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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 18:03:57 GMT -5
Kind of feel bad for Dalbec that he wasnt included in the deal. He could have used s change of scenery.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:49:34 GMT -5
I think Lugo will be useful but it will eventually clear more playing time for Campbell whom I like a lot better. Zeferjaun i was never a fan of. At best i think hes a marginal lefty reliever. No big loss. If Kavadas was ever going to play in Boston it would have been this year and he didnt get a sniff. We all know why. Maybe he can do some of that 3 true outcome stuff with LAA but hed struggle to hit .200. Never heard of Vargas. For a marginal lefty reliever, he sure throws pretty right-handed Doh!!! For some reason I thought he was a southpaw. Must be the control issues - makes my brain think left handed for some reason.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:47:00 GMT -5
I think Lugo will be useful but it will eventually clear more playing time for Campbell whom I like a lot better.
Zeferjaun i was never a fan of. At best i think hes a marginal lefty reliever. No big loss.
If Kavadas was ever going to play in Boston it would have been this year and he didnt get a sniff. We all know why. Maybe he can do some of that 3 true outcome stuff with LAA but hed struggle to hit .200.
Never heard of Vargas.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:42:36 GMT -5
Jeez, when does Teel get pulled?
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:41:45 GMT -5
I dont think Lugo is a superstar to be but he could be a valuable player. Lugo is ultimately > Garcia. Not this year he isn't. How can you complain about not making trades and then complain about making trades? It's a free country, and I'm not complaining. It's ok not to love something but come around to being ok with it. There are so many other posters you can zero in on. Try one of them instead.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:38:09 GMT -5
Campbell > Lugo so I guess I can live with it. Just wished he could have been parted with for more than a rental reliever.
Campbell would have to project as the preference as the RH bat who can play multiple positions over Lugo.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:35:15 GMT -5
I dont think Lugo is a superstar to be but he could be a valuable player. Lugo is ultimately > Garcia.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:32:44 GMT -5
Jeez, you dont normally see a journeyman free agent to be middle reliever having a non-dominant season command 4 prospects in a deal, lol.
Guess Breslow REALLY wanted him...and to clear out his hopefully fringy prospects. I wouldn't call Lugo fringy. Ouch.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:23:53 GMT -5
I'm lukewarm on both Sims and Garcia as I dont think I'd trust either with 8th inning high leverage but they're marginally better middle relief options than what they have. Beats seeing them than the waiver wire pickup types to fill out the pen. They better get Martin and Slaten back healthy and effective or the pen will still be problematic. Also hope Hendrik can somehow show them something too. I think the season still hinges on Martin, Slaten, and Casas returning as good as new. And Hendricks. Hard to put that type of onus on Hendriks who has been gone so long.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:21:42 GMT -5
Taking another look and hes been a bit better than I thought he was. At least he throws strikes.
He had a couple of good seasons for the Phillies a long time ago. Looks like hes been mostly an anonymous middle man. Nothing dominating about him, but hes pitched reasonably well for a pretty long time so I'll see him as a welcome addition. Certainly beats watching Weissert.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:15:58 GMT -5
I'm lukewarm on both Sims and Garcia as I dont think I'd trust either with 8th inning high leverage but they're marginally better middle relief options than what they have. Beats seeing them than the waiver wire pickup types to fill out the pen. They better get Martin and Slaten back healthy and effective or the pen will still be problematic. Also hope Hendrik can somehow show them something too. I think the season still hinges on Martin, Slaten, and Casas returning as good as new. Garcia has been their setup guy, so he adds to the Martin/Slaten layer and I would expect him in the 8th until either gets back. The Angels didnt exactly have a lot of better options for setup duty
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:08:07 GMT -5
I'm lukewarm on both Sims and Garcia as I dont think I'd trust either with 8th inning high leverage but they're marginally better middle relief options than what they have.
Beats seeing them than the waiver wire pickup types to fill out the pen.
They better get Martin and Slaten back healthy and effective or the pen will still be problematic. Also hope Hendrik can somehow show them something too.
I think the season still hinges on Martin, Slaten, and Casas returning as good as new.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 17:03:48 GMT -5
For ??
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:47:35 GMT -5
I would think Rengifo goes, maybe the Sox?
