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Title: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: zenjak on May 02, 2023, 03:54:38 PM
I like prospects, but I also understand I have a bias toward them. Not sure about this article...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/red-sox-s-chaim-bloom-fleeced-multiple-teams-at-last-season-s-trade-deadline/ar-AA1aEmOP?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=c6f75fa3cc6447fdbac27060673d7685&ei=11
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: longgame on May 02, 2023, 06:10:19 PM
Pretty optimistic view considering it’s based on a pretty limited sampling of the players received. 
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 03, 2023, 09:00:49 AM
An interesting series of takes of these trades. There's a lot more baseball under the surface than he writes about.

On the Vasquez trade, Houston traded two players they were not going to ever see for a rental catcher. Valdez and maybe Abreau would have opted for Minor League free agency. Vasquez helped them including winning a game for them in the WS. While Valdez is starting to pay off, he's way behind where he should be defensively. Abreau is an old school on-base machine. I think he's reputed to have a nice arm, but I don't know for sure. As a pure baseball move, the only way this is a positive is if the Red Sox were going to lose Vasquez. That was not the case. We also had to tie up two roster spots in November, which cost us spots to keep a pitcher or two that were gut punches to lose.

The Pham trade was a win for the Reds if anyone. They shed payroll, which is still costing the Red Sox $1.5M this year due to a buyout clause. I say "shed". For most teams $5M is not a shed, but for the Reds, it is. We gave up someone who would likely never play for us due to a massive K-rate. To suggest Pham was a "solid" player is really a stretch. His OF play was interesting, he hit .234 with over 31% K-rate while hitting only 6 HRs for us.

It's sad to see how poorly Groom has pitched since not making the Padres early season 6-man rotation. He was the odd man out and the pitching turned to crap with the demotion. He did rebound from a dreadful outing last week (8ER in 4.1IP) with a nice 6-innings of no-hit ball with 3BBs and 9K's. Point is that it's still too early to pull the plug on Groome when looking at this trade. Interesting note on Rosier is he's been traded in the middle of his first two pro seasons. 11HRs and 63SB's in 157 games in the minors ain't too shabby.

Now the trade that the writer is calling a phenomenal trade for Bloom. Diekman for McGuire and Broadway. Any trade that results in a team getting an over 300BA platoon catcher for a aging reliever that has subsequently fizzled should be a definitive win. However, this still feels like a consolation prize because of an entirely different trade. On top of that, it feels tainted because the utility catcher in question is having some throwing difficulties. At the time of the trade, this was a win for Chicago. We got worse with it by losing Diekman, as iffy as he was. Him being here or not likely had no effect on our last place result.

In the end, Chicago gave up a Catcher that was soon to be DFA'd with a throw in of a once promising pitcher they were cutting ties with for trade deadline BP help. That's one helluva trade for Chicago. Diekman also gave them a really nice effort until their wheels fell off in mid-September last year. Diekman's numbers were slightly better with them until then. After then, he allowed 10 runs in 6.1 IP over 7 games. Yikes!!!

The 3rd piece of that trade, Broadway's last couple outings this season did lower his ERA to 5.10. It's also only that low because his first outing of the year had a strange pitching line. 1IP, 4H, 0ER, 1HR, 2K's and 5R's. Yup, 5 unearned. Baseball is not without poetic irony, it seems. The error that caused this line was part of that first trade, the aforementioned Enmanuel Valdez. Good times!!!
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: zenjak on May 06, 2023, 10:30:53 PM
"Baseball is not without poetic irony"

epic line
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 08, 2023, 08:43:03 AM
Quote from: zenjak on May 06, 2023, 10:30:53 PM
"Baseball is not without poetic irony"

epic line
I think I was channeling Sarandon's character from Bull Durham. :)
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 08, 2023, 09:03:38 AM
So, another very unpopular Bloom trade that only helped to send the Sox on a downward path last year seems to be getting closer to making it. David Hamilton's timing as far as when to blossom might be golden. He got off to a hot start as he did last season. Unlike last season when he tanked for several months, he got into and out of a slump in decent fashion. It was partially veiled by a 10-game stretch where he hit precisely 1H each game while hitting .256. He struggled horribly the next week going 2 for 20, but came out of it going 9 for 21 last week. The average is back up to .311 and his K-rate is low-ish at 20%.  15 Walks, 6 HRs.

