The Red Sox have claimed Travis Shaw off waivers from the Brewers, according to Alex Speier of The Boston Globe. Shaw was placed on waivers by the Brewers yesterday. Rob Bradford of WEEI notes that the Red Sox plan to have Shaw with the team by Tuesday’s game. A spot on the 40-man roster was opened earlier in the day when Josh Taylor was placed on the COVID IL.
This will be a homecoming for Shaw, returning to the organization that drafted him and gave him his first MLB experience. In 2015 and 2016, he played 210 games for the Red Sox, slashing .251/.312/.442, producing a wRC+ of 97. In December 2016, the Sox traded Shaw to Milwaukee, along with Mauricio Dubon and Josh Pennington, for Tyler Thornburg.
Shaw was excellent in his first two season for Milwaukee, slashing .258/.347/.497 for a wRC+ of 120 over that span. Unfortunately, it’s been up-and-down since then. 2019 was a disastrous campaign, producing a meager .157/.281/.270 line, wRC+ of 48, leading to Shaw being non-tendered that offseason. The Blue Jays gave him a shot and saw him rebound slightly to a line of .239/.306/.411, wRC+ of 92. Unfortunately, after re-signing with the Brewers, his numbers tailed off again. His 2021 production so far has been .191/.279/.337, a wRC+ of 68.
Shaw will now presumably be a candidate for some time at first base for Boston. There had been plans to get Kyle Schwarber some work at first, but he has been at designated hitter in both his games since being activated off the IL, with J.D. Martinez taking some time in the outfield. Bobby Dalbec has been the primary first baseman for Boston this year. Although he has struggled at times this year, he has been red hot lately, slashing .286/.357/.571 over the past month.
Ugh
This is a Travis-ty
Shaw has looked good to me except the last 3 years. Turn out the lights, the party is over. Unless he can pitch, there is little need for 3rd basemen who can’t hit.200
Sale looked good upon his return. Shaw should be a solid bench bat for the playoffs push. Schwarber looked like a beast today. Things are looking up for the Red Sox. I except them to grab a postseason spot. Maybe a wild card but they have the talent.
Crime dog…. You are awesome!! Sox pitching took a dive and the hitting slowed down. I’m glad Sale is back and it’s great to see Shaw again. I’m not sure about a wild card unless they get back to how they started.
More bloom dumpster diving.
“I wouldn’t make moves at the deadline so we got hammered out of first. Now let me pick up trash players so it looks like I’m doing something, even though there’s no playing time or space for any of these guys. Dalbec is raking so let me ask to the superfluous logjam for 1b playing time.”
– signed chaim bloom.
Someone called it, can’t remember who
Twas I.
Twasi-modo? Ring that bell for ND
That’s my boy!
They sure did! I saw that too.
This is a no cost move for Bloom. Shaw might be useful down the stretch as a pinch hitter..
Or as a pinch hitter, he might be good on a stretcher
He simply is no longer dependable, sorry
I understand Pablo Sandoval is available, hugs anyone?
Except it does cost the redsox.
You’re wasting a 40 man spot and have a guaranteed out riding the pine wasting a spot in the dugout.
It’s not like it’s a stash in the minors move, they’re talking having him join the team.
I swear, bloom almost looks like he’s trying to sabotage the season and team chances at the postseason. Wonder if the Yankees bribed him.
The OPS+ is mostly from the fact that he can’t hit lefties. Bloom likes to manipulate the roster, especially for Covid, so Shaw might be here for all of a couple of days.
mayor of ding dong city is back, Bobby D is going to AAA
*cordero
Franchy will be not Bobby
Dalbec has been hitting pretty decent recntly. .288/.333/.504, .353 wOBA, 122 wRC+ since mid-June.
Yankees got rizzo to help their 1b production.
Dalbec is turning it around for weeks now on a sustained basis and producing like he did end of last season, finally.
So what does chaim do? He goes out and gets Travis Shaw, the useless dumpsterfire. A downgrade everywhere compared to who he’s turned over off the roster, and, assumes the salary in the process instead of waiting to just have the guy hit FA and pay prorated leage minimum.
How many ways was this a stupid move? Probably a good half dozen by bumbling bloom striking again.
Dalbec has an OPS of 1.423 over the past ten days. Why would you want him sent down?
