of drafting under slot players to try and cash in later, how does getting Anthony that way, look? Maybe Anthony & Zanetello will work out well.

That's a decent defensive team.

Nope, and no Japanese team will offer nearly what he's getting with the Sox.

Speaking of splits: Sox vs RHPs 1.215 Refsnyder .951 Wong .947 Devers .929 Abreu .855 O'Neill .807 Casas .758 Duran .707 McGuire .582 Rafaela .297 Smith .289 Cooper .222 Grissom vs LHP 1.500 Smith (2 PA) 1.106 O'Neill 1.000 McGuire (7) .994 Casas .921 Wong .909 Cooper .751 Devers .732 Refsnyder .690 Rafaela .619 Romy .616 Yoshida .472 Abreu .455 Grissom .768 Yoshida

If he retired, he'd save the Sox some money... not that they'd spend it elsewhere.

MLB.com's updated top prospects list: 12. Mayer 18. Anthony 31. Teel BAL has 1, 14, 21, 23 TBR has 3, 17, 47, 87 NYY 32, 70, 76, 89 TOR 40, 71

True. It's dead, right now, but yes, not for the full season. Same with Whitlock, Hendriks and maybe someone comes back earlier than expected.

Top Farm OPS (90+ ABs) 1.169 Kavadas AAA .890 T Miller A+ .855 Paulino AA .809 Mayer AA .780 Westbrook AAA .769 Meidroth AAA .760 Teel AA .757 Yorke AA .756 Jordan AA .756 Yuten A- Notables: .719 Anthony AA .718 Castro A+ .662 Bleis A- .657 Hickey AAA 50-89 PAs & notables 1.083 M Lugo AA .954 K Campbell A+ .952 Jh Garcia .874 Gasper AA .496 Rosier AAA OPS Against (18+ IP) .457 Wehunt A- .536 Olivarez AA .556 Bastardo AA .562 Ingrassia A- .567 Dobbins AA .572 Wikelman AA .583 E R-C A- .587 Kwiatkowski AA/AAA .618 Penrod AA .620 Encarnacion .625 Paez A- .631 M Duffy A- .636 I Coffey .641 Cohen A- .660 Mullins A+ .677 Fitts AAA .706 N Dean A-

The $82M might be low. $65M IL + $17M Sale= 82M Then add... 4.2 Turner 2.0 Joely .74 Hosmer .14 Reyes .03 Gutierres .02 Jacques

Devers seems to have long stretches of being bad on D and also some short and long stretches of being pretty good on defense. I think he put together one full season of decent numbers. Let's hope this is his second one.

Cots has these numbers for more "dead money:" 17 Sale 4.2 Turner 2.0 Joely .74 Hosmer .14 Reys .03 Gutierres .02 Jacques About $25M added onto IL money that is "dead." Alive money: .70 for Bernardino .74 for Grissom, Slaten, Weissert & Abreu .76 for Wong, Duran, Wink, Houck and Casas .93 Criswell

Better suited for...

Yes, largely, but he did pitch ib 27 games, last year w SEA. 2.83 ERA 3.32 FIP 1.22 WHIP 104 K/9 4.3 BB/9 needed work