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Would be sweet if Rays were super into Yermin Mercedes, take a trade we all are ecstatic about, then it turns out yermin is babe Ruth down there and torments the yerMEN on the board for eternity.

My ideal is adding on top of our immediate young core - not balancing. When I throw out Vaughn I’m just trying to be realistic on what TAmpa would actually want and what it would take. The ideal trade for Sox is a greinke/verlander deal of past where they are still very good but on the side of their deal where their team couldn’t build around them anymore. Thats why this offseason for pitching In good with quality depth and biding our time until one becomes available. edit: I should add that this is what Darvish is to me and why he’s my favorite of the trades, followed by Lynn then musgrove.

I feel like those dudes want a shot though. Sox bullpen could be tough to crack into.

To be fair, the first contract was fine. It was his next one that crippled them.

Should be a ton of relief help but not a ton of closers. And we have Bummer. What do you guys think?

Garrett Richards an SP3. Man these dudes should definitely be put on sox payroll.

Nope. If I was Rays though, Sox would be my ideal trade partner. Maybe pads, go after a long time infield of Abrams/Franco and get some more pitching or outfielders.

I feel like people are kinda retconning the Archer return. At the time they were two washed up prospects. Then we realized how crappy the pirates had become at player dev. It was somewhat similar to the goldschmidt trade.

November: let the Mets sign springer and we’ll trade for Nimmo! January: Yes! We signed JBJ! Look at this lineup:

His 2020 reinforced an excellent second half of 2019

Also damn board fav priester sounds like he's off to a good start Quinn Priester, RHP, Pirates Priester blossomed from a projectable righthander with a low-90s fastball into a physical force who sat 96 mph and touched 99 mph this year. His curveball added power to become a borderline 70-grade pitch as well, and he did it all without sacrificing his advanced strike-throwing ability. Evaluators considered him arguably the top pitcher in Florida and didn’t hesitate to put front-of-the-rotation projections on him.

Was just going to pull this out since it's dedroundhereanyway

Their offense is also just horrendous with zero power outside of Arenado/Story about to lose what they do have power wise next year with Story. It really does make sense for Rockies to do a teardown this offseason. Get what they can for Story, trade Arenado to the Cards, and then yeah, get rid of marquez. But that means extracting as much young talent as possible and that's where I see Marquez being extremely painful.

I think this is true, the decision tree is probably similar to : Sign springer -> Trade for Lynn Trade for Darvish -> sign JBJ or Pederson Not even indicating these are the two likeliest moves, just underscoring that I think we only have one $20+ mill salary in us.

Blackmon isn't negative value now. It would still require a significant package while having the awesome effect of maxing out salary for the next two years.

What is the appeal of Marquez if we are offsetting his cost control value with a super expensive, aging outfielder while still giving up our cheap depth of prospects? Marquez is a bad option with our assumed prices. Unless the rockies are going to take a package we'd be willing to give, he's a silly target.

Rosenthal's latest said teams are more interested than you'd expect in Michael Wacha due to his velo increase last year, and they believe his ERA was bad luck in his HR rate.

It hasn't been confirmed but there's been pieces in articles that state indicate this isn't likely to change.

Excited for some movement as for now there are too many pieces on the board. One thing I find interesting is for all the talk about cutting spending, I don't see that many teams actually posturing that way aside from the cubs and cleveland. Brewers would seem to be a team that could effect as well. But Tigers and Royals both seem to indicate they are looking to add. Sox certainly. Perhaps twins can't, and there will be teams like the As that just can't retain as much talent as they would in a normal year. But who knows.

I don't think it was nixed to avoid tampering. It was nixed because kings/bucks just assumed bogdan would sign. Bad idea.

This was super detailed. I'm excited about Guzman. His stats probably don't scream out at people but they were from when he was 16 and you just don't often see pitchers with nice K% in DSL. He mostly only went 4 innings, and it really was just a bad inning that warped his era to being somewhat pedestrian. I was hoping he'll come back with bigger velo, but we'll see.

The lead researcher for the AZ vaccine Gave it to her own kids to test it (in an official function not a scandal) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner

Also many countries did not have a backup if Astrozaneca didn’t work.

I missed that Trevor Williams was DFAd and has enough time he’ll be a FA. Seemed like an awful fit last year, but I wonder if Sox sniff him out as a milb contract if the rumored interest last year was real. There has also been some smoke that pirates may put brault on the trade block. Not a huge fan but maybe a plan E or F.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S_GkRq9r-NZaYnyAKsUfEFEg0Lm3BGzF1B5qUVxa-iY/edit You just need to copy a version in your own drive. I was doing some weird team building themes so ignore the players already selected.