Double Ugh
You mean you don’t want a 31 year old who has a ops+ of 66? someone with no use as a pinch runner with below average speed, who hasn’t stolen a base since 2018? You’d be tempted to think his 19 walk to 51 strikeout ratio this year was an abberation, but, it matches his 2020 rate nicely where he had 16 walks to 51 punchouts.
None of that sounds good to you? Hrmm. That’s why you can’t be part of blooms braintrust…. assuming he has a brain. Which, the functionality of which keeps becoming more and more called into question.
How many posts are you going to write about Bloom and Travis Shaw? I bet one would have worked.
This is a no cost move for Bloom. Shaw might be useful down the stretch as a pinch hitter. BTW, Mookie is back on the IL for the Dodgers. This time he has an injured hip. I am so glad that Chiam & Co. stopped at a $310M/10 year contract offer for Mookie then traded him to LA for Wong, et al.. So smart and so lucky. Mookie is a little guy and getting banged up is a legitimate issue with him. and will be for the next 12 years. The Dodgers bought a paper tiger.
Because a guy who would have a hard time making contact with a baseball if he leaned into it trying to get a HBP is useful as a pinch hitter?
More like a pinch strikeout machine.
Call it what it is. A piece of has been garbage clogging a 40 man slot that could be used on someone useful to the major league club (thinking pitching here) and wasting a spot on the bench in the dugout to boot.
Oh, theres another one.
I hope Franchey is sent out he’s done zero n that trade was horrific for Bloom. He basically gave Benni to KC so they could unload the Franchey albatross.
People forget that Franchy was only one of the players in the return. We got several more prospects with upside.
Actually, the three prospects (De La Rosa, Gambrell, Valdez) have been terrible. It was a salary dump of Bene’s contract, nothing more.
If anybody’s in love with Andrew, they can get him back; it’s a pretty good shot he’s non-tendered this winter. He’s been below average offensively, and has found LF in Kauffman more challenging than Fenway.
Looks like the Mets might have gotten the best of the 3-corner deal; Lee hasn’t been bad, and he has some upside.
Don’t forget Winckowski. He looks like a promising middle of the rotation guy
bobtillman: These prospects have been much too young to call “terrible”
Can’t believe you’ve decided a 5 player for one deal, by Cordero’s 127 ML plate appearances. Benintendi has sucked in KC. Terrible base running. Leads the league in CS’s while only having 8 SBs. OPS+ of only 88. Well below average. Coming off a season of OPS+ of 26.
Cordero: .955 OPS in AAA.
Winckowski: 4.39 ERA at AA
Valdez: .734 OPS, Rk, only 19
De La Rosa: 19yo
Gambell: 23yo
Who won, and who lost in this trade will be decided in 5 years, not 4 months.
*Also, Red Sox could care less how Mets made out in deal. No players were sent there by Red Sox, only received. Mets could’ve received Sal Perez and Dan Duffy from KC, at end of the day, Red Sox still got much more than they gave up.
They gave up nothing, got nothing back; Winckowski may not even be protected from Rule 5 this year (he wasn’t last year, and was eligible) and is more likely to become a 6-year minor league free agent. They MIGHT protect him; they have lots of room, and he was acquired by Bloom (if Bloom is still there). But more hits that IPs, a poor K-rate, in an age appropriate AA East (which is pitcher-friendly), doesn’t knock anybody’s eyes out.
Ya, the other guys are young; haven’t had time to fail yet. But they’re off to a good start.
How the hell was it a salary dump when the Sox picked up half of the salary? Some people need to just stop with this nonsense about the Sox being cheap and not willing to spend. The Benny move had NOTHING to do with his salary.
So half of 6M is 3M, which in fact would have put them ever so close to the Luxury Tax threshold. There can be little doubt that that was a factor in the trade. Actually, there can be no doubt.
Pasha, as bad as franchy has been, Travis has been just as bad and doesn’t play anything except positions the Sox have covered, again, and again, and again.
But hey, shaw has a whopping .191 batting average so….
Oh…another one.
pasha2k
that trade was horrific for Bloom.
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So far, we’ve won that trade by a wide margin. Benni has a 0.2 WAR for $6.6M.
If you like Benni that much, there is a decent chance KC non-tenders him next year.
