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Yes Kopech and Dunning are ahead; I consider them prospects + as they've pitched in the majors. Still, that's your rotation, with Stiever #6 and it's a long way to #7. 6 is a minimum in a normal season.

Nice. Thank goodness Engel was out there.

The Sox are making the playoffs. You need 3 starters in the playoffs. The Sox have 3 good starters. The Sox do not need a starting pitcher. Stiever is the best fairly advanced pitching prospect we have. By the time the Sox need a starter, he should be ready. And if things go as they usually do on these types of trades, Stiever will be the better pitcher on day 1.

Cleveland just had another rookie starter debut last night: Tall skinny guy throwing nothing but darts.

Then obviously don't trade him if you get very little in return.

Who says it has to punt the season? What if they got a young starter him?

Trade him for a player who will make the team better and perhaps for longer.

Why is Delmonico even in the picture?

The Rays do fine with Engle types. Good defense helps. If he can get that OPS near .750, he can play a lot.

Trade him. Sell high. He won't be here next season. Yes it takes some guts to sell high.

These type of trades have <20% quantitative success rate; probably <5% qualitatively. Pass

Young player for young player only. No average veterans, please.

I'd say his answer was pretty direct; and I don't believe that Stone would leave himself hanging out to dry in front of his bosses.

You're generous: 8 of the 10 are below the mean, and the one that is #1 (BABIP - i.e. luck) suggests that things will get worse.

As soon as Myers gets here, he'd revert to his usual .750 OPS.

Sox haven't been swept yet; let that continue, please.

Same show for going on 8 years.

No. Good gracious.

At least. They didn't have near the jumpstart that the Sox FO did. Further excuses for this regime are senseless.

It could have happened to anyone. Thankfully, we have proven winners like Rickey Renteria, Rick Hahn and Jeremy Haber running the operation.

The core is Jiminez, Anderson, Moncada Robert, Giolito and Cease. That is your ready-to-win on the field core. Maybe you can throw in Madrigal, but he hasn't proven to be anything special. Kopech hasn't done enough yet. Relief pitchers are ancillary. Vaughn and Crochet are in the minors. Numerous high draft picks have been squandered, several of which were not well-intended when made. Is that enough to build a winner? I don't know. But if it's sufficient, then the FO needs to prove it and deliver a winner. Last time of course, he had the answers in the org, but didn't know it and were too impatient, so he dispatched them for mediocre and worse players. 40% of the As rotation, #3 in AL MVP 2019, and the current leader for the NL MVP would have looked mighty nice with the last core; or with this core.

The Sox are in a similar position as they were in 2015 or so. Can this FO do this time what it failed to do 5 or so years ago: turn a young core of 5 or so young players into a contender? Honestly, after 4 years of this, and primo drafting positions, it's still a little disturbing that the core is so small.

The wise choice. Aggressive trading at this deadline this season is senseless (except for sellers if some fool team wants to buy).

No, unless it's veteran for veteran trade, dealing from excess. Bad teams will make the playoffs so making the playoffs isn't the issue. The Sox need a lot more than 1 or 2 pitchers to win the world series. And aren't the Cubs a playoff contender? So why would they sell?

Several players they could have dumped instead; but they like their org. minor leaguers.