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Gavin Lux was the fourth overall prospect heading into last year. Kelley looks great but he’s a second round high school prep pitcher. He has a long road of progression and likely injury recovery before he arrives. You swap a pitching prospect for a guy like that every time. And yes, he’s a shortstop so he can play wherever you want.

Because he’s awesome

Seems like he started working high fastball + curve vs him previously working low and away

Ron Kruk,Kenny Lofton, Jose Conseco, Ken Griffey Jr, Manny Ramirez

I don’t even know what we’d have to give up for lux but it imagine it rhymes with gucas liogito

Dodgers definitely don’t care about having a surplus of position players. Plus a possible DH

If we give Hendriks a 4th year I’d just plan on trading him after year 2

100% A, where we end up with two better players

Ok sorry yeah I have Abreu at 17.7 so that’s using signing bonuses

Whether the Sox hit 118 is going to be down to arb but I find fangraphs has been way over inflated every year but never corrects

Yes to buy outs, no to signing bonuses

I have Sox at 115.4 with Eaton/Marshall updates, and upping the pre arbs up a bit based on some resources showing to save more.

It’s just incredible how excited I was for the 2015 team that accurately looks like trash to me now. We basically expected Jose Abreu to be the greatest offensive force in history for that offense to work.

I’m kinda ready for a new SP to get on about. We’ve had Marquez, Woodruff, Gray, Castillo, Musgrove. Maybe we’ll do another round on Gallen.

The why didn’t the peg it to whip

Yeah I gotta say I find the idea that we can’t act like FIP measures runs unconvincing. They fit FIP to ERA. If they didn’t do that then well we wouldn’t use “runs”. But as soon as they fixed fip to ERA then they created that.

They’ll probably have 5 inf for four spots and rotate DH. They’ve been less full time for OFers and been ok rotating them in past so that’s my guess here too

No way he comes to be a backup right? That’s what I’m holding out on.

Guaranteed to buy them even if they failed or were not needed

I’m on the Austin Romine bandwagon. Id bet Barnhart came up as a way to reduce Somny Gray cost and isn’t as relevant anymore.

I am on a phone and it’s hard to move posts then but a lot of good discussion on backup catcher in Hendriks thread, and here’s a tweet that makes it easier to start a thread. so makes sense to start here.

That’d be good but I kinda dislike super tall catchers.

Comas and Mieses have nowhere to go. And Even with another month in AZL before it needs to stock draft prospects, I’d rather the AZL outfield of 2019 get to full season ball than worry about Mieses and comas who have had a very gradual pushing to date. I like them both. The hardest ones are weaver and Delgado.

Romine has some positional versatility as well. Maybe Hahn trades for Pedro Severino and brings the Soxtalk house down

Someone like Austin Romine, who has a bad year last year but is the perfect bet for young pitchers and has shown a competent bat before, is a good match for a deal like that.