A write up on him this morning. The article says he plays SS and CF, but that's only 2 career games out there. He's split time between 2B and SS for the past two seasons. 
https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023 (https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023)

I thought the real prize of that trade was going to be Binelas, but he's making AA pitchers look like Pedro Martinez since he got there. Awful K-rate and an BA to match.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: SeaBeachFred on May 08, 2023, 03:28:42 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on May 08, 2023, 09:03:38 AM
So, another very unpopular Bloom trade that only helped to send the Sox on a downward path last year seems to be getting closer to making it. David Hamilton's timing as far as when to blossom might be golden. He got off to a hot start as he did last season. Unlike last season when he tanked for several months, he got into and out of a slump in decent fashion. It was partially veiled by a 10-game stretch where he hit precisely 1H each game while hitting .256. He struggled horribly the next week going 2 for 20, but came out of it going 9 for 21 last week. The average is back up to .311 and his K-rate is low-ish at 20%.  15 Walks, 6 HRs.

A write up on him this morning. The article says he plays SS and CF, but that's only 2 career games out there. He's split time between 2B and SS for the past two seasons. 
https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023 (https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023)

I thought the real prize of that trade was going to be Binelas, but he's making AA pitchers look like Pedro Martinez since he got there. Awful K-rate and an BA to match.

Binelas has made sucking look like a good word.  He was crap last season and appears to be crap this one too.  That trade was the one that really turned my  venom deep into Bloom's miserable brain.  We trade a 30 homer, 100 RBI power hitter for him and Bradley????????-who, by the way was the worst hitter in baseball in 2021 (163)  There was no such excuse for such stupidity.  As far as Hamilton is concerned the j ury is still out but I doubt if he ever could be what Renfroe was and could have been for us last year and this if we could have kept him.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on May 08, 2023, 05:52:48 PM
Quote from: SeaBeachFred on May 08, 2023, 03:28:42 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on May 08, 2023, 09:03:38 AM
So, another very unpopular Bloom trade that only helped to send the Sox on a downward path last year seems to be getting closer to making it. David Hamilton's timing as far as when to blossom might be golden. He got off to a hot start as he did last season. Unlike last season when he tanked for several months, he got into and out of a slump in decent fashion. It was partially veiled by a 10-game stretch where he hit precisely 1H each game while hitting .256. He struggled horribly the next week going 2 for 20, but came out of it going 9 for 21 last week. The average is back up to .311 and his K-rate is low-ish at 20%.  15 Walks, 6 HRs.

A write up on him this morning. The article says he plays SS and CF, but that's only 2 career games out there. He's split time between 2B and SS for the past two seasons. 
https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023 (https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/boston-red-sox-minor-league-roundup-may-7-2023)

I thought the real prize of that trade was going to be Binelas, but he's making AA pitchers look like Pedro Martinez since he got there. Awful K-rate and an BA to match.

Binelas has made sucking look like a good word.  He was crap last season and appears to be crap this one too.  That trade was the one that really turned my  venom deep into Bloom's miserable brain.  We trade a 30 homer, 100 RBI power hitter for him and Bradley????????-who, by the way was the worst hitter in baseball in 2021 (163)  There was no such excuse for such stupidity.  As far as Hamilton is concerned the j ury is still out but I doubt if he ever could be what Renfroe was and could have been for us last year and this if we could have kept him.

