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It's actually quite cheap....15 AAV...that's a 2 WAR player. Moncada just had a 5 win season. Even with regression to 4 or even 3.5 there's alot of surplus value there

6/90 is beyond awesome.......15 AAV...that's a steal. Great job Rick. The FO made some great long term investments this off-season.

The world isn't gonna end if we have a 2 war 2B batting ninth. That's perfectly fine. Not everyone is an all star. He's having a rough spring, I suspect he might be trying too hard to prove he should be up on opening day which wasn't gonna happen regardless. He will find himself and even if he's just an average regular that's OK.

Vaughn is gonna put up clownish numbers at High A to start the season (and yes he will start there so they can use the "3 levels" excuse at the end of the year for the service time issue). Like .350/.500/.700.

The .625 would be very unlikely in Birmingham.

Couple walks for Collins

Flores pitching very efficiently.

The Sox future 1-6 is very impressive and hellish to deal with. Nowhere to breathe in that lineup 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Vaughn 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Anderson

Heuer impressive as expected.

Unless we get a really good offer for something we really need in ST, it may be better to wait till the deadline to move McCann, as there are many factors we have to see play out, including how good, bad or average the Sox look, how healthy Grandal is, how much further progress Collins has made as an actual catcher in AAA, and whether catcher demand looks like it may be stronger then than now.

Codi Heuer is ranked way too low

If he can increase

He's gonna start at High A so that by the time the season is over and he is raking at AAA they can say three levels in one year was already alot to justify getting the extra year of service time like with Robert and Madrigal.

Any link to reds radio?

If he's the future closer then it would make sense. Also there's very little on the books (outside of team friendly AAV deals for Jimenez, Robert and Anderson) after 2022 so there are still plenty of slots for big money deals even if the budget is only gonna be around 140.

Please announce a 6 year deal for Moncada. K thx

I thought tomorrow's game was getting rained out?

They can try it out in the beginning (before Madrigal gets here and as Robert is adjusting) to see if TA's BA regression is counterbalanced by a walk rate that improves from dumpster fire to merely below average. If he can find a way to somehow repeat 350 OBP and make it sustainable then I'm perfectly fine with him leading off. I'm not holding my breath though. If Robert is a 20 HR/30+ steals guy it works for him too, esp if he can have a halfway decent OBP and doesn't chase bad pitches. But I suspect Robert is gonna be a 30+ HR monster that also happens to steal 40 bases and it's a waste of his SLG% at 1. By all means tho start TA there and you don't have to have that difficult conversation with him about moving him down to like 8 until he shows he can't sustain it.

Anderson leading off doesn't make sense unless he can repeat 350 OBP which is unlikely given he isn't likely to hit 333 again. With some regression he's prolly a 280 guy which means he's prolly a 310 OBP guy and that doesnt work. That said Moncada is great and comfortable at 2 so he should stay there. Robert will end up hitting for too much power to be leading off. He could very well end up hitting third eventually right in front of Eloy. To me the best candidate on a long term basis for leadoff would be Madrigal. If he's a 290-300 hitter he should be able to get on base at around 350 or maybe a bit more. The speed helps too. If Ricky is insistent on using TA or YM at some combo of 1-2 tho then I'd go with: 1 Anderson R 2 Moncada L 3 Abreu R 4 Jimenez R 5 Grandal L 6 Encarnacion R 7 Mazara L 8 Robert R 9 2B fill in for Madrigal

Rick Hahn said we have some money for the deadline. Maybe JR wants to see how the team does for the first half of the season first?

I don't think they will undercut Mazara like that especially when Puig isn't great against LHP anyway. I also don't see Puig wanting to be a platoon player.

I loved the report on Blake at SSHP....while it's only BP it still looks like he had good launch angle and was killing the ball. Very encouraging.

I remember that. The rumor going around was the real injury was being punched by Trevor Pryce.

.280/.340/.540....maybe WRC+ around 130 or so would be a good year 2 at the plate. Ideally instead of being worth -10 runs in the field if he could cut it to -7 that would be nice.

Yes but it gives them an another financial albatross for the next few years. I can see why Preller would be willing to give up those prospects his seat is white hot, SD needs to be a 90 win team this year or else.