notin

Trade Betts now to any team that meets the lofty asking price...

Yes, but with Eovaldi, it was obvious. Price getting hurt was an unexpected development. Did you really think Eovaldi wasn’t going to? Do you think this is his last injury? What’s the over/under for starts in his four years?

He has 1.5 seasons left and is apparently on a quest for big money. Would you trade him?

He’s responsible for the worst use of $240mill since Spider-Man 3...

He was a success as a short term move, but the long term move is not likely to be so successful. His health history is not favorable at all ...

Yes but the mid season acquisition did help put them on the radar...

He’s going to have to make a decision himself before then. Trades don’t get thrown together in a coupe hours

He was. Short term...

Sorry. My time machine is acting up...

But Pearce and Eovaldi are still here...

For 72 hours, at which time he’ll get injured again...

That would be today...

Porcello, Moreland, Pearce, Holt and Nunez. The latter four get a wild card prospect at best. But more likely just a lot of Josh Tobias / Marcus Wilson types...

But only for short term...

So... give up on 2020 as well?

60 feet, 60 meters? Are these players so coddled they can’t handle a little conversion any more?

I think he put the biggest onus on Thunder...

So he’ll fit right in...

While I doubt the Sox are sellers, if they were, what expectations would anyone have for what they would sell?

You have to remember those were metric runs...

Does that figure include Castillo?

It was interesting to read him say it wasn’t always wise to bring back the same team. Did he forget about 2014?

Not to mention ERA doesn’t account for inherited runners from the starters...

When it comes to a better bullpen, there is an ocean-sized gray area between what the Sox have and the Yankees have...

But there is a one in three chance of the 9th inning starting with the bottom of the order. And even facing the 9-1-2 hitters, while not ideal, should place the opposing team in a one out-no one on situation before the leadoff hitter comes up. That’s a high probability win scenario. If about two-thirds of all save situations are 2 and 3 run leads, which is probably close to true most of the time, then that means about 30% of all save situations, the first hitter in the ninth bats 6th or beliw down multiple runs. That’s a high likelihood of a win right off the bat. And that also means the 3-4-5 hitter come up in the 7-8th, which is where the feat of the real damage can occur. I have no problem using the best reliever to get those better hitters in the 7-8th and saving a lesser pitcher for the ninth. But that lesser pitcher probably shouldn’t be a career minor leaguer. You still need an actual good pitcher out there. I was never opposed to getting a Kimbrel/Britton /Ottavino type, but I never liked limiting him to the 9th inning, because that’s not always where the game is on the line. And I was adamantly opposed to replacing the 120 IP lost from Kimberly and Kelly with Brewer and Walden. That was just flat out stupid...