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Moves this team should take in the next week. Option Grissom. I love his potential, but he obviously needs time in the minors. It's very reasonable to assume a lack of spring training has hurt him and his timing is completley off, he's very young and perhaps after a month or two will be ready for the show again. He very well can work these things out at the big league level, but why not burn the option and put the team in a position to win now. DFA: Chase Anderson, he's your low leverage multi inning guy, give the role to Mata who has to be on the big leauge club or will be lost. If all else fails Winckowski is waiting in the wings and a better option than both those guys. DFA: Dominic Smith, call up Kavadas. I don't think Kavadas has a long term future here. He's pretty much a bat first platoon first baseman, and I think he could fit that role much better than Smith is right now. Let him Platoon with Cooper at 1B until Casas is back. Recall Valdez, let him spell Hamilton at 2nd and DH.

The Sox are 12th in runs scored, 2nd in ER allowed and 2nd in ERA. The truth is, up until now, we haven't needed Sale, we've needed hitting. The Sale trade hasn't hurt us. Let's dig deeper. Chris Sale is good, very good when he's healthy, aside from a couple duds he was lights out for us last year......for 20 games. The most he has pitched since 2019, he's up to 9 this year. Chris Sale was gone after this year, and the Sox cashed him in for 6 years of a Vaugh Grissom, 22 at the time, who hit at every level with a lifetime .863 OPS in the minors reaching the bigs at 21. Now, you can't argue with the results, Grissom sucks. Did he just completely turn into a bust the day he was traded to the Sox? or could it be that he's young, pressing, and after being injured and having no spring training his timing is completely off? Given the small sample size I'm perfectly happy throwing my hat in the ring on that later statement. It's very fair to say that as of right now the trade doesn't look great, but there's every reason to still like it long term, and there's plenty of time for Grissom to return more value than Sale will in 2024. He was 5 years of team control left after this year. With that said, it's time to send him down to the minors. He obviously needs more time to get his timing back, work on some adjustments, and do it in an enviroment where he's not hurting the big league club.

Sox have promoted guys without the sexiest stat lines because of how the underlying metrics looked E.G. Roman Anthony. Still, given his time missed, I don't think they will press to rush him in his first full season. I think he will get promoted this year, but I would guess he'd be a later summer promotion rather than an early one.

Is it his swing? or his timing just messed up? Could be one in the same, not having a spring training and timing being off may be making him "press" and trying to switch things up. Sometimes you need to tweak with things, other times you just need to be patient.

Man, I like all those guys, but Crawfords delivery really scares me. He won't be a free agent until his age 33 season, I'm good with riding out his team control years.

and by plenty of options I mean he has one, this is his last option year. Use it.

With that said Grissom should be sent to Worcester. Kid might still have a very bright future, he's the youngest player on this team, was rushed to the majors but has plenty of options. He very well may of had a fine 2024 but he got injured and had no spring training. It's obvious that it effected his timing, Valdez can platoon on 2nd, and hold it down for a month or two until Grissom has his groove back.

Oh yeah, that's the argument right there. Grissom might not every be a long term piece here. But the conversation surrounding him is a perfect example of how some fans, fans like you, can't see the forrest for the trees.

Well we know he’s a horrible runner and not a great defender, I highly doubt that gets better in the majors. He also has a lot of swing and miss, that’s only going to get worse at the big league level He also has serious platoon concerns but hasn’t been terrible against LHP in the minors. But again, that probably gets worse in the bigs. With Casas out I would have been fine with him as a platoon option over Cooper. Apparently they didn’t think so

I’m optimistic that they have started to extend young guys, but it feels like an overpay out of desperation at the same time. I said all offseason and spring training that Rafaela needed more seasoning, mostly in dead ears. People just can’t seem to figure out spring training stats are largely useless. I still really like Rafaela, I think him and Bello will be worth the money, but you sign guys this early you expect to get steep discounts.

Some people are only happy when it rains

Proves more about the fans than the players

I’m not quite sure we understand these emojis. Are you trying to tell us you have Monkey Pox??? Take care of that bro

I don't know about an extension but I'd easily offer him a QO, barring injury or massive underperformance.

You should try juicing some time. My favorite is Avocado, Orange, Pineapple, Pear, Apple, Kale, Ginger root, lime and some protein powder.

I would actually like to think I'm somewhat of an expert on this. In Highschool I wrestled, and throughout my 20's I competed in Wrestling, BJJ, Muay Thai fighting in various promotions from NAGA to Friday night fights. Pretty much I spent 15 years of my life "making weight" so I can say that losing 15 lbs of water weight is practically nothing. Almost wish I could go back and do it again with all the knowledge I have on nutrtition today. People do not realize how much your body weight can vary from day to day based on your diet, and even from morning to evening. Try cleaning up your diet, load up on some potassium after two days and weigh yourself in the morning. People forget the human body is mostly water, and water stores in fat and muscle so even at a lower BF% a man who is 6'2 and weighs 210 (what he's listed, maybe he walked in two days later and was 225) should be able to lose that weight after a few days of being sick, if he's dehydrated and hasn't eaten a lot. Now, if that all muscle he lost in such a short amount of time, I would be insanely worried. Very worried. But I think it's pretty much impossible to lose that much muscle mass in such a short period of time.

With his 6th home run of the year yesterday Kristian Cambell raised his OPS to .985 The 2023 4th round pick is in his full first season of pro ball after being drafted as a short stop…..he’s been splitting his time between 2nd base and Centerfield. No SS.

I’m thinking Erod, he’s not a lefty. Yeah, I don’t seriously think he holds substantial value at the moment, but it sounds like he’s getting a lot of buzz from scouts. I suspect if he keeps it up he’ll get some helium.

No one is defending the pick, people are explaining to you draft strategy. This seems to elude you. Offer more than going back years and looking at results in hindsight and saying “we should of drafted that guy” I’m sure there’s a lot of teams that would have drafted Mookie Betts 5 times over before he fell to the Sox in the 5th round

Well the last several years have us Teel, Anthony, and Mayer. All currently in the top 31 in all of baseball. So yeah, seems to be working out great.

I wonder what Mayer and ERC would get us. For those of you who don't know Elmer Rodriguez Cruz was the 4th round pitcher we drafted in 2021, very young for a highschooler at 17. He's only ranked 18th, but he has serious helium and I think could be top 10 by mid year. He's a lefty with good secondaries that is touching 99.

And yet we traded for Chris Sale once upon a time. Of course you can trade for pitching, it all comes down to whether or not you want to pay the price.

SO what, I bet I could find two draftees in any teams draft you couldn't trade for a bag of baseballs. From the position sides, there's really zero argument against Bostons overall draft strategy, no one hits all the time, heck no one hits most of the time. It's such a lame argument to go back and pick on one draftee who didn't work out as if it personally hurts you or something.

Bres-blow certainly got fleeced by the Cardinals in that O’Neill trade. Worse than Bloom

Seeing what the Breslow empire has done with pitching within the Sox Organization really made me wonder today what they could have done with a healthy Giolito. Who would have thought a few months ago we’d be happy with the pitching and looking for the offense to get going.