JB – What a screwed up comment for you. The season is not complete and the player is returning from several injuries this summer.
YES everyone likes Benny that much because he’s better than the alternatives in Left Field this year. Verdugo should be the Right Fielder and Renfroe was supposed to replace JBJ so that leaves Cordero versus Benny.
Benny has had an up and down season and it’s just like you to cherry pick a time when he’s at a low but improving. You didn’t say much when his OPS+ passed 110 earlier in the summer, you speak now because he got hurt and he has struggled since then so it’s 89 today. I believe he finishes above 100 if he stays healthy and 110 to 120 wouldn’t surprise me.
At year end we’ll evaluate the Benny part of the deal. The deal itself won’t pay off because there will only be value on the Red Sox side of the ledger. If one of the four junior prospects make it the Red Sox or are key in a trade that helps the Red Sox then value will be added to the Red Sox side of the ledger. Until then, $2.2M is the cost to Kansas City not $6.6M. Guess whose picking up the rest? Einstein Bloom!! YES, this is as stupid as the Price deal but $11.6M less expensive to the Boston payroll in 2021.
Bloom was an idiot to throw away yet another player after Mookie and Price.
What people like you can’t figure out is that the CAP is set at 210M. Then you must reduce that by $18M for benefits and minor league contracts so the new number to stay under is $192M.
Then you must reduce the total by the amount of payroll directed to other teams which thanks to Price, Benny and others is now up to $34.5M counting Pedroia (the lone player not associated with Bloom).
So instead of having $192M to spend in 2021 on players Bloom has lowered the available payroll number to $158.5M ($13M is a Cherington contract not Bloom) As of today with all the penny ante bull crap he’s managed to exceed the cap by $3.5M!!.
So ask yourself if the small $3.5M overage worth it if it means in 2022 the rate jumps to 30% instead of 20% in 2022?! Bloom has no clue how to manage the financial side of his job.
JB you simply don’t get how this stuff works You judge players by the fictitious value called WAR which has NOTHING to do with payroll or even value of a player. It’s a simulation game value assigned by specific interpretation of a player’s performance. It’s not factual, it’s contrived.
Benny plays on KC and WAR poorly reflects actual data when a player plays on a bad team. The normalization techniques are crap so at least use a modern metric that better explains performance. It’s not good but it’s better than WAR.
Benny has not become a free agent yet so suggesting he’s overpaid incriminates the arbitration system. Obviously, he isn’t over-paid or costly at $6.6M playing for Boston but clearly he is expensive as Bloom restructured things with Benny costing Boston $2.2M against the cap but not playing for them plus they paid $3.8M out of pocket to him.
KC can DFA him but he is an ARB 3 in 2022 and that probably makes no sense. If they believe his value should be lower they offer the lower amount and see if the arbitrator agrees with them or whether the arbitrator like me believes his historical numbers prove he’s worth at least $6.6M. Whether KC can afford $6.6M is another question and any DFA would be tied to their belief that in arbitration he will break their bank. The last part of the season should give insight into that possibility so your guess once again is premature. You seem to have a problem with that type of thing happening. Early guesses said with conviction don’t actually constitute facts!!
Pasha2K was right as usual and you are wrong as usual.
Verdugo should be the Right Fielder and Renfroe was supposed to replace JBJ
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Every time I read one of your suggestions, like Schwarber at 3rd, or Schwarber at catcher, I think I have heard the craziest BB suggestion ever.
Now you want Renfroe to replace JBJ in CF? Renfroe has two career starts in CF. He is a fine defensive RF, but there is no way he plays CF full-time.
Can’t wait for your next suggestion.
JB – It’s a matching up of players. Verdugo replaced Mookie. Cordero replaced Benny. Who does that match Renfroe with? JBJ’s the other player. I guess you could swap it and match them up differently but either way the talent went down significantly.
Schwarber is as good a catcher as he is a 1B or LF. Look it up. He’s not good at any of them. My Schwarber at 3B was to emphasize just how bad Devers is. I don’t want him to play there any more than I want Devers there. The pitching staff deserves better.
Hey, there are some guys spouting off about the climb in the farm system rank. Before you go down that road go read the MLB website about the rankings so you’ll see the Bloom guys have all gone down except the fourth pick in the draft and he alone moved the farm system up by 250 points to 9th place..
