turnin' two

Sonny Gray (and really most of these guys) being ahead of Kershaw. Wow. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kershcl01.shtml Don't know if people have realized this, but he is pitching like prime Kershaw again this year.

Look at you rockin it like a twitter insider!

This isn't good satire.

I'm completely in on this.

That's because he is only on the team for like 2 weeks at a time.

That what the kids are calling it these days?

Yeah, this is a weak one to me. There will be a trade!

They can have all the LHPs they want. The Sox will destroy them.

Probably the one that hasn't pitched in 2 years.

And Hader. For Collins, Reylo, and Burger.

I would say teams should have at least 6 starters. Especially if some are young with injury histories.

He can't be traded.

Story on MLBTR saying the Giants are more likely to buy than sell, as they are only 2 games out of a playoff spot.

Kelley can't be traded, correct?

Yeah. Screw you and your sub 1 ERA!

Yas, you are forgiven. Haha. Well done sir. That'll take care of that.

Its ok. I would guess they will get this all straightened out by the time spring training is over...

That is an insult to my beer league softball team.

What the hell was Grandal looking at??? Just a terrible play allll the way around. You have got to be bleeping me. And a little league level of execution on the run down.

Kind of wish they had kept Collins around. I like being able to play Grandal and McCann in the lineup together.

Me too. The depth in the system is starting the thin out a bit, and I think the team needs reinforcements for the next season or so, and they need trade capital for the next couple seasons. Maybe I am going to much John Paxson here, but I don't think so. If the Sox are trading a couple of their top level guys, I think they should get someone who will plug in for more of the future than a season and a month. I'd certainly trade for Lynn, but I think the most highly rated and closest guy I would trade would be Steiver.

Completely agree. Dunning sure looked like he was about ready to contribute right now. Cease looks to be on the cusp of figuring stuff out. I don't understand why you'd trade either for a guy that was a pretty run of the mill pitcher until last season. I know he made some changes, but honestly I don't trust that Lance Lynn is one of the best 10ish starters in the game. And even if he is, he is in his mid 30's, and has 1 year on his contract. If the Sox are trading Dunning or Cease, much less both, then they have to be getting a long term stud in return. Because those guys could provide a heck of a lot of good innings over the next few seasons. Seriously, if anyone here had suggested trading 2 of the teams top 10ish prospects for a 33 year old pitcher over the winter... you'd have been tarred and feathered. And I know it is different now, with where the team is, stil though, why mortgage what we've been so patient building for a season that could be cancelled at any moment?

I think I've have gotten to the point where I just want the deadline to pass without doing anything stupid.

Sorry, didn't mean to seem like I was throwing anyone under the bus. It was just funny to me.

Also it is kind of funny, in the span of like 5 posts there is the thought that Cleveland would need more to trade Clevenger to the Sox, but it is a foregone conclusion that the Braves are the team to whom the Mets would prefer to trade deGrom.