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QUOTE (Quin @ Jul 17, 2017 -> 04:36 PM) - Albies - this is the only one that there was smoke to and while you always go for talent when it's as close as Albies/Jimenez, we had a much stronger need for a power hitting OF. But Albies would defy the "far and away" claim. To me it would, anyway. To Williams and Hahn it may not. Which is the other aspect of this - evaluation is subjective.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2017 -> 03:58 PM) I don't buy Lowrie to the BoSox as anything other than posturing because they're not going to bring in someone who plays Devers' position and have him potentially blocked out of ST next year. That's not their style, nor should it be. If they slog through a month next year with a replacement level player at 3b out of ST because something slowed Devers in ST or in August and September of this year they'd be more ok with that than paying a higher price for Lowrie. Frazier being only on a 1 year deal is a perfect fit for them and everyone knows it. Lowrie can play 2nd as well. Gives them a good utility player for next year. But he has limited power, and the Red Sox need power.

QUOTE (Sockin @ Jul 17, 2017 -> 12:11 PM) This is speculation from Nightengale but in his column he predicts the Red Sox will get Frazier and Kahnle for Groome and Chavis. I would be ecstatic but I would bet the Red Sox wouldn't give up near that. Also he thinks Robertson goes to the Yankees for (presumably) Andujar. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/c...inez/484205001/ Would love Andjuar for Robertson. The RedSox trade seems way unrealistic. Okay, if it's Kahnle, it's less unrealistic.

Very nice - he's really blown up this season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2017 -> 11:24 AM) There is no reason why the White Sox won't be able to afford to keep Garcia if they like him, but there's also no reason to talk about an extension with him yet. He's done enough to get the arb offer for next year. Right now, with an .850 OPS, rather than .900, he's on a path to a 4 WAR season. If he's able to put up an .850ish OPS again next year, I sit him down and talk to him about high 8 figures and 5 years after 2018 and go from there. I don't know about an extension. They are likely to have a lot of Avis coming up through the ranks (good hit, no D) and will need to stick some at corner OF spots. I was thinking buy out the last 2 arb years and then trade him next year or the following.

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Jul 17, 2017 -> 08:45 AM) No trades or FA signings obviously won't work and at some point additions need to be made but now is not the time for that. The core needs to be internal and then you can make a couple additions at the right spot with FA signings or trades. Cubs didn't sign a Harper either but they had two big signings with Heyward and Lester and a couple more smaller ones with lackey, zobrist and others. I'm not really talking about signing FA....they can do that when they have a hole or 2 to plug when they are ready to go. That's the mistake this (same) FO made in 2014-2015: tried to plug 8 holes with free agents. They will have to sign a few cheapies here and there just to field a team next year. But as the prospects get called up, they are going to have to be fluid and flexible - move some to find players who may better fit what they are trying to do....especially as they don't draft very well (I'll believe the improvement when I see it) and this set of prospects may very well be it. And they have some young players right now that they will have to figure out what to do with to minimize the amount of "rotting on the vine."

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 10:20 PM) Isn't Garcia projected to be part of the rebuild? He's gonna be 28-29 when we are good again. Is Abreu gonna be the only piece we keep along with Anderson? If we are WS winners with an ENTIRELY rebuilt lineup and entirely new starting rotation and relief corps that will be wild. The sox only control him through 2019. He's going to need an OPS near .900 to have real value, because of his defense. They should probably buy our his last 2 arb years. No use wasting the asset...and if he flops again, no big deal really. And I don't think he will flop.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 11:20 AM) What kind of prospect were you expecting? This guy is better than the typical prospect that gets traded in these types of deals. This was probably full value. These type of deals do not involve shifting $4 million in signing money. usually 1/2 million or so. QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 11:01 PM) The Sox have $4.75 million in International Bonus Money. They spent $600K on 2 players. I highly doubt they have Texas $4 million. Probably like $1.5 million tops. It wasn't disclosed when we reached out. $1.5 would make more sense.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 09:43 AM) I thought that way for a bit, but then I realized that you should always trade relievers if the offer is solid. Pen arms are so volatile, I'd try to sell high on Kahnle and get a team to make a good offer. If packaging some combination of Robertson/Kahnle/Swarzak together boosts the return, I absolutely would do it. Remember, we are actively trying to tank and lose games now. I just don't think he'll bring a whole lot. It would be someone like Almonte or maybe a little more That would be a break-even...for someone who's improved 1000% this year (just by throwing strikes). I'm willing to risk it. Plus, as Dick pointed out somewhere, the Sox don't have much to trade after. Keep an asset or 2 and see how things look in a year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 05:42 PM) This rebuild better work. This team is going to be so terrible. I spend money watching them. I get what they have to do, but I am not so sure the right guys are running the show. They get prais d now, but the were praised for going for it in 2015. Praised for what they brought in prior to 2016. Praised for the 2016 draft. Praised for the 3 trades. So far, 2015 and 2016 were busts. The 2016 draft, and it is admittedly way too early, but doesn't look like it was full of future stars, and the trades are still maybe. After the deadline deals, this team is basically dark until the next draft. This winter is going to be boring unless they do some prospect for prospect deals, which at a high level, I would doubt. They won't really have anyone to trade. Next season will be nad on the field at the major league level. I just hope some of these guys who will take up so,e roster spots show some hope. Well I certainly agree with this (although I don't live in Chicago so I don't buy tickets). But they're going to have to make some deals, or this will take a decade. They'll have to adeptly trade up some for some ML ready players (Eaton, Davidson, e.g. - preferably more Eatons) and also trade back down. The Astros let Ed Wade tear the team down, and then brought the A team in. Any chance?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 05:10 PM) Eh, I don't think they'd do that. Their 3b situation sucks, so it's either give it to Devers in August or get an upgrade now. I don't see him as a definitive upgrade. More of a "why not roll the dice - nothing to lose" kind of deal. Red Sox need homers...and Frazier can hit homers...sometimes.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 05:05 PM) Holt pinch-hit in the 8th and got a hit and then played 3rd in the 9th. Boston has a pretty good deal in that their AAA park is less than an hour from Fenway. So they can move players around pretty easy when both teams are at home. Question now is will they go for Frazier or let Holt bridge them to Devers? they can bide their time. They can wait out Frazier on a waiver claim if necessary.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 06:18 PM) It's absolutely nowehere near time to "build the team back up". It's 2 years at best away for all these 20 year olds to work their way up to the majors. If the plan is to wait until they fill out a championship team with this specific set of prospects plus whoever they draft in the next year or 2, then it likely will take 10 years. That's the Royals method.