So yes the ranking is higher thanks to a fourth to last finish that got us arguably the 2nd best prospect in the draft (I considered Leiter #1).. The ranking didn’t soar because of adds by Bloom, it soared because Bloom damaged the organization so badly that the 2020 results led to a huge prospect being added. That doesn’t count like a trade or a free agent pick=up. A baboon would have picked Meyer at #4. I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth. I couldn’t be happier the idiots before Boston passed on him.
So if you see anyone professing what a great job Bloom has done raising the Farm System ranking please point out that he didn’t do it. A very, very bad season led to the Farm System getting a superstar which boosts the ranking. Bloom can only take credit for it by admitting what a crap job he did in 2020 to get us the fourth pick in the draft.
Thanks for responding. I enjoy the banter! Hope all is well.
All is well. Thanks. The issue is that Schwarber was never a catcher. He had 15 starts in his rookie year, and has never started another game at catcher. That was 2015. That’s almost 6 full years. He cannot catch anymore.
Yawn
Did anyone watch the playoffs last October. Mookie was one the main reasons they won the WS. For the Dodgers it was well worth the cost. If they didn’t pay up Mookie would be a Met right now.
Wish it could’ve worked out in Milwaukee for him, great dude. Good luck in Boston Mr. Mayor!
Mayor of Mendoza Line?
Mayor? I think he’s president.
Cool, one more.
The Boston Devil Rays. It’s a mindset – no, thanks.
The Rays are in first place while spending less than half of what the Yankees and Red Sox have been spending. Looks like they have a very good mindset which is why teams like the Dodgers and Red Sox hired guys from the Rays to run their operations.
… do you really think I don’t realize those remarkably obvious details? Honestly? It’s a mindset. You missed the point. Is the sky blue? Let me know.
I actually missed the comma after no. That changes the whole meaning. I thought you said it’s a mindset no thanks.
With two WS trips yet no WS trophies….
Well said Suit!
Well said!
But the Rays are a high turnover team. What little fans they have hardly get to know their players. Great results, empty seats….even in playoff games.
AITSTYW – Yes TB is a frugal organization but that is out of necessity. If you look at their drafts – they suck!! Here are their last 10 first round picks
2021 – Carson Williams (28th)
2020 – Nick Bitsko (24th)
2019 – Greg Jones (22nd)
2018 – Matthew Liberatore (16th)
2017 – Brendan McKay (4th)
2016 – Josh Lowe (13th)
2015 – Garrett Whitley (13th)
2014 – Casey Gillespie (20th)
2013 – Ryan Stanek (29th)
2012 – Nick Ciuffo (21st)
Recognize any of these names? Maybe 2 of 10? Liberatore got shipped to the Cardinals for Jose Martinez and Randy Arozarena and a compensation A draft pick. McKay picked 4th in the draft was a two way player from Louisville and is currently in AA four years after being picked.
This shows why the Rays have done well despite not drafting well. Somebody, and now we know it’s NOT Bloom, is a wizard of trading. That’s how the payroll stays low and the product is so good. Yes, a good player development system seems seems to be in place and yes they have an excellent manager but in the end they are good because of smart trades and clearly Bloom DID NOT bring that skill to Boston.
So being smarter than everyone else is a mindset that you object to? The Rays have the second best record in BB over the past three seasons. I know it sounds crazy, but I would like the same thin from the RS.
JB – That’s how you separate winners from losers. I have as many rings as TB does so I prefer a mindset that takes you to the top of the mountain on a regular basis and I don’t care what happens between the rings all I care about are the rings happening on a regular basis.
You should become a Yankee or Dodger fan (if you aren’t already!) because they believe like you do that being in the hunt each year but not winning is better than winning regularly and not being in the hunt between championships.
The Red Sox had a winning approach and chose the losing approach of teams like the Yankees and Dodgers. I think SF and the old Boston approach is the preferred approach of fans. Winning makes the off years acceptable.
I’d rather have RING t-shirts twice a decade than have CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR t-shirts throughout the entire decade.
JB – You actually have a better farm system but a lesser player acquisition program. The Red Sox had hoped Bloom would bring that to Boston but he has failed to do so. The real genius or geniuses in TB are still there as can be seen by the Mark Libertore trade and the Nelson Cruz trade. They are excellent at both the farm level and the MLB level in acquiring talent.
