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Law has Emerson ranked 5th. The pitcher Flora looks really good. Way better than Hagen Smith looked on paper (innings/start, walk rate), but not Paul Skenes good.

Roch not improving is a bit concerning. .666 OPS summer with wooden bats, but then not returning to the Cape to improve or to show that it was a fluke is also a question to me. I'd say Swanson offense - career .730 OPS; .318 OBP - would be a big downer for any first round pick. (Swanson's rep, imo, is a product of the WAR factory; Sandy Alcantra is another one; A couple of years of Lux and Eaton as well). Not saying don't draft Roch. Just glad they are looking and scouting hard.

Of the 6 players involved in that trade, the only ones not in the majors are Gowens (Charlotte) and Bummer. Grifol's obsession with Nicky Lopez made that trade seem bad, when it wasn't.

How did Eisert get back from Charlotte -who did they send down? I

Tyler Davis looks like a closer candidate to me. Throws hard and poised. Fedde throws 90+ pitches in 3 innings and gives up only 4 runs. Kudos to him for fighting it out.

1.061 OPS. How in the world does he have no trade value? Even better, why in the world is he not on the big club? In most circumstances, #1 pick 3 years ago raking like this in AAA would have a ton of value. It's almost like "Oh heck, he's good, now what do we do?" Well, accept the prize. Iriarte might be a call-up candidate soon. He walks too many, but he's in his 6th year in the minors.

Always be selling. Or at least, don't use resources on older players. That's how you get worse. Especially avoid hyped names and career years. Walbert Urena - Angels. 22 year old was ranked in the teens in the Angels system, wasn't pitching well in the minors, but they called him up anyway. He's pitched reasonably well. But he throws mid-high 90s. A couple of 2nd tier prospects should do it. Gonzalez maybe.

Fine. He can get that I think "buying" is a fool's game anyway.

DH, backup any position in the IF. It will help avoid or minimize the "Sunday lineup." The risk of underselling is too great to trade him blind.

Smith didn't pitch deep into games and walked too many. It was really striking when compared to Chase Burns. But he's still striking batters out and not giving up a ton of hits, so we'll see. But the org. overall sees pitching-light.

And/or amateur scouting, and drafting strategy.

Clearly he has control issues. But 1 hit and 6 Ks in 4 innings is something to work with. I hope.

Several of the commentators on Sirrus/XM have Emerson 1. Now they aren't professional talent evaluators. If the Sox evaluators have Emerson first, they should take him. And while they really shouldn't draft to match the current needs and competition position of the team, if they were to do that, they should take Emerson (or the pitcher). We're pretty solid up the middle for the next few years and have some minor league depth. Just take who they think is best.

In defense of Acuna, or of playing Acuna, I think he's the only backup infielder on the team. He allows Venable to mix and match Peters, Grichuk, Kelenec, Hill and Acuna in RF and CF. The Sox always got into trouble when they'd have one of those and dub them the starter. Those guys are role players (I guess Peters could be more). If not Acuna, it would be a utility infielder. The clogger, of course, is our .603 OPS designated hitter. That is getting ridiculous. Bring up Gonzales. I guess they don't want to expose him - but not much is lost by exposing him as he doesn't have much value anyway. And there could be a good gain. And he could be the backup infielder.

Several posters said that the Hicks trade was under-appreciated (especially by me); maybe that one will turn out. Hicks is settling down. I think the prized prospect in that trade had a good start. A year or so ago, the RedSox were over-subscribed in MI; they trade one, a couple of injuries and suddenly they are short and have to trade for Durbin (a player straight out of the Brewer dress-up factory).

Yea, they traded a bunch of prospects for Trevor Rogers and Shane Baz (2025 #1, comp pick + for this guy). Yuck. I can't think of any team that became great buying at the deadline. The Cubs may be the best example, but they were a mature team 1 piece away and they bought it. That trade for Kimbrel - where would the Sox be had the Cubs chosen Crochet instead of Madrigal Can't force anything.

Hahn measured trade (albeit not at deadline): Lance Lynn for Weems and Dunning. Hahn ill-measured trade: Jeff Samardzija for 4 young players. Just asking for a repeat of the Tatis trade: Billy Carlson for a couple of years of veteran X.

Not teams who show their first signs of life. And certainly not with anywhere near their top 5 or 6 prospects. The Dodgers have won a WS and they aren't heavy buyers; Braves aren't;; Yankees don't. Rays don't. Brewers don't. Padres buy heavy; Phillies buy heavy. Baltimore bought Trevor Rogers at the deadline - what a disaster for Baltimore - and a boon for Miami. And really, the successful teams buy on margins - fill out the pen; a depth piece. Don't repeat the Hahn disasters.

Good gracious, people want an old team again. Buying has a 0% success rate. Emulate the Brewers, the Rays. Do not emulate Rick Hahn.

Among other nice things about the game, it was good to see Tyler Davis with an effective bounceback game.

Certainly should always be open to a good deal. What has been accomplished long-term is 6-7 man position-player core (and growing). And that's a big accomplishment. But the 26 man lacks high-end pitching. And the org is seriously short of pitching. And while we have a lot of MI prospects, that can be quickly erased with an injury or 2 or downturn in performance. Getting some young pitching in here so that we can seriously contend should be the focus. Finally have a little depth - don't squander it on relief pitching or old guys. Call the Braves - they always have a lot of pitching prospects. Anthopoulos dealt with an inexperienced Getz very honorably in 2023. And, of course, as a general rule, young for old is just bad business.

He's relentless. Can't ignore him

Bring him up and see what we've got. I wonder if they aren't perhaps waiting for Bergola to return.

And now twitter world wants to trade our best prospects for Mike Trout. Well that's Preller. He's one of a kind (along with a lot of Sox fans on twitter) That Tanner Scott, not Cease, yielded the real prospect, Snelling, is annoying.

I thought Eisert showed promise last year; but many he's really really struggled. I didn't think Leasure earned a demotion, but glad he's doing well in Charlotte. Bring up Gonzalez for DH!