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It would have to be primarily for other bad contracts for me. Story and Yoshida for lindor? Durran in there?

What about an out of the box thought and play wiltin at c/ dh/ 1b, and find a 1b out on the market. Much easier to find a power rh bat on a non contender there...

Still weird they have so many historically successful players hit so poorly to start the year. Anthony, story, Durbin, durran...and then mayer as well. All of them will eventually return to their averages right?

I'm surprised total bases is not a more popular stat. It factors in hits, extra base hits. Maybe create a new stat that adds sb, walks, and hbp to total bases and call it ultimate bases. A very comprehensive offensive stat that factors in most of the significant factors like obo, slg, and a pretty big one...games played. The best ability is availability....

Those are al east champ numbers. Those HR totals were even over mine, and I thought I was being aggressive. Those are we don't need to go get anyone at the deadline numbers.

93 wins and 1st in al east. Pitching and defense wins championships, and Sox have them. They go get a big hitter before deadline. Obviously they have very few injuries to achieve this.

Who said no interleague play? The 4 divisions is simply record comparison for playoffs/no playoffs. There should easily be a NFL style inter league rotation to change things up.

I think I keep the 2 leagues to help spread that out. Maybe 4 8 team divisions, with 2 in NL and 2 in AL. That makes for the natural WS between the leagues, plus allows for the NYY, and NYM split up to separate the close teams. Cww, cle, Detroit, rs, NYy, Baltimore, tor, tpa in al east, kc, minn, lv, hou, laa, sea, tex +1 exp in all west. Cinn, Pitt, chic, nym, atl, Mia, phi, wash in nl east, stl, mil, cubs, ari, col, Dodgers, sdp, sfg, plus Utah in nl west. Pretty simple split roughly at the Mississippi, with only mil and cubs even close to any of the east teams, and that is white Sox in the other league.

I am predicting a trade of one of the 5 OF's ( including masa) before the trade deadline to plug a hole from poor play/injury. Just too much surplus with too much depth in the system to not find a better fit with similar talent.

They also said Devers was their third basement. Situations change. Versatility is a positive team friendly trait.

Yes because we still have more than enough ammunition to go get someone when we define what/where we need them, and other teams are more ready to give up or fill their glaring hole. In season pick ups and/ or the ammunition to get them is part of our current status.

And how would you have played all. To pay for them all they would have traded several players, probably including crochet. The people who just say overpay to get this player or that, then complain when you are stuck with players like panda and masa that can't be traded. You can't have it both ways. I like the Sox efforts so far this off-season. I think they still need 1cmore offensive player via trade, but they can probably wait until closer to the deadline to confirm what/where they need the help, and which other teams are out if it or have surplus/ needs that match up with the sox.

I could see this as a year where they have 8 guys hit 15, 6 of them hit 20, 3 hit 25, and 1 hit 30. With top of the league pitching. And a super D I think it's enough IF...big IF...they get on base enough.

We can never lose if we dont give up any runs vs we can never win if we dont score year. Should be fun. I suspect we can surely be buyers before deadline if we have a weak link, either one we suspect now, or one that pops up by then. More than one are probably unlikely.

Do we change focus to a trade for a catcher? One of the bigger weaknesses id say assuming Durbin and Mayer have 2nd and 3rd locked up. It's either that or bullpen right? Still need to trade of extra body.