Trade the Mets Benintendi or Robert. 

Edited November 23, 2025Nov 23 by PaleAleSox

8 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

Trade the Mets Benintendi or Robert. 

Yes please.

Edit: I guess Sosa is no longer a fit there

Edited November 23, 2025Nov 23 by Bob Sacamano

Looks like the Mets chipped in some money 

47 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

Trade the Mets Benintendi or Robert. 

Why would the Mets want Benintendi? 

How much money are you willing to send along with him? 

1 hour ago, PaleAleSox said:

Trade the Mets Benintendi or Robert. 

Absolutely no one wants Benintendi, including Sox fans.

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Jerry will almost always choose hard currency in hand over prospect return...probably hates sending money to a team like the Mets, just on principle. 

 

While Semien's contract features a higher AAV than Nimmo ($25 million in terms of the luxury tax calculation versus $20.5 million), it's of shorter duration and the move will cut into New York's considerable longer-term obligations.

... 

One thing that is head-scratching here: The Mets are pretty deep in high-quality infield prospects, from Luisangel Acuna to Ronny Mauricio to Jett Williams, all of whom carry considerably more upside than Semien at this point. 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46994593/2025-26-mlb-offseason-grades-free-agency-trade-analysis

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1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:

Why would the Mets want Benintendi? 

How much money are you willing to send along with him? 

It's not my money so all of it.

1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:

Why would the Mets want Benintendi? 

How much money are you willing to send along with him? 

Dude has 2/30 left.  Just cut him.  

Those are two really bad contracts.  Mets may now be the only team out there with more 2b than the Sox.

3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Why would the Mets want Benintendi? 

How much money are you willing to send along with him? 

Everything you have to your name. 

1 hour ago, Timmy U said:

Those are two really bad contracts.  Mets may now be the only team out there with more 2b than the Sox.

Meidroth L.Sosa Baldwin Jacob Gonzalez Antonacci Murray

9 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Everything you have to your name. 

$2 million…that won’t do it.  Not by a long shot.

16 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

$2 million…that won’t do it.  Not by a long shot.

I didn’t know that China pays their minions so well.

28 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

I didn’t know that China pays their minions so well.

Not from teaching lol. 

Investments/real estate. 

Everything's totally out of whack when a 98 square meter apartment in a second tier city like Wuhan cost around $375,000 to buy, and that price was significantly down from around $450,000 pre Covid. 

The biggest positive about China is health care is actually affordable, you can always see a doctor within 1-2 hours even on weekends and medical diagnostic tests are quite reasonable too...Lipitor is basically free through government-subsidized health insurance (wife or mother in law can purchase for me, but only one month's supply at a time.) 

Well, that and the cheap and efficient subway systems and high speed railways. 

Coca Cola and Gatorade haven't risen to more than 43-80 cents in over a decade. 

Apple products, imported cars, any luxury items like handbags cosmetics shoes and jewelry will be 25-33% more expensive. 

And having a child is crazy expensive: school tuition supplemental classes and activities...your male son is also responsible for all future wedding/honeymoon costs and must have an apartment (from parents usually) and car in own name or it's  exceedingly difficult to marry. Women are outnumbered by men roughly 6 to 5, for myriad reasons that would require a dissertation to explain. 

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8 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Meidroth L.Sosa Baldwin Jacob Gonzalez Antonacci Murray

Plus, Nishida, Bergolla, Perez, Mogollon, and Lodise.,

34 minutes ago, Timmy U said:

Plus, Nishida, Bergolla, Perez, Mogollon, and Lodise.,

Perez played just as much 3B?

Bergolla and Mogollon can also play SS.

Is Carlson really the only pure SS, as Bonemer has also been connected to 2B/3B??

2 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Perez played just as much 3B?

Bergolla and Mogollon can also play SS.

Is Carlson really the only pure SS, as Bonemer has also been connected to 2B/3B??

Well, defensively Carlson is likely to beat anyone out at ss, including Colson. Let's see if Carlson hits. Bonemer can definitely play ss. He's better over there than at 3b. That said, he probably is not gonna force Colson to move, let alone Carlson. My feeling on Bonemer is that the Sox are gonna find a place for the bat. Is that ss? 2b? 3b? OF? I don't know. Also, the top 3 prospects in the draft are all ss. 