And there you go.

Win it now, boys, because the Infantes and Becks are coming in next.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) Except Smith's been the (much) better hitter in the minors and actually rates as much the better framer thus far Smith was not good in the minors. Narvaez was worse, but Narvaez is improving. He's also 25 v 29. Heck he had a home run today. Leadoff double from the 9 hole hitter, and the manager bunts to play for 1 run.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 03:13 PM) We start a rally in our punchless pinch hitter Smith goes after the first pitch and it's a GIDP Why is Smith batting anyway? Narvaez is the better hitter. Narvaez should start 2/3 of the games anyway - let's see what we have in him. His OBP is good, the stats say his D is pretty good

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 12:26 PM) Because adding 3 good relievers would be better than adding just 2. Especially when you bought the first 2 so cheap. But you get diminishing marginal returns on the 3rd, which makes it even less likely that the Nats would pay the price people want for Robertson (which wasn't likely to happen anyway). heck both Doolittle and Madson are having better years than Robertson. As look like they got 2 good players statistically; top 100 lists can be lagging indicators, so if their scouting is good, then they may have done well.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 02:36 PM) Still waiting for any proof the Sox can develop a hitter they draft under the Bell regime Let's face it - there isn't much proof that this FO knows how to build a winning baseball team at all. My hope is that its Hahn's show (who hasn't proven himself either) , but reading comments here and there about how "Kenny loves player X" I'm not so sure. As for Anderson, give him time. It does take a lot of guys a couple of years, and the Sox have a couple of years. Altuve couldn't hit a lick in his first couple of years, and the Astros stuck by him. Wild pitch notwithstanding, Swarzak is the pitcher who has been getting the team out of jams this year. Teams are missing out not making a move for him.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 11:32 AM) Highly doubtful that 8 at bats are going to make a huge difference. Too small of a sample size... he could go 2 for 2 in his next at bats and be hitting .300 over that period now. His large sample size isn't particulary compelling either. He could have used a push here.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 10:48 AM) How many of our J2 guys are current Top 17, other than Adolfo? Who's #2 in our system? What about Top 30-50? Your obvious retort here is Tatis, Jr. I'm not sure what you're asking. J2? If you mean international signings, I will ask this - how many of the top prospects we just acquired were international signings? But that's not my point anyway - my point is that we just gave Texas a goldmine, and received only 1 modest prospect in return. Now we may not have had any use for that goldmine ourselves...but you could say the same about Quintana - we had no use for him the next 2 years, but we still tried to get full value.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 10:39 AM) Yes, but assuming that we did trade the full 3/4 of what we could trade here, we weren't going to sign enough guys for that cap space to matter. The fulll 3/4 seems an excessive price...that's an immense benefit to Texas and allows them to sign numerous prospects, they otherwise wouldn't be able to sign. And it costs them only 1 prospect?

QUOTE (beautox @ Jul 16, 2017 -> 10:12 AM) Since medicals on boston's side seem to be the hang up i wonder if Hahn can nix the third player and go straight for Ockimey and Mata Of course it could have been Mata with the bad physical (if that were the deal) I find it hard to believe that was the deal anyway - too much.

We'll see. Since the original deal was apparently agreed to (and fell through), he's 1/8, 3 Ks, a double and GIDP with the bags loaded and nobody out. Better audition today, please, Todd.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 15, 2017 -> 11:08 PM) Why do you like him more? Better numbers, more speed, better defense. I don't know anything about bat speed and that sort of thing (which are obviously important). Also, I trust the Astros organization re prospects.