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I can't emphasize enough how little the physical address of a team matters. New York teams aren't in New York City, or state. Dallas is in Arlington. San Francisco is in Santa Clara like 50 miles from SF. The Patriots are a half hour out of Boston. Miami isn't in Miami, unless you count Miami Gardens.

SUre. Need to stash someone in AAA

It's not bad, but I think they want this built ASAP, and for that to happen, it's Arlington Heights or Indiana, and it won't be Indiana even though that is probably where their best deal is. You can't be the pride and joy of Illinois and play in Indiana. And they aren't getting rid of the song.

Been there countless times. Also, finding the hat that is on your head

9 of the Yankees top 10 prospects are pitchers which is interesting. There could be a fit on paper. Then again, I feel like Yankees prospects are always overrated. Maybe Carlos LaGrange?

Yes, because fan speculation is what causes things to happen, or not.

expect more of this since pitching is expensive

if you really want help - avoid hypothetical trades. It's a symptom of being a fan of a cheapass habitual losing organization. we have the typical kneejerk premise of every guy coming out of the minors is a finished product. we have CMDR - ColsonMontgomeryDerangementSyndrome. I don't have faith in Getz after the trade deadline to trust him dealing with veterans. I do think he's much better right now at dealing with what they have. There's veteran GMs always willing to take advantage of his lack of experience.

Don't know how I forgot about Willson, but I 100% did.

I agree with you. People hate change.Don't trade anyone after a career year when you can get the most value because well now he's good and you keep good players. Same argument applies that you create a big hole in the BP to try someone as a SP when the plan all along was to start the guy because he wants to start, he has a good 4 pitch mix and he throw strikes. I think he can lean on his sinker a little more in the rotation than he did as a RP. These conservative viewpoints when you are trying to create the best rotation possible while knowing you also have Reinsdorf still as owner are silly. Of course it's a money thing but that doesn't mean its the wrong move. Both things can be right at the same time. Taylor is your best chance of getting a Skubal. Maybe not this year but I'd take a less innings pitched version of Skubal than not. Thinking it's the wrong move if he doesn't reach 150 innings is also silly. All young starters have to start building innings. He did that this year as a RP which was the plan at the start of the year and the last 2 years ever since they said he would get a chance as a SP. Phase 1 has been completed successfully. Onto Phase 2. If you believe a player should have the most say in his own future then he should be given every opportunity to determine his own fate.

I feel better about the pitching than I have in a couple years. While Shane Smith and Vasil fell each in their own way , Taylor, Hicks. Burke, Hagen Smith all emerged to provide quality innings. Newcombe was so valuable and Davis Martin had an early season spurt better than any he had in his career . Unfortunately it didn't last. There are a lot of question marks regarding the starting rotation and now the bullpen but there are also a lot of candidates or you might say trade candidates . Problem is you need frontline pitching now and can't wait for it to develop and you may have to replace, Newcomb and Taylor in the pen which are both big losses. Do you keep Martin, Castillo, Kay, Sandlin, Schultz, Thorpe, McDougal, Shane Smith or invest in the future of some of the younger ones in that group ? I'd keep the RH OF bat on the back burner and go after strictly pitching now. As always is the question with the Sox and Reinsdorf will they go for a top of the rotation arm? Can't expect a Skubal unfortunately because he's exactly what they need. The rest of the FA starting pitchers can just as easily flop in a shortened season just like so many trade deadline starting pitchers flopped in the 2nd half. Also because of the potential for a lengthy lockout and the potential for anyone to bust or boom it's just a matter of preference. Outside of Skubal I have no preference on the pitchers to sign , start, move to the pen or trade. What I suspect will happen is the Sox sign a guy or 2 with plenty of question marks like Taira (if there's a lack of bidding) or May and trade a couple of pitchers.

And the Brewers get a first round pick for him signing elsewhere.

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Casas is more non-tender candidate at this point. Hasn't played since early 2025. Also have Willson Contreras, who is the better defender of him and Bauers at 1B. Probably looking at a timeshare at 1B/DH.

Unless Casas transitions into a DH role, seems like his time in BOS has come to an end.

I think that was just the Sox realizing the mistake was drafting him and trying to figure out a way to make it work. I got a ton of push back here when I said the Vaughn to the OF experiment would never work from those who saw a guy not making a lot of mistakes in LF, probably got better marks then Antonacci got this year in both their 1sr year in LF. People here were saying Vaughn was average, which in LF was OK. But to my eyes he could pick up the hits dropping in front of him well enough but never had the speed and the sample size was too small on defense that people bought into that mirage he'd be an average fielder out there. I have a lot more hope that Antonacci, because of his speed, can become a better LF . It's that initial read that slows down Antonacci not his speed at least.

MLB Trade RumorsRed Sox To Sign Jake BauersThe Red Sox are signing one of the biggest bats on the market. MLB Trade Rumors has the details.

$58 million for breakout season at age 30 and a 1B at that. Crazy.

Not in favor of trading Colson. Handing a potential LH power bat to the Yankees I'd need a lot back. I mean enough to make Cashman turn it down outright . Plus you really can't trade him yet until we give Cholowsky and Carlson more time in the minors. Also again re: LH power we have no idea if we are going to keep Mune . Then your 2 biggest LH power bats are gone if Mune leaves too. They may have to resign him by the TDL because if they don't and he walks they get nothing. They cannot get nothing. And we have no idea when the season will start so a slow start will really hurt Mune's value. They already traded Jacob Gonzales and Boston Smith both whom bat LH. They can't keep depleting our LH power bats unless you get some back plus good defense at SS is at a premium too. A big reason this team got so much better in 2 years was because of the growth of the youth, power and specifically the LH power. Getting rid of it all is not the way to go. We may hate the K's and the low batting average but HR's and good defense overcomes a lot of it. If he just made better swing decisions and took more walks he could be a monster. Colson is one of the few who has the potential for 5+ WAR . With the lockout looming and new ownership on the horizon we cannot treat this year just like any other year. The last 2 years its been easy to predict improvement if you believed in the rising youth and in the potential of Murakami despite the perceived lack of pitching. The Sox already have a good offense. Don't rob Peter to pay Paul. If you want pitching sign it and trade pitching for it. Sign all the free agent pitchers you want but there's zero reason to keep depleting the team of high upside youth & LH power.

Real revenue and profit problem the sport has! Absolute scrubs getting 4 years. I'd bet over those 4 years he produces less bWAR (3.2) than he did in what is almost surely a fluke 2025 with the Brewers.

That's insane.

At some point you become injury prone, we have reached that point it appears.