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Possibly ya. I wonder if they do commit to Josh Bell (seems to be on the top of every Sox fan's list); they need bullpen help as well.

At this point, the Red Sox are planning to be “cautious buyers” at the deadline, a source tells Peter Abraham of The Boston Globe. The 45-39 Sox hold the second AL wild card spot, though a wild card is likely the best they’ll be able to do, given how the Yankees are running away with the division. However, Abraham notes that the Red Sox have an extremely difficult schedule for the rest of July, which could impact their status to the point that the Sox might even consider selling if they fall behind in the postseason race. - Interesting.

Shrugs.

Os win against Angels (again; 7-game win streak), 42 - 44 now on the season As beat Astros Rays BP blows it to Reds (Poche gives up 2 singles, hits batter, walks the next batter, and then our hero Drury gets a single to tie the game, 3 - 3)

Will echo from earlier - Brown or Abreu; if Astros want to go for a WS push and need an OF or C from us, that's what we shoot for. Anything else is just not worth. Maybe, MAYYYBE, Colin Barber cause lefty OF with decent power/speed is very interesting. (Gurriel or Jansen) + an arm for Brown + Barber, I'd do that. But losing Gurriel (maybe even Jansen) now might be a death sentence lol.

Lol Sox defense just crumbling.

Vladdy/Kirk confirmed starters.

It is pretty much your postseason lineup; lets roll. apple.tv (don't have to subscribe but you need an ID I think: ) or piracy (mlb66.ir; to avoid ads, you need to 'predict' which is just 4/4-ing w.e team for fun right below the chatbox; its an on-site points thing)

Bit off topic but Harden just cut his salary by 15M to give Phillies more money to get whatever assets they need for a championship push in 2023. Has that ever happened in baseball?

From last month (May 8 to June 7th) to this month (June 8 to July 7): Ugly things: Bichette wRC went down:147 to 90 Espinal went down: 133 to 68 Springer went down: 132 to 97; a fantastic 9 over the last 7 days Moreno just trended way the f*** down (he needs more playing time to get used to the pitching) Bad things: Kirk has regressed from his 200 wRC+ to 159 this month (which seems more reasonable); 59 wRC+ in the last 7 games with a slash of 250/280/292 (0.572 OPS) Guerrero went up (106 to 147) but his BB-K rate went below league average (0.42) from one of the best in the league in May (0.93) Teo went up (71 to 137) but his BB-K rate is just dumpster fire (0.17) OK/Good things: Biggio has remained consistent around the 150 wRC+ Chapman consistent around 100 wRC+ (which is in line with his 2021 performance; not sure we'll see his 2018/2019 again, but he's been hitting well of late) Gurriel massively stepped it up from 91 to 176 (highly doubt this is sustainable - 432 BABIP lol) Tapia is doing fine (122 wRC but just as worse BB-K rate as Teo; serviceable as 4th OF) --- I am still very irked (I get the risk of injury etc..., doesn't change my feelings towards it) that Vladdy stopped hustling for most groundballs. He just concedes that the defense will make the play every time instead of forcing them to make the play. Feel like when you are scuffling as an offense, you should try everything.

yikers. (its from reddit but seems sound from eye test) --- I feel like we love to bash the FO for everything (and maybe they deserve it), but my god, the players are all playing so below expectations this month - its unreal.

In 2016, Jays were 44-39, with 8 games to play before ASG. They went 7-1 and finished 51-40. Trades made by Atkins? we needed starting pitching depth (Estrada injured) and relief pitching (only Osuna/Biagini were good; rest were meh-awful) Liriano, Grilli, Benoit - who all had good to great years in the past, were struggling this year with their clubs, but became elite for the Jays after the trade (we gave up Hutchinson, Ratcliffe, and Storen) Some arms that were available at the top? Chris Archer (lol pirates; maybe if we weren't competing that year, we could've traded Stroman for the exact same haul as Rays), Chris Sale, Jeremy Hellickson, Rich Hill, Andrew Miller, Drew Pomeranz On a side note: Dodgers gave up Alvarez, Montas, and Cotton that year to get Rich Hill and Josh Fields; lost in NLCS just like we lost in ALCS This year, Jays are 44-39, with 9 games left to play before ASG. Very similar situation, we'll see what happens.

