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For sure - never sucks to have too many good offensive playere. But I hate it if it makes Vaughn a weakside platoon player, which is basically what this does with a healthy lineup. Eloy and Abreu aren't sitting. AV is going to be really good.

I don't know that I agree. Sure, Eloy and Vaughn have plenty of value as is. I am not saying they're worthless. But trading either of them coming off disappointing 2021s wouldn't make a lot of sense. They're both monster 2022's away from being wildly valuable pieces. And they're both extremely talented offensive players.

Do hey love him enough to do 1 of the following? 1) Sell low on Eloy or Vaughn. 2) Sport an OF regularly including 2 of Eloy, Vaughn and Sheets. If the answer to either of those questions is yes, we have the wrong people making decisions.

I'd be open to selling high on Sheets as I am not convinced he's suddenly a lefty masher in the bigs, but man, he sure looked the part. But we need leftys so that would be a little ass backwards, but he is a DH only so just makes the log jam worse. No way I am trading Eloy or Vaughn coming off 21 - would just be stupid. Abreu is going nowhere. Nor is Yaz. So yeah, not really sure there is much wiggle room there. Only way all these guys fit is if Sox stay in house with RF and commit to a dog shit OF defense.

Exactly. $25M gets you Conforto and Tepera. Conforto probably makes this team slightly better than it was a week ago, but the team would still need a 2B, another pen arm or two, and a vet SP to kick Kuechel in the ass / support for Kopech. Plus anything we wanted to do for the bench like brining back Leury and/or Billy, back up catcher, etc.

The entire staff is terrible at it. Yaz isn't great at controlling the running game, but so much of it is on the pitchers. Only so much you can do when the pitchers continually allow runners to get unreal jumps.

Why would the Astros throw at Abreu tho? Because of an obviously unintentional HBP of Altuve earlier in the game? The pitch actually did look intentional, but I don't know they would do that. Retaliation for calling them cheaters? At least we know how to get TLR riled up. That's the only life we saw from him the whole series. What a joke.

He does. He posted about it daily for months. Then went silent when Grandal was one the hottest hitter in the league when healthy. That said - no way to deny that Yaz looked helpless controlling the running game in the ALDS. Big fan of his - and frankly - don't think its all his fault. But it needs to be remedied, and certainly bringing in a backup catcher that is good defensively should be on the to-do list.

Jsut not the much room to work with unless Jerry is willing to spend with the big boys. $25M doesn't go very far.

Bottom line is Sox just played terrible in 3/4 games. SP was flat awful. Defense was poor all around. Bad managerial decision after bad managerial decision. Got no help from the umps. Just an all around disaster. We were told for months how TLR was getting this team ready for this series, and then we just see a complete microcosm of all of this team's shortcomings continually rear its ugly head in a 5 game series. The better team won. It hurts. Just wish the Sox would have played better. The certainly were a better team than they showed.

No argument from me. I said it was a terrible trade the day it happened and that Heuer had a decent chance to be just as good as Kimbrel rest of way. Was slightly tongue in cheek, but it went even worse than anyone could imagine. Terrible trade. The brightside is - as much as I love Madrigal and wish we still had him - he isn't really the answer to what ails this team. He helps some weaknesses, but is at best an average defender, hits from the wrong side of plate, etc. It just sucks we both 1) sold low and 2) got nothing in return. I feel like we could have turned Madrigal into something that was much more beneficial to the window than pushing all the chips in on the bullpen. Oh well. The Sox can recover from this trade.

You certainly disappeared in the 2nd half of the season when Grandal was one of the hottest hitters on the planet. Funny how that works.

Someone else mentioned this earlier, but Segura is an interesting contract for contract swap. Make about the same. Wish Segura batted left handed but its a a solid idea. Something like that may be as good as we can do unless we're just essentially dumping the contract for a warm body, in which case why not just decline the option.

I don't think you can trade either of those guys coming off 21. They should rotate LF/DH (I'd play Vaughn in LF the majority of the time, personally). Sprinkle Vaughn in at 1B some. Would be selling low on both.

Conforto is a FA. You get to keep Crochet and Burger and just spend $.

Fan opinion is somewhat worthless. Conforto has a career 124 wRC+ (meaning hes 24% abouve league average), he hits for power from the left side, he's serviceable defensively. Career OBP of .356. He's far and away the best fit for the Sox on the FA market. He won't be super cheap, but you're getting hit a significant discount from what he'd have costed prior to 21. I think a deal similar to Yaz gets it done. 3-4 years at $15-18M AAV.

We need lineup balance, defense and OBP from those 2 spots. Romy solves none of that.

Manager most certainly included in my “fresh coaching staff” comment. Just don’t see it happening.

I am talking about a 5th starter on a 1 year deal. Not backing up the truck. We’re pretty covered 1-4. Was just an idea in my sad state. I’ll have to study the FA lists - I am sure there are plenty of other names that would fit the bill.

Major moves for RF and 2B. Bring back Tepera. Trade Kimbrel for what you can - maybe a younger controllable reliever with promise. give carlos QO - If he rejects, Sign a solid veteran SP. May be too soon, but Grienke would be kind of fun but unlikely he hates Sox park and he said as much. Haven’t studied list enough to give you another name atm. In an alternative universe, I’d love to see a fresh coaching staff but know it’s not happening.

If the Sox fired TLR, I’d love It. But I think we’re talking about like 5% chance. More likely he decides the grind isn’t for him anymore And he gracefully steps Away. Even if Sox wanted him gone, that’s how he’d go.

Far cry from 5/$120

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What’s your guess on Rodon deal? I’ll go 3/$45M.

Let’s score some runs and see what happens. Cmon boys. Show some life.