David Hamilton would seem to have the same value as Valdez as MIF.  Can Hamilton play SS with any efficiency?  Valdez, as dodgy as his fielding is, has proven he can rake in MLB on the small sample size.  Hamilton is more of a singles hitter, also a high BB rate, and with his speed stealing bases, his singles/walks become doubles.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 08, 2023, 07:04:04 PM
Hamilton had a prolonged slump last year. Hot start and hot finish. Mid-May thru end of August was awful. It's also his first year with double digit HR's. Makes me wonder if he was given an assignment from upon high to hit more extra base hits or enjoy the Minors for a long time. It would make sense given some of Cora's recent remarks about 'hitting the ball hard now'. How he is in the field is something I didn't see enough of. I think I saw one bad throw in the limited action I saw. I suspect with Meyer coming up that he won't stick at short for long, but he's got the speed to cover ground.

When I saw Valdez on MiLB-TV, there was a lot of swing and miss from getting fooled on breaking pitches. He was leaping out of his shoes. How he swung and missed like that in late-Summer and doing well in the big leagues right now is impressive, if not surprising.

Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 15, 2023, 10:09:28 AM
straight from MLB.Com in an article on Abreu getting hot last week, per Brian Abraham.

"“His bat-to-ball skills is an area of focus for him this year. Some of it last year was adjusting to a new organization, new staff. That can be a lot to deal with both mentally and physically. We wanted to see the player he was before we started trying to make too many adjustments,” Abraham said. "

Anyone else here seeing any sort of a pattern? Yoshida a few weeks ago and now Abreu. What's that Pink Floyd line go like - "leave them kids alone...."  LOL  Sort of makes you wonder about the Rafaela and Kavadas early struggles in Portland. (btw - Rafaela stole 9 bags in two games over the weekend. Damn!!!!)

Title: Re: Sox promote Drohan
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on May 18, 2023, 07:46:53 PM
Shane Drohan was promoted to Worcester.
The 24-year-old flamethrower was selected by the Red Sox in the fifth round of the 2020 MLB Draft and has been steadily moving up the farm system ever since. Sox Prospects has Drohan as the No. 5 prospect in the organization.
They also released P Jake Thompson and Edwin Diaz from Worcester.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: longgame on May 19, 2023, 08:37:45 AM
Whether a position player or a pitcher I hoped they learned something of a lesson with Duran. They pushed him up when he wasn't ready.  He looked completely lost last year.  This year, after building skills and confidence (that was shaken by his MLB stint), he looks like a complete ball player.  Hopefully Casas will sort that out at the Major League level.  But let these guys coming up develop and have some consistency!
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 19, 2023, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on May 18, 2023, 07:46:53 PM
Shane Drohan was promoted to Worcester.
The 24-year-old flamethrower was selected by the Red Sox in the fifth round of the 2020 MLB Draft and has been steadily moving up the farm system ever since. Sox Prospects has Drohan as the No. 5 prospect in the organization.
They also released P Jake Thompson and Edwin Diaz from Worcester.
I watched some of that game last night. Drohan looked OK for a little bit, but the control was way off. Eventually it caught up with him, but I had stopped watching by then.  This is a guy who's walked 12 all year, but 6 of them were in the past two games. I think he hit a batter or had a WP or something along with the 2 walks in one inning last night.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 19, 2023, 05:49:29 PM
Quote from: longgame on May 19, 2023, 08:37:45 AM
Whether a position player or a pitcher I hoped they learned something of a lesson with Duran. They pushed him up when he wasn't ready.  He looked completely lost last year.  This year, after building skills and confidence (that was shaken by his MLB stint), he looks like a complete ball player.  Hopefully Casas will sort that out at the Major League level.  But let these guys coming up develop and have some consistency!
His was promotion was very strange in both years. I thought he was done for. I'm not sure I ever remember a rookie looking that ate up. Both years, too. Maybe worse last year. The first year I thought it was a good start that went to crap quickly. At the time I thought his semi-platoon role that came on quickly had messed him up. Like one more thing to worry about.

