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He is quickly approaching a career high for IP in a season. I wouldn't be surprised so see his stuff oscillate and decline at points as he fights through it.

Of course, but those guys with 6 years of control are usually more expensive than a crappy back up catcher... We got a guy with a utility player ceiling.

His TWTPD (The Will To Play Dumb) is 9ff the charts.

What did you expect from a mediocre back up catcher?

Dude is a 3rd string, defense first, no hit, catcher who calls a decent game. If you have him on your roster, you are automatically looking for something better. He has no value, and we have other catchers who should be playing.

So when a team is out of a top 10 pick for a year, does a new team move into the top 10, does the odds for all of the other teams left over get distributed to the other teams, or does a team that can't move up just automatically move down to 10 no matter where their slot get pulled up and the other teams that get slotted behind them just move up one slot?

In a situation like this you are quite literally taking the best offer. My guess is no one was offering any kind of lottery ticket, instead it was more like a 25 cents off butter coupon.

As a franchise we should be doing everything we can to keep our high end guys as starters. There should be no other options left before we make them relievers.

I am glad it was Thaiss that was traded instead of Lee, but it looks like Baker has really fallen off since 2023. He screams utility guy ceiling. https://www.draysbay.com/2024/10/16/24267960/2024-draysbay-community-prospect-review-24-dru-baker

Hopefully it nukes itself with all of the crazy reroutes into unattached other logic eventually collapsing the system.

Don't punish a poor AI.

I spent all winter saying it.

And Smith is skipping starts to rebuild his motion because he is hurting.

Honestly, we should be looking for both types of players. High ceiling OFs and kids with crazy arms and some flaws that we can hopefully fix. We can't draft our way to a playoff birth anytime in the near future. We need to succeed internationally, be able to rescue some strays, as well as developing our own guys.

Giving up on starters too quickly isn't a good solution either, because we need front line starters as well. I thought that was previously clear before, but OK. Also not sure why you are trying to specifically bring other people into things, but sure.

Of all years to waste payroll dollars on a bullpen, coming off of a 41 win season is not it. This is the year for internal candidates and grabbing interesting waiver claims. Wins and losses won't matter for years, but getting longer term control guys will.

He's not injured, he was hurt.

MLB minimum wage is 20 times what the average us family makes in a year. It's apples to bowling balls.

The Sox don't seem to be able to get anything out of guys who aren't already ideal players.

It was just reported he had an MRI for elbow soreness.

It's to make the point that MLB wage scale and normal wage scale are obviously very different. Trying to equate it to average Americans is fruitless. Equating it to his peers is how to get proper perspective.

It's a touch over 3 MLB minimum wage contracts. It's nothing in its proper scope.

Jerry?

Exactly.