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Having seen Zack Wilson play QB, I can tell you that you’re not the first to attach a question mark to his name…

Giancarlo Stanton step aside!

Ok. We get your point that the competition in the WBC isnt the same as MLB, but Yoshida is outhitting most of Team USA in the tournament so far and those guys are facing that same inferior pitching…

If they win 90, they’re in the postseason. Book it…

Same deal as Ranger Suarez…

Whatever they offered Alonso was probably too much. One-dimensional player whose only selling point was he was supposed to be substantially cheaper than someone like Bregman. Contreras doesn’t excite me. But I think prefer him to Alonso at what Baltimore is paying him…

So we need proof to suspect we don’t have the entire story? Exactly how ironclad should this proof be? And does it only apply to Ohtani and gambling? Also, if we accuse him without proof, exactly which law enforcement agency will be handling our cases?

I’m starting to wonder why the epitome of fiscal irresponsibility is a drunken sailor, a man who, when at sea, has no ability to spend while he earns Now let’s compare this to a college student with a credit card…

The Dodgers consisted not only of $300,000,000 in deferred money, but it was to be paid out at $30 per year for 10,000,000 years …

And yet several months after The Trade, Mookie signed with the Dodgers for roughly the same AAV Boston had offered him…

Zack Wilson played QB for the Miami Dolphins. Zack Scott is the Sox (and later Mets) former FO person to whom you are referring…

Ive seen multiple reports of $300mill, but I want to say most of them were pre-Bloom. By the time Bloom was hired, extending Betts was next to impossible…

The Red Sox will not be a 90 win 4th place team. And if by some freakish “first time ever in MLB” miracle they are, then credit to their division-mates. The Orioles might be one season removed from a really good season. But it’s not like 2025 was a hard luck year for them; the drop off was real and expected. And they’ve done very little to fix that team’s weaknesses…

I do think sending him down to the minors is only being done to keep him as opposed to a DFA. The Sox do need to keep him. If he can’t/won’t be demoted, they still need to keep him. Their weakest link is more likely offense than the inability to find a makeshift right fielder for two innings…

As I have been saying for years, the man really is a good hitter. And in an era where having legitimate MLB starting talent on the bench is financially impossible for most (all?) teams, the Sox have the rare opportunity to accomplish this on a roster on which he effectively covers 4 players. Maybe there’s a different reason there’s been no trade chatter on him all off-season…

Improving the weakest slot is “OFTEN THE BEST” way to improving the team? I suppose if you like overly dramatically emphasized marginal upgrades. I mean, the weakest roster spot of at least 25 MLB rosters belongs to the backup catcher - arguably, Boston is one of these teams. How much will these teams really improve with a backup catcher upgrade? The Sox biggest weakness is likely to be offense. Who hits better? Yoshida? Or Eaton? Or Gasper? Heck, let’s include Romy vs RHP. For now, Casas and Romy are out. And no, you don’t need to clear places for them. All these other players on the Sox - Monasterio, Gasper, Ziegler, Ward - can all stay on the 40 for now. But they have to wait their turn because they’re simply not as good of a hitter as Yoshida…

I was commenting about the fact that I was watching Team USA play Team Brazil in a game in which 17 year old Joe Contreras (son of José) was pitching fairly well against an MLB All Star team (not an AL All Star or an NL All Star team - but an MLB one) and I had to listen to some annoying announcer blather on about Shohei Ohtani and how he homered against the Chinese Taipei team, while the story right in front of him was this high schooler who faced Aaron Judge with the bases loaded and induced an inning ending double play. I guess I’m just not as impressed that 3 time MLB MVP can hit a home run off a 28 year old pitcher from the CPBL as I should be…

How does any of that make him a relevant discussion topic during a game between Team USA and Team Brazil?

Do people not get how depth works? I nblame the sports media, you know, the folks who saw a team with two good quarterbacks and labeled it a “controversy”. Just because they keep Yoshida does not impact the playing time of others if they prove better. If Campbell outhits Yoshida, he likely plays ahead of him at some point in the six month long schedule that features a game nearly every day. Did people forget last year, this team managed to find over 250 plate appearances for Abraham Toro? That at some point, Blake Sabol was batting? Or that the 2024 Red Sox gave over 500 combined plate appearances to Enmanuel Valdez and Dominic Smith? Where were these guys on your March Depth Charts? If your argument in March rests solely on Yoshida or Hamilton or whoever being in line for PT ahead of someone you would rather watch, that’s on you for either unrealistic expectations or favoritism. Let Campbell (who is a terrible argument for a bench spot over Yoshida) earn his way back. I think he will. I also think it’s irrelevant here. The choice comes down to an NPB superstar or some AAAA player like Eaton or Gasper or Siegler or Sogard, I don’t get why anyone is even considering the career minor leaguers. But hey, maybe the Sox can trade Yoshida, watch another outfielder get hurt and we finally get to see what happens if Nate Eaton gets 400 PAs against MLB pitching. I set the over/under for his OPS at .590…

This was getting to be more of a story in the Olympics than it needed to be, as well, largely because of Eileen Gu choosing to ski for China rather than the USA, and some people clearly taking that decision that had no effect on their lives far too personally. But really, isn’t all sports above high school really a bunch of people playing for a city/state/country not their own? It’s not like the Red Sox players have to be from Boston, or Massachusetts, or even the USA. And while the Seahawks made Seattle the Best Football City in America, it’s not like anyone on that team is from Seattle. (Ok, Cooper Kupp is from Yakima, WA. I can count it.) I have reached the point in my fandom where I really don’t care who plays for Team USA or Team Netherlands or Team Upper Volta, I’m just glad baseball is back. Although maybe they could cut back on the Shohei praise a little. Like maybe limit it to games he is actually playing in…

Actually, at 30.3 ft/sec, it was Trea Turner last year, just beating out Victor Scott, Bobby Witt Jr., and Byron Buxton, who tied at 30.2 ft/sec. All numbers per StatCast. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/sprint_speed

RHP/enforcer

The Sox don’t have a healthy Casas. Why make a spot for him now? It’s like the Sox just forgot about Tanner Houck when they gave all that money to Ranger Suarez!! Eaton is not some “up and coming” young outfielder who needs a path to production. And Braiden Ward is not the Second Coming of Ty Cobb. $4-5 million for an addition at the deadline? Trade Yoshida and outfield becomes thin enough that you increase the chance youre using those savings to replace the outfield depth you lost in Yoshida. And no, Nate Eaton is not going to be an exciting full time player. KC didn’t let him walk because they feared his overflowing potential. Simple question - who would have helped the Sox more last August/September - Dustin May or Quinn Priester?

Huh? Yoshida is blocking a 29 year old AAAA player that was released by the Royals, a team that needs outfielders!?! If Eaton had a path to production, he’d still be eating quality barbecue. And he isn’t blocking Ward, either, since award isn’t even on the 40 man roster (and, at age 28, it’s kind of questionable to think he’s a prospect.) Yoshida isn’t “blocking” Casas, either. First of all, Casas’ inability to perform mundane baseball tasks without sustaining a season-ending injury is what blocks Casas. Second, if Casas is actually better than Yoshida, then Casas will start over him...

And why do that? If you’re paying that much of his salary, just keep him…