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Especially since a lot of dust hasn’t settled yet. Did we already lose Priester for 17yo Yophery Rodriguez, John Holobetz, and the pick that was Marcus Phillips? I think when it comes to bad Sox trades, the focus is Sale, Betts and Devers, probably exclusively in many eyes. The problem is, none of these deals were done for the sole purpose of collecting talent…

I do think they can afford to deal Bello. I don’t think it’s likely. Bello (1.9 fWAR in 166 IP) is easily replaced by Early (1.1 fWAR in 14 IP).

No. I am questioning your whole logic of “they signed an injured Hendriks to be the closer. They got lucky Chapman was able to fill in.” This might be worse than your “the Sox only re-signed Kike because he was good in the postseason.” So you really thought they ignored his elite performance as a center fielder and ignored his versatility and only re-signed him because he had a couple multi-hit games on October? And now - so the Sox gave Chapman over $11mill without a role in mind? Next you’ll be telling us the Sox weren’t even aware Chapman has ever closed games. Also - maybe it’s time to just drop the “Sox got lucky with Chapman” idiocy. The Sox gave him lots of money for some reason. And if you truly believe Henry is cheap, then you should also believe he is not a fan of 8- figure lottery tickets on relief pitchers. It’s actually ok to admit you don’t know why some moves are made. No one else here does either. Most of us just don’t pretend to so as to fit everything into our personal understanding of the game. As for inside info, I have none. Even if I mention having sources, I facetiously refer to them as non-existent. I never blatantly fabricate motives for the Sox and try to pass them off as history. If I do try to understand their motivation for anything, I always present it as conjecture. And I am probably as in touch with the interior motives as any of us here, which is barely at all…

You’re making me feel better about some of my jokes…

It doesn’t even take much to go Fangraphs Roster Resource and see what does and doesn’t make sense. Even I do that, and I only post on one individual Red Sox Forum with posts read by maybe dozens of folks that don’t block me. This blog was written as a website feature. With his actual name attached! And he still came out with “let’s go get an All Star with the players from the back of the roster.” If I wrote something like that in that forum, I’d change my name, delete my account, and separate from baseball entirely while I pretended the only sport I ever cared about was marble racing…

It’s a truly horrible trade proposal. I’m not even looking at BTV. I put that data in there, and I’m going to find that fifth outcome, the one that isn’t “Fair trade,” “major overpay”, “minor overpay” and “trade rejected.” No, this one should scoot past all those and land right on “This cannot be f***ing serious.” How is it supposed to happen? “Hey Boston, we have a mildly effective but massively overpaid middle reliever and an aging AAA journeyman who pitched well out of the pen last year for the first time in 5 years. Can we send them to you for an outfielder who’s been worth over twice as many WAR in the last two years as the young superstar were trying to build our franchise around? Oh, thats not enough? Maybe if we through in a back of the rotation arm that barely cracked our own top ten prospects and has only had TJ surgery once and is entering his age 27 season? (And isn’t even universally listed as a top ten Brewer guy.) Does that make it enough? Still no? Well exactly how many table scraps are we supposed to swap for an All Star who would easily be our team MVP?” Does he even know anyone on the Sox roster? He literally says Gasser fills a need in the backend of the Sox rotation. Sure, the Sox need backend starters. Big need there. Also, this post needs to inject a little sarcasm to get the point across. If the Sox offered Crawford and Wong for Peralta, this same Brewers fan would likely deem it an insulting offer. And he’d be right. It is. But it’s also ten times better than his proposal for Duran..

Chandler? Burns? Isn’t it a bit “Early” to give up on what we already have? I know I know. But I’m trying…

Well look at you once again with the inside info on why moves were made. Probably never been right about, but it’s inspiring that you keep trying anyway…

f***ing ‘86 Mets!

1. He’s nice to his mother. 2. He exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide, which is good for plants. 3. The Sox have a barren void in the middle of an arid wasteland when it comes to catching prospects.

Do trades ever have insignificant asks?

I see you want the #2. (rimshot)

Just because you only know how to make one dish doesnt mean it’s the only one everyone can make. And - you’re dead wrong. Everyone likes spaghetti. Everyone. If you don’t like spaghetti, you’re probably no one….

No idea about the Penguins, but I find it hard to believe Liverpool FC loses money…

Any package with Password that’s good enough to land Marte or Ryan is probably good enough without Password…

The Sox have 14 starting pitchers on their 40 man roster, 15 if you count the recently DFAd Criswell. And those are just the starters. Maybe a few get pushed to the pen, since they only have 7 RPs right now. To me, that tells me a trade involving a SP or two is not only imminent, but also necessary. They can’t start the season with more than 27 pitchers on the 40 man roster. And why was Criswell DFAd? They didn’t need to clear a 40 man roster spot for Oviedo…

Password was never going to get more than a backend SP. And that’s exactly what Oviedo has been doing…

Walks more than I like but his numbers from last season’s 40IP are useless. If you’ve ever seen him - and you can’t miss him, hes f***ing huge - he has a really good slider and curve. Fastball is weak. His real problem, however, has been staying off the IL. Not sure if he’s viewed as a starter, starter depth, or returns to the bullpen…

But we still have the Login. And maybe one day we can sign their third brother The Security Question…

It’s pretty rare to offload a super star and his entire contract and actually get back something worthwhile beyond salary relief. Harrison looks mildly impressive in very limited action and the Sox probably had to take back Hicks’ contract just to get him…

Lowe does check all the boxes for the minimum requirements to play first base. 1. Can hit 2. Cannot field anywhere else 3. Capable of catching balls thrown to him.

Odd that 4 of his 6 HRs came against LHP when Cash has been known to platoon him.

If only their OBP was a lowly .314. Maybe reverse those digits. Lowe is probably a better solution at 1b than 2b. And no idea why I said “probably”…

Red Sox Killer Cedric Mullens to Tampa. Why can’t anyone outside of the AL East sign this guy?

What about it?