I too wish for that in Boston. For that to happen we need a new GM. Bloom has proven conclusively during his 2 years that he WAS NOT the brains in TB. Someone else is because they continue to prove it and Bloom does not.
The problem with that opinion is that:
1-We are still the wildcard, even though no one thought we had a chance.
2-We moved from #24 farm to #9.
Improving your record, while improving your farm, is the true daily double of baseball management.
We replaced Marwin Gonzalez with a less versatile Marwin Gonzalez…
He can hit a lot more homeruns if he gets the playing time.
Shaw started of the season really hot for the Brewers. Good thing too, no one else was hitting and he won them some games. Then, like always, he hit the skids. The two month injury benefited them. They were forced to find a replacement and they did.
It’s free to bring the Mayor of Ding Dong city home
Take a kid who spent more time since high school with Red Sox and send him to Wisconsin….that’s got to mess a kid’s head up. Maybe it will be good for him psychologically to be back home in Boston. He’s back and Thornburg is long gone. Good story line…They wrecked my career then saved me.
Don Dumbrowski trade in review:
Red Sox receive Tyler Thornburg, constantly injured, and when healthy ERA north of 6.00
Brewers receive Travis Shaw OPS 2017- .862, 2018- .825, also Maurico Dubon, Glove First Utility p[ayer, still playing.
Yep, DD at work alright.
Is Don Dave’s evil twin!?!?
It’s the alter ego denny tries to assign in his head pretending the real DD didnt do a great job in Boston.
dennyd – A trade gone bad by injury and you have the balls to suggest it was a bad trade at the time it occurred? Does your crystal ball work any other way than in retrospect?
The issue I had was that he made that trade about the same time as the Carson Smith trade. Both players came to us injured. It made me feel like we were so busy trying to move players, that we didn’t pay enough attention to the medicals.
That said, except for the injuries, both players were legitimate 8th inning threats.
I really don’t get why people are dissing this move… yeah it would’ve been great if the Sox added Rizzo at the deadline but they didn’t. And this is a no cost. no risk move… if he can hit like he has on his rehab stint so far in the majors (or really just anywhere even remotely close to league average) he’s a solid platoon option for Dalbec. He’s a patient hitter, takes walks and has solid power… a platoon of Dalbec and Shaw certainly isn’t what you were hoping for at 1B pre-trade deadline. But now that the deadline is past… this is a very solid no risk pickup to at an absolute minimum provide a LH pinch hitter for Dalbec vs LH relievers.
You realize that dalbec is hitting LHP even better than righties don’t you?
In 126AB vs LHP he has 36H, 5 doubles, 3 triples, 6HR, 8BB with 48K.
In 179AB vs RHP he has 35H, 9 doubles, 1 triple, 8HR, 9BB with 71K.
Now, not only are all those numbers in an entirely different stratosphere than anything Shaw has mustered in several years, but, it shows the last thing Dalbec needs is platoon partner against LHP.
Again. No need for shaw, all he does is take away regular AB and development from a younger, better, cheaper player.
The costs are a 40man slot, a spot on the bench that could be better used, and, bloom having made a waiver claim instead of waiting for shaw to clear waivers means Boston picked up all the remaining money instead of paying league minimum – which could have cbt ramifications and involke penalties including raising compensatory signing costs.
You do realize Dalbec is a right handed hitter and that Shaw is a lefty. I only ask because your statement above makes it seem like you don’t know that. If anything, the Red Sox would use Shaw against Righties and Dalbec would play against Lefties.
Bruin1012 = Do you think platooning Dalbec is a good move? He’s hot so I wouldn’t sit him until he cools off.. Also, he hopefully is the future. The odds of making the playoffs aren’t great so giving at bats to Shaw as anything other than a day off for Dalbec doesn’t make sense to me. Just like like adding Schwarber at 1B makes no sense to me. I would put him in a rotation with Renfroe, Duran and Verdugo. Each plays 3 out of 4 days except when a lefty faces the Red Sox they need Renfroe in the line-up. Too many left-handed bats in the outfield now. Another not too smart move by Bloom.
Bruin, the post above said shaw, who can’t hit out of a wet paper bag in years and makes mendoza look good, would be a good platoon to use against LHP.