Sorry, Rays had 50M payroll in 2019, not 80.

That's when they snagged Cortes (2019), King (2020), Holmes (2021), Taillon (2021), Castro (2022). They still signed Cole to an obscene contract but he still pitches enough innings to earn the contract. But before you go, "their FO", Cashman has had the seat since 1998 and has had a LOT of failed projects, like the list is spectacular. He only 'caught up' to the trend once he noticed that Rays got 96 wins on an 80M payroll while the Yankees got 103 on a 203M payroll. We will see what Atkins does and if he adapts as the Yankees did. This is 2nd year in a true contention window (but the way our players are playing, I don't even know if you call this a contention window, maybe a winning record one?), and all we can really hope that he makes the changes before he chews through Vlad, Manoah and Bo's Arb years.

Yankees fired both of their hitting coaches and the 3B coach last year. They also overhauled their pitching development/scouting & fired their pitching coach in 2019. That is what should happen here as well, irrespective of the results this year. Too many baserunning mistakes & defensive miscues, your budding superstars struggling to make good contact against above-average pitching, your 131M pitching investment struggling to pitch well after 4.5 years of excellent consistency - these things all should be accountable before you bother Charlie and his once-in-a-while outlandish bullpen decision.

He'll cost a lot, and I mean a lot; with Montas hurt, Mets/Dodgers/Twins/Cardinals are all going for him. Doubt, in our case, he'll go for anything less than Tiedemann. We don't have much else to match any of the offers those teams could put up. And Berrios has a very pricey contract for pitchers in the game atm (not counting extremes like Scherzer/Cole) - they saw him as someone who will reliably slot into 2 (Even 1), so he'll 100% be worked on as our 3 atm (or coaching gets fired). Kikuchi/Ryu-Stripling contracts are a mess but Ryu's contract is done after next year and Kikuchi only makes 10M in 2024 (might actually be traded if he does even remotely well next year cause of the front-loaded contract). I don't think (we shouldn't but I am just being an armchair GM) we make an elite pitcher signing until 2024.

We can technically sign Ohtani in 2024 - put Ryu + Teo money into Ohtani.

Just watch The Boys people and start if you haven't! Its a better show than this

Well, yes, even though I don't defend them more than I don't have all the market data available in who is available to get just randomly and fill our AAA with studs like Rays/Astros/Yankees/whoever else. I don't know if we had the same options those clubs did and if we also wanted to get those trades done, but it wasn't meant to be. It has been an issue for every single FO for the Jays - this is wrt organizational depth. As for development, I have seen strides in minors for pitching in the last year and a half. I am happy with the development of not one but three excellent pitchers, one post TJS and one out of thin air. The Castillo decision was squarely on them because all the pieces were there for them to access. Unless Castillo was hurt (which he wasn't, Charlie burned him 2 days in a row), there was seemingly not a single valid reason to start Hatch. He was getting destroyed by AAA batters across 12 starts; he hasn't been good in 2.5 yrs in any setting. Castillo showed promise in AAA for the exact same timeframe + had very good innings against Brewers (literally, the NL Rays team). I can hold them accountable to that. Give credit where its due, take it away where it isn't.

Whoever made the decision to start f***ing Hatch against Rays, man...

Man, Maximus has been lit. All he gives up are solo HRs if anything 'cause he rarely walks anyone. f***ing legend.

I am pretty sure getting DFA'd would be the lesser of the embarrassments between his starts and how he went down to minors . But if you DFA Kikuchi, officially, others would have a chance to claim him no? He has to clear waivers.

We do not have anyone in AAA (Hernandez is probably a good/great pitcher we have in AAA for relief and I am sure he'll make his debut at some point this season, esp if we don't get much in terms of relief pitching). We have promising af starters in A+/AA, who will be in AAA probably mid/end of next year.