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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.

I think it is too early to give up on Colson, but even if it isn’t, I don’t like many of the Yankees prospects. It would be a crapshoot on multiple recent college arms.

The Sox don’t have a ton of tough Rule 5 decisions because they have been so poor in the international arena. They don’t have a bunch of young guys running out of eligibility. I can imagine more of a crunch when some of their HS draftees like Boughton get to the bubble. High picks like Carlson, Fauske, Thome, and Prosek will obviously be protected unless they’re disasters, which unfortunately can happen.

ISTG you can miss a joke with the best of them.

I hope they find a way to stay in the city. This could be that way.

Volpe/Lombard seem to have it covered... Too many other high K propensity youngsters like Jones and Dominguez.

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I saw it kicked around somewhere that it could be agreed on to do it before 12/1. I haven't really seen that they have so at this point, I'm assuming it wouldn't be. I guess you still have to prep like it is going to happen and protect guys though just in case it does.

I think they add William Bergolla. I'd be surprised by anyone else.

The last 2 guys are 100% not being taken. The first two are slight maybes, but I doubt it. Wouldn't be shocked 8f the Sox add no one, as we might not even have a Rule 5 draft anyway.

It's Wrigley Field, they probably have a trough for bathing

I turned off the Giant- Commander game last night figuring it was OVAH. I woke up this morning and was surprised to see NY that blew that game.

Are the fans still communal pissing in a cattle trough as God intended?