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Hector Santiago???

Moncada trading SLG for OBP, while not intentional, is better for this club when you have guys like Eloy, Robert, TA, who hit for decent power but don't take a lot of walks. Last year his lack of SLG stood out because a lot of the other power in the lineup was out injured.

This is why I wanted Schwarber so badly. He'd look fantastic in the middle of that lineup.

Get Manaea now. Whatever it takes.

I think it's a forgone conclusion that Manaea gets traded soon--it's just a matter of where. Of course, today to the Sox would be easy since he's already there.

He's already a sunk cost, and at the very least he can eat innings in blowouts.

Keuchel already with runners on 2nd and 3rd with 0 out.

Because the tweet wasn't from a meat product.

What about Thompson or Dahlquist?

Kath, Collins and Adolfo for Manaea and Vogt. Does that work?

Yes, but I wouldn't want to trade places with Mexico.

With the 3 batter rule, having multiple lefties in the pen isn't as important as it used to be. Bullpen now looks like Hendriks/Graveman/Bummer/Kelly (later)/Lopez/Ruiz/Velazquez

US opens with Wales/Scotland/Ukraine on Monday 11/21.

US plays Iran on Tuesday 11/29.

US plays England the day after Thanksgiving.

Sox saved $6M on this trade. Offer it to Conforto.

Sheets has to DH against most, if not all RHP. Vaughn can DH vs LHP and spell Eloy and AJ in the OF on other days. Plus, you know there will be injuries at some point. Best thing about this is that Leury is finally only an IF, where he's much better defensively.

Morgan Freeman voice: That contract was, in fact, movable.

Rick Hahn 1, Keith Law 0

Apparently the Dodgers wanted a shitty reliever for $16M. What do they know though? How often do they ever win playoff series?

AJ Pollock is a sunk cost?

Do the Sox not have anybody in the org. telling them the same thing? Or were they told that and just decided to take the risk?

My recollection from last season is that the offense destroyed starting pitching but blew chunks once opposing relievers got into the game, so if the game was tied the bullpen, even though they were very good, was eventually going to lose the game.

If my mom weren't a nurse and my dad a very high-risk person, I probably would have been less careful for sure. It wasn't easy to spend that much time away from people at this age.

Conforto hadn't though.