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If somebody can overcome losing MPH in his fastball, that is Sale; the rest of his pitches are above average, he's smart enough to use them, he just need to trust his stuff

Gleyber was coming from TJ surgery and his numbers in ST were awful, in his case the team was not trying to manipulate his service time, he needed the reps in the minors

Cashman is sticking to his long term plan, he's no fool. Time will tell if this is the right decision.

It looks like the SP cost was thru the roof, in my opinion Cashman did the right thing not closing this deal.

It looks like the Mets wanted to flip Stroman to the Yankees, they wanted Deivi Garcia and Estevan Florial, Cashman said no.

This is HUGE, affects the whole AL playoff picture.

The Dbacks were asking, in exchange for Robbie Ray, Frazier plus three more prospects. That's insane, he's not that good.

That might be needed, this is a damn joke. Never seen a team affected like this, this should be some record. Not sure if we can keep the pace, unless some major pieces come back at full strength

One more: David Hale to the 10 days IL with a lumbar spine strain. BTW, Voit might need surgery

Voit lands officially on the 10 days IL with a sports hernia, no many details on how long will take him to get back

I doubt they get Boyd, rumors are that Mets (Thor), Jays (Stroman) and Tigers (Boyd) are/were asking for Torres in return, that's not going to happen, not sure of the asking price for Ray, but it shouldn't be that high; this is a seller market, specially with SP, they can ask for the moon if they want, the other team is the one with the urgency.

I get your point, probably that's the reason most trades never go thru BTW, I believe the Astros were asking for Andujar

Another player to the IL "The Yankees have placed outfielder Brett Gardner on the 10-day IL due to left knee inflammation"

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/07/blake-snell-to-undergo-elbow-surgery-miss-at-least-four-weeks.html This changes some things, let's see if the Rays go all-in for a SP, they have the prospects to get anybody

IT would take a lot to get Luis Castillo from the Reds, I doubt the Reds are considering a trade, he's a cheap young guy with another 3 yrs of team control

I wonder if Cashman will pull the trigger in a big name SP, as the Sox did with Sale a couple years back. The difference is that there's no SP available in the same level of Sale (2016 version). The question is if Cashman will ship out Garcia, Frazier and/or Florial for a rental, he's on record saying that he's looking for a SP with more than one year of control, it will be a very interesting week. My money is on Cashman to go for an under the radar trade.

I guess you're right 10 years without a championship beat those 86 years.

The Sox are in a very difficult situation, in paper they should be better, they should be fighting with the Yankees for the division instead they are just trying to stay alive in the WC race. A lot of season still left and a lot of things can change. As somebody explained before, the difference between the 2016 Yanks and the 2019 Sox is that the Yankees were loaded in the upper & mid levels of the minors (Sanchez, Judge, Severino, Bird?!, Montomery, Andujar, etc.) and they were able to take advantage of an unusual trade deadline urgency for the type of players (Chapman, Miller, Beltran, McCann, etc) the Yankees wanted to trade, in the first two they got a ton of good prospects, some keepers and others pieces for different trades. The Sox upper levels of the minors don't have much, so the issue here is: blow the thing open and sell every useful player they have to retool the farm and contend in 2 or 3 years, or simply keep selling what is left in the farm and plug holes with money, as the Yankees did for so many years. BTW, I don't understand the hate for Benintendi, he's an above average ballplayer he was a force last year and is young enough to get better, he's just not the superstar some people thought he was, if the Sox trade him they will regret it; also with Betts, the guy is an all-star, not in Trout level (nobody is), he probably won't be worth the money he will demand, but those are homegrown players, which should get the benefit of the doubt. I hope this doesn't happen with Devers.

you're probably right, Cashman has shown that he's not afraid to let guys walk, he will bring him back if he's comfortable with the conditions. we need to remember that Chapman is not the force that he used to be, he's no longer averaging 101-102 MPH with his fastball he's in the 98-99 MPH range now, still elite, but the obvious decline is coming he might be ok for the next two season, not sure for how much longer.

He's still owed about 30 millions for the next two years https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2845913-yankees-rumors-aroldis-chapman-1-million-percent-will-opt-out-of-contract I believe Cashman will play hard ball with him, probably adding 1 more year on top of his current deal, same AAV. Rumors says he's looking for two more years, I think he will be gone, Cashman has showed some restrain lately on this, just remember Tanaka last offseason, he was in a different situation but looking at him and Kimbrel FA market it's a big gamble for him.

the most scary team is still Houston, Tampa is trouble but I feel confident we can beat them

I'm not certain he will make it back at all this season

It looks like Severino will be out at least another 6 weeks, this means all the way to September. I think it will be better if they shut him down for good this season and let him heal properly for next season. I hope his career is not in jeopardy, this doesn't smell good

Didn't see this before the Pads have at least 8 prospects in the top 100 prospects lists (depending on which list you see), buying low on Thor is not going to empty their farm, in fact they can ship some prospects which are clearly blocked for some other players, like Luis Urias who is blocked by Tatis Jr or Machado, there are quite a few like him in their system

The Padres are heavily involved in Syndergaard, if they want him they have the prospects to make it happen