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I am not sure you trade McCann. Many posters have said all year how good he is with the staff. Not sure you then trade him to bring in young arms and hve them working w lousy catchers. Also catching is hard to find and it appears we finally found one. I am all for trading Abrue but I don't agree w Greg that a pure rental w fielding issues will bring 3-4 outstanding prospects. Maybe 1 and a couple of hopefuls. Encarnacion brought Seattle 1 hopeful prospect and $10M salary relief.

I think Wheeler is out for this year. Boston and Yankees are involved so the price will be steep.

Agree or better still he would not have been promoted.

Agree Yoan was young. But he had 1200+ ABS in the minors My point was you cannot make assumptions on 20 or 29 MLB ABS.

Let's not forget that when Moncada made his debut he struck out 12 times in his first 20 Abs which is 60%. He was promptly sent back to the minors

No, more thinking if they move Abreu which I have no clue if they will. Kid is still young to be a DH.

It would be great if when Vaughn is ready for the bigs, Reed is already entrenched at 1st and we use both or trade one. That is much better than hope Reed holds down 1st till vaughn arrives.

Not really. Perfect storm would be Reed tearing it up this year and next and beyond we have to find another spot for Vaughn.

I understand your point. But if this guy is heading for Charlotte, it may not be a good sign for Skole /Merecdes playing time in AAA over the next 2 months.

Agree but also the schedule home/away and strength will impact it it as well.

Not sure that is a gimme. Devers numbers across the board are higher but mainly he puts the ball in play more w a 16% SO rate. I am not sure either will end up .300 hitter but both have had outstanding June production. Devers supposedly has improved defensively but Yoan is better even w less game experience.

I should have said for the White Sox. The Sox at this pace would get 84 wins. Check the predictions pre-season and see how many people had 84. Now the question is do the Sox get worse by being a seller or better w addition of Cease and probably Robert at some point. In addition, more games out of Eloy, Moncada and Anderson in 2nd half.

42-44 is a damn good 1st half.

Actually Martinez has played more RF than LF this year. But I hope they find a left-handed hitting RF to give the order another LH bat especially if Collins struggles.

Actually Martinez will be 32 next month so he will be 32 next contract. He is only 6 months younger than Abreu if he is 32. I understand your position but I think JD gets at least 4-5 next winter.

I have seen numerous posters on here saying they want JD Martinez. Does that mean you would not want him if he hits FA this winter? I think he will get more than a 1-2 year.

I would think Hahn is on the Cubs radar. It appears the Shields trade may not look as bad as Eloy and Cease for Q in a year or two.

They are #1 and #2 in highest ERA in majors for qualifiers

Nova is close.

We agree. From all indications he will be going into ST fighting for a position. But next spring he could find himself like Gio has and turn it around. We all hope Cease, Kopech, Gio and Lopez are 4/5 of our rotation next year. But all four are still question marks although Gio sure looks like he is on his way.

That is kinda drastic. Hopefully Lopez has a strong 2nd half. If Lopez has a bad year this year, he can still come back next year and win a rotation spot. You only have to look at Gio's numbers last year which were horrible especially the walks. McCann is hitting 100 points higher than last year. What a difference a year makes. What we have to hope for next year is that Gio and McCann don't regress and Lopez bounces back.

Sure it is............................

Actually we are not. Houston got a new owner who hired a new GM who hired a new manager for the 2012 season. They struggled the first 3 years and now have had 4 straight winning seasons.

Balta: I think you missed my point. You have to combine players promoted from your farm team w either FA and/or trades. My point about Boston is they obviously have a flaw in developing pitching prospects. So they went out and basically traded/bought a rotation. The Yankees have had a great stretch of bringing up talent. But they also then plug holes outside their organization. Both systems have flaws. For every Bertran, Sandoval, Heyward etc. there is a long line of Top 10 Draft picks that have fizzled. The Twins are a great story because they are winning w/o going after the top tier FA. But we will see how long they can sustain it. Teams like Boston and New York just "write off" top tier mistakes and find a replacement.

But even teams like the Astros, Red Sox and Yankees who have gotten solid results from their farm system spent in FA. Boston, for example churns out positional players but they have 1 home grown starting pitcher who is 5th in their rotation.