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I attended a game in Yokohama on April 9 when Trevor Bauer had been removed from the active BayStars roster for undisclosed reasons. Bauer has since been reinstated.

https://talksox.com/forums/topic/88909-a-realistic-view-of-the-2025-red-sox-part-i/page/46/#comment-2985935 The train to today's Garrett Crochet game awaits.

Last offseason Seattle was highly, highly unlikely to trade five years of Bryan Woo for four years of Triston Casas: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/mariners-turned-down-triston-casas-trade-offer-from-red-sox.html Entering Tuesday's game with an ERA+ of 93, the 2025 Mariners may hinge their fate on the recent returns of starters Logan Gilbert and George Kirby from the injured list. The M's were second in the league with an OPS+ of 111.

Thank you for the response,

The article lacks attribution when it reports that "Devers was reassured that he would be the third baseman." Was the author privy to that conversation (or conversations)? How do other parties to those conversations view the exchanges (likely in two languages)? Does any party have anything to gain by going public with the details of those conversations? From the outside we can only speculate that Rafael Devers and the front office experienced a breakdown in communications.

Seattle won't win many games going 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position. The Red Sox were 1-for-1 with runners in scoring position.

The Red Sox traded Rafael Devers after Devers had posted 24.9 bWAR in 1,059 games with the Sox. The Red Sox traded Mookie Betts after Betts had posted 42.5 bWAR in 794 games with the Sox. The Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra after Garciaparra had posted 41.3 bWAR in 966 games with the Sox. Devers is a good but not great player who has never finished in the Top 10 in American League MVP voting since he entered the league in 2017. The Red Sox probably were offered far better returns in trade if the Sox would pay down some of the $235 million remaining on the Devers contract. If word was out that the Sox were unwilling to eat some of the contract, the market for Devers was significantly limited. Baseball Trade Values deemed the Devers trade a decided overpay by the San Francisco Giants: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trades/190454

This will be Logan Gilbert's first MLB start since going on the injured list on April 26.

Perhaps the Red Sox had been shopping Rafael Devers since May 9 when the club's top officials met with Devers in Kansas City. Perhaps after five weeks of testing the market the Sox took the best offer. Or not.

This past week James Tibbs III went 9-for-23 with five walks for the Eugene Emeralds in a six-game series at the Hillsboro Hops: https://www.milb.com/player/james-tibbs-iii-696486?stats=gamelogs-r-hitting-mlb&year=2025 This poster worked guest services at four of those games.😉

When (and how) did Rafael Devers learn of the trade? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pOxpfZ5jXNw

I don't have a paid subscription to many BTV features, but could access these values without paying: Jordan Hicks: negative $18.5 million Kyle Harrison: $10.9 million James Tibbs $9.1 million Jose Bello: $400,000 TOTAL: $1.9 million Rafael Devers: negative $40.3 million

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