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well correct me if I'm wrong but Vaughn can't be traded until June. Trading Madrigal opens a huge hole at 2B. Who is a FA at 2B? There are a lot of solid to great SP on the market.

Maybe, but you have to give to get. Mookie Betts is a legit MVP contender. You'd likely be moving him -- with his good graces -- so you're moving for him to extend him. Every team knows that. There aren't really any mercenary clubs he could even go to for one year. They ain't trading him to NYY, most other contenders are set in the OF. They will hold out for a king's ransom or just resign him. that's my prediction anyways.

Well they'd obviously want a cornerstone back. If I'm RH to get them to pickup the phone you're going to have to throw around names. Giolito would get them talking I'd imagine. Giolito and then they get the pick 2 of the next 5 guys: Rutherford, Micker, Walker, Basabe Yolbert/etc. Preferably you'd deal from strength all the time but the Sox aren't in a position to do that really position player wise. So you get them to buy super high on Gio and then get off pretty easy. I have no idea if that's even close to his value but Gio + a couple B- guys is a solid opening offer I'd guess.

atrophy is such a big word baseball is about fun not big words.

Dodged a bullet there sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart. Although with the "Latin whisperer" as manager maybe he wouldn't have had the effort issues in Chicago. @JUSTgottaBELIEVE put me down, as I just did. Sox got lucky but I'll take it.

I ran Moncada's numbers and batted balls stats through various xBABIP calculators and came to the same conclusion a few pages back in this thread. His combo of speed and quality of contact is perhaps unrivaled in today's MLB and I'd expect his BABIP to remain high throughout his career, at least until he's in his 30s.

Luckily the Sox won't have any problems like that.

Flags fly forever so it was a success: but they are in a really tough spot. They are looking at a window opening maybe in 2023 onwards if they can turn and burn, which is far from certain. Their 40 man sucks. It's rather shocking how quickly Q has fallen off. He doesn't even look like a guy they want on the 25 man. He might get non tendered if you can believe it. Their roster looks a lot like the pre-rebuild White Sox. Some stars, a lot of scrubs, no depth on the 40 man, and no depth in the minors.

Christ, looks like Seattle in November.

This is it huh. Do we have any tank implications or can I just root for a sweep and a TA batting title?

Didn't some poster proclaim he'd never hit 300?

Yea I'm not really seeing a need to "clear the deck" for 500 Collins ABs next year. In fact he might be more useful as trade bait. There's some talent there and he could be a useful player but the Sox might not be the right situation when they seem tied to Jose at 1B next year.

Ricky Renteria come on up to the C-Suite!

They've both had great seasons. Exciting stuff. TA has to take the next step defensively tho. Part of it is learning better habits this offseason. Can't charge every ball off to the side and expect to throw accurately -- it's not needed most of the time. Square, set, throw.

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thought it was just Jason being a goof as usual and stone being more than happy to humor him as usual.

Let me know when the Sox are packing in 35K+ into GRATE and the Cubs are mired around a 18K average. Then you can crow. I feel the pain of raising a kid in Chicago as a Sox fan but any talk of "tipping points" is way premature. The Sox are positioned to perhaps grab some attention, that's about it.

I hope he's the 2 hitter for next decade. He's the perfect 2 hitter in so many ways. Don't move him down whoever is the manager, please.

Given the injury risk to Moncada I really don't want him stealing a lot. He's a 6 WAR true talent player. Trying to steal 30 bags isn't worth the increased injury risk. Let him rake, play a solid defensive 3B and run like the wind on hits into the gap while not pulling a hammy or jamming a finger.

We don't need to steal a shitload of bases when the 3-4-5 is a murderer's row. In fact, I'd imagine with a 900 OPS hitter at the plate anything less than a 85% steal success rate is a net loss.

Fulmer is a scouting fail IMO.

This time of year is always a bit melancholy for various reasons. This year despite the win loss record I'm wishing summer and our boys would hang on a bit longer. Been an awful start to fall out here usually our Septembers and Octobers are prime but we've already gotten a bunch of rain and wind storms. Oh well before we know it we'll be staring out windows looking for robins and shortly after that pitchers and catchers will report and all will be renewed again.

This should totally be the plan. Then you can focus on the the rest of the roster all offseason. Clear up that business right away with the pitching going from an obvious weakness to an obvious strength and go from there. Would make bringing in defensive minded RF a possibility as well if run prevention comes back marginally cheaper or easier to acquire than run scoring.

mercy. let's find some solid regulars and make a run in 2020 boyz!