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I don’t know. Quite a few people on this board expected it to be pretty bad. If it excludes Scholtens, it will actually be better than expected.

Perfect cuz the Sox could compete in the KBO.

You can if you try hard enough.

The difference this time is the Sox actually got bona fide players in return for the bonus $. Aldrin Batista looked good at Kanny and the reports on Maximo Martinez look pretty decent. Obviously, the Sox cash allowed LAD to sign a much more well-regarded prospect, but the Sox weren't going to get him anyway.

I can see preferring Norby to Ortiz. Ortiz is aging out of true prospect status. He’s a plus glove at short, but I would not bet the bat plays anywhere else. If you’re committed to Montgomery at ss, Norby might make more sense. I bet Baltimore doesn’t pull the trigger on any of it, though. The cheapskates may be a landing spot for Gio.

I love seein names in trade rumors like Waldron and Bradford that the Sox passed up in the draft so they could grab Jacob Gonzalez.. D’oh!

Popeye is a plus defender at 2b and he's an exciting player, but if you want to improve the bb/K ratio of this team, he's not your guy. He makes TA look like Adley Rutschman. Ramos has missed a ton of time. I think if he hits this year, he's in line to replace Moncada.

Not sure Gilbert is on the market and neither Bieber nor Glasnow has Cease's value. They are both in their last year of control. And anyone who points to Cease's loss of velo ought to look at Bieber. He's lost 3+ mph over the last few years. That's without considering his arm injury at the end of the year. He's buyer beware as far as I'm concerned.

Romy is a plus defensive 2b. Much better over there than Remillard. That said, I would be fine releasing either of them or both.

And I thought I was the low man on Gonzalez. Hope he and his weird swing prove us all wrong.

Rough way to find out the Adam Haseley era is over.

Law had a one game look. Hardly definitive. Colson also didn’t hit in that look, doesn’t mean you should question the bat.

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Sox have no slots open to draft somebody, right? They have really committed to some questionable AAAA bullpen arms.

Getz has dumped a bunch of questionable major leaguers and added a bunch of questionable major leaguers in his year zero churn. I doubt Seby, or Suarez for that matter, would make much of a difference. With Grifol at the helm, this team might lose 110 games.

Big difference trading Cease and Robert. Cease has 2 years of control and is coming off a down year. Robert won a Silver Slugger and finished top 3 for a Gold Glove with 4 years of control. Robert is so valuable, he’s close to untradeable. That’s why they’re saying he’s not available.

I don’t think BB was taking a shot at his disability, but the “like a normal person” is very unfortunate turn of phrase. When your job involves managing talent, which probably means ego, you can’t say s*** like that.

I think Soroka is probably done. I mean, no one the Sox got is what you call good, but maybe the garbage they just added is better than the garbage that was already in the 40 man? Clearly, a team this bad doesn’t need Aaron Bummer, and he will benefit from getting away from their putrid defense. I wonder if Fraser Ellard has an outside shot of being an okay pen piece.

Ha ha. I guess we're keeping Cease. I despise the concept of Jonathan India (45 hit/50 power/35 field/70 flow) as even part of a trade. Verdugo would replace Clevinger/D-Bo as the embarrassing guy to root for. (Google it.) Donovan probably is a 4th of/platoon bat. I mean, he's not horrible, but c'mon. I do love his similarity through age 26 to Hoot Evans.

I'd non-tender a ton of guys off this horrible roster. These are 31 guys I'd protect: Banks, lhp Bummer, lhp Juan Carela, rhp Cease, rhp Crochet, lhp Jake Eder, LHP Deivi Garcia, rhp Kopech, rhp Lambert, rhp Davis Martin, rhp Christian Mena, rhp Lane Ramsey, rhp Sammy Peralta, lhp Gregory Santos, rhp Jesse Scholtens, rhp Matt Thompson, rhp Touki Toussaint, rhp Korey Lee, c Carlos Perez, c Romy Gonzalez, 2b/ss/of #Moncada, 3b Bryan Ramos, 3b Popeye Rodriguez, 2b/ss *Sheets, 1b/of Sosa, 2b/ss *Colas, of Jimenez, of Robert, of Vaughn, 1b *Benintendi, of Wilfred Veras, of

Small world. I was at that game too.

From what I have seen of Montgomery, the danger of signing DeJong is Colson beats him out in the spring. Because of his plate discipline, Montgomery's floor's pretty high. Not hard to see him hitting .220 and still being way better than DeJong. As far as Popeye and Sosa are concerned, their complete inability to control the strike zone may be a no no to the new regime. The last thing the Sox need is more guys who won't take a walk.

The amount of 1b profile at the top of this draft is terrifying. When you add two other top picks with 2b profiles, this is not the draft you want to be picking super high in. Especially with that f-ed up new top 6 rule.

$8 mil was the number Counsell was going for. Good for him to get it. Stays in the Midwest, too. I'm sure he's thrilled. Ross probably cost the Cubs 10 games in the standings this year based on run differential, so it's a good hire. Doesn't affect the Sox in any way, though. They weren't going to hire a new manager anyway. They have Pedro to build culture by losing 110 games.

Maybe it's possible? The Brewers and the Diamondbacks didn't hit a ton of HR and they still made the playoffs, but of the top 10 in HR 7 made the playoffs including 7 of the top 8. Only the Angels missed. RH was not wrong, ball go far, team go far.