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According to Baseball Trade Values, the trade was a heist for the Red Sox: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trades/190454

It should be interesting to see Rafael Devers play against the Red Sox next weekend in San Francisco. This poster will be there on Sunday,

This Mariner fan will see the Red Sox on Wednesday in Seattle and next Sunday in San Francisco. My attendance tends to assure a Red Sox win.☹️

Jarren Duran and Wilyer Abreu are not the answers to the most pressing needs for the slumping Seattle Mariners. The Mariners rank 12th in the American League with an ERA+ of 91 and third in the league with an OPS+ of 109 (one point behind the Red Sox). This year Randy Arozarena has posted 1.3 WAR and a 119 wRC+ in 65 games. Jarren Duran has posted 1.3 WAR and a 106 wRC+ in 69 games while Wilyer Abreu has posted a 1.2 WAR and a 112 wRC+ in 64 games. FanGraphs projects Arozarena with 1.5 WAR and 117 wRC+ in 89 games the remainder of the season. Duran is projected with 1.6 WAR and 107 wRC+ in 83 games and Abreu with 1.0 WAR and 107 wRC+ in 56 games. Right field remains an issue for Seattle with its injured list housing Victor Robles and Luke Raley, who last year posted 3.1 and 3.2 bWAR for the Mariners. Robles is looking at a September return at the earliest but Raley may begin a rehab assignment soon. Seattle is unlikely to trade from Keith Law's top-ranked farm system to acquire Duran or Abreu. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/randy-arozarena/19290/stats?position=OF https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jarren-duran/24617/stats?position=OF https://www.fangraphs.com/players/wilyer-abreu/23772/stats?position=OF

In four seasons 1996-99 the Seattle Mariners had Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in the 2-3-4 holes. Rodriguez finished his career with 117.4 bWAR, Griffey 83.8 bWAR, Martinez 68.4 bWAR, Ramirez 69.2 bWAR and Ortiz 55.0 bWAR.

Doesn't help the record in one-run games but it's a great win for the Red Sox.

Baseball Trade Values founder John Bitzer likes the notin proposal: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trades/189531

The Red Sox are now 6-16 in one-run games. The Sox entered Monday's games with a better Pythagorean record (32-29) than, say, the AL West-leading Seattle Mariners (30-28). Much baseball remains to be played.

Before Monday's game, the Red Sox had hit 34 home runs in 30 games at Fenway Park this year while opponents had hit 25 home runs.

Regardless, the article provided the link to the MLB prospect ranking.

The provided link to the "MLB Top 100" shows only three Red Sox prospects in the Top 100. https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects

It could be worse. Trevor Story joined the Red Sox for his age 29 season while Pablo Sandoval joined the Sox for his age 28 season. Their lines with the Red Sox: TS 217 G, 895 PA, .228/,287/.377/.664, 4.0 bWAR PS 161 G, 620 PA, .237/.286/.360/.646, -1.6 bWAR

Will 28-year-old Jarren Duran ever play in a postseason game? The Red Sox can still turn things around this season but FanGraphs at the moment gives the Sox an 18.4 percent chance of advancing to the postseason while Baseball Reference lists the chances at 17.5 percent. https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-playoff-odds.shtml

FWIW this poster witnessed a Kazuma Okamoto home run this year on April 9: https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2025/games/s2025040900135.html The atmosphere at Yokohama Stadium was electric. Here is a video from seven years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwUcp8404A8&t=518s

Here is one center field ranking: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?lg=all&qual=y&season=2025&season1=2025&ind=0&stats=fld&pos=cf&type=1&sortcol=22&sortdir=default&pagenum=1

This season the Red Sox have the American League's fifth-highest strikeout rate at 23.0 percent, down from last year's strikeout rate of 25.4 percent, the second highest in the league. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=al&qual=0&type=8&month=0&ind=0&team=0%2Cts&rost=&age=&filter=&players=0&sortcol=9&sortdir=desc&startdate=&enddate=&season1=2025&season=2025

With the implementation of the lottery for teams that missed the postseason, the worst record no longer guarantees the top pick. Last year Seattle won four more games than Boston but the Mariners have the No,. 3 pick in the July draft while the Red Sox are stuck at No. 15: https://www.mlb.com/draft/2025/order

Current Seattle manager Dan Wilson was the Mariners' All Star catcher in 1996, blocking Jason Varitek, who was floundering in the minors when dealt to Boston at the trade deadline in 1997. The Mariners drafted Wilson and Varitek out of college, Wilson with the seventh overall pick of the 1990 draft and Varitek with the 14th pick of the 1994 draft.

Not a happy day for Oriole fans: https://forum.orioleshangout.com/topic/57110-may-23-boston-game-1/page/24/ What a disappointing season for a franchise that won 101 games with a young club two years ago and 91 games last year.

Perhaps the most logical target is first baseman Nathaniel Lowe of the Washington Nationals, who have less than a 2 percent chance of advancing to the postseason. Lowe, who turns 30 in July, earns $10.3 million this year and remains under team control through 2026. Speculation has mentioned first baseman Rhys Hoskins, who is off to a hot start for a Milwaukee club that has about a 14 percent chance of advancing to the postseason. The 32-year-old Hoskins has a 2025 salary of $18 million with a $4 million buyout of an $18 million team option for 2026. Intradivisional trades are rare but the Baltimore Orioles could make Ryan O'Hearn and Ryan Mountcastle available while Tampa Bay could market an aging Yandy Diaz, who turns 34 in August.

Wby would a trade partner deal "the lowest innings eating pitcher of a blow out" for the underwater contract of Masastaka Yoshida and a "non-existent batter" in Ceddanne Rafaela? Using Baseball Trade Values figures*, would anyone trade Yoshida, Rafaela and $42 million to the Colorado Rockies for 30-year-old right-hander Antonio Senzatela? In early April BTV, assigned a $9.2 million surplus value to Senzatela, who has a 6.34 ERA in 10 starts this year. Senzatela is under contract through the 2026 at an annual salary of $12 million with a $14 million team option for 2027. Instead of Senzatela, the Red Sox could target 30-year-old Colorado right-hander German Marquez, a one-time All Star who is in the final year of a contract that pays $10 million this season. This month BTV assigned a negative $500,000 value to Marquez, who has 7.66 ERA in 10 starts this season. Which all points up the difficulty of acquiring value in a trade of Yoshida. * Baseball Trade Values recently assigned Rafaela and Yoshida values of $6.6 million and a negative $39.3 million, respectively

FWIW Baseball Trade Values assigns Masataka Yoshida a negative value of $39.3 million and Ceddanne Rafaela a surplus value of only $6.6 million.

So far this season the Red Sox have matched last year's wRC+ of 104. Their strikeout rate has dropped from 25.4 percent in 2024 to 23.6 percent this season.

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The FanGraphs primer on measuring defense: https://library.fangraphs.com/defense/