Jose Abreu

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 3, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) Sounds like Martellus Bennett will be gone after this season. Yeah, he's apparently upset about his role in the red zone offense.

I guess Toronto fans have reasons to be upset about it. Marco Estrada: By Catcher (2015) Russell Martin is the top line, Navarro is the bottom. G IP ER ERA PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO SO/W BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip 14 61.1 28 4.11 261 238 31 58 11 3 7 5 2 20 50 2.50 .244 .307 .403 .710 96 1 2 0 1 0 3 .280 20 119.2 35 2.63 464 421 35 76 13 2 17 2 3 35 81 2.31 .181 .247 .342 .589 144 5 3 2 2 2 1 .182

Anyway, given that catching is so weak across baseball, Avila/Navarro is a decent tandem. I'm a bit worried that they'll fall of a cliff, given that Navarro has had bad seasons here and there and Avila has just been bad lately, but it's better than Flowers/Soto.

I'm hearing Jays fans are upset because he was Estrada's personal catcher, and apparently Estrada was much worse when throwing to others.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Dec 3, 2015 -> 07:20 AM) There is exactly one catcher that can do that in the entire Major Leagues and he is a former MVP who may go into the HOF. Last year just one catcher hit 24 HRs (McCann). His average, .232. Just four catchers hit .270+ (Posey, Pierzynski, Cervelli, Molina). Other than Posey who hit 19 HRs, the other three combined for just 20. The type of catcher you are looking for only comes around about once a decade. Maybe he's saying we need to trade for Buster Posey

I recall him killing the Sox when he was on the Cubs.

He's a switch-hitter, right? I hope he can keep his offensive production up.

Jose Fernandez? Second baseman? Cuban? Ties to Abreu? Get it done Hahn!

They need to go 53-9 to break the Bulls' record

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 11:24 PM) The past 3 seasons in 25 AB's with the bases loaded Tyler Flowers has 2 hits, 4 walks and 15K's for a .80/.258/.80 batting line... thats a .338 OPS. Just something fun to throw out there Wow, he hit .800 with the bases loaded?!?! Just messing with you zeros are important...

Well, I know how much we like young, poor-hitting 3B... see Olt, Davidson, Gillaspie, etc.

Platooning Lucroy with Avila wouldn't make much sense.

Guys, that's rabbit....

Sale loved throwing to Flowers, wonder how he feels about this

Kyle Schwarber? :D

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 06:48 PM) Daryl Van SchouwenVerified account ‏@CST_soxvan Hahn on Flowers: "We saw opportunity to improve club from offensive standpoint. This move done as part of a plan." A plan!!! We're no longer deciding on what to do!!!

I wouldn't say we're "close" with him, I'd say he's a potential fit.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) Jayson Stark Verified account ‏@jaysonst Forget the theory that Jeff Samardzija will be the bargain of the offseason. Teams talking with him say he's claiming to have $100M on table $100M for him??? JFC, that's gonna come back to haunt them.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) They will likely not have a winning season even with replacing his bat. So no reason to eat money just for the sake of it. To be fair, I don't think the Sox having a winning season with this current roster is that out of the question. We won 76 games in 2015. Replace 6 losses with 6 wins and we would have had a winning season. It's not that far-fetched. We're capable of having one with or without LaRoche on the roster.

I liked Beckham but I think we misused him. Hard for me to dislike a guy who played his hardest for us for seven years.

I'm more of a Hulu and relax type of guy

Now that Eaton is becoming more of a power hitter, I wouldn't mind him being shifted to #2 and Melky down in the 5-6 range. The issue, as you pointed out, is where he'd play among the Melky/Eaton/Thompson/Garcia shuffle with Shuck as a backup.

No thanks. His age concerns me, and I think we'd be smarter to use the money elsewhere.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 10:33 PM) Adrian Gonzalez, Prince Fielder , Jose Bautista, Miguel Cabrera, JD Martinez, Shane Victorino, Edwin Encarnación, Shin Soo Choo Look at Carlos Beltran at age 38. This "theory" is simply ridiculous. Beltran had been in the AL before, Victornio had one good AL season and now he's not what he used to be, Houston was in the AL when Martinez left, Bautista had started in the AL... there are many names of NL players who came to the AL and played worse than they used to.

Bryant is a terrific 20% 3-point shooter this year- TAKING 8 PER GAME. That's even worse than 2014 Derrick Rose.