Nick

Who goes when Yoshida and Abreu returns? It's got to me Eaton and Hamilton, unless it's Campbell.

I'll take 3 runs.

Tarik Skubal will be a free agent AFTER 2026 season. He's making $10,150M this year. Lucky for us that his agent is Boras. That means Skubal will go FA route. Sox needs to gear up for him. Got to have him. Crochet, Skubal, Bello, and two cheap starters will go long ways in getting us to the World Series. (maybe Dobbins and Kyle Harrison?)

I will never bad mouth Devers for his performance. He's a very good baseball player. Maybe even a Hall of Fame worthy. But I'm not going to relitigate what happened here. It didn't do me any good to torment over Betts departure. My being negative toward Devers and Betts probably has more to do with concealing my hurt feelings. When my favorite team loses in NCAA tournament, for me the basketball season is over. That's how I deal with disappointments. Devers is over for me.

I'd hedge a bit. $20M on a one year deal is easier to deal with than $313M over 10 yrs, now 8 1/2 years left.

Great article. I feel the same way about our 4 rookies. They along with Crochet, Bello, Dobbins and Rafaela are our future. Maybe throw in recently acquire Kyle Harrison with 5 yrs of team control. You can go ahead and throw in Duran to the mix who is under team control for 4 years. Also look at our bullpen (although I agree that you can't make long term plans for any of them). We have hard throwers in Guerrero (6 years), Alcala (2 yrs). How about Slaten (5yrs)? Bernardino is also under team control for 5 yrs, same with Weissert. I'm just not heartbroken over Devers leaving. I have always wondered if Pittsburgh would have taken Devers, $15M per year, Duran, Crawford and say Campbell (not trading Mayer and Anthony) and couple of more minor leaguers for 5 years of Skenes. They are paying Mitch Keller $15M+ so Devers contract is affordable, subsidized.

I think we can improve at the catcher position. Especially if the DH spot opens up. Narvaez looks like a hitter to me at the plate. I would love for him to DH today.

At least he is not on IL.

It was good to see Alcala pitch last night. Up to 98 mph. Guerrero and Alcala are hard throwers. Only if they can locate their fastball.

None of the veterans and our 'future' stars really didn't get to know him enough to care....... Let's just see what the future looks like and see how fast we get there. Crochet didn't give a damn. He and Bregman are the leaders. Hope we see Bregman for years to come. Extend him.

Well I don't have to stay up late.

He has absolutely no contro tonight.

Yankees have scored 5 runs or less in 6 games in 1908, 1968 and now 2025.

Yanks down 0-4 in 8th. Toronto is down 2-4 in 7th. TB down 1-3 in 7th.Twins down 5-6 in 6th. All good.

Sox went 4-15 in games started by that threesome.

Just looking ahead to the Giants series, I see that they only have 1 lefty starting pitcher. Just a FYI..

Not signing and retaining Betts has cost the organization time, money and effort they never dreamed of....It would have been cheaper to just give him $50M....because we have wasted tons of money trying to recover from that episode.

Or how about the ultimate Sox trade? Alcantara for Miami is struggling this year coming off an injury. $17M this year and next, then a club option for $21M in 2027. Isn't this our bread and butter deal?

Ryan O'Hern? He's having a good year even though he looks like a DH. I though he's played 1B before.

I'm just curious what bats are available at the trade deadline? I'm guessing it maybe a veteran at 1B but what do you do with someone like Toro? Do we keep hoping for IL guys so we can keep them all? That doesn't sound like planning. Since we don't expect Casas to return anytime soon, maybe even not until mid-season next year, do we go for a multiple year guy at 1B?

We're the only mlb team with 8-2 record over the last 10 games and also have the longest win streak, 6 straight (Phillies next with 5). Unreal last night that the Angels beat the Yankees in 11. 1-0. What the hell is going on with the Rays, how do they do it? We got some 'attitude' guys in our rotation. (it's a good quality). They all think they are better than the opposition.

I think the Sox ultimately got what they wanted. A short term, higher AAV guy at 3B, who can hit and play better defense, and got rid of 8 1/2 years of 10 year, $313M contract. Bottom line. I do think Bres is salivating at that prospect of 'repurposing' the freed up money. He did not sign Devers and probably would never do that.

He needed to be approached after the World Series and told that "hey, we maybe looking at a third baseman". I think he at least deserved that. Hell he's under team contract for 8 years. Poor communication.

Here is my useless stat. Team's record with the starters this year. Our current five has combined 28-21 team record. Can someone enumerate power ranking for our relievers? I'll take #1 and say its Chapman (lol). I am just curious how Houck and couple of other relievers we acquired recently rank. 1 Crochet 15 9 - 6 2 Dobbins 9 6 - 3 3 Bello 11 6 - 5 4 Giolito 9 6 - 3 5 Buehler 11 7 - 4 6 Fitts 5 0 - 5 7 T Houck 9 2 - 7 8 Newcomb 5 2 - 3 74 38 - 36

Platooning I can live with. Not full time and I certainly don't want to see him ever in the outfield. What the hell was Bloom thinking?