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Benintendi will not be traded in 2025. Even if he has a great 3 months, I don't see teams ponying up $35 Million+ for his services. Clevinger will be an effective reliever and will be moved in July; the July market for late-inning relievers is a lot more robust than it is for 5th starters.

Tristan Gray has hit a lot of homers in the minors, including 2 30-homer seasons. It's a longshot, but we sure could use 30 homers...or even 10.

I figure Dalbec is just occupying innings. The important guys are getting enough work. Spring training is too long. As for Vaughn, just pray he has a few good months; if he does, we can get something for him.

And Maton. But he's not really a SS either.

Tyler Davis looked sharp. In his only appearance this spring, he comes in with the bags loaded and Ks Moncada in 4 pitches. He doesn't have much experience, but he looks poised and ready to go. Wouldn't surprise me to see him in the pen late summer.

Sox and Angels just switched 3rd rate backup catchers; they got Robinson and we got Thaiss.

With the Dodgers, I like the idea of Hope plus a couple of other guys reasonably ranked- Freeland and another top 10. Hope has potential galore. That way, the Sox avoid the Outmans and Pages that the Dodgers are gonna want to send; the Dodgers keep their three highest ranked prospects, but they still feel some sting.

Is he driving the ball?

Those two immediately, but by June, we should have a couple of better arms all present and correct. But I think their value will only increase as time passes; and heck we may want to keep them anyway.

The Sox have a couple of 5th-starter arms to offer up for sale.

Rojas, Amaya, Taylor, Tauchman, Drury, Slater seems a bit much of the has-been/never-was veteran demographic. Those guys aren't particularly peddleable, even with good seasons, either. One guy I'm really hoping has a big start is Vaughn....now, he could bring back something, if he rakes for a couple of months. Teel looks like he'll be paying Chicago a visit by late Spring.

That's quite the chain, 19 years and counting. I wonder what the longest running chain is in MLB? Good to see them starting the Saint.

Absolutely not. Only make a deal with the Dodgers if they significantly overpay.

The Sox control Martin through 2030, so it seems ridiculous to think about trading him....the Sox have to start building this thing up. On the other hand, per my reading of the prospect reviews, it appears that we'll have 5+ additional starting pitching prospects ready to go by 2026 (including a couple on the "just-missed" list). The Sox are still mighty light on position player prospects, so they've got to be open, if not aggressive, in pursuit of positional acquisitions. Dealing from depth may be the way to go.

I wonder if they've moved him to the Pen full-time, or if it's just a case of if a young arm is ready to go, they'll find a spot on the active roster. On another matter, they've had worse players/placeholders on the active roster than Maton.

Seattle seems like an obvious spot, but for Robert's Ks. Seattle has a serious K problem and Robert just adds to it.

Development was the least of the reasons for that situation.

Fletcher, yes: he was pretty much expected to come in and give us a 1-2 WAR OF. But wasn't Deloach one of those guys like Cordell, who was Rule 5 eligible and one of those guys who in all likelihood as AAA? The more important parts of that deal were the pick and the pitcher. And I agree - I hope some of the IFs get work in LF.

I'll go with the player on whom Zips is merciless: Lenyn.

Hate to see anyone get hurt, etc. etc. But this does create much-needed room and the Sox have a lot of players to audition.

I hope it lasts. He was a decent middle reliever with the Padres and he'd be a real help if he'd get back to that form. He'd also be peddlable.

He's more than just an arm in the pen here for a tryout; they've coddled him and given him more leeway than most and he's expected/intended to make this pen. . Sure they could DFA him whenever, but they haven't, despite good cause. There's something about him they really like, so I hope to start to show it.

The Sox love Justin Anderson, despite 0 productive seasons. I hope he gets better.

I don't know what aging out even means with the shape of this roster. He's probably the youngest OF on the 40 man; there is probably 1 interesting OF prospect in the org, and that prospect hasn't played an inning. The putative closer is 31 and he's yet to have a good Major League season. Tanner Banks was a better reliever than some they signed for pretty decent money, and they never called him up until he was 30. But now that he worked out, we traded for the Red Sox version of Banks. He may not make it, probably won't, but I give a little performance grace for the disaster that was 2024. We have many pitching prospects in the org. a lot better than a lot of the pitchers on the 40 man. Not so with OF. No reason to jettison him now.

Fletcher hit well the minors. he hit reasonably well in his MLB stint in Arizona. His Defense is sound. He didn't hit well for the Sox last year, but neither did anyone else. People were beating on him because he was 5-8 and other silly reasons. There is still a lot of riff raff with far less value than Fletcher on this 40 man.