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Had the Braves won last night I think they could beat Rays. I don't think there is much talent diff between them and Rays. Dodgers talent diff feels much higher but their rotation has not played up to potential in playoffs last decade. Anderson and Fried were filthy and they are only gaining Soroka next year. That's a big 3 that rivals anyone. Wright got rocked in the CS but can definitely become a good-to-great piece. If anything I think Braves should be happy. In early august it was looking like their wealth of pitching was falling apart. Between injuries and players like folty and touissant falling off of a cliff, along with FA signings like hamels not playing and soroka injured, it was rough. Then Anderson and Fried dominate and you remember that if players from a group of prospects become elite and not just good it does so much for a rebuild. They have Pache arriving for good. Riley and Waters probably for good. Money that went to a sandoval or markakis and ozuna can be redistributed to plug up holes.

I agree very disappointed in Miller. That said, i don't think it's accurate to say he was a whiff of 2 second round picks. That year we picked James Daniels in the 2nd, then traded a future 2nd for a 2nd that year. So it was the equivalent of losing just one second rounder.

Excellent matchup

I’m confused. I was told the bears are very stupid and dumb but the team they beat last week is winning handily. Confusing!

Nagy is such trash as a play caller. Absolute trash.

Man this is gonna be a nail biter. Need a big time play.

Good question that I can’t answer...but last night the announcers made it seem like it would be a team option that prior to last night Morton didn’t think they’d pick up the $14 mill.

Congratulations to the nfl for beating the bears this week. WTf is going on

Touchdown!!! wellp nvm. Vilma thrilled at this turn of events

Watching Mike Davis be so good should open us up to idea it’s def oline + nagy

Find a partner who loves you the way Jonathan villa loves teddy bridgewater

The league needs to sit down with Kyle fuller and tell him if he’s allowed to play football in this league

Man the bears offense is just awful. Nagy please for the love of god give up play calling. Pace how the hell did you go into a season without any backup interior lineman?

Ah good call forgot about that.

Can they review that aspect of it?

What an infuriating last 5 minutes of the reds giving every call to the Panthers. Insanely frustrating.

There’s a couple things I don’t like about this: - If we are trading mlb “ready” pitching like cease to me it’s only to get an immediate upgrade on pitching. - your assessment of Yaz is that of a player we’d buy at his ceiling and likely to decline. There are plenty of RF options and I’d hate to lose a piece like cease that could be used to buy better pitching

I guess I would say that one of the reasons to want Hinch is because he has experience with the role of manager integrated with a more top down structure. Him being used to not having full control of personnel on field decisions and development is a feature not a bug. But it was in a skeezy, but successful org, and he’s coming from that. I just don’t want Sox hiring the last of the superstar managers. Get a guy that will get out of your way, even if he is so spineless he doesn’t object to cheating he felt was wrong.

Id be fine with Hinch managing Sox. But it is so weird watching sox fans, with the opportunity to get him now real, starting to talk like his role in the scandal was almost a positive good.

Which makes them expensive to acquire and not a great option for the Sox. I’m not throwing away a bunch of prospect currency to pry Mike Yaz away from SFG

When that trade happened we all opined for Liberatore. Rays are just such a good org.

This TBSproduction is excellent

Soxtalk routinely acts like mets and giants are sellers despite all evidence to contrary.

They went ice cold with this strategy in the 10s though. But there are plenty of decent stop gaps I agree.

So outside the obvious, I’d really love if we heard the Sox call Chris Fetter from Michigan. He’s been pursued a lot recently, and you know, Hahn and Michigan.