Larry Cook

Thank you Kansas City!!!

Campbell and cespedes are both future 2nd basemen.

The outfield has left handed batter Duran in left field. Defense is average plus. Had a great year offensively. Speed to burn. 4 more years of control! Is he a core member of our team going forward or is he a one year wonder? Right handed batter rafeala in centerfield. Defense is above average. Has a lot to work on offensively and chasing bad pitches. Above average speed. Signed a long term contract earlier this year. will the bat improve if he plays one position in 2025? left handed batter abreau in right field. Defense is above average. Had a decent year with the bat, but huge splits and should sit versus lefties. Average speed. 5 years of control. Is he an ascending player or trade bait? right handed bat refsynder. Below average to decent defender. Had a decent year with the bat. Huge splits, hits lefties well! Below average to decent speed. Will he retire or play out the contract? The elephant in the room is left handed bat Anthony! Defense is average. The bat had the potential to be outstanding. Speed is average plus. Only 20 years old! Does he start the year in Worcester ???? Outfield looks to be positioned well for the next 5 years with Montgomery and Gracia in the pipeline!

It does seem like a couple of quality pitchers these past two years, might have gotten us to the playoffs, but cost us teel and Montgomery

At the start of free agency we have the following starting pitchers on the 40 man roster sp1 - Houk. sp2 - bello sp3 - giolito sp4 - crawford sp5 - Criswell sp6 - fitts sp7 - Priester sp8 - winkleman sp9 - mata sp10 - perales I see us needing a sp1 and sp2 in order to move to make the playoffs in 2025. My first choice is free agent fried. But maybe he is too expensive for us. I believe we acquire the other starter via the trade route, but understand we have to give quality to get quality

Is walker beuhler worth purposing in free agency

Dude, I live in Alabama as well!!! I am in Trussville. Where are you ?

How many of our prospects would hang’em Chaim be interested in trading for??

His long swing should be trouble, but he makes a lot of contact. I have Anthony, Campbell, teel and Mayer in my big four. but we have a potentially awesome big 4 (part two) Montgomery, arias, cespedes and either blies or Garcia or meidroth

Is grandal an improvement over Jansen

Who are the 10 most valuable trade chips we have in the organization????

is cassas our starting 1st baseman in 2025

Bres-slow has a ton of options to get us the pitching we need and to improve our defense

2024 has the potential to be the best group of prospects since the 2013 group!!! and you forgot to add Montgomery to the list. I think he is going to have a great season in 2025. Off season to do list 1.) trade yoshida and cash to Arizona for Montgomery 2.) sign fried 3.) trade for Bryce miller or Braxton Ashcroft. 4.) sign 2 quality bullpen arms. (One lefty) 5.) with a backup catcher this is a 90 win team if we do this.

Because huge spends on free agents is not a sustainable model. add in injuries and the model is completely broken. Giolito, Whitlock and story’s injuries were devastating in 2024. big free agent spends is yesterday’s model. I see us taking the internal pipeline with a few moderate free agent signings as our path to a sustainable model

If bres-slow goes hard after crochet and he leaks it to the press, is that enough to get Seattle or Pittsburgh interested in trading young starting pitching for some of our really talented hitting prospects????

I think our days of being a big spender are over. The farm system will continue to churn out 2 - 3 prospects per year and only the absolute best will get the QO. we are the waiver wire kings for now on

I think we played worse after the all star break because our starters were not going deep enough into games and between injuries and a lack of depth, we burned up our bullpen arms. plus offensively, our youngsters crashed into the wall good days are ahead of we get 2 quality starters and 2 quality relievers.

No no no!! We have add a lot more to the trade, but I think it is doable if we find the right pieces

I think bres-slow builds bullpen depth by young unproven guys with high upside

And who replaced Chris not so frail????

We can pay the rest to send him to San Francisco I really think birdsong might look good in a Red Sox uniform

I am going to believe bres-slow when he says he is going to as aggressive as the budget allows. I expect him to add 1 established starting pitcher and a couple high upside unproven bullpen guys

In today’s game, depth is more important than ever. Our pitching staff was not nearly deep enough in 2024 and our pitchers ran out of gas in the second half. the fitts, weissert, Guerrero, and so many others should be depth pieces! it is bres-slow’s job to improve the bullpen so these guys are depth pieces

trade partner #3 Pittsburgh pirates the pirates offense if terrible. They have three great young pitchers on their roster and 2 more in the minors. we already did a trade with Pittsburgh for a high upside pitcher I think we can move abreau and cassas and get one of the 3 young pitchers (not named skenes) off Pittsburgh’s roster!