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That’s totally fair. I’m not suggesting we make the trade, just highlighting an interesting theoretical. I will say though if we end up needing a TOR starter and can’t add in free agency (hopefully won’t be the case), the cost for a proven controllable will be immense and more than just Bonemer. All the same risks & concenrs you just mentioned would apply, but with less control of a player like Sloan and for much more financial cost. Again, not saying make the trade, but pointing what the potential alternative might be.

Jim Bowden said the Sox were the best fit for Sonny Gray and Aroldis Chapman. Mark Feinsand had this to say on the matter: “Gray’s market will be limited by his salary,” an anonymous executive told Feinsand. “Contreras is an acquired taste, Duran is having a down season, and Chapman will be a rental reliever. The potential returns for that group will be tempered.” I remain convinced that Gray is the guy to pursue. Eat the rest of his salary and buyout on his mutual option to limit the prospect cost. We should 100% have the money to do this. He may not be perfect, but he’d be a MASSIVE upgrade.

But we got destroyed last night though! All momentum is officially gone!

Just thinking through this, but if the 1.01 gets $9.5M we’d save $1.8M. The 5% overage would add another $900k. Right there, you are looking at an extra $2.7M to play with before punting a single top 10 pick. By punting two late top 10 picks, you should be able to pick up another $500k. That’s $3.2M total. Our 2nd through 4th round picks are worth a combined $4.2M. With the savings mentioned above, you are looking at ~$7.5M for those three picks. In simple terms, you could offer someone $3.5M (27th slot value), $2.5M (41st slot value), & $1.5M (62nd slot value). If it’s Thome in the 2nd, I’m not sure he would even require that much, allowing dollars to be repurposed to other picks. Point is, it feels like we should be able to take BPA at 1.01 and still grab three high ceiling prep players in rounds 2 through 4. To me, that should 100% be the playbook for this draft.

Not disagreeing, but what RH pitchers have we traded for? Iriarte has obviously been a disaster, but it’s too early to make any real call on Thorpe given the TJS. Gonzalez & Berroa looked promising before their injuries. Struggling to think who else we traded for that was right-handed.

You made a very wise decision…

Make it stop…we’re already dead

Bannister hasn’t been too hot with his trades for LH relievers.

Can we keep the Cubs circle jerk out of this thread…thanks

Yup…I would have pulled him after that last single though. Let Richards and the low leverage lefties do their thing.

This thing was getting overturned just due to the NY bias

In Martin’s other bad start as of late, he also was let down by defense and wasn’t able to pitch over it. Instead of assuming he suddenly sucks, maybe he just gets too amped when the defense lets him down.

Why?

Need to limit this to three runs

This is fucking rough

What in the f*** just happened?

He has like 43 plate appearances and is a rookie

I mean, this is his first rehab start…should probably expect some rust

Lol…those were some bad predictions

Bold 1st inning predictions: Antman double. Vargas walk. Benintendi pop-out. Colson three run bomb.

I hope we rough up Cole real bad tonight…we need to send him a message after what he did to Bonemer.

Did you find it!?

Huge news on Wikelman. He was getting close to snagging to bullpen role with the Sox before the lat injury…hopefully he can find his form fast and force his way onto the major league club.

I swear someone posted that Teel went yard in his first at-bat sometime this morning and I said to myself “Charlotte didn’t play yesterday, so how is that possible?”. Now I’m super confused I actually read that post or not…lol.

I live six houses down from him, so am very biased on this matter, but I really wanted the kid with one of our second round picks. I kind of wonder if they were originally trying to get him at 68 instead of Blake Larson, but had to pivot once they decided to go with Hagen instead of Konner Griffen. Sloan got $1.6M more than Larson, which is about the difference that Hagen got vs. Konner. Imagine if we had come out of the 2024 draft with Griffen, Bonemer, Sloan, & Antonacci. I know the Mariners were incredibly aggressive in their pursuits of Ryan so maybe $3M wouldn’t have gotten him to us, but financially this would have been feasible and we know Shirley wanted Griffin for sure.