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This team didn’t tank though. It crashed and burned. They were supposed to be good the last couple years, remember?

Bonemer seems like a good pick to me, except the last high school bat they successfully developed was probably Harold Baines so kind of hard to get excited there

Well we’re going to see plenty of roster churning moves like this over the next year plus, just like we have all year long. Borderline AAAA vets added and spit out. Not sure why this sticking out from any of the other moves. Sox obviously moving more of them over the next couple weeks. Not sure the point of clenching the teeth over them is

Well, yeah probably not. You never know though

Senzel still only has four years service time. Does that mean Sox get arb rights, or no?

Yeah but they have to roster Senzel now

The person to whom you were responding, who said “Not exactly the NBA, NFL, MLB or NHL is it? ?” (Or the Olympics, if I may)

I’m interested in seeing if Baldwin can hit in the majors, but no way he’s a top prospect, unless you mean something like top 500.

A 29 year old free agent?

Yeah but he was playing 3b exclusively this year

So you agree

Yeah well on my blog I ranked them the greatest of all time

Getz has got to at minimum hit a triple with any Fedde or Crochet trade here to start redeeming himself.

I agree. Develop pitching and acquire bats. That said, if Wolkow is actually our 6th best positional prospect, we aren’t actually doing that bad there either. If Getz uses the TDL to acquire some more bats, that could easily make up the disparity. Whatever you think of Getz, the deadline here is going to go a long way towards seeing whether he has any effective plan or not. Hard to complain about the organizational starting pitching depth at this point, though

If I were the O’s I’d make an offer for Crochet AND Fedde. Strike while the iron is hot. They’ve got a lot of great prospects but I don’t see the pitching depth when they are otherwise in position to win some WS. Holliday, Mayo, Bradfield and Beavers for Crochet and Fedde and any bullpen arms they might find useful. That still leaves them with plenty of young talent on positional side. The relative cheapness of Crochet and Fedde would allow them to put some money into acquiring a bat via free agency if they need one. obviously that’s a lot to give up, but that’s a lot of high quality starting pitching to receive at a crucial juncture

He comes back, goes on an absolute tear for a week and a half, Sox fans dream of actually being able to unload him for a C+ prospect, then he suffers season ending injury a couple days before TDL, is my prediction

Yeah once you get beyond the top 40-50, the next 150+ are pretty much arbitrary. The 202nd guy could be every bit as good as the 86th guy , or vice versa, in reality

At that rate, we should be at .650 by 2027

Grifol? More like Awful

I thought Wolkow was way underrated before the season even started.

Bush at 5 doesn’t seem right but it’s not like I’m a scout

How does a team wind up not scoring then

I just looked it up. I was off slightly. Crochet was at about 1680 total pitches at 105.1 IP. Last year, Cease was at 1662 after 90.1 innings. So roughly, 105 Crochet innings equals 91 Cease innings