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Bummer is the closer now... lol

.280/.350./.560 year comin! Savage!

Now that the contract is out of the way he can relax and just play

I'm really encouraged by Robert taking his walks. If he can get a decent OBP he can be the 1. 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Vaughn 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Anderson 7 who cares 8 who cares 9 Madrigal

Moncada leading off.....knock it off already Ricky.

It might also be that they wanted to see how Collins looked this spring also as compared to last year.

If there was an injury, I would assume that catcher we got from the Royals system who was said to be defensively advanced would be brought up to pair with Collins.

Any idea as to velocity?

Wow I didn't even know he was in big league camp. He is prolly overwhelmed at the plate.

It's actually quite cheap....15 AAV...that's a 2 WAR player. Moncada just had a 5 win season. Even with regression to 4 or even 3.5 there's alot of surplus value there

6/90 is beyond awesome.......15 AAV...that's a steal. Great job Rick. The FO made some great long term investments this off-season.

The world isn't gonna end if we have a 2 war 2B batting ninth. That's perfectly fine. Not everyone is an all star. He's having a rough spring, I suspect he might be trying too hard to prove he should be up on opening day which wasn't gonna happen regardless. He will find himself and even if he's just an average regular that's OK.

Vaughn is gonna put up clownish numbers at High A to start the season (and yes he will start there so they can use the "3 levels" excuse at the end of the year for the service time issue). Like .350/.500/.700.

The .625 would be very unlikely in Birmingham.

Couple walks for Collins

Flores pitching very efficiently.

The Sox future 1-6 is very impressive and hellish to deal with. Nowhere to breathe in that lineup 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Vaughn 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Anderson

Heuer impressive as expected.

Unless we get a really good offer for something we really need in ST, it may be better to wait till the deadline to move McCann, as there are many factors we have to see play out, including how good, bad or average the Sox look, how healthy Grandal is, how much further progress Collins has made as an actual catcher in AAA, and whether catcher demand looks like it may be stronger then than now.

Codi Heuer is ranked way too low

If he can increase

He's gonna start at High A so that by the time the season is over and he is raking at AAA they can say three levels in one year was already alot to justify getting the extra year of service time like with Robert and Madrigal.

Any link to reds radio?

If he's the future closer then it would make sense. Also there's very little on the books (outside of team friendly AAV deals for Jimenez, Robert and Anderson) after 2022 so there are still plenty of slots for big money deals even if the budget is only gonna be around 140.