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  1. notin
    I actually am not a fan of that plan. I know you proposed platooning/rotating Duran and Rafaela in CF, but Duran is really not much of an OF. Hes the guy I wanted grabbing a 1b mitt for this reason. I can’t imagine SD will be the only team interested. Duran is coming off an incredible season, and really didnt hit that much early on last year. His current OPS is roughly where he ended last May. If he has a similar hot streak in the near future, combined with his salary and arb status/years of control, he could be worth a lot in a trade…
  2. notin
    Trading Duran is the best option IMO as well. Not sure why it wasn’t done this off-season, probably due to focusing more on moving Abreu. But there is interest now, albeit from a depleted San Diego organization…
  3. notin
    I know he’s not interested now, but at some point in the next 6 years the Sox could extend him and make that point moot. Unless the Sox clear a spot for him, or Abreu is seriously hurt, chances are against Anthony finishing anywhere near that high…
  4. notin
    I was on te short list with you advocating for dealing Duran. I don’t know if they tried, but clearly no deal was found. But give Duran SOME credit. He was g timing off an 8.7 bWAR season. Thats MVP level stuff (the award, not you). He could “decline” and still put up 6 bWAR. Duran’s worst season since 2022? Duran played 58 GAMES in 2022! Also Duran has 1.6 bWAR already in 2025, clearly ahead of the pace to pass his 2.2 bWAR in 2023. So really, he’s having his worst season since 2024. Who isnt? Sure Anthony has a ceiling of MVP level play, but Duran has that in his past…
  5. notin
    Did you have a point? I fail to see any issue here. Earlier this eeek, the Giants lost key player Matt Chapman for a but, probably not long. But they called Christian Koss, a career minor leaguer and one-time Sox farmhand. Yeah. Exciting. The Sox see injuries to Alex Bregman and Wilyer Abreu, and instead of calling up a career minor leaguer or AAAA player (like they had to for Casas), they call up two of the top ten prospects in MLB. This is a good thing. How is this a roster construction issue?
  6. notin
    Right. The whole thing went down smoothly and thankfully John Henry didn’t have to get involved…
  7. notin
    And ROY is so dependent on other factors. Anthony could have come up with April and posted 3.0 fWAR already and he still might not win ROY, since Jacob Wilson is off to an even better start…
  8. notin
    There were a few of us posting this. I proposed a deal to Philly for Cristofer Sanchez that made a ton of sense for both teams. But plenty on this forum were not so willing to see the Sox trade their second best player…
  9. notin
    I think the biggest mess was not moving Devers to 1b right away. Casas ihas always been more injury prone and it’s not like his glove was locking down the position. If Devers was awful, what was the worst case? Status quo at 1b? If it gets a Gold Glove 3b into the mix, definitely worth it…
  10. notin
    And it is so horrible to be able to cover those injuries with prospect depth. What the fire truck is going on here?
  11. notin
    Goofed how? They still had Duran, Rafaela and Abreu. Since Cora said Rafaela will be in CF “as much as possible”, that eliminated one starting role already. Reportedly they tried to deal Abreu this offseason. Not sure if there was no interest or insufficient interest. But if their only option there was to trade Abreu for far less value, should they have? Trading Duran absolutely made the most sense, and I’m not sure if they tried. But the same reason trading him made sense (clear high after 8 bWAR season) also made it difficult to trade him because he became immensely popular. Campbell made the team because his path was the easiest. It took multiple injuries to get Mayer up…
  12. notin
    I assumed the primary reason they didn’t promote him was the outfield appeared to be set. Maybe they figured in time someone will lose their job or get hurt. And it happened; it just took over 2 months. Campbell got promoted earlier because he only had to beat out Romy and Hamilton. Mayer didn’t get the call until the Sox almost ran out of infielders. I was being sarcastic about Boston keeping Anthony down. The Sox absolutely didn’t keep him down to prevent him from winning ROY. Zero chance of that. Probably less..
  13. notin
    Let’s say he does start raking, or at least hits bare minimum well enough that he shouldn’t be demoted. What should Boston do when Abreu comes back?
  14. notin
    If he wins, he does gain service time and he’s been reluctant to make that matter moot with an extension. On the other hand, it also means he plays very well, which should be good for both the team and business…
  15. notin
    Yeah they would hate it if he performed so well. That’s probably why they took so long to promote him…
  16. notin
    Right now he’s now even the ROY front runner on the Red Sox…
  17. notin
    Not with Toro looking like Wade Boggs minus the chicken, adultery, pornstache, and movie resume. But it doesn’t change that it was an immature and selfish move by Devers. Of course, if Anthony starts hitting and Toro continues, will you feel the same when Abreu comes back to reclaim RF and Anthony gets banished to Worcester?
  18. notin
    Well if Aaron Boone sets his lineup that way, the math is clearly wrong…
  19. notin
    Can he get his first hit before we launch conspiracy theories about how the Red Sox do not want him winning ROY?
  20. notin
    Some of those DFA pitchers Bloom brought in turned out to be pretty good elsewhere. Littell is an obvious one. Joel Payamps was terrific for Milwaukee until this year…
  21. notin
    We can question the values, but the real issue with OPS is the number is completely unquantifiable. If you see a BA of .300, you know that translates to 3 hits every 10 at bats. A SLG of .400 translates to 4 total bases every 10 at bats. An OBP of .350 is 35 times on base for every 100 PA. But what does an OPS of .900 translate to? It’s just a “bigger is better” stat…
  22. notin
    Took some time, but it is good to see Blaze hitting well. For a while he looked like his future involved getting left unprotected for the Rule 5 draft…
  23. notin
    Duran looks bad in LF. I could see them trying Anthony over him in CF. As for Rafaela, it’s possible they figured either Ben him him or moving him to the infield to cover for an injured infielder was exactly what was going to get Anthony in the lineup. Numerous folks on here suggested benching Rafaela at various times; it’s not much of a stretch…
  24. notin
    Well, they might have considered CF his most likely opportunity. Rafaela didn’t enter the season with any sort of offensive stronghold in the lineup and is the only outfielder with infield experience since college (just go with it), making him easiest to move. Maybe that was why he played CF? Not like Abreu’s injury was planned (as far as I know)…
  25. notin
    Toro has made Devers look a lot better, but Devers certainly wasn’t thinking about Toro when he commented about it being Breslow’s job to go get a 1b…
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