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What i most appreciate is that all the jabronis that were Worried about Selvy perez can please shut the F up. We still suck. But that narrative was like a conspiracy theory that wouldn't go away

Anyone also complaining about him skipping last year...his wife delivered their baby 3 months early and the baby fought for his life. If anything this means he is a good guy. The team needs more of those.

Knew it would be a guy under .200 .

The economy is far from bad.

Certainly a lot of bitching about acquiring a good defensive catcher for a PTBNL, with a good chunk of the salary to be paid by Atlanta. Do we remember who the Sox rolled out there the past few years?

The pitching staff is ecstatic. This is a massive defensive upgrade over the turd they ran out there for the last 4 years.

Every time I see a Bruce "scoop" tweet, it takes me three or four read-throughs to determine if it's the parody account or not.

"Unprecedented deferrals. I like the sound of that."

Need a new rumor here badly.

Yep. The Sox are projected to have a better lineup this season, would say Robert the only player to expect a minor regression. fWAR 2023 Actual vs. 2024 Projected (Top 9 Actual / Projected Playing Time) +0,7 Catcher: -0.1 Yasmani Grandal 118 G vs. 0.6 Max Stassi 70 G +1.5 First Baseman: 0.3 Andrew Vaughn 152 G vs, 1.8 Andrew Vaughn 147 G -0.5 Second Baseman: 1.1 Elvis Andrus 112 G vs. 0.6 Nicky Lopez 83 G +1.0 Third Baseman: 1.2 Yoan Moncada 92 G vs. 2.2 Yoan Moncada 144 G +0.9 Shortstop: -0.5 Tim Anderson 123 G vs. 0.4 Paul DeJong 68 G +1.4 Leftfielder: 0.0 Andrew Benintendi 151 G vs. 1.4 Andrew Benintendi 139 G -1.6 Centerfielder: 5.0 Luis Robert Junior 145 G vs. 3.4 Luis Robert Junior 149 G +1.6 Rightfielder: -1.4 Gavin Sheets 118 G vs. 0.2 Oscar Colas 97 G +1.8 Designated Hitter: 0.4 Eloy Jimenez 120 G vs. 2.2 Eloy Jimenez 141 G Projected improvement: +6.8 fWAR (6.0 2023 vs. 12.8 2024)

Those will come in the Cease trade.

and RF, 3B, LF, DH and 1B. Every guy underperformed last year except one. They were 29th in runs scored. All the new guys have to do is play to their averages and they can be a better offense than last year. That's how fucking awful that team was.

Imagine if Eloy gets moved. I’m already wondering how this team is gonna score runs but Stassi doesn’t bother me. Catcher is fairly weak across the league and I wouldn’t expect much offense from that position.

ESPN writers all over Cease if LA doesn't sign Yamamoto Gonzalez: They should trade for Dylan Cease, who comes with two years of control and has the type of stuff that can pave the way for the Dodgers to get him back to his Cy Young-contending play of 2022. Then they should sign someone like Lucas Giolito or Marcus Stroman. After that, acquire another corner outfielder to plug into an outfield mix that could use a little more certainty. The real prize, though, would be to just go out and sign Yamamoto. They'd love nothing more -- but it would mean spending $1 billion on two players in one offseason. Unlikely, of course. But if anyone can do that, it's them. McDaniel: The high-end starting pitchers still available via trade (Corbin Burnes, Tyler Glasnow, Dylan Cease) or free agency (Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell) have to go to the top of the list. There's plenty of young talent in L.A.'s system to make a trade happen, but adding Yamamoto would be the boldest move possible at this point and doesn't seem far-fetched at all. Schoenfield: Hey, this is a team without an ace right now -- when in the recent past they've had guys like Buehler, Clayton Kershaw, Julio Urias and Max Scherzer to front the rotation. What's another $30 million a year or more for Yamamoto? This is where we remind you: Despite all their massive success over the past decade, the Dodgers haven't won a World Series in a 162-game season in 35 years (no, the COVID title isn't quite the same thing). Yamamoto or bust! Rogers: Their next three moves should all be for starting pitching or else Ohtani's signing will be a waste. Adding Yoshinobu Yamamoto or trading for Dylan Cease seem reasonable enough. But they can work their way down the ladder as Jordan Montgomery, Shota Imanaga and Mike Clevinger all fit as well. L.A. needs top and middle of the rotation guys. Inventory is important here. Olney: They need cheap starting pitching desperately, and Cease fits that description perfectly -- he's eligible for salary arbitration this year and next year, at relatively reasonable prices, and he would give the Dodgers the kind of innings volume they really need.

Jung Hoo Lee would fit perfectly...except with JR's checkbook. Can't run Sheets out there, period. Should have been released.

Aaron Bummer, Jarred Kelenic, David Fletcher, PTBNL from Pirates, PTBNL from White Sox. Can you point out which of these guys are premium talent? Looks like they got 2 projects in Bummer and Kelenic, and a utility infielder.

"Every big market team". Last I checked Chicago was a big market and the White Sox play in Chicago so we must be interested. Right? Right?

Unreal to be honest. At what point does the MLB do something about the overspending from these big teams?

He’s legit. Six decent pitches, one of the best curveballs I’ve ever seen. Hits 98 when he wants. Elite command, can fall back on the slider/cutter/change if the curve/splitter aren’t working. Deceptive delivery. Hard worker, open-minded and a good teammate. He’s gonna be a good one. Only thing is he’s small.

Somehow, TA wins a batting title in LA.

Oh the Dodgers don’t need Lux right?

