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How many options does Ruiz have ? Is there any danger of losing him in any other way besides waivers or a release? 25 yrs old with a nice arm that still has upside seems worthy of keeping. Why not Medeiros ? Does anyone have any updates on Ian Hamilton ? Does he post on Twitter ?

Pretty much what I am thinking however... the longer it takes the more my mind starts to think something bad has happened like a physical that detected something like an illness or a banned substance.

Eeryone keeps forgetting about Cordero.

People were talking about it happening at Soxfest. But if the Sox want him back they will do it on their terms. They'll tell Yolmer see what you can get on the open market and no one will give you anything but a minor league deal then come back to us and we will give you slightly more than that with a chance to be on the 25. "Oh yea and Yolmer ? You also have to be Carlos again."

Maybe but it's possible they like Mendick. He can play all those positions and some OF too when needed.

Fry is the one most likely on the bubble. If Sox still want another reliever I'll guess another lefty.

Done !

Not Bruce needs a proofreader or less booze .

ChiSox buy Cishek by the sea shore ?

Good.

Nats adding a lot depth with Starlin Castro, Thames and Asdrubal Cabrera lately.

Already have one in Leury. And Bradley jr. would be more valuable , more powerful bat off the bench than Engel and also a late inning defensive replacement for Eloy . Also more valuable than Engel to replace an injured Mazara or Jimenez since he bats lefty and most pitchers are righty while also keeping in mind that you only take JBJ if you can get Workman which would be a big upgrade for the BP at a combined cost of $14.5M for 1 year of each. Not likely given BoSox BP woes but not a terrible fit for a year depending on who you give up. Engei and a relieve pitching prospect ? Boston gets a little salary relief not much but maybe enough to get them back under the luxury tax ? I have no idea. So not only saves them $14.5 salary but also saves them over $10M in luxury tax penalties.

I was on Sportrac and it appears both JBJ and Workman are FA 's in 2021. STill it is a long shot considering Red Sox have BP problems too. He's also going to get $3.4M this season. Please do some research . You not only mistakenly thought we were talking about David Price but you misrepresented how long the Red Sox have control of Workman and talked about his salary from last year as if it was this years salary. You should be happy you got a "LIKE" for being so off base on your opinion.

Guess I don't follow where you get $20M from. Price is owned $96M for 3 years and Betts around $28M this year. That's $124M, That also adds another $60M to the 2020 payroll.

People just react without thinking everything out . Red Sox are in deep shit. I told everyone 3 weeks ago the Red Sox were fishing for suckers for Price and to wait a few weeks to a month to see how that ends up . They need cap relieve bad but they still aren't budging . They may eventually trade Price but they are going to have to eat half that contract or give up someone or both depending on what they get back. I still don't see the Red Sox parting with Workman but they will keep playing the waiting game on ridding themselves of Price before they do anything else or they might try moving JDM or Eovaldi basically their higher contracts but getting old or constantly injured. Their basic plan is now get salary relieve and restock the farm. They didn't bring in Tampa Bay's Boy Wonder for nothing. If you can't get Workman you don't take JBJ so it's likely not happening.

Yep he wouldn't necessarily be Mazara's platoon guy but he could spell Robert and replace Jimenez in late innings Leury would still be Mazara's platoon mate . There are more righty then lefty pitchers anyway so he'd be better suited to late inningg bench piece and PH than Engel. Then after a year he gone.

Boston's cap hit for those 2 is going to be around $14M so it's no eating much but Workman is a FA next year but since Boston is probably still looking to compete would be hard to get Workman epecially considered the Bosox have bullpen needs of their own. Pedroia has 2 yrs. and $25M left is 36 yrs. old and not even sure how healthy he is. Rusney Castillo has $14M left and he's 32 and has been in the minors for 3 years.

Maybe White Sox can work something out with the Red Sox involving one of their spare parts like JBJ, Pedroia ,Rusney Castillo in order to get Brandon Workman.

You have been reminded he exists often enough to remember him, That's why people think you are trolling.

