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  1. notin
    The team collectively itself does not choose. But the individual players on each team do. The point is there is no reason to punish the Blue Jays just because random players on other teams refuse to take proper preparations for this visit. And Whit Merrifield just added a whole new layer to this that can be interpreted multiple ways…
  2. notin
    The Sox are one game out of a wild card and just got Eovaldi and Sale back and people still think this team needs to sell?
  3. notin
    Despite everything, you and Bellhorn are selling me on Brasier. That’s impressive as my campaign against him spans several seasons…
  4. notin
    It wasn’t my offer…
  5. notin
    Those teams choose not to play at full strength. Whit Merrifield even said he’d get vaccinated “for a contender.”
  6. notin
    The Sox aren’t going to sell. They managed to stay in the playoff hunt despite going several weeks with the Polar Park starting rotation, and still have gotten more starts out of each of Austin Davis, Connor Seabold, Kutter Crawford and Brayan Bello than they’ve gotten from Chris Sale…
  7. notin
    Nope. You’ll go get Kyle Finnegan. And he’ll throw 35 IP the rest of the year with a 1.85 ERA…
  8. notin
    Well you have to understand, once he was able to get away from the intense media pressure of the Texas Rangers AAA Round Rock team and escape to the low profile, no scrutiny Yankees, he was able to relax and stop worrying about all that negative press. Or does he just quash that whole gigantic pile of BS?
  9. notin
    Hold the farm. Extend Devers. Let Soto go elsewhere. Trading for and extending Soto means no Devers extension. And Devers + whatever it takes to get Soto > Soto…
  10. notin
    Big deal. So am I. Doesn’t mean either of us will get it…
  11. notin
    Diekman?
  12. notin
    And yet he was still more relevant than Carpenter in 2019 and 2020.
  13. notin
    John Henry AND your left testicle? So two testicles. And a sausage guy. Wait a second….
  14. notin
    I can see why they passed on him. JBJ had been a relevant hitter more recently than Carpenter. But somehow the guy found a second life after being released by multiple teams…
  15. notin
    Bednar has 3+ years of control and the Pirates are in no rush to move him. He won’t be cheap due to the control and low salary, and previous deals with the Pirates are moot. The Pirates do employ scouts whose recommendations they will take. If you think their scouts aren’t any good at evaluating other teams’ minor leaguers in trades, bear in mind that’s how they got Bednar in the first place. I doubt the Yankees even acquire a closer. They’ll probably look at some miscast reliever they think is salvageable and will miraculously turn him into another Sparky Lyle. This year’s best guess - Brandon Finnegan. Oh and while you hate BTV, they do suggest an equal trade for Bednar is Peraza and Dominguez. I doubt the Yankees do that. If you think that is too high, keep in mind the 3+ years of control left on Ian Happ’s former Little League teammate…
  16. notin
    No one is pitching to him. He leads the league in walks and has a .405 OBP. He’s not stupid; but he’s also not a one man team
  17. notin
    I’d like to see 1b, RP and a RF. I have my doubts they fill all three. A lot probably depends on the recovery of Kike…
  18. notin
    Soto would be great PR for a team that took a hit trading away one year of Mookie. But a package of Mayer, Casas, Yorke and Bello is light on BTV and has only one thing going for it - not many teams will go higher. (And we’re assuming the Sox are even willing to go that high.) But if signing Soto means losing Devers, it’s probably not a good deal for the Sox…
  19. notin
    Absolutely no way the Sox can get Soto and keep Mayer. It would be easier for Bloom to calculate pi to the last digit…
  20. notin
    And deepest pockets = the Mets…
  21. notin
    They can sign him now and eschew the arb years, but yes, he is not for the shallow-pocketed…
  22. notin
    The one team that scares me for getting him is Baltimore. No team has an obvious “this should get him” package, but Baltimore, with Adley Rutschman, Grayson Rodriguez, and Gunnar Henderson, can probably put together the best offer. And really, they have a legit reason to do so right now…m
  23. notin
    BTV gives Soto a surplus value of $193mill. A package of Cortes, Volpe, Waldichuk and Wells have a combined surplus value of $94million. The site does confirm that this offer is nowhere near the ballpark. And for Soto, if you are comfortable giving up the package, it is not enough. I don’t think either the Sox or the Yankees can put together a package to acquire Soto. A package of Mayer, Casas, Yorke and Bello, for example, only combines to a surplus of $149mill. And that easily tops the Yankee offer. Both the Sox and Yankees would also find it very difficult if not impossible to retain Soto while also losing other star players, namely Devers and Judge. So simple question - is the upgrade from Judge to Soto worth the top 4 Yankee prospects? (I don’t think they will care about Cortes. I know I wouldn’t trade my superstar for a package that included a 28yo plate bloomer who could easily pumpkin himself back to reality any second now.)
  24. notin
    Diekman was available. Oh wait. Did you want to hold onto the lead or not?
  25. notin
    Sox would be a thousand times smarter to just meet Devers’ demands without even negotiating than to trade Soto. On BTV, the Sox can’t even trade for Soto without including Devers, which actually makes no sense for the Nationals. (A third team needs to be involved.)
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