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Maybe the Yankees will trade us back Devin for Cortes around the deadline when Nestor is healthy. Hook and company get him back on track for the stretch run.

What about Jake Bauers (maybe throw in small 2nd piece) for David Hamilton. The Sox need 1B help we need IF help. Hamilton could be an upside SS add that is familiar with our system and some players. EMJ could come platoon 1st and even play some OF if he still has it.

The part I don't like is that it seems like we paniced in response to injuries, when we had equally attractive (or better) talent in AAA that seems ready. It just is a super out of character move for us. I like the idea of getting a young upside arm for long term. By no means am I out on Priester. I think he has some #3 starter upside if he can hone in the command. For me, the Pirates got Nick Yorke at the deadline for him a prospect I would have valued similar to Yophery. It just seems like we gave away the 1st rounder out of panic.

I would trade Alexander as well but he has basically no value, once Woody, Civale, Ashby, Hall, Nestor come back there will be a major roster spot crunch on the pitching staff. Alexander is probably like 2nd to go after e-rod but Patrick is safe for a while but a couple bad starts and he might move down quickly based on Murphy having a quick hook once he gets through a lineup 2 times. I would rather get something for him now (if someone will overpay) than end up with him being a Colin Rae type down the road with no value.

I agree, Misi isn't probably a starter all year but he is looking like he is ready to come up. Misi threw 97 innings, my guess is that 125-135 innings should be the goal. That gives him like 20 starts at 5 innings each and 25+ bullpen innings. Honestly the workload would be more a concern for Henderson than Misi, My point with trading Patrick is that his value might never be higher than this, if the organization values the upside of Myers, Misi, Henderson, CarRod, Preister, and guys like Hunt or Wichrowski trading him at peek value makes some sense. I wouldn't trade him cheap I would want a capable left side infielder and a quality prospect, if you take into account that Patrick was never even a top 30 prospect and will be 27 by the the end of the season I think getting a Priester style return would be worth it, With his the quality of his starts and remaining control I wouldn't trade him cheap but my worry is that the league will adjust to him and he will revert back to a #5/long relief pitcher. We are potentially losing 4 starters but don't forget we will likely sign a couple of vets somewhere in the Quintana-Junis-Alexander realm next year. Who knows what will happen with Freddy but my guess would be that if we trade him we would get an mlb ready pitcher (and more).

We could have 12 good starting options by the trade deadline if everyone gets healthy and the AAA guys keep pitching exceptionally. 1. Freddy 2. Woody 3. Quintana 4. Civale 5. Cortes 6. Myers 7. Patrick 8. Priester 9. Misi 10. Henderson 11, CarRod 12. Gasser I think Civale and Cortes (maybe Quintana if he continues to come back down to his norms) become good trade options once they can make a couple starts and prove their health to the rest of the league. I doubt any of them will be good enough to warrant a QO like we thought could be possible. What about selling high on Chad Patrick? He has been great but likely long term is still a 4/5 and Murphy doesn't seem to have a ton of confidence in him (short leash). What would a good value be, could we get something that is around what we gave up for Priester? Would Chad Patrick for Will Wagner and a younger starter like Juaron Watts-Brown be enough. We get a 3rd base option (not very good this year) and some upside, maybe throw in a wild card prospect? Ramon Urias and a a pitcher like Nestor German would be a better package from the O's if they would give up Urias. Maybe the dodgers would do Miguel Rojas and a upside starter who was hurt last year like River Ryan or Emmett Sheehan

Here are my thoughts over 1/5 of the way through. Again these are rankings based on predicting what they will do for us the rest of the season not counting what they have done 1. Freddie 2. Quintana 3. Megill 4. Koenig 5, Uribe 6. Woody 7. Myers 8. Mears 9 Anderson (Biggest riser) 10. Patrick 11. Civale 12. Priester 13. Cortes 14. Yoho 15. Ashby 16 Misi 17. Henderson 18. Payamps 19. Hudson (biggest faller) 20. Peguero 21. Alexander 22. Hall 23. E Rod 24. CarRod 25. Gasser 26. Liranzo 27. D Garcia 28. C Thomas 29. Jay 30. Yeager Same as my post at the beginning of the year, when everyone gets healthy and the AAA guys who are ready there is a lot of excess to trade from. It wouldn't surprise me at the trade deadline we could have a rotation of healthy arms of 1. Freddy 2. Woody 3. Quintana 4. Civale 5. Cortes 6. Myers 7. Patrick 8. Priester 9. Misi 10. Henderson 11, CarRod 12. Gasser I think we could start trading high on a couple vets come June especially if 3B and SS continue to be rough.