I had made posts about Mazara should look to improve his average launch angle above where it is right now.using Statcast data. Further research shows that he hits fly ball pitchers better than league average and hits ground ball pitchers worse than league average. Baseball Ref. uses a stat called Hit Trajectory to show how a player does when hitting fly balls, ground balls and line drives, The line drives might not look so bad when looking at his stats .588 BA , 580 OBP .813 Slg and 1.393 OPS . In these line drive . ground ball and fly ball stats Baseball Ref. uses stats called sOPS+ and tOPS+. sOPS+ compares how he does against the rest of the league in those categories and he looks to be well below league average when hitting line drives even though those other stats i posted look great . The line drive one confuses me a bit because the tOPS+ looks better way better than usual where 100 is the mean he is at 256 but the sOPS+ is at 80. I don't see how they can be so different. The groundball and fly ball stats look like they make more sense. On fly balls his tOPS+ is 222 and sOPS+ is 172. So it still looks to me that he needs to hit more flyballs which supports my Statcast /average launch angle data findings. Perhaps if the Sox wanted him to improve against left handed pitching they could use Mazara against LH fly ball pitchers. I have no idea if the Sox discuss this type of data with Renteria or make a game plan for every game to optimize lineup production or just leave it up to Renetria to make the lineup on his own. But when all this data is available it would seem foolish not to utilize it for player development and pregame strategy. Eloy has much the same problems as Mazara only Eloy tapped into his power much better but he still makes a lot of line drive outs and hard hit ground ball outs. Imagine them both improving and having 2 40 HR guys in the lineup .

Depends on your definition of good. Most might say he has shown to be average or slightly below average in his Major league career based on WAR and OPS+ . If you define good as having ton of talent that allowed you to get significant playing time starting at the age of 21 with a ML team for 4 straight years but with so so results then he is good but with the potential to be much better. The Sox have him for 2 years to see if they can make him better. At the age of 22 he had 20 HR's and 101 RBI's, In each of the 4 years he had 19 or 20 HR's. He has been very consistent but has not as yet tapped into the huge upside. He doesn't walk much and isn't regarded as a good fielder but has a strong arm. Some see him like the LH version of Avisail Garcia without Avi's speed. Lifetime Batting average .261. 79 HR's. 308 RBI , .320 OBP, .435 Slg. , .754 OPS. There are signs he is getting better, made some changes last year, put up good numbers against RH pitching .288 BA, .340 OBP .500 Slg. , .844 OPS. Isn't good against lefties. He probably has 40 HR potential if he can make more changes but you have to want to , then make fast adjustments and that isn't always easy. When Ohtani came to the Angels it took him less then one Spring training to make the changes that resulted in him becoming a better hitter. He listened and learned from his hitting coach and picked Albert Pujols brain about hitting. Mazara has been the same basic player for 4 years so if you think he is being stubborn you could be right. You could believe that he will soon realize that changes are necessary based on the change he made last year and for the betterment of his career and future salaries and that implementing those changes will unlock his upside.

Old Sox said he got hurt pig hunting but the article I posted said he had a boar in a trap and it startled him while he opened the trap so I have no idea where he got that from and didn't post a link. "Cespedes reported the injury to the Mets, including immediately that he was trying to sidestep a boar. Mets officials and representatives for Cespedes went to the ranch the following day and came away believing essentially that is what occurred. Officials from both the Commissioners Office and the Players Association visited the ranch at a later date and also confirmed that version of how Cespedes was injured." https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/yoenis-cespedes-ankle-fractures-came-during-incident-with-wild-boar/

That was already obvious . They knew there was an incident they deemed dangerous so the Mets tried to void his whole contract. The question was would an arbitrator now knowing the full facts of the incident rule in the Mets or Cespedes favor. Even though the Mets might think setting traps for wild boars that come on your ranch and doing whatever you do when you trap one is dangerous, the question was is it comparable to an outside activity such as a pickup basketball game or dirt biking. Cespedes side would argue he was doing what he has to do routinely to protect people and his property. The arbitrator has to make an all or nothing decision. Both sides had good arguments but not strong enough to be convinced they could win. The Mets didn't want to pay the whole salary and Cespedes didn't want to lose the whole salary. So they made a settlement rather than one side or the other completely losing.

So nice comeback win today. 3 rookie goals. Sikura with his 1st NHL goal, Boqvist , and Kubalik with an empty netter. Strome had the other one in a 4-2 win. 11 Hawks had 1 pt. each.

And then Brees fumbles it away.