bmags Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Red Sox have a similar Wild Card chance as the white sox, yet unlike the white sox have zero chance in their division. They also have a bunch-o-upcoming free agents, esp. pitching. Starting Pitchers Eovaldi, Wacha Relief Pitchers Strahm Position Players JD Martinez (bogaerts) Eovaldi not having a great year, and Strahm is injured but I believe is just a wrist bruise. Martinez is RH, but is still above average vs. RHP. And we know the one thing JR will splurge on is a positionless, past his prime slugger who is paid more than their market. Wacha would be pretty good Kopech slot guy. They are .500 and hopeless. While we are .500 and ascending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 41 minutes ago, bmags said: Red Sox have a similar Wild Card chance as the white sox, yet unlike the white sox have zero chance in their division. They also have a bunch-o-upcoming free agents, esp. pitching. Starting Pitchers Eovaldi, Wacha Relief Pitchers Strahm Position Players JD Martinez (bogaerts) Eovaldi not having a great year, and Strahm is injured but I believe is just a wrist bruise. Martinez is RH, but is still above average vs. RHP. And we know the one thing JR will splurge on is a positionless, past his prime slugger who is paid more than their market. Wacha would be pretty good Kopech slot guy. They are .500 and hopeless. While we are .500 and ascending. Also lots of rumors they want to dump Alex Verdugo as he's not in the long term plans at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 What type of overlap, if any, did JDM have with Tony in Arizona and Boston? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Are we ascending though? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 If the choice is running JD Martinez or Gavin Sheets out there, I am #TeamJD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWSpalehoseCWS Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 1 hour ago, caulfield12 said: Also lots of rumors they want to dump Alex Verdugo as he's not in the long term plans at this point. Really? Their main get for Betts, and they already want to move on from him? He’s a solid player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said: Really? Their main get for Betts, and they already want to move on from him? He’s a solid player. Yeah I think he's decent, but he hasn't produced much this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 1 hour ago, fathom said: What type of overlap, if any, did JDM have with Tony in Arizona and Boston? JDM got traded to the Diamondbacks in 2017 near the trade deadline. La Russa resigned after 2017. So there is an overlap. Martinez was an absolute monster for them in 2017 so that might actually be one of the best trades under La Russa's tenure. La Russa got hired by Boston in November of 2017 and Martinez signed with Boston in February of 2018. I'm not sure if there's a correlation, but I'm sure Tony being there didn't hurt. Either way, Martinez is a hell of a hitter. His decrease in power numbers this year are a bit concerning, but his overall numbers are similar to what they were last year. He's only DH'd this year, so I'm not sure he'd be a good guy to play in RF unless you really needed to. He also played LF a lot in Fenway, which is probably one of the easiest LFs to cover in baseball. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 47 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: If the choice is running JD Martinez or Gavin Sheets out there, I am #TeamJD While not on team Sheets, this does nothing to address the weakness. I rather run Engle out there daily and DH Eloy/Grandal/AV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said: While not on team Sheets, this does nothing to address the weakness. I rather run Engle out there daily and DH Eloy/Grandal/AV He addresses the weakness of hitting the shit out of the ball which no one on the team comes close to him. yes in theory, Grandal should not be hitting 40 wRC+ but for 3 months maybe we let his legs be super resty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 29 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said: While not on team Sheets, this does nothing to address the weakness. I rather run Engle out there daily and DH Eloy/Grandal/AV He can hit. That is a weakness for this team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScootsMcGoots Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) Moncada for Sale lmao #getitdonerick Edited July 25, 2022 by ScooterMcGuire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Verdugo is pretty bad this year (no power) but was solid for ~200 games for Boston. Wonder if he's a victim of the ball? He's worth a buy low shot right now but I wouldn't want to give up anything of value for him. Also not sure he can play right field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegner Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, Tnetennba said: Are we ascending though? on further review Edited July 26, 2022 by wegner Maybe better to delete that one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSox Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 15 hours ago, bmags said: While we are .500 and ascending. Well 10-9 against the central the last couple of weeks is closer to running in place. If Boston is selling Martinez shouldn't cost too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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