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Maybe that was the problem.

Definitely going to remember that Chris Johnson is our AAA hitting coach.

Big Pitching FAs next year Young Dylan Bundy Stroman Gausman Syndegaard McCullers Eduardo Rodriguez Vets Kershaw Greinke Scherzer

Did anyone like my Travis Shaw suggestion

It's a weird class next year, I do hope we'd be able to play top of market. But whats worst case scenario? Cease/Kopech look awesome and we get to trade lynn with years? Or Keuchel? No brainer to try and lock him down.

I haven’t been in a deep conversation in so long

Unfortunately we don't have unlimited quantities so there are some basic trade-offs one whether we'd want a larger portion waiting until q3 to get any vaccine, or if now any vaccine under 95% is not good enough and isn't allowed.

Dombrowski in Boston Inherits: Mookie Betts Xander Bogaerts Jackie Bradley Jr. Andrew Benintendi Porcello Erod Wright Adds via Trade Craig Kimbrel (5.7 fWAR over 3 years) Carson Smith 0.3 WAR with Red Sox Roenis Elias (-0.2 WAR with red sox Aaron Hill Brad Ziegler 1.4 fWAR Drew Pomeranz 6.3 fWAR over 3.5 years Fernando Abad 0.6 fWAR Tyler Thornburg -0.1 fWAR Chris Sale 16.4 fWAR Eduardo Nunez -1.2 fWAR (he was really good the year they acquired him though and helped in playoffs) Addison Reed 0.9 fWAR Nathan Eovaldi 2.2 fWAR Josh Taylor 0.7 Colten Brewer -0.2 Steve Pearce 1 WAR Signed: JD Martinez 8.1 fWAR David Price 10.6 fWAR Mitch Moreland 2.3 fWAR Traded: Manuel Margot (<1 WAR on avg over 5 years) Javy Guerra (became pitcher -.1 WAR) Logan Allen 0 WAR to date Carlos Asuaje -.2 fWAR Wade Miley 1.8 fWAR before free agency Jonathan Aro 0 WAR Aaron Wilkerson -0.1 fWAR Wendell Rijo 0 war Anderson Espinoza (injured for four years) Jose Almonte 0 war Luis Alejandro Basabe 0 war Travis Shaw 7.1 fWAR Mauricio Dubon 0.7 fWAR Josh Pennington 0 war Yoan Moncada 10.5 fWAR Michael Kopech -0.1 fWAR Luis Alexander Basabe -.1 Victor Diaz 0 fWAR Clay bucholz (salary dump) Shaun Anderson 0war Gregory Santos 0war Gerson Bautista -0.5 fWAR Jamie Callahan 0 war Stephen Nogosek -0.1 fWAR JAlen Beeks 1 fWAR Deven Merrerro -0.8 Esteban Quiroz Elio Prado Noelberth Romero Santiago Espinal 0.2 fWAR (looks decent) 2016 red sox top prospects: 1. Moncada (traded for Chris Sale, awesome) 2. Rafael Devers (kept, awesome) 3. Andrew Benintendi (kept, used to be awesome) 4. Anderson Espinoza (traded, 0 WAR) 5. Michael Kopech (traded for Chris Sale) 6. Brian Johnson (kept) 7. Deven Merrerro (traded, Negative WAR) 8. Sam Travis (kept, awful) 9. Basabe (traded for Sale, negative WAR) 10. Michael Chavis (kept, maybe decent? awful last year) The most indefensible trade was the Tyler Thornburg trade. But Dombrowski was told what he was there to do, Cherington was being too cautious, they wanted to win. His biggest mistakes were in post-world series extensions when they should have started preparing for Betts. That was a mistake, but that's a tough transition. The dodgers at this point have laid the blueprint for constant competition, but the red sox aren't the only big market team that struggled to add talent when the INTL rules changed. My takeaway: the failure isn't trading prospects. They failed because Dombrowski couldn't add to them. He used to be good at that, so who knows. A lot of that crew left for AZ and seem decent, but it was a bad few years of figuring out a new way. The worst value out was for Sale, and I think you still do that trade 10x over to get the best team around BEtts/Bogaerts/Benintendi while in their first contracts. Moncada wasn't awesome until 2019, Devers was better earlier. Git some DD.

Unless they are over the luxury tax the money has not been spent.

Not the good ones. I'd take Dombrowski's free agency record over, for example, Theo Epsteins.

They are just playing a different game than everyone else. "hey we really like your 20 year old catcher that was hitting with a 200 wRC+ and was awesome at instructs, will you take our league average first baseman so we don't have to pay him arb, and can just get a 2 million dollar guy off the street"

caulfield?

The thing about Dombrowski is he signs good players and trades for good players so that his other good players have good players to win with. But it's true sometimes all the good players get older together and sometimes that means they need to shift gears.

That was literally zero of the teams he took over.

#CHANGETHEGAME

I'm still pro Dombrowski.

Let’s move along.

Carrasco was part of the Padres 2016 INTL class (where we got Robert though it was 2017): Carrasco wasn’t as highly-ranked a prospect as Ornelas when he signed. But the 6-foot, 165-pounder pitched well during the Dominican Summer League. Carrasco had a 2.64 earned run average and a 0.98 WHIP (hits and walks per innings pitched) in 61 1/3 innings. He had 31 strikeouts against seven walks while opponents hit only .227 against Carrasco. https://padres.mlblogs.com/playing-at-petco-park-a-dream-come-true-for-tijuanas-ornelas-carrasco-41d039f224b1

whoa. As a 19 year old in rookie ball, Carrasco had 41 strikeouts in 21 IP and only 4 walks...?

I don't want to say the offseason is a failure because we lost AJ Puckett

Sox Select RHP Martin Carrasco from Pirates in minor league portion.

Rule 5 ends, no white sox taken. For those wondering, some of us were hoping Kade McClure doesn't get picked, info in the prospects forum. Minor league rule 5 starts now.

Twins lose another, Tyler Wells to the orioles.

Woo HOO no sox taken in first round.