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My misake, homie.

I guess I missed the movie reference? My bad.

LETS FUCKING GO!!!!!! Just tickled with joy. My #1 offseason target off the board to the Sox before Thanksgiving. Oh man oh man, are the tides a'changin'.

Lol, go look at his stats dude. He's one of the more elite OBP guys in the league - AND HE CATCHES!

Classic Sox fan mentality. Just conditioned for the worst despite all signs pointing towards a real change.

This is accurate, although I do think Abreu will DH quite a bit with Grandal, Collins and maybe even a little McCann mixed in at 1B.

Who is the dumbass coming in here and laughing at positive posts? Go away, you fool.

McCann is still going to take all of Gio's starts and likely 80% of the catcher starts against LHP. Grandal just shifts to DH/1B those days. Its a wonderful problem to have, boys.

This does not take them out of Wheeler/Ryu/Madbum category. They were never signing the top 2.

Raises hand.

Its a great thing, man! Be happy!! Sox mean business.

Guys....this is so amazing. Get Wheeler, trade for a RF, and fill in a couple gaps with cheap stop gaps and we got a fucking SQUAD!!!

Sooooo.... @Eminor3rd LOL

Holy fucks boys, we mean business. This is so fucking huge.

OMG, I am so happy!!!

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I willed this into reality.

This isn't accurate. Wheeler: 2018 fwar: 4.2; 2019 fWAR: 4.7 Keuchel: 2018 fWAR: 3.3; 2019 fWAR: 0.8 Wheeler only made 17 starts in 2017 after coming back from surgery. He wasn't good (0.2) fWAR. Keuchel was 2.3 fWAR in 2017. So even including 2017, Wheeler has amassed 9.1 fWAR since 2017; Keuchel 6.40 fWAR. So, yah...that's wrong.

That's a fair take, honestly. There is a decent chance Wheeler turns into a bust of a signing. But what would you do instead? Cole/Strasburg or bust?

I wouldn’t necessarily look at it that way. Collins will DH a few times a week in that scenario but he’s not going to be DHing everyday. Grandal, McCann, Collins, Abreu, and Eloy will all split DH duties.

Could see Sox putting a claim in on Nestor Cortes. Two options remaining and Sox are so thin on LHP.

I honestly don’t think he ends up getting that much, but sure. I DGAF about $5M over 5 years.

Right. Offer him 5/$95M right now and get it done.

Yah, meant to mention Sanchez in my list but just slipped my mind.

Mercedes and Collins have pretty comparable wRC+ in AA and AAA. Collins has quite a few more PA as well, so SS is quite a bit larger.

This. To add to it - Collins has much more of a pedigree, has proven to hit well in the upper minors for a longer time than Yermin (don't forget Yermin has less than 400 PA above A ball), and is most definitely a better defensive catcher than Yermin. Not a great comp.