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Was leaning this way but in light of the Nightengale tweet, I think the Sox move no one. No trades.

yeah maybe don't bring Abreu back

I would not expect any player to say anything different in this situation. Once he's traded, then he can bad-mouth the org.

The D-Train is blowing some smoke here, folks.

Felipe Vasquez, Ian Kennedy, maybe Will Smith, Shane Greene. That's about it.

they're gonna trade syndergaard to the padres for MLB guys and try to make a run at 2020. not saying its a good plan but i guess its a plan.

thats #mets

WAR is an attempt to assign value to a player's performance - monetary value, that is. It's weighted to favor those that pitch more innings, so it will inherently favor SP over RP. That difference in volume, though, is why the game's best closers get a fraction of the money that the best SP will get, because they do a fraction of the work and create a fraction of the value - even if the innings pitched are high leverage. In your scenario, an average closer like Colome would somehow create a similar value to someone like Scherzer or Betts, despite doing far less to create value. You can't say that relievers can only be measured against other relievers because that's like saying that bench players can only be measured against other bench players. You have to measure against a large, heterogeneous sample of players with varying playing times to create an accurate analysis. Finally, "wins" here means nothing - its a leftover from earlier value models like "WARP" and based on what earlier projection models assigned to be the "value of a win". This is an imprecise way to measure actual wins, but a reasonable way to measure value. In short, Colome won't be getting Mookie Betts money any time soon.

Two thoughts - 1. Gonzalez is absolutely the kind of player the Sox should be targeting, with multiple years of control 2. Kinander has been wrong on everything, so that probably means this won't happen

I really don't see a scenario where they trade him. It's speculation, that's all. Writers always speculate about trading guys at their lowest value, but FO rarely do this. Funny how that works.

In light of the newest MLBTR article, how about Colome for Tyler O Neill?

Sheets has his OPS over .700, which is pretty decent considering how rotten he was in April/May.

At this point he and Bummer are our only relievers so I'd be pretty disappointed if he was traded.

whew, yikes

If true, it's past time.

Lmao I left early because I was roasting alive so I'm taking credit for this one

Right field box 97

Guys, I'm at Fenway in my Moncada shirt and I feel like I jinxed it, sorry

Here's my plan: 10 day IL for Anderson DFA Alonso Call up Palka (he sucks but hopefully he's back to being fun bad) and Mendick (why not) Start Rondon and Yolmer at SS for however long it takes Option/DFA Rondon when Timmy comes back

I don't think we have enough bullets to get Merrifield or Conforto, let alone one of the best players in baseball. I mean, unless you're willing to trade Cease and Madrigal/Robert.

Pretty bleak around the league too. We don't really have the trade chit to get anyone good, right now at least. Kole Calhoun has bounced back from a miserable season to a tolerable one. The Angels have an option for 2020 but they also need a spot for Jo Adell. So, he may be available and reasonable, but not until after the season. Probably no draft picks here.

Gonna be a tough game for the teenagers in Great Falls, facing Nick Lodolo.

GG, pitching and Eloy.

Throw everything you can at Cole, hope it works and if not, sign one of the lesser guys and hope for the best.

I think...I think Eloy might be gud