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1) No 2) No 3) Yes 4) No 5) Yes 6) Yes 7) Yes 8 ) No 9) No 10) Yes

Collins as a trade piece is selling low. He should be able to hit pretty well. Maybe learn 1B

Why wouldn't someone take Mercedes and see if he can hit? He hit everywhere in the minors. Nothing to lose. The Sox took a catcher with far weaker credentials than him a couple of years ago. For that matter, why haven't the Sox? Guys like Rutherford are also stashable - now he'd be a pure stash and no-play, but a reasonable move for someone like Detroit. Madeiros is the one that has no chance of anyone taking him. He has a low ceiling and he's pitched poorly. Less than 24 hours left. I guess they can always dump players after Wednesday - just not add. I still love my fringe prospects....just not the ones they seem intent on protecting.

Right now, Fulmer is a much better pitcher than Brinson is a hitter. Brinson's problem is nothing that a change of scenery (which he has already had) will fix. Sox had a lot of players who hit like Brinson and they just went through multi-year grind with Leury and Engel to get them up to acceptable (barely) offensive standards. Don't need another one. Fulmer, on the other hand, has a discernible kernel of talent with his spin rate.

As i recall, the general feeling on the trade at the time was that the headliners were appropriate, but that it was light on the secondary pieces.

Well, they shouldn't. Okay, maybe a team that already is a legit contender and has a deep farm would think about it. And Boston's not going to trade him unless they have at least one top prospect coming back. For the Sox, all it would accomplish is give Hahn another 5 years of excuses and increase the chance of contending for one year; and those chances still won't be great.

I would say that pretty much everyone on is "Risk of getting claimed" list deserves to be protected over: Madeiros - why in the world would they protect him? Frare Palka Ruiz Vieira I'm sure there are more. Not protecting Mercedes would just be mind boggling, especially when this team needs a hitter. Of course not calling him up in September was hard to understand as well.

Sure, why not? They need pitching and he was pretty sensational with the Brewers. And he's not as old as I thought he was.

He should cost about 3 times what Hahn paid for Samardzija. If they make a trade like this, then I'll know for sure that Hahn's not serious about winning;

If they want to sell low.

They certainly could in a Hosmer sort of way. Until the last couple of months, I didn't think that the Sox really wanted to sign Abreu long-term at all. Some of the statements (mostly media rumors) have made me second guess that. But I think the Sox absolutely have a limit on their Abreu investment. Hahn basically said today that he either takes the QO or he doesn't not terribly bothered either way, and not a real sense of urgency to get a longer term deal done.

It's an obvious move (of immaterial financial consequence) if you are too cheap and too lazy to sign international talent.

3 and 3. And if you use 5 and 4, Rick Hahn is on year 8.

Amen. When this org., especially under this GM, trades for vets, it wastes resources.

The call to accelerate was premature. But Hahn executed the acceleration - and he did it poorly. His drafts have been poor. And what about the June desperation in 2016 - trading for a broken down pitcher, ignoring the advice about Tatis, using a draft pick on a relief pitcher? Yes, he was probably not allowed to offer Machado market value. But whose idea was "friends and family"? That was a clown act. Further, as mentioned by others, part of his job is to make the business case to not accelerate or, in the case of Machado, to offer market value.

He's been a dreadful GM at building up a team. He failed the first time, and, if we consider last year as the first year of the build up, he's off to another poor start. The problem is that a)he doesn't know talent; b) instead of assembling an ambitious staff of quality baseball minds and one that would balance out his weaknesses, he surrounds himself with yes-men; and c)takes the lazy way out when available.

Based on past performance of this FO, those are probably the guys they have their sights set on.

Trading for these RedSox players on 1 year contracts would be lazy and overall ridiculous. Just another clown act instead of real baseball work. OR they could do what winning organizations do, and try to get what they actually need (pitching) on the open market or via trades for YOUNG talent with multiple years.

I would say that 2/QO would be closer to a market deal.

Congrats to Yolmer. Man if he could only hit a little....750 OPS isn't asking for that much.

He was demoted to AAA for 2/3+ of the season; he had a .750 OPS until the last 5 games of the season. Nope - no top dollar for 5 games. He also has extreme splits; teams can work with that, but I'm not sure that this team is that deft. I suggested Fry for Happ this time last year; maybe Bummer for Happ this time, but I'm not sure I'd do it.

I've never been a Moustakas guy because of his low OBP for this organization that has long been OBP deficient. Still he does have a good bit of versatility

Sign players as 1 year placeholders if need be. Trading for them is 2014-16 all over again: sheer madness.

I like the Wheeler idea. It gives us the opportunity to be first to the market and wrap him up, while others are after Cole and Strasburg. And yes they are better but if we couldn't beat the Padres and Phillies, doubtful that we outbid the Cole/Strasburg suitors.

The Astros' other key was the ability to constantly regenerate talent out of the farm system. Sox haven't come close to showing they have those skills.