GreenSox

The Marlins, of all teams, have pitching they had no room to protect? I'll go with the hitter from the Jays.

Teel can hit and can play outfield. He's obviously the most valuable. To me Quero passed the eye test at catcher; he's 22. Lots of potential And I still like Lee as a backup. Don't trade any, unless it's for a premium (and a big premium for Teel).

“ And if something should happen to Vargas, they have Curtis Mead, who could take over at third.” What???? On what planet does Mead have an skills at all? Getz needs to stop trading for org guys. Especially from tampa.

I don’t know whether these guys can coach; but I like their resumes/profile. And some coaching churn is always healthy.

In Fegan’s write up, he notes that Littel was traded for a “a pretty good prospect;” that prospect currently sits as Dodgers’ #13 per MLB.com. That trade occurred on 7/30 and Littel had a 2.4 WAR. The next day, the rays call their buddy Chris Getz and acquire 3.0bWAR Adian Houser for 3 org guys Is he at least aware that these other front offices, including his buddies from tampa, are schooling him like this?

Yea, Sox could use improvement in that area. Should be a priority especially with the lack of power.

They are contending so may not have room for an arm on the mend. The Sox have plenty of room. Lots.

LOL Yea, I'd have Mead off my list for that reason. Eisert, Boozer, Wilson...these guys need to have a)good seasons then b)traded in June or July. And not for guys who are going to be at the bottom of this list this time, next year.

Is Eisert a factor here? Your list looks accurate. I'd give consideration to protecting Coffee, McCullough, Schweitzer (in that order). None of those guys are that likely to get picked, but I'd hate to lose one in order to save several of the org. talents that they are protecting. Perhaps the better answer is to not protect any of them (including the org. guys) and leave some spots open for more flexibility for sign or trade

I am a bit surprised or curious about this. All of the Sox young players on the major league roster who actually have talent are infielders. And yet they keep the infield org guys like Mead around; and Cowles too, although I'm not sure what the theory of Cowles is. On the OF side, they have no one besides Baldwin once the current Sox starting OF (Benintendi, Tauchman, Robert) are moved.* Lee played some OF. Maybe some other guys will start shagging out there. Fletcher wasn't that bad anyway. The worst of the org bunch by a mile is Mead. *If those 3 aren't moved by July 31, then Getz darn well better be.

No reason to expose Elko, especially with as much filler as is on this 40 man. But then again, maybe so, because I think they need to do a lot more culling. I would say that Palette, 4-rounds Kelly, Dalquist, busts as starters, but not terrible as relievers should be protected over these guys. And then make a number of rule 5 picks.....the guys they ae kicking off the 40 man are org guys at this point, so they could get fortunate like last year.

Whew. A bit worried for a while that they might have to expose Curtis Mead, Derek Hill or Ben Cowles.

The difference is that we had Vaughn for the better part of 5 seasons...if we held onto him, he started hitting like this for us, where does that leave us? Perhaps a trade in December or next July for a decent, prospect. There is not much opportunity cost either way with Vaughn. Not trading Civale at the deadline was a bigger screwup than trading Vaughn for him. The opportunity lost in trading Semien and Basset was massive: years of control for 2 players who turned out to be excellent. And for what? For our 73 win team to rent Samardiza for a season. And Hahn was preening and strutting after that trade.

That trade wouldn't have pissed me off as much had he just traded Houser for the 2 pitchers without Mead. Mead had no redeeming qualities as a player either statistically on paper (no power, no obp, high Ks, not a good defender) or in his actual play. Just a lot of wasted time and crowding out other evaluations by playing him regularly for 6 weeks.

Well, at least the Civale “prospect” won’t have a negative WAR, which is better than we did for Houser.