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Crazy how the quickly the pen went from a major strength to a major question mark in a week.

Have you looked at their pitching staff? It’s A-W-F-U-L. Offense is gonna be good if they’re healthy tho.

1. Sox 95-67 2. Twins 83-79 3. Tigers 80-82 4. Indians 77-85 5. Royals 71-91

You just love talking Padres baseball on a Sox message board.

Hmmm. Figured they would have tried to make a waiver claim next couple days for the 14th man.

Well when you have arguably the best catcher in the game, there’s gonna be a dropoff. Fangraphs quite literally just yesterday ranked Sox #1 in terms of catcher depth chart after the trade. So yeah..

Being an Indians fan would be so awful.

Mieses is a monster of a man.

Who is this Xavier Fernandez cat? He’s hit 2 absolute bombs last 2 days. Can this guy catch at all?

Wrong thread but point remains.

Sheets is bad at RF.

Those were simpler days indeed.

Almost none. He'd just be there in case one of our oft-injured OFs (and frankly, they all pretty much fit the bill), hit the IL in April. Whether the 14th position player is Micker, Mendick or Seby, none of them will play.

I'd go ahead and schedule an appointment to get that neck looked at.

Yeah. I suspect if the Sox can't move him, he's insta claimed by the O's and he gets a chance there. If he flops, he's DFA'd again and probably gets handed around the league for a few months until he either sticks on a roster or eventually clears waivers and goes back to AAA.

Correct. Man, DFAing Micker would suck. Especially just to hold Mendick on the roster who both has options, isn't good at baseball and won't play at all. With only 13 healthy pitchers in camp, they aren't going with 15 pitchers. I would guess 1 more external arm is added next couple days. Buuuuuut we all saw this coming. If Micker had a lick of value, he'd have been traded last July.

I haven't had a chance to watch a ton of Cespy, but his throw from CF yesterday late in the game sure didn't resemble a canon. Probably just a bad throw, I know the scouting reports say he has a +arm.

No. He just goes to the claiming team (he won't make it past the O's) and is out of options there still. This process continues to repeat itself until he finds a home, or clear waivers.

Yes, but unlikely. no his options don’t get reset.

I agree with this, but Sox hands are simply tied. He's ran out of time with this org. I don't think he's going to turn into the next Aaron Judge, but Franmil Reyes with better defense is a solid comp if things go well for Micker. Not usually a Morosi fan, but the fact that he says Micker has been a popular name in trade talks this week, it would seem to indicate that there is at least some interest from other teams. With the 2 extra roster spots, I assume Sox would prefer to roster Micker thru April to see if our often injured OFs get injured than trade him for a bag of balls.

Well they're currently about to give Nomar Mazara a roster spot...

Let's leave with one of their SP.

Padres seem like the best fit to me. They're a little thin in the OF and have a bunch of SP options. Adolfo would never slip to them on waivers, so they couldn't wait that long. Probably a pipedream, but somehow getting Paddack out of this deal even if he's slightly damaged goods would be quite a move from Hahn.

Yeah, seems like a tough spot for Zack to get back to the big leagues in 22. Believe this is his last option year, so he'll latch on somewhere else in 23. I think the power will eventually show if he's given regular at bats. But he's simply not a big league catcher.

Not sure I agree with this. Seeing as though Cueto can’t help until at least early May, we still need someone to cover a rotation spot thru April. Don’t expect anyone exciting, but someone to help in meantime is still needed.