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That's also a small sample size, 27 ab's in 2018, 31 ab's in 2019 and 73 at bats in 2021 in high A. The fact he got worse as the competition is telling, but not a nail in the coffin either. After seeing Durans progression, I have convinced myself anything can happen.
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Exactly, if Abreu ever Wilyer ever learns to hit lefties we have a stud, if not, a Refsnyder/Abreu platoon is like having an outfielder batting AVG/OBP/SLG .301/.375/.572 good for a .947 OPS with 17 HR. with average to better defense. That's elite.
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For Abreu to be the best bat in the outfield he will have to hit better than .433 OPS. Vs. LHP
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IDK, he did say he liked the trade, he just didn’t get the Yorke hate around here. I can agree with that. While Yorkers value wasn’t at an all time high, he obviously rebuilt a lot of it. Just because the Sox traded him doesn’t mean they didn’t like him either That goes for every player the Sox trade away too, or at least 99% of them.
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I think Cespedes will be fine at 2nd, but if he hits as he's supposed to he will be just as fine in the outfield. Mickey Romero is starting to turn things around down in the farm and Franklin Arias is another guy who may have a huge ceiling up the middle and unlike Yorke (and seemingly everyone else) he's right handed.
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It's 10X easier to find another Yorke than it is another Priester. Priester is arguably a much better prospect, and Yorke doesn't really have a future in Boston. He's redundant, He doesn't have much over the fence power, he's a hit first prospect who hasn't hit in over two years except for the past month, and his defense is fringe average at best. We also have several prospects who will probably make a better second baseman than he will, some with a LOT more potential coming up behind him. I'd make this trade over and over and over again if I could. Priester might not become a TOTRS, but if you make several moves like this.....one of those guys will.
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Kind of seems that this was one of those hitting for pitching trades we always talk about finally coming to fruition. If anything, we need more trades like this.
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MLB Pipeline ranked him #60 last year.
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Zeferjahn, Kavadas, Lugo and Yeferson Vargas is the cost. There’s your rule 5 crunch trade right there. Also, Sox will need room on the domestic reserve list too with all 20 draftees signing. I don’t hate this trade
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I wanna guess someone like Guerrero, Hickey, and Sogard. With Yorke out it Opens the door for a Teel/Mayer/Anthony promotion
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Seriously though, hearing three prospects from Worcester were traded for Garci
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1 for 1
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Sox sending Roman Anthony to LA for Garcia
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After seeing a team trade what would be the equivalent of one of our top 3-4 prospects for a reliever….i don’t think any big moves are coming.
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The Sox have to do something, maybe that can't "veer off the plan" but perhaps they should at least consider a pit stop? I wonder if Breslow has some kind of mandate to "have fun at the deadline, but don't touch Mayer/Teel/Anthony" Even then perhaps he could peition to change their mind if the right offer came in. I'm the biggest prospect homer on earth, I want all the draft picks and all the prospects I can get, and I believe in building up a farm system. But a farm system exists to support the big league club, and you do that by developing guys and also trading for them; sometimes you have to cash in your chips and get that shiny new mlber. No one wants to part with the big three, but if the Sox got a young starter back in return, or heck even a position player who bats right handed with big power I'd be fine with it. I'm fine with multiple alternate futures, as long as they don't sit on their hands and do absolutley NOTHING.
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It’s also worth noting Anthony is playing LF in AA today. This could also be to him looking more like a corner outfield and as he approaches closer to being MLB ready the organization wanting to expose him there. Rafaela/Duran may have CF/LF locked up. Calling up Anthony to replace Abreu would be ballsy. We’ve seen to prospects hit the ground running at the MLB level and we’ve also seen them struggle for a while. Anthony could be three times better than Abreu long term but not an upgrade long term. Abreu is also under team control for several years AFTER this season. He will still be a movable asset in the offseason. The team would be better off holding onto him. The only real value Anthony might provide is he might not have sever platoon splits like Abreu does. But even then, that might be more of a long term outcome with him rather than a what you’re getting now from him.
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He’s 23 mowing down low a batters. Good college players go to high a nowadays. Dean might become a big leaguer one day, but calling him good because of his stats vs kids in low A is like calling me the next Pedro Martinez because I’m striking out 100% of t ballers. And Yorke? I like Yorke, I’m hoping he can become an everyday player but you’re not selling me on a guy who had one good month after TWO WHOLE YEARS of sub par to crappy play. You don’t start baking that guy into your future plans just yet. Especially because his defense isn’t great.
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They could be secondary pieces for a decent rental if a team values them higher than the Red Sox. Meidroth is starting to intrigue me, I've never given him much thought because the scouting worries me in that the underlying metrics tells he's a guy who can't impact the ball and will be exposed at the higher level. But he's been nailing the ball lately so I'm wondering if something is changing with him.
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Re read your post, and look up those ages.
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How many times a day do you stare at yourself in the mirror with a little finger mustache and say "Those are the facts!!!! and the FACTS! are undisputed" in a deep voice?????
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I'm going to look for some examples, but I'm certain top 100 prospects have been traded for rentals before. And depending on who's list you're using you're getting 1-4 guys who are above Fitts and not even top 100, and you got two guys top 10 behind Fitts. EDIT: wait, I think I pretty much agree with your post. But, to be fair Sandlin is ranked below Fitts
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I would be semi surprised if we got him without parting with a top 10 prospect, certainly not the top 3 though. That would shock and maybe even upset me.
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possibly, possibly they jump on it. or not.
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Exactly, just because a team is trading away a guy doesn't mean they don't think highly of them. You have to give something to get something. But it is also certainly true that every team has their own evaluation method and metrics and some teams are going to value guys in our system higher than we do (and lower).
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Yes, buying a rental doesn't diverge from the "long term plan" which I didn't know trading away all your prospects was part of that plan. A rental shoulnd't cost you those top guys, Think of it this way, Whatever Flaherty would cost, he'd cost 3X the amount if he had mutliple years of team control. I'm all for a rental. Good teams rent.