As for the guys in the system, Bergolla has great hands, but the arm is a little short. I guess he could be an Ozzie type at short, but it's marginal. Plus, there's zero impact. Utility future probably. Mogollon is not a ss. Perez played some 3b because Anonacci. He also played some ss. He's a 2b-only type guy.

11 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Not from teaching lol. 

Investments/real estate. 

Everything's totally out of whack when a 98 square meter apartment in a second tier city like Wuhan cost around $375,000 to buy, and that price was significantly down from around $450,000 pre Covid. 

The biggest positive about China is health care is actually affordable, you can always see a doctor within 1-2 hours even on weekends and medical diagnostic tests are quite reasonable too...Lipitor is basically free through government-subsidized health insurance (wife or mother in law can purchase for me, but only one month's supply at a time.) 

Well, that and the cheap and efficient subway systems and high speed railways. 

Coca Cola and Gatorade haven't risen to more than 43-80 cents in over a decade. 

Apple products, imported cars, any luxury items like handbags cosmetics shoes and jewelry will be 25-33% more expensive. 

And having a child is crazy expensive: school tuition supplemental classes and activities...your male son is also responsible for all future wedding/honeymoon costs and must have an apartment (from parents usually) and car in own name or it's  exceedingly difficult to marry. Women are outnumbered by men roughly 6 to 5, for myriad reasons that would require a dissertation to explain. 

I would like to read it.

2 hours ago, Timmy U said:

Well, defensively Carlson is likely to beat anyone out at ss, including Colson. Let's see if Carlson hits. Bonemer can definitely play ss. He's better over there than at 3b. That said, he probably is not gonna force Colson to move, let alone Carlson. My feeling on Bonemer is that the Sox are gonna find a place for the bat. Is that ss? 2b? 3b? OF? I don't know. Also, the top 3 prospects in the draft are all ss. 

As for the guys in the system, Bergolla has great hands, but the arm is a little short. I guess he could be an Ozzie type at short, but it's marginal. Plus, there's zero impact. Utility future probably. Mogollon is not a ss. Perez played some 3b because Anonacci. He also played some ss. He's a 2b-only type guy.

I think Bonemer ends up in left. 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/braves-might-biggest-winner-marcus-183411308.html

20 hours ago, Timmy U said:

Well, defensively Carlson is likely to beat anyone out at ss, including Colson. Let's see if Carlson hits. Bonemer can definitely play ss. He's better over there than at 3b. That said, he probably is not gonna force Colson to move, let alone Carlson. My feeling on Bonemer is that the Sox are gonna find a place for the bat. Is that ss? 2b? 3b? OF? I don't know. Also, the top 3 prospects in the draft are all ss. 

As for the guys in the system, Bergolla has great hands, but the arm is a little short. I guess he could be an Ozzie type at short, but it's marginal. Plus, there's zero impact. Utility future probably. Mogollon is not a ss. Perez played some 3b because Anonacci. He also played some ss. He's a 2b-only type guy.

Yes, that is what we need to see.  I wish they would have played him after signing him. Ethan Holliday for example got many at bats in low A.

2 hours ago, oldsox said:

Yes, that is what we need to see.  I wish they would have played him after signing him. Ethan Holliday for example got many at bats in low A.

I actually like what the Sox have done with the Bridge league. Good instruction in a low stress environment. It certainly didn’t hurt Bonemer. Hopefully, Carlson, Fauske, Hodge, and Boughton find similar success.

1 hour ago, Timmy U said:

I actually like what the Sox have done with the Bridge league. Good instruction in a low stress environment. It certainly didn’t hurt Bonemer. Hopefully, Carlson, Fauske, Hodge, and Boughton find similar success.

Braden Montgomery also did fine missing 2024 short season or A ball. But he was already an advanced collegiate hitter.

As long as high school kids get some kind of taste of professional baseball in their draft year, it's fine.

Used to be at least two short season teams for most organizations, but cutbacks have hit hard...Appy League and Pioneer League.

8 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Braden Montgomery also did fine missing 2024 short season or A ball. But he was already an advanced collegiate hitter.

As long as high school kids get some kind of taste of professional baseball in their draft year, it's fine.

Used to be at least two short season teams for most organizations, but cutbacks have hit hard...Appy League and Pioneer League.

Baseball America is always complaining about that but I am not so sure that those leagues are better for development than backfields are. Another case in point is Oppor who used a year at the complex to perfect his delivery and pitch mix.