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I think with Eloy coming soon, Palka is actually a better counterbalance in the line up with a strong lefty bat for the bench. Delmonico doesn't really offer anything that stands out the way that Palka's power does. It would be different if Nicky could cover defensively better or something like that.

We'll take that.

Oh, hi Avi!

He is in his arb years now. The cheap factor has gone.

Apparently everyone left the game thread?

ENGEL! and lol at Hector Santiago throwing it back.

He's the Twins version of Avi Garcia.

Timmy might be finding his stroke again.

Engel just covers so much ground in CF.

The clues in front of me say that basically no one wanted Luis Avilan. AT BEST he was completely unclaimed by the AL, and all of the way through 6th best record in the NL. That is even assuming that he didn't get unclaimed in his first go around the waiver wire, and possibly the Sox picked up salary to make this deal even happen.

When the Sox look at the depth chart, I think they see a guy a season who is gone in a year and a quarter, meanwhile they have a ton of great lefty depth in the minors they want to make room for who should be around for the revival in Fry, Bummer, and Frare. Avilan really doesn't have a place here next year.

Not at all. I am also telling you that Luis Avilan is far from the only guy the Sox are trying move along.

Avilan obviously had no great offers at the non-waiver deadline. Like I said, one of two things happened here. Either absolutely no one claimed him with literally no one being willing to claim him for just his salary owned, and this was the best offer on the market. Or he went all of the way through the AL and almost all of the way through the NL with literally no one being willing to claim him for just his salary owned, so we got a trash return for the first team to want him. Realistically if this is what the market looked like today, would it be worth losing a piece in the Rule 5 to gamble that he would be worth more in 3.5 months?

Well on the bright side, the road to the #3 pick is getting easier and easier with each injury.

That means he made it all of the way through the AL, and to the end of the NL before getting claimed. That alone is probably a pretty good indication of the value of Luis Avilian if NO ONE in the AL claimed him.

Thinking about it a bit more, the RH relief in the pen is pretty awful right now. I wonder if that is why we saw Burr (a righty) versus Frare or Bummer (lefties)

He came into this year with 4 years and 60 days of service. I think that makes him a second year arb player by the end of the season.

Realistically, there had to be no offers of value on the table here. Hahn held on to him through the first deadline, when he would have loved to have moved him.

If you had told me on April 1 that we would get more for Soria versus Avilan, I would have told you that you were crazy.

Haven't seen this from the Sox yet, but spoiler alert...