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Sign: Tepera, Bryant, Rodon Trade Away: Kimbrel Trade For: Manaea, Pinder/Kemp

I'm not sold on Conforto. I'd prefer if they went after Marte.

Syndergaard, Bryant at 3B (move Yoan back to 2B), and Conforto or Marte in RF.

I think that TLR has been ok this season, but fully believe that the Sox will regret not hiring Hinch for a long, long time to come.

I mean, when is the last time that the Sox acquired someone in season that came here and performed?

Now do last year. Aside from Gio in game 1 last year, it's all crap

Going back to last year, Gio is the only guy that hasn't been chased early and even he got banged up the other day. The SPs are fine over the course of the year, but it's not translating to the playoffs.

Also, a single starting pitcher that can be remotely effective against a good lineup

That's a wrap. I don't really know what the offseason needs to look like but holy shit does this team need some fundamentals.

I mean, it worked ok for Ozzie for a while...

I'd bet that at least one of them will be in the rotation.

This is the same bullshit that happened in Oakland last year. How in the hell is ALL of our pitching so ineffective in the damn playoffs?!

Playing this Astros team and seeing how well they do all the little things really shows how mediocre the Sox are at things like plate discipline, defensive positioning, baserunning, etc.

Why the hell does MLB make it so damn hard to consume its products??

There are a ton of people that would have said the same regarding Rodon last season.

Anybody else a little glad that we didn't get Bauer now?

1) Ditch your breaking ball 2) Stay tall 3) Seriously, no breaking ball 4) I don't care if it has worked for your entire career so far, no more 5) Throw cutters 6) More cutters

I come back from lunch and see that the Trade Whispers thread is hot thinking something cool was happening and the whole crew is in here doing a deep dive on post reactions.

It’s like 4 pages long. Just read it.

"Ya don't need a f*ckin curveball when you've got a nasty cutter." - Don Cooper, probably

Didn't Jeff Passan confirm that NSC was legit (at least regarding the Dunning deal)? EDIT: Never mind. Didn't see the response before I sent the above

Pass for me on Cruz. Dude was a monster last year but he's only getting older and at some point he'll not be able to catch up to the fastball like EE last year. I'd rather let him do that somewhere else.

Baseball, am I right?

And that's fine. I don't hate Colome as a player, my preference would just be to go with Hendriks.

Colome's BB/9 was TRIPLE what Hendriks was last season (SSS I know) but even if you go back to 2019 it was ~1.2 BB/9 higher than Hendriks. And Colome's xFIP over the last 2 seasons suggests that he's due for substantial regression. The Steamer projection puts him at a ~4.5 ERA for next season and I know that they're not gospel but projecting a nearly 4 run jump in ERA has to be based on something.