On the “Former Sox Trade Front,” Drew Pomeranz is headed to Milwaukee, Mauricio Dubon to San Francisco, and Hunter Strickland and Roenis Elias are both headed to Washington.
But no real news about anything from Dombrowski...
2 1/2 hours until the deadline and so far today has been as uneventful as the off-season. Nate Jones, Jesus Aguilar, Martin Maldonado, Tony Kemp, and Jacob Faria are the biggest names changing shirts so far today...
As much as I’ve been disappointed in DD’s “activity” this season, so far by getting Cashner, he’s made the biggest pitching addition of all the team’s within 4 games of the postseason...
He might be out for multiple weeks. This can put a serious wrench into Yankee trading, as Encarnacion would take 1b full time and primary tradebait Clint Frazier might have to DH...
While I think Kimbrel is slowing down from his Cooperstown Pace, it might be worth considering he would be doing better had he actually gone to Spring Training somewhere...
The Sox did won that series 4-1. It’s possible that if Benintendi misses that ball, they win 4-2.
And they even might have still won game 4. At best Bregman’s “hit” would have tied the score.
Any argument about “momentum shift” is countered by reminding you how much losing that 18 inning World Series Kinsler game shifted momentum...
Technically it was a solid young player entering his arbitration years for a solid young (albeit struggling) reliever entering his likely less expensive arbitration years and a solid pre-arb everyday player who plays a position the Sox have no internal solution for (except Chavis, who can misfield multiple positions equally)...
I think the Yankees land Ray or Boyd. I’m sticking to the Sox getting Lynn. Dombrowski likes starting pitching and really, that’s the team’s biggest need. Adding a reliever would just be another arm getting burned out by SP continuing to fail to get out of the fifth inning.
I don’t think it’s shaky, but it’s certainly a questionable move.
The main reason not to do it is the absolute dearth of OF prospects in the Sox system. This team right now is more likely to find bullpen solutions from within than they are outfielders...