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Well, considering his future with the team is up in the air due to his options, yes.

It's easy to forget how big a nerd Giolito is, the he says wonderful stuff like this.

Mine: Adolfo stays with the Sox, earns the RF spot, comes close to winning ROY in a repeat of Puigmania by hitting 25+ home runs and having highlight throws (his OBP will be lower than Puig's .391 and his strikeouts will be higher), but people love highlights. Romy Gonzalez and Nick Madrigal have comparable WAR at the end of the season. Anderson hits .400 going into the All-Star break. Yermin is an All-Star starter, for another team.

To generate some hopefully different discussion other than the Offseason Thread Part n - Rumor Boogaloo Same rules as @Balta1701's thread last year:

Personally, I want more Adolfo and Cespedes. My hunger is insatiable.

What I got from this is that Micker Adolfo is going to be converted to a LH reliever.

I remember Jared Mitchell having a great 9 at bats, then destroying his leg and becoming "guy drafted two picks before Mike Trout"

If you ever want to see how disastrous a tear down can go, compare the Sox tear down with the Marlins tear down. Trading Stanton, Yelich, Ozuna, Gordon, Realmuto should have hypothetically yielded more than the Sox tear down.

Yermin for Trout. Book it.

Yoelqui made a pretty sweet grab in CF just now.

Just the Giants. Had the tiniest cup of coffee, played for AA Richmond, then got free agency and came back.

Micker and Yoelqui upon hearing our pleas for a RF: SOXTALK, ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

I know he's not a Top 100, but I just can't see them trading him unless they get a star back.

Yoelqui!

Craig Kimbrel and Tanner Banks straight up for Bellinger. Based on this game the Dodgers would be fools to say no.

The problem is that they have this amazing team and the resources to bolster it. Nothing in sports is guaranteed, so shoring up any weakness is key - and they just aren't doing it. It's incredibly frustrating. It's like if you were a kid and your parents take you to Disney World. You really want to go on the new Star Wars rides, see the animals in Animal Kingdom, etc. Instead, you're stuck on It's A Small World for fucking eternity. On the flip side, there are definitely people who are acting like this team is going to crater because they didn't shore up their weak spots.

Those are all amazing, but Captain Konerko is unmatched.

Hendricks starts. Crochet gets the next three. Tim Anderson finishes the game.

Give the Dodgers a good look at Adolfo.

I know we'd all like to point to the Padres as the team that would hurt us (again), but will they give up pool funds and a pick to sign Conforto when they also need to dump at least one of Hosmer or Myers, which will require attaching a prospect?

I know. I live in Brooklyn. But there's a pretty strong probability that it gets dropped by October - but that could take a while, since Adams recently fired city workers for not being vaccinated. Toronto is a whole other situation because international restrictions probably won't get dropped unless COVID gets magically eliminated worldwide in the next few months.

As previously discussed in the thread, unless Conforto got vaccinated, I'd eliminate the Jays. I'd strike the Mets* from the list unless he's coming at a heavy discount. Edit: Wrote Jays twice. Meant Mets for second one.

Everyone knows that you're either all the way in or all the way out! Life is the hokey pokey!

It's Ozzie's DH by committee, but now with defense involved!