I enjoy Bruce trying to recite dodger prospects

Dude, chill. This is a snapshot in time, there are still over three months until OD. I merely presented the current fangraph projections. The point of the exercise is the fact the Sox dumped the three negative fWAR players this offseason, will likely have year over year improvements by at least a few of their returnees. Not even Getz at this point knows who will play RF, Eloy may be traded, etc. Also to counteract the narrative that the Sox will have worse hitting in 2024. Rather discuss current roster status and projections and actual player acquisitions then the endless trade rumor, media, foodie account rumors, and the 100th Garfein podcast saying the Sox need leaders, culture, Whit Merrifield and Sal Perez.

Yes, you can absolutely not take him. I will repeat that I will be beyond upset if the Bears don't end up with Fashanu or Alt. Either one would do so, so much for this offense.

This is what countering another teams’ “major move” looks like in the AL Central

He at least had a front seat to what Zaidi built, who was the LAD player dev guru the first half of the Friedman era. It is the benefit of Getz getting outside hires, they’ve seen what successful operations look like. Now hopefully they can execute them in a Reinsdorf culture of laziness.

Typical Fields game: several plays where you see the talent (Mooney pass, Scramble on the 1st half, 3rd down, last drive for 61 yards), and then there’s everything else (Fumbling again, holding onto the ball too long, double clutching open pass to Mooney, Red zone failures). Can we please move on from him next season?

Under control through 2026 via arb, if Sox continue to tender him. They already did for 2024.

Sixty bucks a shot when I go buy some bananas, paper towels, wheat thins, a deli sandwich, some breakfast rolls. Twenty bucks to fill just over a quarter of my tank. 12 to 16 bucks for a fast food run. Ouch. ... If this post isn't allowed, please kill it. I just felt like responding which is prolly my bad.

I think they’re mostly done on SP. Probably add one more low-ish cost SP via FA and of course may well get a rotation option in the Cease deal. Soroka, FA, Fedde, Kopech, Touki is very likely the starting 5 in April with Scholtens, Schuster, and Nastrini next in line and Mena/Eder options by mid season perhaps.

I will agree that there is some sunshine pumping on the defense, it’s not really coming at the expense of offense. We had no offense at second shortstop and catcher.

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Hope the Sox aren’t sending international slot money in return. 2020-2023 fWAR 4.7 Yasmani Grandal $73.0M 3.6 Max Stassi $12.4M 2.7 James McCann $33.9M

If LAD gets 50m a year in marketing revenue alone and taking into account deferrals and present value, yeah its almost for free and any WAR above average is a bonus.

Yeah this is better than signing Maldonado (who's good at nothing now) or Hedges (even worse than Stassi on offense). Also way better than trading for Perez.

Getzy does know that teams need to score runs to at least win some games, right?

It’s being reported as “back up catcher to Korey Lee.” They’re going to lose a whole lotta games.

It’s a low bar.

Yes. The path they’re clearly on is- clean the stink out of the clubhouse, and prioritize defense. Then, when a prospect is truly ready, bring him in. It’s actually not a bad plan with what has happened. It’s too bad Grifol made it through to this point, but we can’t have everything we want with JR running things. Hopefully it’s a .500 or close team in 2025, and a true decent team in 2026, that can contend. We can hope.

He's excellent defensively.

Meh never say never with these clowns….

Better than Salvy. Thankfully I feel like that rumor can be put to bed.

I hope BAL being listed first means Mike Elias has finally stopped being dickless

If the Dodgers can land Yamamoto after Ohtani and then have the opportunity to acquire Cease in a trade I highly doubt they will care who they give up as far as prospects go.

I hope Kikuchis sushi dinner was very nice

I am hoping this signing is the move where Jerry calls a board meeting and says it is time to exit baseball and they put the team up for sale.

The fact that they have a 700 million contract and the sox haven’e even been close to 100.

I agree except I think teams take too much credit for “identifying” the right qb. Texans clearly backed into Stroud. QB genius Kyle Shanahan missed on Lance and preferred Jones. Ouch. Also bet big on Garoffolo and missed on Mahomes. It’s more random than we all admit. I think I’d take Maye just because he is tall. But mostly like all of them in different ways. Just as I did in 2021…eek.

if I'm the Sox, I'm waiting around for STL or Baltimore to get desperate. Maybe no team does and you take a risk keeping Cease until the deadline. I think it's reasonable to expect that he will be better than he was last season and that health won't be a concern. As such, I don't see a reason to ship him out as soon as possible just to do a deal, but I do expect better offers will materialize when those free agents go off the board. I also don't hate the idea of eventually signing him to a long term extension. At the very least, he sells tickets. Personally speaking, I went to 3 Sox games this year specifically on days that he was pitching. I hope this is the leverage Getz and co are using against other teams, that they're not actually that desperate to trade him and that he could be a mainstay on the Sox for a long time. Don't know what qualifies as a nearly acceptable offer, but another SoxTalk poster made a good point about ATL adding Kelenic to their package, and it makes their offering nearly acceptable, though not necessarily a home run like a Winn/Hence or Cowser/Kjerstad trade might be (in my eyes). Cease is also a better, more reliable, pitcher than either Glasnow or Bieber (again, IMO) on better salary terms and should command a better return in a vacuum, though perhaps not in reality if those teams acquire either one of those guys or otherwise shore up their starting pitching. I'd rather take the risk in waiting and potentially re-sign Cease rather than trade him for questionable talent, especially because we're a Chicago team and not "small market" like those other teams. We don't need to shed salary, there's no reason for us to be desperate, we should capitalize on desperation like Atlanta does...the Sox could model their actions, the markets are similar in terms of population and household income (spending money at a game and on merchandise) when considering that there's another team in town.