Timmy U

Oh lord, I do not want Cole Hamels or Dallas Keuchel, let alone both. The fact that Garfien is interviewing on the Sox podcast terrifies me.

I believe that Bundy is the ideal of what they're looking for -- a guy to start for two months while they claw back a year of Kopech's service time with some weak excuse, then move to the bullpen when Kopech magically checks the final box.

The dangerous part is living in the DR and he’s going to do that anyway because he’s so close to his family (hi mom). Might as well work on his defense.

I bet McCann gets traded. Hahn talked Yermin’s catching up, like he could be their third catcher. If McCann is a DH, he’s wasted.

I take a backseat to no one in my hatred of the trade. Hated it at the time because I had read a positive profile of Tatis, but c’mon, do we really need another thread complaining about this? What’s done, sadly, is done.

And... you keep him away from the Twins.

Wow. They are not doing a good job of hiding it, are they? If you don't really think that your behavior is wrong, I guess you don't see how other people would. I hope they ban half the front office. Something like this can't go on without EVERYONE in the organization knowing about it.

It would HAVE to be Tucker and Whitley for Giolito. Anything less than that would be cray cray. Reddick is close to worthless with his contract.

If you know it's coming, yeah. We saw all year with Giolito, a high change can be very effective.

It's not just 2017. They were 13 games better at home this year than they were on the road. I doubt they won the World Series and then said, "Okay, that's enough. We're going to stop stealing signs now." I hope MLB throws the book at them.

I like Engel’s D, but he can’t throw and a lot of balls fall in front of him. Leury is just okay out there. From what I have seen, Robert will be better. But, yeah, Yolmer is an elite defender at second. Has been for a while. Moving him to third was understandable, but destroyed his value.

I put it in another thread, but Pirates’ Gregory Polanco.

How do you know that? He has played zero OF in his life. Maybe he'd be good like Whit Merrifield. Maybe he'd be mediocre. I just have a hard time believing that jerking around the team's best player is the solution to all of our problems.

Anything is possible, but why would the Sox give up assets for JD Martinez when Nick Castellanos is available for nothing but money. Not even draft picks? Seems unlikely.

I am amazed at the amount of discussion over Kiley mentioning “buzz” that the Sox are going to be active in veterans on short deals for low guarantees. That’s not even a source. And it’s what they did last year, so... yeah. He didn’t rule them out going for a big piece. Seems pretty close to a nothing burger to me.

I would bet the under on that happening, but it would be nice.

I think most of that is on Bauer. We saw what kind of a teammate he is when he chucked that ball over the centerfield wall.

Agree to disagree. Frare was horrific this past year. Don’t know what happened to him, but it was rough. Point is, the Sox 40 man had a lot of really bad players on it. Probably farther from contending than they think.

Sox 40 man at 32, I could imagine them getting it to 25 if they non-tender Yolmer, outright Frare, Ruiz, Vieira, Meideros, Palka, and Zavala. Maybe they are planning on adding 10 guys in the Rule 5 draft.

Why? Moncada hasn’t played outfield in his life. Not even in Cuba. Who knows if he could play right, let alone be lethal out there?

After reading a post on MLB Trade Rumors, I have decided that I am cool with anyone the Sox get in right except long time rumored KW favorite JBJ. Boston should non-tender him and if the Sox are dumb enough to pick up that salary, it will ruin my off season.

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As he should be. 33 year old next year coming off an 89 ops+ in a great lineup. Seems like a real risk of John Jay repeat.

The Twins are young, have a very good farm system, at least as much payroll flexibility as the Sox, and a better front office team. They will be tough to compete with.

I predict the Sox lose All the free agents at least for a while, so that’s Detwiler, Nova, Jay, Abreu, Santiago, Castillo. Then there are a lot of fringe guys who will go, Banuelos, Tilson, Skole, Goins. Then they should choose between backup outfielders, I think both Palka and Cordell go and they keep Engel, but maybe they keep two of these three. then there are several relievers on the bubble like Frare, Vieira, Ruiz, and Madeiros. They could risk Hamilton because it is hard for other teams to know the state of his injuries. I predict the Sox hold on to both Fulmer and Covey at least until Spring Training. Then they have big arbitration decisions on both Yolmer and Leury. Then there are their underperforming prospects like Zavala, Basabe and Adolfo. I bet they keep them all, but Zavala is older and looks like he won’t hit and if Adolfo doesn’t perform in Arizona, they might try to sneak him through. Point is, they should have no problem protecting any player they like this winter.