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Not the ideal shift for a high and outside FB.

Whatever they do, the Sox need younger players for those spots and not a growing number of 32+ guys. Sosa could end up at third or taking over the Mendick role...pushing Harrison out in the short term.

Lucas seems more comfortable/confident in his hometown environment.

Fine. But we need to worry about 2023 first.

Best hitter for average.

He meant Anderson would move off SS at that point in his career...assuming they extended him. Which is questionable at this point with the overall direction of the franchise right now.

There's just no way that Montgomery should be playing in Chicago next year unless they really rush him. Then you're going to play him or Anderson at 2B or 3B? Trade the best hitter in the AL to open SS?

Corpseball when Syndergaard has been pretty darned hittable without plus stuff.

Lopez would arguably take 4-6 weeks to ramp up. He should be used in high leverage situations with Hendriks Graveman Kelly...any of those guys traded to cut payroll and prepare for 2023.

Hahn addressed it already in his typical non answer, non accountability syntax.

Then what? Davis Martin or Lambert? VV? Those are your three options...

But he’s still at least 1 1/2 years away, and that’s pushing optimistically fir a high school kid from Indiana. If the argument is Montgomery will replace TA7 in 2024, or they will move Anderson to 2B and extend his contract, sure. But we still don’t have any good solutions for 2023. Colas is also at least a year away. So do they really spend for a legit starter on Opening Day, 2023? And sure, we can try to ditch Pollock, but that leaves two open corner outfield spots. Does anyone trust Hahn not to mess that up…or for them not to throw Leury and Engel and Mendick out there again? Are we legitimately going to join the race for Conforto, and how effective would he be with so much downtime, switching leagues, hitting age 30/31?

But missing on Aiken led to Bregman Tucker and Cameron. Cameron helped lead to Verlander. They got Alvarez for a song from the Dodgers and always have a knack of relying on Latin America for a number of their starting pitchers. Plus they hit on Correa Springer and already had Altuve in house.

V-8 juice, too. Does that still even exist?

2006 second half. That was just more running out of gas and two incredible runs by the Twins/Tigers.

On position player side, see if anyone will take Pollock. Likely to be stuck with Harrison/Leury. No way you get what you want back for Moncada Eloy Grandal. And you arguably are without a legit 3B if you have to rely on Burger there. Some might even argue go with Sosa at third with Burger as pure DH. Others will argue Burger will improve with additional experience. Selling Lynn doesn't make much sense because we need him next year to compete since we will refuse to go after any top line talent in FA. Giolito is a conundrum.

Sell high on Graveman now if you can in the hopes of using Lopez more as a closer if the team is out of it a month from now. Prefer to deal Hendricks and keep Graveman, but how realistically will Liam's health hold up? Need to carve out payroll flexibility somewhere. Obviously you listen on Bummer and Kelly as well if you can get something useful back. Odds aren't great there either.

https://theathletic.com/3383695/2022/06/26/cubs-losing-streak-money-defensive/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983 Cubs say there’s a vision, and money, but past year has put organization on defensive

https://theathletic.com/3383798/2022/06/26/jorge-alfaro-nomar-mazara/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983 Guru working with past top prospects Mazara and Alfaro

Yomiuri though...

RS/RA by divisions (Coastal Elites vs. Flyover Territory) AL East +226 NL West +118 NL East +50 AL West -36 NL Central -175 AL Central -183 AL +7, NL -7

Johnson had served as the club's pitching coach since the 2019 season, when he was hired away from the University of Arkansas as the first pitching coach in Major League history to make the jump directly from college to the big leagues. The 50-year-old Johnson coached pitching staffs that brought the Twins two division championships in 2019 and '20. The Twins once again sit in first place in the American League Central following their series victory over the Rockies at Target Field over the weekend. During Johnson's tenure from 2019-22, the Twins' pitching staff ranked 10th in MLB in WAR, per FanGraphs, and 14th in ERA. He helped to guide Kenta Maeda to a second-place finish in AL Cy Young Award voting during the shortened '20 season. In the three seasons before Johnson arrived, the Twins' pitching staffs had finished 23rd, 24th and 22nd in the Majors in fWAR. Minnesota pitching jumped to fourth in fWAR in '19, and rose to third in '20 before falling back to 24th last season and 21st this year. The '19 pitching staff set a club record with 1,463 strikeouts. mlb.com

Katz is pretty likely to gone as soon as Giolito. Other than TLR and Hahn as Asst GM, we never pay coaches/managers/front office personnel Top 25% in the game wages. Assuming Guillen’s main motivation in leaving for the Marlins was salary-related, too.

We might actually be in second place if Hahn/TlR had another $65 million to waste/spend/allocate.

SEC >>> AL Central https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34153969/minnesota-twins-pitching-coach-wes-johnson-exiting-reportedly-same-position-lsu-tigers “Johnson has accepted the pitching coach position at LSU, according to a report by D1Baseball.com on Twitter. LSU spokesman Bill Franques said the Tigers plan to announce a new pitching coach Monday, though he did not identify the hire. The Twins did not confirm Johnson's destination. Further announcements from the club surrounding the staff change will come this week. The Athletic reported Johnson will receive a significant raise. The midseason move by a key assistant from a first-place team was startling, but Johnson's arrival in 2019 was also unusual. He was the first college pitching coach in four decades to jump directly to the major leagues when the Twins hired him from Arkansas, which was the national runner-up in the 2018 College World Series. Johnson, 50, spent nine seasons as a college pitching coach before the Twins plucked him with a keen eye on his background in biomechanics. He has a master's degree in kinesiology.”