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Blooms deadline moves would have looked a lot better if the bullpen was fortified/.

Dalbec is at 3B right now, but where does he play when Devers comes back? As bad as Dalbec is against RHP Franchy is worse, so Franchy might be the odd man out when that time comes.

How good is the offense at 1B here now? hows the defense now?

You gain about .300 OPS against LHP with Hosmer at 1B. There's the lost offense and then some from losing Vasquez with the improved defense behind the plate and at 1B.

Maybe we can pick up Bobby Bonillas contact too.

Now they're reporting SD is eating about 1/2 the salary maybe more, so it's probably not going to be a very good prospect. I'd rather take a DSL lottery ticket than another toolsy 24 year old milber at this point.

I'm hoping we got a nice prospect in return with him too. Now the Sox have an upgrade until Casas is ready and more of that bloom loving prospect depth.

SD has been trying to trade him for years. Seems obvious to me the Sox are going to get a prospect back as well to take on some salary. Will see soon.

Hosmer to Boston

FWIW, I've compartmentalized my traumas so much in childhood and early adulthood that a lot of the jokes in here don't really bother me, I actually find some of them really funny. What is life if we can't make fun of things, people and even ourselves? If he's a good guy, who has turned his life around, and he helps this team....I hope people give him a chance.

Plawecki is also a fa too after this year I believe. He might be his replacement for next year with the hopes of either resigning Vazquez or signing Contreras.

This is actually a very touchy subject for me, and it might come as a shock to some I'm a little nervous to write this but I can relate here a lot. To put it as P.G. as I possibly can I was hugged too much as a child and it completely f***ed me up in life. My parents had no ideal what was going on but a teacher I had in elementary school did things to me that should never happen to any 7-year-old boy. I've been addicted to everything in my life from alcohol, to methadone, to crack, to gambling, to overeating, to sex (every person I ever met with a sexual addiction was also sexually molested as a young child). I've gone to AA, OA, NA, and SA, and to this day I am 10.5 years sober from everything. One thing I have learned through my experiences in AA, OA, NA, and SA is that all forms of addiction are just symptoms of the same disease.....people are covering up trauma. I'm willing to bet that McGuire has had some serious childhood trauma that he's dealing with that led him to do the things he did. I had actually met a guy who was traumatized when he was 6 years old by a group of younger boys in town who used to think it was funny to take him in the woods and Master**** on top of him. They told him it was a game, he grew up to do the same things McGuire did. No one ever deserves to be the victim of someone else B.S. If your parents beat you as a kid and you grew up to be an alcoholic I feel sorry for you and hope you get all the help you need in the world, you have my sympathy....but at the same time, it's no excuse for getting behind the wheel and killing someone. I would like to know the extent to what McGuire actually did, did he actually assault someone? or did he just play with his wanky thinking his windows were tinted and someone caught him? People also have the capacity to change too, and I've seen people with all types of addictions change themselves. Ten years ago I was pushing 290 Lbs' eating, sniffing, smoking, gambling, and f***ing myself to an early grave. Destroyed my marriage and my life and have spent the past ten years rebuilding it. I walk around at 180 now, in the BSOML and am clean from every vice that every vice and drug that ever afflicted me. So....I don't want to hear people in here say that people can't change because that's absolute ******** and I can attest to that personally.

You're completely misinterpreting my comment. I went back and read what I wrote and you know what? I blame myself, I worded it wrong and would like to reiterate and clarify if that's ok. A guy can get traded at any time. When he's in the shower, at home, asleep, eating lunch, taking batting practice etc etc etc. During this time of year when we see trades happen during a game we usually see the guy get up in the clubhouse and hug everyone....its why we call it "hug watch". I don't think it's reasonable for a G.M. to have his eyes glued to where every single player is at every moment while they're working the phones with other G.M.s Bloom likely had no idea Vaz was about to be interviewed, IDK maybe he did, maybe he intended to inform him and someone was on their way down to talk to him but it was too late. It was unfortunate, but that's the business of baseball. Trades happen when they happen. I don't think the Sox did anything malicous.

People's past does not always define their future. Yes, these guys had incidents, but do we really know if they're bad clubhouse guys now? Also, as you said, morale was already low, and the season was lost. Where are the Sox out of it? not completely, but there was a very realistic chance of this club making the world series and virtually none of winning it all. So, why not audition these guys? and if nothing else.....you have to fill the roster out.

Watch out clouds....

How is that contradictory? like the Sox planned for him to have it broken during the interview? what happened was an anomaly....oh ok... it happens 99% of the time not 100......that's not the point. The Sox didn't do anything wrong.

I can't believe the Sox who are down. Chris Sale Macha Wacha Matt Barnes (ok he fell apart) Tyler Danish Trevor Story Rafael Devers Kike Hernandez and has underperformance from 1/2 the other guys. are not spending all their assets to go for it. Imagine you're playing poker, and you're the guy who goes all in with a s*** hand. You go home early and broke. We can talk about what went wrong and how competent Bloom is all day long, but if you didn't see the writing on the wall and are all hot and bothered because the Sox sold off expiring contracts then you're just living in la la land.

He might actually make a pretty good platoon with Duran/Verdugo next year or even this year going down the stretch. They got him for next to nothing. You say GOG, I say old men yelling at clouds.....semantics.

Players don't get up-to-date reports on trade talks involving them, what happened with Vaz was not out of the ordinary, it literally happens every time. This is being perceived differently for two reasons, first off I think the news was broken to him by the news reporter where normally they find out in the clubhouse without the cameras immediately on them. Secondly, there are people who dislike Bloom. To each their own, fans have the right to cheer and root for their team as they see fit, it's a free country so hate Bloom all you want but that's a two-way street so I feel inclined to call people yelling at him for doing what everyone else does as being a baby. You're being babies. In other news. Old men yell at clouds.

The Sox didn’t do Vaz dirty.

Teams don’t pull guys until trades are a done deal. They don’t make them take the uniform off and stay away from the team. That doesn’t happen, if the trade was a done deal he wouldn’t be with the team. What are you talking about, I’m going by your OC which isn’t what happens in baseball. It just stinks of old man yelling at cloud.

Was it? If the deal was done he wouldn’t be playing for the Sox. What they did was very ordinary

Yup, but hey so is JBJs bat in the lineup

Mancini was just traded to Houston.

Ok….but why would Mancini make sense RIGHT NOW? I think if the Sox were in serious contention, he makes all the sense in the world.