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Much ado but nothing I see

If we can turn Yermin and a 40 man spot (Reylo) into Yimi Garcia, color me interested.

Probably not. He's also in the milb IL and hasn't played since July 3rd.

Rooting for Micker. I've said it before and I will say it again, I think he's going to have some success in the big leagues at some point.

I'd take LuCroy (or really anyone) over Zavala, even if its just for a couple weeks. Finding catchers who can't hit a lick but are solid defenders isn't exactly tough. Zavala is an automatic out. He's been solid behind the plate, and Sox have the luxury I guess, but why not upgrade if it doesn't anything but pro-rated league min. He obviously has some familiarly with the pitchers as well.

Sox aren't exactly in a position to be trading away catchers at this moment.

Hopefully Yaz is back in a couple weeks. 4-5 week timeline originally, and TLR said yesterday he's ahead of schedule.

Whit will be too expensive. Someone will offer more than the Sox. His contract is an absolute steal. Then you have the inter-division thing. Don't see it happening.

Does it really offer more DH flexibility though? All it does is shift Vaughn to DH most of the time, makes the defense worse, and makes Eloy more likely to get hurt again. I too think Eloy is going to need to play some LF, but Vaughn is the clearly superior defender. At the beginning of the season, we had a short fairly unathletic dude who hadn't played the OF since he was in little league. Vaughn has now proven to be an average LF defender in the bigs, and is still very much learning the position. One of the better developments so far in 2021 is Vaughn becoming a more than serviceable LF. Its absolutely huge for the DH/1B log jam we have in 22. Completely veering off that path at this point would be a serious mistake by the Sox.

I think Matt Joyce is a nice comp. Brandon Moss is another that comes to mind.

Hopefully the Sox. That's a lot of pay for a 34 YO reliever on a market rate (at best) deal. Guy makes more than Liam on an AAV basis.

Do you have a link to the interview?

Give Billy a 5 year deal!

Or punt the 8/9 spot in your lineup and handcuff moves. That’s where it’s nice to have 3 catchers.

Nothing but respect for Goodwin from me

A poster or two were suggesting he’d go unclaimed on waivers as recently as like 10 days ago.

He sat the 2nd game yesterday tho, immediately after it happened.

This. Shit the dude they signed in AAA already is probably better. Cool story and I hope Zavala is enjoying it while it lasts.

Looking back at my posts, you mentioned that if Kopech isn’t ready to start he should be in AAA on a Rehab assignment. Which is silly because he’s arguably the best arm in the pen. I want him starting games in Aug and Sep because I think he has the upside to be one of the best SP in the game in 22 and beyond. But I sure as shit am Not wasting his arm in AAA when we aren’t even getting service time benefits. Let him get stretched out while pitching to a 1.50 Era in the big leagues. Again, not sure what any of this has to do with an 8.5 game lead and the Sox having the luxury to wait for prices to drop.

No. And I have no idea what Kopech has to do with this. I’ve said repeatedly that they need to get Kopech stretched out and he needs to get to 80-100 innings this year. I said nothing of the 5 innings he’s pitched since he got off the IL other than he simply wasn’t ready to be anything more than opener last night so I wasn’t all up in arms about him not making a 2 inning start.

They have an 8.5 game lead and no real competition for the division. They can afford to wait until the prices drop.

That’s true tho. Eloy and Robert are elite players and far better than anyone that could be acquired via trade. Doesn’t mean Hahn won’t shore up some weaknesses tho.

Yeah, I mean I said as much in my post. But Leury has been hitting over .300 with an OBP around .400 since Nicky got hurt. And has played great D at 2B. If you wouldn’t give him an A+, I don’t know what you’d give him. He’s been amazing. Is it likely to continue thru Sep? Nah. Would I not acquire someone like Escobar due to the performance? Also nah. But Leury has been awesome the last 6 Weeks or so.

I’d love to upgrade on Leury and put him back in the role he should be in. But let’s not act like the dude hasn’t answered the bell. He’s been phenomenal since Nicky got hurt. A+.

And they just send Vaughn to the bench?