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Unless they try to upgrade starting catcher and pushing Narvaez to a reduced backup role. They still might keep Wong, because he has played other positions and could still be useful as a third catcher with experience at 2b, 3b and corner OF. Not many teams carry three catchers with these 4 man benches. Last year, only St. Louis (and thats three catchers without counting Willson Contreras) and the Cubs did that I can recall… -
Yeah it ruined Williams, Yastrzemski, Ortiz, Vaughn, etc…
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I only see Hicks moving if the Sox are taking back significant salary. I could see teams wanting him, but not for $25mill over 2 years. The only Hicks deal I’ve thrown out there was to Atlanta for Sean Murphy (3 yrs $45mill). Atlanta has shown they like Drake Baldwin playing every day, but that doesn’t mean they want to unload Murphy…
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There is no one blatantly better, but Wong doesn’t shine over a lot of them either. I could see brining him back, but I don’t think it’s such a lock. I also think it’s possible the Sox try to upgrade at starting catcher and let Narvaez be the backup…
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If the Sox have $45mill to spend, there is a 0% chance they spend it all on two players. Especially if that figure has to include arbitration raises. I do have my doubts they deal Hicks. He was the one player from the Devers trade Breslow talked up. And maybe if no one foolishly tries to make him a stater, he can return to being the decent RP he was on St. Louis, occasionally once again touching 105 mph on the radar gun. (That is not a typo.) I’m hoping the Sox are not so dumb as to trade a former consensus top 5 prospect and AL Rookie if the Month simply because he struggled for 100 PA…
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Casas is a no-brainer to offer arbitration to, especially if you’re a team that frequently pays SPs $10mill to rehab from TJ for a year. In his only full season, Casas had an .856 OPS with 25HRs. That’s pretty serious potential to skimp $2-3 mill on for a team that currently would be starting Romy Gonzalez at 1b. (Assuming Nate Lowe does get non-tendered, which he should.)
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Casas actually isnt the slowest player in MLB, but he got closer to that honor with the retirement of Martin Maldonado. He is in the bottom 10 per StatCast. Not the bottom ten percent. The bottom 10…
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Say the off-season unfolds like this: Sox re-sign Bregman and Matz. And sign Josh Bell. Not unrealistic. Sox trade Duran to WS Runnerup Dodgers for C Dalton Rushing and RHP Emmet Sheehan. Sox then send Sheehan and another (Harrison?) to MN for Joe Ryan. (Yes this all works on BTV.) So you have: C: Rushing 1b: Bell 2b: Mayer (or Story) 3b: Bregman SS: Story (or Mayer) LF: Anthony CF: Rafaela RF: Abreu DH: Yoshida ( or Casas if he is actually healthy) BN: Narvaez, Gonzalez, Eaton SP; Crochet, Ryan, Bello, Sandoval, Crawford BP: Chapman, Whitlock, Slaten, Fitts (soxprospects has come around to agreeing with me on him here), Bernardino, Hicks, Matz, Weissert. Still bringing back Wong? Got one bench spot open…
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Fair. And they may bring him back like they have many others before. But he was also Bello's primary catcher. Some of us (by which I mean me) think Bello might be a part of a trade himself this off-season...
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Susac was a first round pick 3 years ago. He's more likely the heir to catcher for the Athletics than he is blocked by the arbitration-eligible Langeliers. Of the two, the A's probably prefer to move Langeliers, although they could also move him to DH....
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Is Wong necessarily better than the Fungibles Free Agent crowd? Wong does have more versatility. But not many teams carrying two catchers value that…
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Just because they have bigger needs doesn’t mean they should or will ignore the smaller ones. No one got excited the signing of Abraham Toro last year. Heck I doubt anyone even mentioned it after the day it happened. But Toro played more games at 1b last year than anyone else in a Red Sox uniform (Boston only) on that 89-win playoff team. And Toro certainly had his moments. More of them than Wong, who many want back immediately. Also they already added catching depth on an MiLB deal two days ago…
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Maybe they re-investigate Dalton Rushing? I wouldn’t mind Seán Murphy, but so far, I’m the only one connecting them to him. Most likely they bring back Wong or get one of the Fungibles - Nido, Stallings, Haase, etc…
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I have serious doubts the Sox plan to spend that kind of money in free agency. If they sign one of Alonso, Bregman, Bichette, that would probably be it. (And it will probably be Bregman.) And Suarez on top of that? Not holding my breath. I think they max out at Bregman and a Bell/Hoskins type…
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I think a catcher upgrade is on the Sox radar, but Whats left of Realmuto might not be much of one…
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I don’t think Bellinger is a good fit, unless you’re a fan of swings and misses. And he really does make more sense for a team looking for an OF. Most likely the Yankees bring back one of him or Trent Grisham…
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If they non-tender him, he’ll shop around for best offers. Maybe he does better than his projected $1.6m. Maybe not. But he’s not some unique talent to get caught up in a bidding war…
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Assuming a partner could be found….
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They could non-tender him and still re-sign him. Or sign one of those Thomas Nido/Matt Thais/Eric Hasse journeymen. Although they do already have Jason Delay…
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Season tickets would cost $5,000,000,000 apiece?
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They were 37-36 with Devers and 52-37 without him. Would you be happier with more home runs and fewer wins?
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I think bringing back Gio and Bregman would be the LEAST surprising offseason. Most disappointing? Maybe. But certainly not surprising. Heck I’ve been predicting it for 3 weeks now…
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No. Weaver was a strong believer in using only a 4 man starting rotation…
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And defense, especially for exploiting overly aggressive baserunning…
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So either you have forgotten that lineup that had Kinsler, Nunez, Vazquez, Leon and Eovaldi (2 ABs) or you just couldn’t resist taking another potshot at the 2025 Red Sox…
