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Can he even play in Toronto as a (rumored) anti vaxer?

Crochet straight up for 1 year of Manaea would be just a brutal move.

Sheets was on the roster when he said that. Look, is it possible the Sox don’t sign Conforto? Of course. But there is hope until he signs elsewhere. That’s all I’m saying. Don’t have hope if you don’t want it.

I believe there is hope yes. Hahn said at the outset of the offseason that making the lineup more balanced was a main priority. They haven’t done that.

Waiting is fine if they just sign Conforto. If Kimbrel deal has anything to do with ability to sign Conforto, waiting means you’re gonna miss out of him if you wait much longer.

No way to stream this one? Would love to watch some baseball this afternoon.

I agree. But Sox do have clear weaknesses and they were exposed 2 years in a row in the playoffs and they’ve done nothing to address it YET. As I’ve said 100 times, I’ll wait to see the whole roster before I make final judgements. I’d be shocked if this was the roster they roll with.

Two of their best offensive pieces in Donaldson and Garver. Their best 2 SP in Berrios and Pineda. Other than that, not much!

I’ll save the pitchforks until we see what the roster look like.

Nah not really. Not surprised to see that be your take tho. I’d say they’re 1 ace, 1 mid rotation SP and a couple solid pen arms away from a WC contender. They look pretty .500ish right now to me. And that assumes Buxton and Correa stay healthy.

The twins have 1 mid rotation SP, an interesting young guy in Ryan and complete garbage for the other 3 SP. And their pen is not good. They’re still bad.

1. Byron Buxton 2. Alex Kirilloff 3. Max Kepler Last I checked 3 OFs start. They also have Larnach and Rooker, the former of which is a legitimate prospect. Rooker not so much, but we're talking about a 5th OF here. Could they trade Larnach in a package for Montas? Yeah sure. They still have 4. Michael Conforto never made a lick of sense for the Twins.

Oh he’s gone for sure. But taking back Price is what I was referring to. Dude makes 2x what Kimbrel makes. That doesn’t make any sense.

It’s still comical. They have 5 OFs already.

This makes no sense. Just keep Kimbrel at that point.

They are out of reach. Sounds like a fantasy land to me. But it sure would be something!

I think Castellanos deal was good news. Perhaps unfair because careeer numbers don’t bear it out, but Nick C is widely considered the better bat, had a much better 21 and was projected to get a bigger deal than he did / bigger than Conforto. I don’t see anyone out there giving Conforto 5 years right now. If I were Sox I’d just offer the same deal and be done with it, but this is the Sox here. Just how they roll.

I think both Bellinger and Lux are super unlikely to be involved. But Lux would be amazing. Eat $5M of the deal, get Lux, and then go sign Conforto.what a squad that would be.

I look forward to the handful of people that continually say it’s never gonna happen crawling back into their caves when it does. He has very limited suitors at this point. Have the Sox (annoyingly) played the long game here? Absolutely. But I still think he’s a Sox before it’s all said and done. 4/$78M. If it doesn’t happen, oh well. life goes on. Sox still really good, but this offseason will have been an objective failure unless Hahn pulls some rabbit out of his ass with Kimbrel/LAD/Bellinger which I think is a pipe dream.

I’ll take the over, but this is a really good line. I’d take under 120 on both individually easy.

More like 2 SP and half a bullpen. Their rotation is still trash. Sonny Gray, Joe Ryan, Bundy, Ober and Dobnak is a brutal rotation. Even if they trade for Montas - which frankly I expect they will - it’s still really bad. Their bullpen isn’t much better. They’re a ways away from actually being good still.

Steve knows.

What was the ask from the cubs to LAD again for Kimbrel? Remember hearing it last summer.

I could definitely see LAD happening, but not expecting much in return. Just hope that cash does get us Conforto. I’d be jaw to the floor shocked to see them hand us Bellinger. But I’d sure love that! Haha

lol i will be awe if Hahn can flip Kimbrel for Bellinger. Seems so far fetched imo.