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That's where moving Moncada to 2B comes in!

That was me but I still don't want him. Or I don't want him at any price more than Kelley + filler, which I think some other teams can beat.

This one is great too: I don't think 90% of MLB fans understand that trade value is much more than just performance. Team control and surplus value matters just as much and Gallo is only under team control for one more season and he will be on a market rate through arb.

lol, more bad takes: I'm surprised the Sox didn't throw in Vaughn as well in this batshit insane hypothetical trade.

I dunno about that. He's not a guy whose issues are going to be solved with higher intensity shorter appearances and the Sox know that. He's a 5th starter or basically a AAAA mopup type. Looks like the latter for now.

Now I'm thirsty and hungry, thanks thread.

Seems like a buyers' market if that is the price for a decent rental OF.

not to mention Tim behind the plate and Sheets at SS.

Just from watching those vids his mechanics, as you'd expect from a HSer, are all over the place. Sometimes he uses a toe tap, other times he doesn't. Wonder if the Sox think he has some obvious stuff they can fix.

Anderson to catcher and Moncada to 2B, print the WS tickets.

Sox are becoming a bit of a catcher factory.

Incredible article on La Russa today in the Athletic.

I was overly harsh on the guy and apologize to him and his colleagues here. Your response said everything for me. I just have strong thoughts on Sox baseball and sometimes get a bit carried away.

Cheers man thanks for all you guys do.

good lord. I guess next time I think someone is an idiot I'll just have to consider who they work for as to not offend anybody! I've only said a million fucking times here how much I appreciate the work Future Sox does and often times I'm one of the only fucking people bothering to give some nice forum stickers to the Future Sox updates. People see what they want to see, including about my posting. Says more about them than myself. I read about 30 tweets from that guy and I thought he was a fucking idiot. his description of Yermin's BP for example. Like, has the guy ever taken BP in any high level setting? You're not exactly "swinging all out" or even swinging to make great contact at all times. love Futuresox tho.

Do we even know for certain it was a "healthy scratch"? Just one unaccredited twitter guys' post, no? Did the Sox release anything official?

I literally just prior to that, posted in the area of the forum it belongs that I hope the Sox upgrade 2B.

I just waded into this thread to see you derailing it with 500 more words about how not bothered you are about the Sox. Hey, I respect the passion but just say you're not happy with the club and are demanding excellence!

that guy Jeff Cohen on twitter that broke this news comes across as a fucking idiot imo.

Good god man you are def not happy with the current state of the team.

I can see a few possibilities, none of them good for Lopez. Won't speculate more, not fair to him.

The fangraphs blurb said basically the same. They got two lefty batting SSs with first round grades, that's intriguing.

None of the reasonable options are much better than Adam Engel in RF once Robert is back IMO. My guy Mendick is not really a full time player, much to my chagrin, so I'm with @raBBit the priority is 2B and RF can be addressed one way or another in the offseason.

that's a great summary of the narrative at the time. turns out Sox didn't need Manny to take the next step, which is great. I was wrong about that and I think probably 85% or so of Soxtalk was as well. The Sox have shown a commitment to winning imo, maybe not with a huge increase in payroll, but certainly with the move to Katz and other organizational changes.

Something is just broken in his batted ball profile. Despite above average exit velocity he's below avg in both expected slugging and expected BA. His BABIP numbers bear this out, where he's at a career .294 and trending down. ZIPS projects him for only a .268 BABIP ROS. He hits way too many ground balls. Furthermore, he was incredibly lucky on HR/FB% in 2018 and 19 when over 17% of his fly balls left the park. This year he's down to a more reasonable 11.2%. He's def a guy that has been hurt by MLB taking the juice out of the ball. He's still a good player, a very good defensive SS that can hit league average or slightly better. But the back end of that contract is going to be fucking ugly for the Mets. In fact, I'd bet that in 2024 when he's 30 that without a dramatic change in his batted ball profile he's down to a 2.5 WAR true talent player. His defense at age 30 isn't going to be enough to carry him to 4-5 fWAR seasons.