Flaherty will go. I'd think Fairbanks could still go. Maybe Finnegan.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:31:06 GMT -5
Beyond the profiles, the stats will tell you that Grissom has hit significantly better at every level than Yorke has. Yorke was injured in his age 20 season in A ball, and except for his 38 game AAA campaign this year has not really impressed with bat or glove. Grissom hit (and fielded) his way to ATL in 2022 when he overpressed at SS, resulting in a demotion to AAA (where again he hit better than Yorke.) He was injured this year, missing ST, and his rehab starts at AAA have dragged his numbers down somewhat. I like Yorke. He's a legit prospect with a chance to blossom into an everyday MLB 2B. But Grissom is an obvious notch higher in both fielding and hitting. I hear what you're saying on the stats front. I would absolutely agree with you if I were to look only at the stats. His bad year was something Grissom did not have. Grissom did not sell out the way Yorke did in 2022. One day Yorke had a perfect RH gap to gap stroke and then all of a sudden he didn't. I don't know if he thought he was Dave Kingman or what it was, but he tried to cream everything.
So yes, I'm guilty of relying too much on the eye test. Grissom will hit, but what I saw at 2b this year was not solid defense. Then again, what little I saw of Yorke's field attempts this year didn't give me warm fuzzies, either. It did last year, though.
Grissom is a work in progress at 2b and that progress was interrupted. He has been injured twice this year, probably stemming back from winter ball and he aggravated the injury afterwards and then he got sick. He has a lot of extenuating circumstances. I wouldn't let your impression of him while hes at his absolute worst be the overriding vision of what hes capable of being. Give him health like he had prior to winter ball and then let him hit and give him time to acclimate to 2b. You might recall Boggs was not a good 3b when he started. Duran was abysmal. Boggs went on to be a good 3b. Duran looks great in CF now. You have to be patient with young players and at age 23 Grissom is still pretty young. Hes not a finished product.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:15:26 GMT -5
I think the Sox are probably done. Maybe they get a lesser (than Sims) reliever, perhaps a lefty. I'd like to see them get Chad Green if possible. Pretty underwhelming so far. I honestly wonder how much of this is financially related. I dont think its financial in this case. I dont see big money deals flying around.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:12:03 GMT -5
I think the Sox are probably done. Maybe they get a lesser (than Sims) reliever, perhaps a lefty. I'd like to see them get Chad Green if possible.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:06:19 GMT -5
Not deadline related per Cotillo. Phew. Hopefully it's nothing serious
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 16:05:10 GMT -5
Oh no, please dont trade Roman Anthony
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 13:09:35 GMT -5
Portes has high walk numbers too but at his age he could turn that around although he might not, but he isnt a finished product like Sims.
The move is marginal. I like him better than a lot of tne guys they auditioned but hes not somebody I'd trust on high leverage situations.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 12:46:30 GMT -5
Sims' control is not good. I hope that's not their big bullpen move.
Dont know much about what they gave up. Hope he doesnt amount to more than a middling middle reliever or else they made a bad trade.
As it is I wouldnt trust Sims in a high leverage situation. Hed probably walk the leadoff man.
Not overly impressed. Dont like relievers who cant throw strikes consistently enough.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 12:13:43 GMT -5
Why does everyone else's 4.50 ERA pitcher appeal to me more than our 4.50 ERA pitchers this time of year?? Psychology is weird. Everybody else always thinks they could fix somebody elses' ptoblems. Few years ago I'd loved to have gotten Rodgers, so people think they can fix him and make him pitch like 2021.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 11:24:35 GMT -5
First, Grissom and Franchy and even remotely alike, in any way imaginable. Second, Grissom's ceiling is far higher than Yorke's. I've been a big Yorke fan, but given the depth at middle IF, I'd rather trade Yorke and keep Grissom. There are so many other 2B options (Campbell, Rimer, Arias, ZAnatello, Cespedes, etc). Third, We don't knowe if it was even a choice on the Sox end. Pirates might have been keyed on on Yorke. I guess I just don't understand why people feel this way. Their profiles look extremely similar to me, right down to the injury struggles and the question marks about the glove.
Grissom has a minor league batting average of. 320 throughout his minor league career. Yorke is nowhere near that - is he around .270? I dont see how they're that similar.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 11:20:50 GMT -5
Why do some people want Pivetta to the bullpen? He's probably about the only semi-consistent and reliable guy on the MLB team that I would trust to supply IPs the rest of the way. If it comes down to it and hes needed, he could really play up big in a post season series out of the pen in high leverage. Have a feeling hed take to that like a duck to water, but all of Houck, Crawford, Bello, and Paxton would have to be playoff start worthy.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 30, 2024 11:06:15 GMT -5
Name a pitcher that doesn't have any risk of injury Cy Young no chance he's getting injured.
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