Last year looked like a regression. He also got caught up in his team-mates dis-enchanted and disgruntled attitude towards management. The team was not filled with happy campers. Bad situation for anyone to come up in.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on May 20, 2023, 06:58:56 AM
Bloom trades Greg Allen to Yanks in exchange for cash and pitcher Diego Hernandez from the Dominican Summer League.  DHern was 48-14 Ks to BBs, 2.10 era. 18 yo. He's a few years away from any impact in the minor leagues.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 22, 2023, 06:37:00 AM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on May 20, 2023, 06:58:56 AM
Bloom trades Greg Allen to Yanks in exchange for cash and pitcher Diego Hernandez from the Dominican Summer League.  DHern was 48-14 Ks to BBs, 2.10 era. 18 yo. He's a few years away from any impact in the minor leagues.
The second Red Sox / Yankees trade takes on a whole new level of surprising and interesting news. This is all because the Yankees DFA'd Aaron Hicks. They're eating about $25M to do so, too. This is the same Yankees club that waited forever for Ellsbury to never recover. Hard times for Hicks.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on May 24, 2023, 02:56:23 PM
Sox make some more moves for pitching.  Whitlock will be activated as a starter in time to pitch in the weekend series at Arizona.  Kluber is headed to the bullpen to join Pivetta and the others.  Houck will keep his spot in the rotation.  In 9 starts he has a brutal 6.26 era and a 1,89 K to BB ratio.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 24, 2023, 04:14:39 PM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on May 24, 2023, 02:56:23 PM
Sox make some more moves for pitching.  Whitlock will be activated as a starter in time to pitch in the weekend series at Arizona.  Kluber is headed to the bullpen to join Pivetta and the others.  Houck will keep his spot in the rotation.  In 9 starts he has a brutal 6.26 era and a 1,89 K to BB ratio.
And some Pitcher's arm killing. This is from Yesterday on Bleier. "Bleier, who has struggled in his first season with the Red Sox, has been battling some discomfort in his shoulder since throwing 44 pitches in an outing against the Mariners on May 15. The Red Sox hope that shutting him down for a couple of weeks will fix the issue. " I remember that game. I thought he was getting DFA'd. Nope. Just taking one for the team.
Title: Marcelo
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on May 29, 2023, 07:18:49 AM
Sox have promoted their #1 prospect (#3 in MLB) to AA  Portland.  Starts there on Tuesday.
He got off to a rough start in first month of A ball. Since 4/15 he's at .365/.434/.595, a 171 wRC+, with a 18% K rate and 10% BB rate. 

The gurus show him prospected to MLB by 2025.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 29, 2023, 10:47:49 AM
I can't imagine this promotion happening in a silo. Portland is a mess of prospect management happening as we speak. Lugo has gotten screwed with to no end. Koss is about to see the same unless something happens.  Lugo has just turned 22 and was our #13 prospect. What? He didn't take to an out of position part time role? Well, gooollllll-leeeeeee!

The Mayer promotion may have happened when he was hot, but he hurt his shoulder something like a day after an article on the Red Sox MLB site and missed a week after that. It took a few more days to get back on track once he got back.

Some players have smashed into a wall offensively after getting promoted to Portland. I hope this does not happen for Mayer for obvious reasons. Kavadas and Binelas K-rates are sitting just a hair below 50%. This is all with some current history of screwing with other prospects' swings going straight up to Yoshida in Boston. 

So, Rafaela, York, Kavadas, Hickey and now Mayer on the same team. That's your middle of the field defense and Casas insurance/DH for 6+ years if their plans work out. They've been playing their primary positions almost exclusively this season. Rafaela getting a small handful of games at SS.

And why do they promote a pitcher after his first bad start of the year? That's what happened to Drohan this month. He has BOMBED in AAA, and now joins two other lefties who have bombed going to AAA. Hmmmmm, maybe the pitching coach or organizational approach, or does Portland have a gawd-awful batter's eye?
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on May 31, 2023, 08:04:48 AM
I watched some of that Portland game last night before the Red Sox came on. My first time seeing Meidroth field. He was very smooth and definitive with a strong arm on a semi-charging play at 3B. Also hit the cover off the ball on a loud out. Half the team hit the ball hard last night despite only 3 runs.

Binelas needs something different - anything. He whiffed on 92-94 MPH cheese in the zone. Kavadas had another bad night with 3K's too, but it didn't look as bad as Binelas did at the plate.

