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I'm saying long term. Guy's got an OPS+ of 51.

Man, that is a lot to give for a back up outfielder who will be hard to keep on the roster. They have to be moving Grichuk, Hays, and/or Pereira somewhere in addition. Otherwise, you just traded assets to DFA useful players.

Nimmala is such a hard player to figure out. He could flame out in AA OR he could be a star. We'll see if the Angels can fix their development program fast enough to help the kid. Clearly, the Jays prioritized keeping Parker ahead of Nimmala, which is exactly how I'd rank them. He's the guy I wanted at 10 last year, but the board wouldn't cooperate.

Roster crunches are what happens when you go from sucky to reasonably good. The Sox have been able to operate a revolving door of waiver claims for the last 3 years. Now, they're going to lose some marginal big leaguers as their roster gets harder to make. Guys like Drew Romo, Junior Perez, and some of the pitchers may get taken for nothing. That's the price of getting some better players. I am not worried. Hopefully, they'll be able to do what Tampa is often quite good at: Getting value for players who are 40 man casualties/out of options.

Plenty of guys to potentially DFA including Joe Rock, Tyler Davis, Tyler Gilbert, Duncan Davitt, Urquidy, plus I believe there will be a trade involving either Grichuk or Hays.

Good move. Gabe Davis may become something under the Mets very good pitching development program. He didn’t seem to be improving with the Sox. Franklin was buried despite good stuff.

I don’t know about other people. I see a really good athlete, with good swing decisions who has a lot of room to get stronger. If he does, there’s a lot of upside. People in the org compare him to Grady Sizemore. He was traded away and it was a mistake

Kanny came back to win 8-4. Fitzwater with his first HR 2-4 2R 2RBI. Holcomb 3-3, bb. Fauske with a big triple, his 9th of the season. To me, he's the untouchable on that team even ahead of Carlson.

Shelton continues his hot week. 2-3. Would be huge if he's gotten over the hump in AA.

Nice win. Sox could easily have swept them.

Interesting that Peoples is the guy from this deal that got shipped out. Davitt is AAAA depth arm at best, but he has the weird angles that Bannister likes.

Feels like in 6 games, Vilade has had 12 of those against us.

Pretty amazing how bad the starting pitching is in the Sox minor league system. Every day at every level it seems to be older NP guys. How much they baby everyone is not helping and it’s not preventing injuries.

I like Aiden Smith a lot but he’s behind other guys in a very good system. Pretty good haul for a rental.

Interesting that Holcomb, who can allegedly play all over the field, has started both his games at DH.

Jones was drafted by Cleveland then traded to Colorado where he had a pretty good breakout but then regressed and was traded back to Cleveland where he was not great. He’s roster filler

Owning this last two years on someone else’s bad contract is not great. Giving up anything to own it is worse. At least it’s only a year + unless they are really dumb

How is Seward still in the majors?! I would put him on the mysterious IL if nothing else. Absolutely brutal all year long.

I wonder if McDougal comes up now. Would be a weird time to remove Fedde from the rotation. He’s won his last 5 starts.

I knew Castillo had struggled but the numbers are pretty bad — in that park! It could get pretty ugly in the Rate. Kinda reminds me of the Civale trade. Really acquiring a name more than performance. I would assume this means the Sox are holding on to all their top prospects, though for me Boston Smith was probably the line for me. I was willing to trade everyone below him on my list.

Seattle took all of Seranthony’s money. That’s like $15 mil. If Castillo doesn’t vest for $25 mil, Sox are out like $23 mil. Not ideal, but whatever. Of course, if Seranthony is suddenly fixed…

Castillo contract is truly awful. I assume Seranthony is the money dump and is in lieu of cash. Tells you how the Sox viewed Boston Smith. They are cashing in the rise in his value. I believe they will regret it. Hey, if Castillo can recapture any of his previous form, it would be exciting, but I find that highly unlikely. Kinda funny that Seranthony was finally throwing better and then we dump him.

Fitzwater has work to do at 1b. Kind of a bad first ab too. Crew McChesney hit it hard, but didn’t get out.

No Carlson tonight for trade deadline conspiracy theorists.

Holcomb MASSIVE HR in his first pro ab.