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That ball carried quite a bit too. Looked like a high pop up off the bat and almost made it to the track.

Colas isn't as big as I thought he was from the videos I saw of him in Japan.

Pollock is pretty cheap for the next 2 years, although he might opt out of his player option next year if he has another good season like 2021.

This is how I see it too. If his trade value right now is just some bench players from LA, then I don't think he can lower his value that much more. You might as well hope he rebounds and deal him at the deadline.

70% LaVine was the best player on the team last night. He just doesn't look right when he jogs back on defense. Something just looks off.

So does this guy have any cred? Or is he just building off what Cishek posted?

We've been linked to Blackmon before right? Clearly, somebody likes him in the Sox FO. He has actually played decent defense in RF the past couple of years according to UZR. But OAA hates him and DRS sees him as average. But his bat outside of Coors is not ideal. He had a .811 OPS in Coors last year and a .700 OPS on the road. What's funny is that both end up to be around a 94 OPS+. That's how crazy the Coors effect is.

He used to be able to rely on his 3 point shot against the bigger centers. He's been bricking everything this year, so when he can't get his points down low easily, he just disappears or chucks 5 3s, only to miss them all.

Then we might as well just keep Kimbrel, in all honesty.

Kimbrel in Colorado would be an absolute disaster if he doesn't fix the issues he had with his fastball.

Blackmon has a player option too in 2023 for $18 million on top of the $22 million he's owed this year. That's worse than Myers.

I'm saying if they wanted a guy of Myers' ability, they could have spent $6 million for it instead of $22 million. It would have made more sense for them to just sign Pederson and keep Kimbrel than to trade Kimbrel for Myers.

Raimel Tapia, come on down!

You can also get similar production from the other side of the plate for $6 million in Joc Pederson. Myers would be making a trade just for the sake of making a trade. Which Hahn literally said he should not do the other day.

I guess Robert and Anderson are the exceptions here, but yes. Eloy, Cease, Giolito, Moncada, and Kopech are all from trades. Although I think you can argue that Gio and Cease have grown quite a bit while in the Sox system.

This has been gone over numerous times on this board. This FO isn't bad at developing young talent and then signing them to team friendly deals. They deserve credit for that. This FO is terrible at evaluating veteran ML talent and valuing them correctly in trades and free agency.

Winker probably DHs for them. Haniger definitely still has a spot on that team, but I doubt he re-signs with them in the off-season.

So good that Robert wouldn't even play CF lol

You can't seriously say what we've done so far this off-season and think they executed the plan they laid out when the off-season started.

I don't see Seattle trading Haniger. They don't really need bullpen help.

Harold might type in all caps for months if that happened.

The incompetence of the FO will never fail to surprise me.

Eh, I don't think Myers is below 1 WAR kind of bad.

Why would the Sox pick up Kimbrel's option without a good plan to trade him?

Bellinger fixed himself in the playoffs. I doubt he ever returns to MVP form, but he is obviously still very talented and worth way more than Kimbrel.