So this is the AA team if they are all starting tonight.
C - Hickey
1B - Kavadas
2B - Yorke
SS - Mayer
3B - Meidroth
LF - Sikes
CF - Rafaela
RF - Rosier
DH - Binelas

By my count, that's our top prospect at the C, 1B, 2B, SS and CF positions. I suspect Meidroth will leap frog Blaze Jordan for top 3B rank status. The corners are doing OK, too. At least at the plate. Sikes is only hitting .243, but has 20 SB already. Rosier recovered from being tinkered with by the Sox Player Development staff and is now hitting 302 with 22 SB. This does not include our #13 prospect, Mathew Lugo, who's getting shafted big time this season.

MiLB TV is free for MLB subscribers. It's a fun team to watch when the big club is off.



Title: Re: Dermody
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 08, 2023, 04:48:02 AM
The Sox have reached a tipping point.  In the rotation Sale is on the shelf - - again.  Pivetta and Kluber are out in the pen.  There are a few incremental pieces left for picking.

One is Matt Dermody, who is being called up from WooBall to pitch Thursday.  I can't remember if he is the blacksmith or the plumber in a former life.   Interesting times for Sox and Sox fan faithful.

Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 08, 2023, 08:51:49 AM
As a baseball fan, I cannot help but root for Demody. He turns 33 next month and has been AL, NL, all the Minor League levels, NCAA, Cape Cod, Dominican Winter, Korean, Japan and Independent League ball. Keeping it going.

It gets more interesting. He was a Starter in college. Went to the Pen part time for 2 years and then full time for 7 years. That wasn't going so well, so off to Korea he goes and becomes a Starter. That didn't go all that well, but he finds himself back in AAA splitting time between the pen and rotation for the Cubs. Made it back to MLB last year for 1 inning in which he gave up two solo HRs.

And now we got him. 4.54 ERA. Opponents batting .284. Throws 68% strikes. What he does do is throw Quality Starts. 6 of his 8 starts this year have been QS's. His most recent start stunk to high hell, but the one before notched 11 strikeouts.

It may not be pretty, but I'm rooting for him. 
Title: Re: Dermody and others moving
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 09, 2023, 02:06:32 PM
Dermody up for a cup of coffee and then DFA'd.  He's making way for Adam Duvall, who is being activated.  Not sure if he will play this weekend in NY.

More desperate moves --  The Red Sox are poised to select the contract of left-hander reliever Joe Jacques from AAA prior to this evening’s game against the Yankees, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post. The club will need to clear space on both the active and 40-man rosters to accommodate Jacques.

While it had previously been reported that the club plans to designate Matt Dermody for assignment today, that 40-man and active roster spot appears set to go to outfielder Adam Duvall, meaning an additional move will be needed to make room for Jacques. Alex Speier of the Boston Globe speculated last night that right-hander Bryan Mata, who has been on the injured list in Triple-A for the past month and does not appear close to a return, could be transferred to the 60-Day IL to clear a 40-man roster spot for another pitcher, though it certainly remains possible the Red Sox decide to go a different route in clearing space for Jacques.

Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 10, 2023, 06:01:35 AM
Yeah, we all kind of held our breath on that one to no avail. Sale got the 60-day spot. friggin' groovy. Not surprising, but just friggin groovy.

I think Dermody could have filled that #6-#7 starter role very easily coming in and out of Worcester as needed. I hate we could not make that work. Too many dumpster projects, which is what Dermody was part of anyhow. I guess they think Kluber or Pivetta will regain their - ah hell, I can't even think of the word. It ain't prominence.

