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Murakami single. Sign him for 5 more years.

I walked away for a few minutes and damn wish I didn't. Also Teel struck out. Cut him.

Cannon doin what he does, givin up rockets

Murakami weak groundout to second. Cut him.

I'm on a 95 win pace right now

61 homers. Need to keep our expectations tempered - not gonna eclipse Judge's AL HR record in his first full year. That would be silly.

2 years only

You're in big trouble if your playoff performance is mentioned in the same breath as Rex Grossman.

Least surprising player arbitration win ever.

They weren't getting first rounders for Coby White with him being a UFA, plus his injuries and bad play this season. The time to trade him was in the offseason or last deadline.

This is the trade that makes me the angriest of them all. Oakland got like 40+ WAR out of Bassitt and Semien. Just complete malpractice in identifying the true value of your players.

.218/.338/.327 BUST

Frank is in there, under the Dick Allen 1972 entry. He deserves more than that. Big, BIG miss not having standalone 1993/1994 entries for Frank's back to back MVPs, and 2014 HOF election.

Your "I ❤️ Getz" club member pack is in the mail.

Yeah, but the changes Driveline is suggesting aren't to "swing harder". They're working on his lower body to naturally gain some bat speed without changing his arm effort. They are also working with him to make contact in front of the plate more often to give his swing more time to accelerate - this one is a bigger change and could result in some bat control issues, but Quero is so good at bat control I'd posit he could drop a few % points and end up with a net gain in productivity if his bat speed goes up.

Quero would need to add 3.5 mph to his bat speed to match Naylor. 6.4 to match Chisholm. 8.4 to match Barger. Quero is really good at squaring up the ball though, so even adding a small extra % to his bat speed would likely help him a lot. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/bat-tracking?sortColumn=squared_up_per_bat_contact&sortDirection=desc

This is great. Really interested to see how this work benefits Quero this season. In particular: I would like a Josh Naylor at catcher please and thanks.

Don't forget #RochHard!

I would assume not that much more interesting to the Sox. We know Jerry values saving money very highly, so I'd guess the rumors we've heard about the Sox asking price on trades being super high was due to what the Sox wanted if they ate half of Robert's contract.

Hopefully out of Acuna, Kelenic, Baldwin and Pereira the Sox find a couple solid outfielders. I'd even be happy with one. I'd guess Baldwin has the best shot, followed by Pereira (just because I know the least about him of the four). I don't think Kelenic will be with the team for long unless we actually DO have some sort of hitting lab that can help players out. I think that's a long shot though. Acuna has pedigree and some MiLB results, but he's been bad for a while across MLB and AAA now. I also don't think he's likely to amount to much more than a backup.

If he has a down season he's probably not moveable. I assume you mean something like he fails as a closer but is still a solid middle/late inning reliever. In that case I don't know if I want to trade him because those guys probably won't amount to much.

I don't think "acquire to flip" and "take a gamble on a guy to upgrade his performance in a bigger role and potentially trade him in a year" are the same. If the Sox can get Dominguez to be a good closer this year and trade him in the offseason or next deadline that might bring some useful pieces.

All of the above.

Seeing Ramos DFAed reminded me - he was third in top Sox prospects by MLB Pipeline in 2023. 4 was Schultz, 5 was Burke. This system was in BAD shape back then.

I agree w/ you on most of this, but I'd bet if we looked into the trade results each time it happened, Ray Ray is right that these "sign a guy to flip him" trades rarely if ever work out. The best case is probably the Vargas trade.