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My guess: 22nd - Giolito 23rd - Martin, Cueto 24th - Cease 25th - OFF 26th - Lynn 27th - Kopech 28th - OFF 29th - Giolito 30th - Cueto 31st - Cease 1st - Lynn 2nd - Kopech

Trading Montgomery, Sosa, Mena/Veras AND AV is gutting the future, though. Soto is awesome. Solves a ton of problems. I just said I'd trade AV, Sosa, Mena/Veras for him. I'd draw the line at including Montgomery for a guy we'll pay around $60M for 2 seasons and then watch him walk, and now our future is gutted. Not sure why I entered this chat though. The Sox aren't trading for Soto.

Straight up? Sure. Along with AV, Sosa and one of our two best pitching prospects which the post was referring to? Probably not.

Yeah, that's fair. I am not trading Montgomery though.

Yeah, I think Kopech will be held back until Tue or Wednesday in Colorado. Give him just short of 2 weeks rest.

Perhaps. But as we saw with Sale, there is a point of diminishing returns. Soto is stud, but he has just 2 years of control left at large AAVs. My take: he'll get a lot less in return than people are proposing. 1 blue chip prospect or good young MLB player (Vaughn in this case), 1 top 40-100 type (Sosa), 1 other solid prospect outside top 100s (Mena/Vera) but in most orgs top 10, and then a filler piece. In other words, its going to look a lot like the Sale return. JMO.

Not really sure. Don’t watch much Nats baseball. I’m confident saying he’s a a better OF than AV, but I was shocked to see him graded out as one of the worst OF in the game this season.

Fwiw, Vaughn and Soto have the two worst OOAA in the OF this season. I didn’t know Soto was a very poor defender tbh, but the stats say he has been this season. I would trade Vaughn + Sosa/Rodriguez + Mena/Vera for Soto, tho. I love AV but that solves a considerable issue with this roster. That’d be my top offer tho. Dude is controlled for 2 seasons at what will surely be monster AAVs via arb.

There used to be a great poster back in the WSI days with that screen name. Which one of you is the former WSI Craig Grebeck?

I don’t think Sox are optioning Sheets right now. He’s played basically everyday since he got recalled and has been solid. They aren’t picking one of the catchers over Sheets right now.

I don't see any realistic scenario where Sheets gets optioned. They also missed the trade Zavala option. Have to imagine you could get a live arm for him at this point.

For 2 seasons of Soto at monster arb numbers? Lol Nats fans gonna be disappointed in the ultimate return…

This team being .500 at the break and (checks notes) just 8-7 so far on the ultra-important 19 straight games against the central shouldn't really be considered some sort of job saving run. The Sox played a nice series against the Twins. If TLR (and/or Menechino, for that matter) was really getting on the verge of getting removed from his job (I doubt it in TLR's case), those 3 wins shouldn't change jack shit.

Cease. Abreu has been awesome with the bat last 2 months + but the start was rough and the defense has regressed.

It is gross but when Eloy and Luis are unavailable and Pollock can’t hit RHP and is 0/19 at Target Field this season….I get the lineup.

If a loss today is enough for Tony and Menechino to get canned over the break, it’s probably in our best interest. Of course 1 game shouldn’t dictate the decision, but yeah.

They’re just gonna IL Rees is my guess. Maybe they can flip him for a live arm for someone desperate for catching help. I’d be surprised to see them move on from Zavala at this point, tho I do suspect regression is gonna hit hard soon on Seby.

Don’t stop now, boys! You bet your ass I’ll be there again tomorrow.

Better than an injury

Leury over Engel in RF with a lefty on the mound is a joke. Other than that, guess the rest makes sense.

Anyone with half a brain wouldn't do that. No offense.

He can't play 3B and Moncada is a far superior player and we have enough DHs. We've been over this. Jake will get his chances, but there is no PT for him right now because he can't play a position.

Not really. While they’re highly Unlikely to actually sweep the Twins, 2 games over .500 at the ASB is still wildly disappointing compared to what this team should and was expected to do.

Just option him and stop burning needless service time. He doesn’t have a role right now.

Let’s strive mightily to win this one boys. I’ll be in attendance with my better half and my old man tonight. Go Sox!