Jose Abreu

He's better than Castellanos in most categories. And I agree that he isn't nearly as bad as many are making him out to be. I just am seeing a lot of people saying things about certain stats that are categorically false. I would be fine with an Ozuna signing

It actually has him as below average literally every single year other than 2017

Or, hear me out... There are more than two advanced stats out there for defense, and taking an all-or-nothing "no one should ever reference advanced defensive stats again if you disagree with two in particular!" approach doesn't make any sense

You can't just look at UZR and DRS, especially because that's in LF and not RF. Statcast has his outs above average and jumps as pretty bad throughout his career, with the exception of 2017 when they were randomly good for one season. I know he isn't this bad regularly, but this hasn't been posted yet so I couldn't help myself:

Not that it matters, since they have Alonso at 1B, but a top-25 prospect in Vaughn is actually a pretty good headliner for 2 years of a ~4 WAR pitcher in Syndergaard, IMO.

This guy is far more entertaining than Schins, HotStoveIntel, and J. Michael Robertson IMO

It would only be self-abuse if anyone actually expected them to land Rendon/Cole/Strasburg

And getting pretty old, because practically every person discussing these ideas prefaces them by saying they know how unlikely it is. I don't see how talking about how upset we are over Wheeler is any better

Moncada’s trade value is among the highest in baseball. You’d need BOTH a great RF and SP to move him. It would probably never work

And that's the exact reason I revived this thread. The Sox have an issue with offering long contracts, but over these past two winters, they have shown a new philosophy when it comes to AAV. 5/200 might be a bit much, but you get the point

Probably, yeah. Moving Rendon to RF is also an option as I weirdly think he'd be competent out there, but I think 2B would be more likely. Not that it means anything, but all the "source" accounts on Twitter (not the real ones like Bilek/WSD etc but the Steve Cisheks of the world) are all saying stuff like this today. Fair points. Definitely agree that Madrigal would have to stay at 2B (on whichever team).

Agree with all of this, but two comments: First, Moncada has already volunteered to move to the outfield, per Renteria. Additionally, you're right that Moncada is likely a better defender at 3B than Rendon, and that's why Rendon would be the one that I move in this hypothetical signing.

To be fair, those people never should have been taken seriously in the first place. He was a 2 WAR player in 2018 and had a pretty average year overall.

Doesn't seem like the craziest proposition ever since you have made *looks closely* 1 post here, ever

This isn't about Tsutsugo, this is about Shogo Akiyama. Tsutsugo is a prototypical home runs, walks, and strikeouts guy.

Rendon's main goal seems to be high AAV. We just offered $25 million AAV to Zack Wheeler and $31.25 million AAV to Machado in February. I obviously don't expect us to sign or even pursue Rendon, which I'll underline since any post on the matter tends to get a bunch of replies restating that, but I see him as a more realistic pivot than Cole or Strasburg. If you really want to spend the money, get creative with Rendon and offer him 5/180. As unlikely as it seems, I never expected Reinsdorf to be convinced to offer Zack Wheeler of all people $25 million per year.

Well it is pretty normal to win the vast majority of games in which you're leading after 8, but that's not what I'm arguing and I'm not sure what you're getting at. For everything that suggests the 2019 Sox were lucky, there's another thing that suggests they were unlucky I could definitely see that argument.

Works both ways. For example, I think most of our relievers (save for Bummer) have better years. Same goes for Lopez. I also think Anderson improves on defense.

He probably heard it from Mr. Cishek

The additions of Robert, Grandal, Kopech, Madrigal, and Cease (full season) make us an ~80 win team as constructed, IMO. Getting one of Ryu/Keuchel, Castellanos/Pederson, and hopefully one more significant piece pushes us towards the higher 80s.

James McCann

Yes, that’s all it is

Wouldn't the "28th worst defense" be the 3rd best defense?

I miss the days when "putting your email in your Soxtalk username" was a thing

It says the account was created in August of 2016. Clearly, Cishek made the account, forgot about it, then got this Wheeler scoop today and decided to share it with the world.