I would not be against that at some point if Zamora can prove some consistency. Maybe in a month or so if he can keep it going, as far as I know the glove for Zamora should be much better.

If Wilken keeps this up he could push his way to AAA soon, Jadher to AA, Adamchezki to Wisconsin. Lord knows we could use some 3B options in the bigs.

Good win, Freddy has been amazing. Hopefully we can get some consistency going. If Frelick isn't hurt I think Murph needs to fully reorder the batting order. Drop Yeli to like 7/8, since no one is hitting for power put Sal and Turang in better run producing spots. Maybe Chourio leading off leads him to be more patient. Chourio, Sal, Rhys/William, Turang, William/Rhys, Collins/Bauers, Durbin, Yeli, Ortiz

I am starting to think we should shift Turang to SS, Durbin to 2B, and send Ortiz down to AAA. Hopefully in a few weeks he gets hitting and we can survive with Mone at 3B, maybe Dunn for Capra and sign a 3B off the scrapheap.

How do we feel about Brock Wilken's start to the year. The batting average stinks but the obp and walks are very encouraging. Is it that he just isn't getting pitched to or is he being to patient early in the count. I think being his second time around AA I am more worried by the batting average than I am encouraged by the walks. Obviously playing well tonight.

Kelenic has been pretty bad his entire mlb career outside of a hot start to 2023. He is still young but he isn't a impact player who moves the needle at all.

I was looking at some team stats and saw that Fielding Bible and Baseball-referance have Sal Frelick at -6 runs saved defensively. I really haven't noticed anything worrisome based on watching games, other than he missed a cutoff and was benched earlier in the week. It seems strange that he was a gold glover and at least metrically is tied for the 6th worst fielder in the league this year.

His defense this year hasn't graded out well but he was a positive defender in the limited games he played the past couple years.

I am taking Perkins coming back and Mitchell will be back in a month or so (from what I understand). To get one of the Red Sox OF's Rafaeala, Abreu, Duran, Anthony it will cost a pretty penny value wise. I don't really count Yoshida as an OF becuase he hasn't played there for so long, however his value is less but again contracts make that to sticky. I don't disagree that for the next couple weeks we could use an OF but if we were to trade for say Wilyer Abreu it will cost at least a top 100 prospect and then we would be left with an extremely overcrowded OF when Perk and Mitchell are back. We have Yeli, Collins, Bauers, and Cameron to cover LF which should be passable for now.

Jesus MadeCooper PrattJacob MisiorowskiLuis PenaBraylon PayneJeferson QueroEric BitontiLogan HendersonMike BoeveJosh AdamczewskiBishop LetsonCraig YohoBryce MeccageCarlos F RodriguezRobert GasserLuke AdamsJadher AreinamoTyler BlackErnesto MartinezChad Patrick 1) Made Not 18 for 2 weeks, hitting .282/.404/.487 and it feels like he hasn't hit his stride just with a couple minor injuries. 2)Pratt Great start to AA at 20, show great playe disapline 6 bb/7 k's 3)Misi A very good start to the year, had a great outing today. It's only a matter of time before he is in the bigs. 4) Pena He just rakes, the power potential and a half year older than Made leaves him a touch behind in prospect stature. However I feel pretty good saying he is going to hit .300+ with 60+ sb between a couple levels this year, oh yeah 4 k's to 7 bb. 5) Payne Already showing some power and discipline 13 bb in 14 games. Another potential .300 60+ sb 18 year old. 6) Quero Not playing yet hurts him some, just waiting anxiously. Probably my last guy I would have in a national top 100. 7) Bitonti No HR's isn't to much of a worry because of the 2B's. The higher K's is manageable with the amount of walks. 8) Henderson As demonstrated on Sunday, the upside is real. If he can get even a decent 3rd pitch their is top of the rotation potential. 9)Boeve Like Quero hurt some just by missing the start of the year. 10)Adamchecski My biggest jumper, the dude can hit. If he has another month like he had to start the year he will be in the Pena, Payne, Bitonti region. 11) Letson Really solid start to the year, if he adds 1 mph per year there is a really good chance to be a top of the rotation arm in a couple years. 12) Yoho I find it hard to decide who will be the long term closer between Uribe and Yoho. I think Yoho has the better mindset at this point. 13)Meccage It sounds like the stuff has been as advertised. Decent start to the year. 14)CarRod The hot start to the year restores some faith that there is solid #3 potential instead of just a 4/5 arm. 15) Gasser It's hard to place a guy who hasn't pitched in a year. 16) Adams Still getting on base but he is going to need to hit to meet some potential 17) Jadher The defense and hit tool with good speed make him at least a high potential utility guy. He has the upside if the funky swing doesn't hinder him as he moves up the ladder. 18) Black At some point the injuries and lack of positional home are starting to hurt his prospect status. 19)EMJ The tools are just to loud even if he is a bit old as a prospect. 20) Patrick It has only been 20+ big league innings but those have been indispensable to the Brewers withering the pitching injuries. 21) Durbin 22)Manny Rodriguez 23) Lara 24)Knoth 25) Burke 26) Hunt 27)Dinges 28) Wilken 29) Baez 30)Jose Anderson 31)Di Turri 32) Cornielle 33) Juan Ortuno 34) Bjorn Johnson 35)Hardin 36) Holobetz 37) Fenelon 38)Antunez 39) Acosta 40) Kuehner 41) Travis Smith 42) Demetrio Nadal 43) Dylan O'Rae 44) Tayden Hall 45)Yerlin 46)Birchard 47)Quintana 48)Hayden Robinson 49)Wande Torres 50)Wanderlyn King I am sure I forgot someone obvious or important.

With Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer close to call ups and Yoshida coming off the IL it is clear the Red Sox have some extra bats. We've discussed Triston Casas a bunch in the offseason, we don't really need an OF'er even with Mitchell out. My thought was maybe Trevor Story or at least a David Hamilton reunion, David Hamilton hasn't been good in a small sample this year however. Story has 2 years remaining after this year on his big contract and that would be a gigantic barrier but putting him at SS would help 2 positions (SS, 3B). I don't think that a Story deal will ever work out unless the Sox eat a majority of that deal. I would love Cases but with Hoskins playing well don't see a deal being obvious because I doubt the Sox would want Hoskins back. Story and Cases for Hoskins, a reliever, a prospect or 2 is really clunky. Maybe it would need a 3 team angle. We get Story the SF gets Rhys and Boston gets Jordan Hicks (move to bullpen) Red Sox eat like 1/2 of Story's remaining contract. EMJ play 1st for us, not a fan of either

I was going to say 18-10 as well. Yeli and Contreras get hot and the bullpen comes together as Myers gets back into form and Woody gets back to form. My biggest hope is that Joey Ortiz gets right.

That would seem to be a very talented Rookie ball team, is May 3rd the 1st game for them? There looks to be plenty of talent that could move to Carolina in a month or two.

I think I would go after Russell Westbrook, I am not a huge fan of his and in a half court set he won't help spread the floor but from a talent and upside perspective he is probably the best we can do. If Brook would take a discount I would bring him back or Bobby but I wouldn't pay him much more than what he made this year. 1) Russ 1/10 2)Precious Achiuwa 2/18 3)Jake LaRavia 2/14 4)Talen Horton-Tucker 1/4 Buy a 2nd 2nd round pick draft SF Matthew Cleveland and PG Mark Sears 1)Russ/Rollins/Sears 2)AJ Green/AJax 3)Kuzma/THT/Cleveland 4)Giannis/LaRavia/Tyler Smith 5)Achiuwa/Giannis That is rough at best

I agree Doc stinks, he has like 40 years nba experience and like 8 assistant coaches and you don't have a decent last shot play to run. I know the media is all for trying to convince Giannis to leave and hopefully he doesn't listen. However I wouldn't blame him this team is so poorly put together at this point there is nothing for next year. Once Bobby and Porter decline their player options (Pat C will pick his up) our lineup team is Giannis, Kuz, Green, Rollins, AJax, Pat C, and Tyler Smith with only 30-35 million in cap space and a 7 million trade exception and basically no picks for 5 years to trade. Yikes.

Has Dinges defense been showing improvement? It would seem like his bat is definitely ready for a promotion and I now with him not catching much they probably won't promote him until defensively he makes some gains. I know he struggled some early but on scout from a podcast someone posted said his defense looked good last week. Made has to be entering top 20 prospect status already, again defensively it might take him a bit longer than the bat.

Jordan Westburg just went on the IL and the O's brought up Emmanuel Rivera over Mayo. That has to be a kick in the pants for Mayo, maybe also a note on where Baltimore thinks he is at. Maybe we could trade a couple nice smaller pieces for Mayo if the O's still aren't willing to give him a shot. Would Logan Henderson and Luke Adams be close?

Basallo would be nice but the O's aren't going to want Quero with Adley still blocking him. The only path is pitching, my guess is that if the O's trade Basallo or Mayo it will be for a big starter like Sandy Alcantara. For us to get one, it would have to be Freddy Peralta and I can't see that happening unless something bad happens.