badfishnbc
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Post by badfishnbc on May 29, 2024 10:30:57 GMT -5
I'm sorta inclined to move Wong at the trade deadline and promote Contreras as a stopgap until Teel arrives.
What kind of return might that fetch?
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Post by nonothing on May 29, 2024 11:27:26 GMT -5
They will not do this. The pitchers would be unbelievably angry. They need pitchers to want to pitch in Boston.
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Post by nonothing on May 29, 2024 11:31:46 GMT -5
I'm sorta inclined to move Wong at the trade deadline and promote Contreras as a stopgap until Teel arrives. What kind of return might that fetch? Also - Are you suggesting McGuire catches all game? Contreras is an OF. Does he catch? Or -- maybe I am confused about what you are suggesting. I was focused on the just hard no to moving Wong right now. But not sure even what you are suggesting until Teel arrives. Who are the catchers on the MLB team in your scenario pls? |
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Post by soxinsf on May 29, 2024 12:13:26 GMT -5
I'm sorta inclined to move Wong at the trade deadline and promote Contreras as a stopgap until Teel arrives. What kind of return might that fetch? Also - Are you suggesting McGuire catches all game? Contreras is an OF. Does he catch? Or -- maybe I am confused about what you are suggesting. I was focused on the just hard no to moving Wong right now. But not sure even what you are suggesting until Teel arrives. Who are the catchers on the MLB team in your scenario pls? Soxcatching with Wong and Maguire, plus emergency depth in Worcester, is just fine. Pitchers and TON will be gone before Wong if Sox become sellers. |
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Post by jdb on May 29, 2024 14:13:27 GMT -5
Catcher is such a difficult position and often they take years to develop at the MLB level. I’m inclined to at least hold on to Wong until next years deadline or even offseason depending on how Teel is doing. Having a Wong/Teel combo for the next few seasons sounds good to me.
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Post by ematz1423 on May 29, 2024 14:42:35 GMT -5
It's not as if Wong is expensive or will get expensive in the next few seasons. I'd just roll with wong/mcguire until Teel is ready to replace mcguire on the roster.
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Post by rhswanzey on May 29, 2024 23:35:58 GMT -5
I’m old enough to remember the vigorous “Vazquez or Swihart” debates circa 2013-2014. Turns out, no, Swihart wasn’t a safer bet to make it as a starter because of the better bat, and yes, Vazquez would hit enough to be a primary catcher - it would just take three full seasons before he’d get there.
Catchers don’t move midseason very often, do they? I can’t even think of the last recent one besides Vázquez to the Astros.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on May 30, 2024 10:02:56 GMT -5
Trading Wong shouldn't even be a remote consideration, IMO, until/unless Kyle Teel comes up and proves to be a star-level catcher that you have to play 120+ games. Even then, Wong is still going to be inexpensive enough to where it's not a bad idea to keep him, but at that point the value you could get in a return for him is going to likely be greater than the value of him playing in 40 games. But while I love Teel, you cannot bank on that yet and keeping Wong right now is costing you virtually nothing.
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Post by seamus on May 30, 2024 10:52:14 GMT -5
It's not an awful question just because Wong might be the position player with the most trade value on the big league roster right now (at least in the conversation), but it's really hard to see a scenario where trading Wong makes sense given both how good he seems to be and how much cheap control he has remaining. The reason he could fetch a good return is exactly why the Sox should keep him. Even if you're certain that Teel will be a star right away, no team ever regretted having two good, cheap catchers.
I could see a scenario where the Sox are out of it and McGuire gets moved to a team desperate for a starter due to injuries, and then riding with Heineman or whatever flotsam is necessary to get through the end of the year, but even that seems unlikely given that McGuire is plenty good enough for the backup catcher spot and still has another arb year. The catching situation is under control through the end of 2025, with 2026-2029 hopefully being set with Wong & Teel (in some order), so if I was the front office, I'd probably say, "Catcher seems good, gonna focus on figuring out the rotation and second base."
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on May 30, 2024 11:52:57 GMT -5
I like the idea of converting Contreras to OF/C. Part-time catcher
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