Jack Flap
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I don't know why Prado-to-the-Red-Sox rumors are even a thing...he's not that good, overpaid, and would clog up a roster spot through 2019. Just find a competent rental type for third base without going crazy, or if that's not possible, call up Devers. The end.
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What a bum...another overrated prospect, clearly. Angels should have traded him when they had the chance.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. During the last series against the Angels, I was thinking about Pujols and his .664 OPS...he's 37 and making $26 million this season and is still owed $114 million for 2018-21. Pure insanity.
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...maybe this trade was better than I thought...
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I know he's on the SoxProspects.com forums and still posts there from time to time.
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That's basically how I feel. IMO: -He hasn't been good for 2 years. -Even when he was good, he was a tad overrated (not a top-tier ace like someone like Sale, but more a #2 type). -Knowing Dombrowski, any move for Gray would devastate what's left of the farm. -And above all, as you say, we need a 3B far more than we do another SP. Given all of the above, I'd pass. I see the Fister pickup as exactly the kind of move we need to be making to shore up the rotation at the moment.
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Pomeranz is definitely on a roll lately, which is great to see. Am I the only one kind of worried by these recent whispers of Red Sox interest in Sonny Gray?
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"Providing more than Marrero" is a really low bar to clear...there are still a few things we can try before turning to Devers, IMO (Peralta being one of them). I trust the team to call Devers up when they believe he's ready and not before. All recent comments from Dombrowski and Farrell seem to indicate he'll see some time in Pawtucket before coming to Boston, which is perfectly reasonable.
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I started an international signings thread a few weeks back that didn't generate any interest, but here's what MLB.com has to say about Flores: The other really interesting prospect we're expected to sign is Danny Diaz:
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Price went 6 innings with 2 earned runs in that start, and I've heard nothing indicating he won't be able to make his next one...so I'm not really sure what the problem is.
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Something tells me Chavis is going to be trade bait this summer...not that I'm wishing for that (how often do we see a power display like this in our system?), but he's behind Devers on the 3B depth chart, he doesn't really have a real positional home or clear path to the majors at the moment, and his value may be the highest it's ever going to be. Sounds like a guy Dombrowski wouldn't hesitate to move.
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This seems like the most realistic timeline to me as well. Hopefully Peralta gets a chance in the near future...I'm not expecting anything great from him, but he's been adequate offensively in the fairly recent past (90 wRC+ in 2016, 104 two years ago). If all we're looking for is someone who can hit better than Marrero, as people keep saying, then it's certainly worth a shot before rushing Devers up.
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He had an .802 OPS in April, .867 in May, and .803 in June (not updated for today, I presume). We've yet to see him at his best, but he's hardly having a bad year.
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Yup. I hate watching us piss away winnable games (at home against the Trout-less Angels, no less) we're going to need down the road. On the bright side, Fister looked good...it'd be nice to have a #5 we can rely on for 6 innings, 3 runs, and no drama.
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At the time I thought it was a lot to give up for a closer - still kind of do, but the way Kimbrel has performed this year and the way the market for good relief pitching has boiled over since then (look at what Theo gave up for a 3-month rental of Chapman, among other examples) makes the deal a lot easier to swallow. Ultimately I think it will probably belong in the same bucket as the Sale trade, where both teams will likely end up pretty happy with what they got. The real f***-up, in retrospect, was not signing Miller before the 2015 season. That was a perfect opportunity to solidify the back end of the pen for a few years to come, but Cherington seemed to be relying on Koji to continue being immortal at that point without any real plan to replace him. Also, I have the biggest pecker in this discussion.
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Boston will only owe Peralta a pro-rated portion of the league-minimum salary for any time he spends in the majors, with the Cards responsible for the rest of the $10MM he’s owed in 2017. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/06/red-sox-sign-jhonny-peralta.html
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Chavis homered on the first pitch of his first at-bat in Double-A.
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Not splashy ones, obviously, but yeah. If Fister is any better than Velazquez/Kendrick/Owens and Peralta is any better than Marrero/Rutledge, then we've improved the team without giving up a thing. At the very least, we'll have a better idea of what our needs are as the deadline inches closer. Both could be utter flops, of course, but from where I'm sitting it sure beats complacency.
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The Big D is making some moves today.
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Peter Abraham is reporting that Fister is joining the major league roster, though whether starting or in relief is unclear. (I would presume he'd be replacing Velazquez...)
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https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/06/red-sox-claim-doug-fister-off-release-waivers.html
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2017 MLB Draft Thread
Jack Flap replied to Jack Flap's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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I definitely agree. I think all options should be considered between now and the deadline, but things are hardly so dire right now that we need to rush into something hasty and dumb.
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Reports at the time were that the Red Sox were furious about the deception, and the league obviously thought it was serious enough to offer to reverse the trade...so it always sat wrong with me that the Red Sox were really offered a non-solution of sending Pomeranz back in the midst of a playoff race with the trade deadline already passed and no way to address the resulting hole in their rotation. I always thought Dombrowski should have pressed for other options beyond the binary choice he was given, such as keeping Pomeranz until the end of the season and being able to reverse or restructure the deal at that point.