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15.4% BB rate vs 7.7% K rate, with a cool 216 wRC+. Bush's contact rate and plate discipline is insanely impressive for his age.

Cue the Eloy is now struggling because he's disappointed with not being promoted comments.

I can see Sox picking up $3-4 mil on his remaining contract and taking a low minor player in return. That essentially it's a $2-3 mil saving for a player who doesn't add value to this team.

You have it backwards. On 7/2 of any given year, they announce signings for that signing period. Meaning 7/2/2020 they will announce signings of the '20 signing period. Scouting and handshake agreements are worked out before the official signing period that's why you see a bunch of signings leaked or announced leading up to it. Now back to the Sox, Robert was signed as part of the 2016 signing period, our penalty years are 2017 and 2018 (current signing period). We just traded 2018 intl money as we are in penalty.

We're in 2018 signing period. We were also in penalty during 2017 signing period. Keep in mind Robert was signed in May of 2017, meaning it was part of 2016 period. We will be out of the penalty box come 7/2/2019

Shades of 2015. All. the. lefties.

So I guess Eloy fell on the prospects list because of injury? Oh wait... It’s also too early to worry about Dunninng or Robert due to injuries. Burger and Hansen maybe. You clearly also did not factor in the great year guys like Basabe, Rutherford, Adolfo, LuGon, Collins, and others are having. The stocks on those 5 guys have rebound quite a bit that they are either at the latter part of the Top 100 or that they just missed it; and the guys in the lower minors who put themselves on the map this year. I think they are clear top 3. Anything outside of 4 is asinine.

That along with to not suck on the road.

I noticed you left out a prospect I would like in that deal.

Or they're busy driving Soria to the airport. Gotta be one of the reasons.

I’d like to get Greg and Dick Allen’s reaction to this trade, but I’m guessing they’re too busy eating crow. #internetdoesnotforget

I agree from the Sox perspective this is a winning trade. However, you cant say the trade is lopsided in favor of the Sox (which was the original comment made) if Red Sox came away with the best or second best pitcher in AL on a cost controlled contract, who aligns exactly to their competing window.

If you trade Moncada for Mike Trout, would that be considered a win for the Angels? At some point the surplus value analysis becomes less black and white, especially when you’re analyzing the value of elite players on a reasonable contract, because you have to spend your money somewhere, you couldn’t fill a team of pre-arb players.

Sale is not just very good, he's elite... You basically are saying if all 3 hits their absolute ceiling the trade is lopsided in favor of the Sox. I mean yea sure, but that's looong shot.

Something that's not been discussed a lot is Cease's improved durability this year. Last year he had trouble getting out of 5 innings but this year he's consistently getting into 6 and 7th innings and without facing a lot of issues. Also he has eclipsed his career high of 93 IP in a season tonight and looks like he still going strong.

Law has Cease jumped from outside of 100 to 31st in his latest ranking. Just speak volume to how much improvement Cease has made this year.

Prediction: 10 germans, 6 Superman punch, 4 spear and 3 F5s. 1,2,3 after the 4th spear.

1-14 protection, but that’s possibly the deepest draft in NBA history so it’s still valuable pick. Great trade by both sides.

35 PAs over or under for Madrigals first pro ball strikeout? He’s at 22 right now.

Lauri/Lavine/Carter/Hutch amounts to about $32.5 mil. Cap hold for a FPR (6-10) is about $5 mil. These are all but guaranteed to be on the books. Then you have FAs like Portis, Valentine, and Dunn, the $3 mil owed to Asik if you decline his option, and the $3.5 mil for roster space hold. Let's say if you got Felicio off the books completely, renounce Portis and Valentine, you still have about $50 mil on books and on cap hold. That leaves us about $58 mil cap space. Max deals are either $32.4 mil or $37.8 mil (KD only), so we could still get 2 max players if we convince them to take a slight discount, or sign them for full value if we trade away Dunn.

I think the biggest difference is Hutch has potential to be a good defender.

2 max requires about $71m cap space. They could meet it if they renounce Valentine, Payne, Grant, and stretch provision Felicio. Now they’re at around $50m, which is well short. You can use the capulator below to run the numbers for different scenarios. http://www.shamsports.com/capulator

I want to believe that they truly believe in Lavine and that the rest of the league is sleeping on him, but I highly doubt it. The fact that no one else other than Vlade Divac of the world offered him a contract says something. Also reports from earlier were internally they are mixed on him and didn’t want to pay what he was asking for until someone gave him an offer sheet. I don’t think you would do that if you think that player will be a star.

There are already a lot of rumors Jimmy and Kyrie wants to play together so the seed is already planted. Staying in the East would be ge smart thing to do for them, and Boston may be the only contender the Bulls have in the East. I’m not going to go into a lengthy debate on why the Bulls is preferred over the Celtics or vice versa, but we should be in the running. Now we’re out of the running unless a miracle happens. The bigger issue you mentioned is by signing Lavine, the Bulls have acknowleged they had trouble landing stars in the past and are willing to settle for paying big bucks to 2nd and 3 tier players. Rather than correcting the issue which is the culture and the image of this franchise we are choosing to not even cross that road. It is an incredibly irresponsible thing to do because in the NBA the teams with the most stars are the only that will go deep in playoffs.

No you said "risking", meaning we had to the chance to make playoffs before rebuild. Rebuild or not, this team had a slim chance of making playoffs let alone go far in it. Re: personnel, if you haven't notice the type of moves and draft picks we're making pre-rebuild vs. post rebuild has changed (clearly RH has more control now), then you haven't been paying close attention.