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Considering every team has avoided him to date, what makes you so sure?

JD won’t be leaving for a while. Even if he opts out, the Sox will re-sign him. No one else was very interested in him last year when he was coming off a career best season, and he’s probably Dombrowski’s biggest success as a reclamation project...

Not a big Gio Gonzalez fan, but a minor league deal with or without an opt out would be fine with me...

Even if Verlander won the Cy Young - and I thought Kluber was the better candidate- it doesn’t change the fact that Porcello was inarguably a legitimate candidate. Don’t lump all non-Cy Young winners together into one big category where they are all equal. Porcello was absolutely outstanding that year, hardware or not...

. I plan on proliferating the “mvp78 is a slimy lawyer” mantra...

Oh S5 is an unabashed eye test advocate. That argument has transcended multiple message boards...

Blair also played incredibly shallow CF. He was usually maybe 100 feet or less behind 2b. The only other players I ever saw who rivaled him there were Lee Mazzilli and Terry Puhl and Rick Manning. Those are some names I never thought I’d mention again...

Paul O’Neill. The kid asked him to hit 2 HRs (which O’Neill complained about). O’Neill hit one and then had a triple with an error, so the kid refused to give back Steinbrenner’s birthday card that George accidentally gave him...

As for this part of the response, Michael Taylor might be a good replacement for JBJ if the latter cannot be re-signed. He’s another no bat/all glove CF with some occasional pop and is blocked by younger players with more control, so he will continue to be available until he’s moved. Basically he’s a right-handed Bradley...

You don’t have to prove it. JBJ proves his worth with his defense every season. Even fWAR agrees and it doesn’t matter if they value some other CFs defense more. All that matters is JBJ keeps doing what he’s doing. And I will say, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many fans get worked up about the offensive contributions from the #8 hitter as they do with JBJ...

And whether he thinks Chavis is “ready” or not doesn’t take into consideration that 3 of the Sox 5 players with 2b experience (not counting Pearce) are on the IL. There’s no reason to not bulk up Chavis’ experience with some OJT...

A moment of lucidity. We don’t know everything and the media sometimes gives us partial quotes, and even then can’t print intonation.

I think it’s impossible to really know if CF X doesn’t make some play that JBJ makes. He does make some great ones, but we’ve all seen other CFs do that. It’s just that because we watch JBJ more, we see him do it more often. But for example, one of Bradley’s best was that robbed HR of Aaron Judge at Fenway last year. Definitely a play that inspires comments like “no other CF makes that play. But then we also saw Austin Jackson duplicate that play against the Sox. But as any of us rarely bother with watching Jackson unless he’s playing the Sox, it’s easier to write it off as a lucky fluke play. All of the CFs I mentioned are extremely gifted defenders, but that doesn’t take anything away from Bradley, who shouldn’t be traded regardless. Really the only one who makes plays no other CF makes is Laureano, because none of them have that cannon he has where most people have a right arm. Did you see his 8-2-4 double play this week? He covered a ton of ground before he leapt up and robbed a HR from the hitter. Turned around and threw the ball over 380 feet overthrowing the first baseman from deep left-center on the warning track. The catcher then backed it up and nailed the runner at second. Or his 350 foot strike to first last year that sailed back to the base in the air to double off Eric Young. THOSE are plays no other CF makes. But neither of those plays make Bradley any worse in CF. And as Bradley bats 8th, I can live with whatever he does at the plate...

Or the bad 26 at bats by the rest of the team?

Bradley’s defense is outstanding, but there are quite a few CFs who are close or as good, including Kiermaier, Pillar, Buxton, Hamilton, Taylor, and Inciarte. And Laureano might be more exciting than any of them...

Still more complicated. But certainly possible...

The only people who can accurately predict the future are the ones who make it. Everyone else is just using varying degrees of education to make guesses...

Shane Greene has saved all 10 Tiger victories and is on pace for 81 saves...

But by virtue of requiring multiple trades, you’re already creating a more complex scenario. It might work out better. It might not. But already it requires 3 GMs to agree to moves as opposed to just two...

Very true. I believe Travis Shaw is the only exception. I would actually expect Dalbec to be the one dealt, but Devers would easily get a bigger return...

He bats 8th and lower. I think some fans need to stop hoping to fix the bottom of the batting order where the fewest plate appearances come from...

Maybe. But if $$$ becomes an issue, who is this minimum wage DH from within? Chavis?

That’s along the lines of where I’m going here. They aren’t going to get a good SP for anyone else except maybe Benintendi, and then the Sox would need to replace Benintendi as well. I think Dalbec comes closer to replacing Devers than anyone on the farm comes to replacing Benintendi...

Bullpen arm or arms is really, really dependent on the names involved. If Milwaukee didn’t want to pay Josh Hader and offered him for Devers, would you reject it?

Why not? If you look at the Sox farm, who is most likely to be able to replace (most of) their MLB counterpart next season?