Valdez down to Worcester where he belongs. If they had coaches and player development staff to help kids with learning fielding, perhaps they should show clips of Wade Boggs progression at 3B over the years. At least let the kid know it's possible to be a good fielder despite looking like he has brick hands. He turned his hitting around and he's still a young man.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 10, 2023, 11:26:00 AM
With Sale out until at least August, there are rumblings that a team with the looks of a Boston team missing the playoffs , will be sellers at the deadline.  Reports of players who would be offered --- Turner, Kike', Paxton, and Jansen. For one  Mets and Phillies are in dire need of bullpen help.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: longgame on June 11, 2023, 05:56:21 PM
They keep throwing stuff like it will stick and it doesn’t matter whether it does or not.  Not sure why they gave up on Dermody and then pull in another pitcher.
Of those names you mention, Tuner, Jansen and Kike would be a hell of an admission by Bloom.  Paxton has shown good upside, but if he recovers then he wouldn’t fit the profile of get-someone-cheap-while-injured “strategy”.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 12, 2023, 07:13:31 AM
I, too, was confused on the Dermody thing. It looked like his outings in AAA were consistent and usually 6 innings. He'll give up some hits, but limited damage. We've had worse depth starters.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 12, 2023, 02:13:39 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on June 12, 2023, 07:13:31 AM
I, too, was confused on the Dermody thing. It looked like his outings in AAA were consistent and usually 6 innings. He'll give up some hits, but limited damage. We've had worse depth starters.

Well, the feedback on Dermody from the Boston press and fanbase was not pretty.  The embarrasing Tweet from two years ago just did him in, and the Sox threw him under the bus.  That's just my opionin
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 12, 2023, 04:36:23 PM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on June 12, 2023, 02:13:39 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on June 12, 2023, 07:13:31 AM
I, too, was confused on the Dermody thing. It looked like his outings in AAA were consistent and usually 6 innings. He'll give up some hits, but limited damage. We've had worse depth starters.

Well, the feedback on Dermody from the Boston press and fanbase was not pretty.  The embarrasing Tweet from two years ago just did him in, and the Sox threw him under the bus.  That's just my opionin
Oh, my!  Always something with this team. I googled it to find out what the scoop was. I see Toronto cut a pitcher for something similar.

Edit: After all that, nobody claims him and he stays with the organization for a trip back down to Worcester. Tapia also given his release. I can't believe nobody wanted Tapia. He should land somewhere.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 12, 2023, 05:07:16 PM
Peter Abraham released an injury report,  a little concerning about Sox that have yet to see baseball this year.  Cora says Mondesi is not making any progress in rehab or getting into playing condition.  Then there's Story.  He's making a little headway, but he has not seen live pitching yet.

Wyatt Mills among a few injuries, has not played at all this year.  This week he had another set back.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 13, 2023, 12:58:24 PM
Add Bleis in Salem to the list. Out for the year according to SoxProspects.com. Something about straining his left shoulder on a swing. Lovely.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 22, 2023, 10:42:01 AM
Sox are short a catcher.  With McGuire possibly headed to the IL, Boston could pick up a free-agent guy this week.  A couple candidates are Zunino, just released by Cleveland, and our old friend Sandy Leon, I think released by Rangers.  Leon probably the better defensive option.

Ramon Hernandez is a better option, if Sox don't want to get into the FA shuffle again.
Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on June 27, 2023, 03:36:34 PM
Well Chaim has made his move before the deadline.  Seriously, there has to be more genius that getting Nunez from the Royals bullpen.

Boston acquired right-handed reliever Andrés Núñez from the Royals for cash considerations, according to MLB.com’s transactions log. Núñez has spent the entire season at Triple-A Omaha and is expected to join the WooSox in the coming days.  This is expected to be a cash only trade, or player to be named later.

Núñez, 27, is a 6-foor-4, 240-lb. righty who was originally drafted by the Royals out of Florida International University in the 2018 draft. The South Florida native pitched to a 6.66 ERA and 1.726 WHIP in 21 games (24 ⅓ innings) at Omaha this season in what has been his third go-ardound ad the minors’ highest level. Núñez has spent his entire professional career in the Kansas City organization, logging 163 appearances (one start) since making his pro debut in 2018.


Title: Re: Red Sox's Chaim Bloom Fleeced Multiple Teams At Last Season's Trade Deadline
Post by: MongoLikeSox on June 27, 2023, 03:54:59 PM
At least it's an "only money" deal.