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  1. harmony
    Does Jake Diekman share that characteristic with Blake Swihart and Brian Johnson?
  2. harmony
    Just last weekend I was talking with a Buenos Aires native about Argentina's lack of interest in baseball. My sister-in-law's beau will skip my daughter's college commencement next month because the event conflicts with Argentina's opening match in World Cup soccer.
  3. harmony
    Perhaps you're correct: https://nolanwritin.com/2018/05/17/texas-rangers-catcher-blake-swihart-boston/ ... or not.
  4. harmony
    To acquire the expiring contract of Texas lefty reliever Jake Diekman, what would the Red Sox need to add to an offer of six years of left-hander Brian Johnson and four arbitration seasons of Blake Swihart? https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=5003&position=P https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/diekmja01.shtml Diekman will earn $2.7125 this year before becoming a free agent at the season's end.
  5. harmony
    This non-Catholic holds the current Pope in high regard but even the pontiff is not beyond reproach.😊😊😊
  6. harmony
    Blake Swihart won't land a high-ranking prospect. Swihart's trade value may have dropped below that of Jarrod Saltalamacchia in July 2010 when the Red Sox traded for the switch-hitting catcher. As I've written before: Blake Swihart is a year older now than Jarrod Saltalmacchia was in June 2010 when the Texas Rangers traded the switch-hitting catcher to the Red Sox for Chris McGuiness, Roman Mendez, Michael Thomas and cash. SoxProspects has never ranked the three prospects among the Top 20 in the organization. McGuiness and Thomas apparently are out of organized baseball while Mendez is a 27-year-old toiling at Double A. Saltalamacchia peaked at No. 18 on Baseball America's Top 100 prospect list while Swihart peaked at No. 17. At the time of the 2010 trade Saltalamacchia was back down at Triple A, much as Swihart had spent much of his age 25 season at Triple A after being a starter at the MLB level. With Saltalamacchia as his optimistic ceiling, Swihart has limited trade value.
  7. harmony
    Evan Drelich of NBC Sports Boston reports: https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/sources-red-sox-asking-lot-blake-swihart
  8. harmony
    And the Marlins would ask for Andrew Benintendi in a trade of Kyle Barraclough. Neither offer would go anywhere.
  9. harmony
    Do you have links to any sources suggesting that two teams are trying to acquire the erstwhile catcher?
  10. harmony
    If the Red Sox could only find a "future Fisk" ... No need to hang up the phone because the Marlins could not respond to an offer that included Kyle Barraclough.
  11. harmony
    It might not hurt to send Jackie Bradley down to Triple A. Bradley has posted a .165/.267/.252/.519 line in 39 games this year. Last May the Seattle Mariners sent catcher Mike Zunino down to the minors after the former first-round pick had posted a .167/.250/.236/.486 line in his first 24 games. In 100 games after his recall on May 23, Zunino posted a .270/.349/.571/.921 the rest of the season. Bradley and Zunino are defensively gifted streaky hitters born a year apart and drafted in the first round a year apart out of Southeastern Conference universities. Bradley entered this season with three years and 150 days of MLB service while Zunino had three years and 160 days of MLB service.
  12. harmony
    In his Sunday Baseball Notes, Boston Globe columnist Nick Cafardo suggested Seattle as a potential destination for Jackie Bradley. I don’t see it. The Mariners would likely offer no more than the expiring contract of veteran lefty reliever Marc Rzepczynski, with a 2018 salary of $5.5 million, who has matched the 2018 negative 0.2 fWAR of Jackie Bradley, who has a 2018 salary of $6.1 million. Of course the Red Sox would receive better offers.😁
  13. harmony
    If the “dudes flying blind,” why would the Marlins consider trading an interesting reliever for Jackie Bradley?
  14. harmony
    For the right price. The Mariners just moved their center fielder to second base. I’d like to see Jackie Bradley work with Seattle hitting coach Edgar Martinez. However, Bradley might not be able to break into an outfield of second-year players Mitch Haniger, Ben Gamel and Guillermo Heredia.
  15. harmony
    Natick can’t be serious. Even the most ardent supporters of Blake Swihart are not blind to his shortcomings.
  16. harmony
    The Red Sox should stick with Jackie Bradley.
  17. harmony
    Buster Posey was a shortstop through his freshman year at Florida State (and in a subsequent summer league) but converted to catcher in the 2006-07 school year at FSU.. By 2010 Posey was the catcher for the World Series champion San Francisco Giants. Some converted catchers develop faster than others.
  18. harmony
    I was nervous about having Cobb and Brach in my fantasy lineup
  19. harmony
    In May 2011, before the Red Sox drafted him, Blake Swihart's mother shared stories on her Facebook account about her high school son, the catcher. Don't make me post a link. Swihart reportedly had a 4.0 GPA in high school so perhaps some day he'll find success in another field.
  20. harmony
    The world is filled with fake news. MaxPreps described Blake Swihart as a catcher: http://www.maxpreps.com/news/nD7UOa8aEeCkhgAcxJSkrA/maxpreps-vs-gatorade-for-state-baseball-players-of-the-year.htm ... although the Albuquerque Journal called Swihart a utility player when he signed with the Red Sox: https://www.abqjournal.com/234935/cleveland-highs-swihart-signs-with-red-sox.html The Aflac National High School Baseball Player of the Year Award listed Swihart as a catcher: https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/Aflac-Announces-Contenders-for-National-High-School-Baseball-Player-of-the-Year-a-215187 Videos from 2010 describe Swihart as a catcher:
  21. harmony
    The Red Sox drafted Blake Swihart as a catcher. From the MLB.com scouting of the 2011 draft: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2011/drafttracker.jsp
  22. harmony
    If only the Miami Marlins would take on significant payroll to acquire two slumping Red Sox players in exchange for their most valuable player who remains under team control through 2020.
  23. harmony
    Oakland starter Dave Mengden, who has stymied the Red Sox twice this season, talks about pitching to Sox hitters: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/daniel-mengden-on-pitching-to-red-sox-hitters/
  24. harmony
    Junichi Tazawa, a bullpen mainstay of the 2013 World Series champions, apparently is available. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/05/marlins-designate-junichi-tazawa-for-assignment.html#comments
  25. harmony
    At the end of this season Blake Swihart will be eligible for the first of four trips through arbitration. I'm not sure how that affects his trade value.
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