Point is, you shouldn’t platoon dalbec at all, and if you did, you absolutely wouldn’t do it against LHP.
Dalbec vs RHP is STILL a better option than shaw against RHP when you consider all things.
You realize that dalbec is hitting LHP even better than righties don’t you?
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Er, that is the entire purpose of the pickup. Dalbec is a righty and Shaw is a lefty.
What is this, 7 posts about Travis Shaw now?
Yes, I love this guy. He’s a scrappy hitter and numbers don’t exactly match his grit type of play. Welcome back
pwndroia – I like him too but as always he’s not what we need unless they are ready to move Devers to DH. But that leaves no place for JD.
Can the Red Sox start Shaw at 3B to slow the defensive bleeding at that position? Move Devers to DH, JD to LF, Scwarber to Catcher?
See, there is no effective way to add Schwarber or Shaw to the starting line-up so they need to be inconsequential fill ins or pinch hitters.
In those roles, all I can say is great move Bloom. Utility players up the whazoo and now we are building bench depth rather than adding to the pitching staff. The hits just keep on coming from this GM without a clue.
Problem is I don’t see how anyone thinks shaw makes a good bench player.
No speed, not a pinch runner.
Not a defensive late inning upgrade better than guys already on the 40man with more utility.
And, certainly not a bat off the bench. Guy can’t hit and hasn’t for years.
So, as you said, why remove a pitcher from the bullpen in favor of him? And why absorb his full calendar contract instead of allocating that money to pitching?
Shaw was hitting nearly .290 earlier in the season. He’s very streaky but he can hit.
Still not hearing an argument the aging non-performing shaw is any improvement over the young surging dalbec.
Saying shaw had a short streak hitting almost .290 followed by the rest of the season of… abysmal production catering him below the mendoza line (meaning to get from a .290 avg to a .190 one he needs to hit about .090 for a sustained period of months) doesn’t make him make sense.
Dalbec outperformed that early this year, and again now. So why would you tolerate shaw hoping for his “streak” instead of dalbec, and, do it at greater expense for a slower older and injury prone player?
He isn’t better than Dalbec. My guess is that he might get one start against the NYY. Then be cut loose whenever Taylor or Brasier returns. Y’all so overreact to every move.
I think I missed a couple. 10?
So, as you said, why remove a pitcher from the bullpen in favor of him?
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As per the 1st paragraph:
“A spot on the 40-man roster was opened earlier in the day when Josh Taylor was placed on the COVID IL.”
JB – You do realize each insignificant add by Bloom has ratcheted the payroll over the cap by $3.5M? Is it worth bumping the rate for 2022 to 30% for such crap?
It creates another deterrent for ownership to spend money in 2022 to raise the talent level of the team. None of Bloom’s pick-ups have actually increased the talent level of the team, they only added more equally mediocre talent to the roster and the minors.
Do you want to explain how adding Shaw for 1/4 of a season just increased out payroll in 2022 by 30%.
JB – Shaw’s additional money puts the current 2021 payroll $.3.5M over the cap. If the year ends and the Red Sox are $3.5M over they pay 20% on the overage and in 2022 the rate over the cap goes to 30%. So, for $3.5M of crappy players next year going over will cost 10% more than it would have. If this ownership group stays it’s current course then paying 10% more will slow their willingness to pick up key players they need that would put them over the cap. AND it might make them tell Bloom they must get under the cap in 2022 to reset the penalty.
Considering the hundreds of millions of profit they make doesn’t this all seem absurd? Worrying about fees that won’t exceed $10M for a team that has profits more than 25 times that? I makes no sense after 20 years of spending what they needed to spend to win.
KD17
JB – Shaw’s additional money puts the current 2021 payroll $.3.5M over the cap.
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If we went over just to sign Shaw, then I agree it would be stupid. Can you show me anything that says Shaw put us over the top?
FWIW, I’ve seen articles on this. As I told you, we are still under the cap. Not for nothing, but your assumption should always have been that we were under the cap. It would make absolutely no sense to exceed the cap by a couple of dollars. If we were going to go over, it would’ve been by $10-20M, not $100k.
If only Shaw could directly apply the number of pounds he’s gained to his .190 BA – he’d be hitting well above league average. Dude’s in need of some jazzercise
Bloom is not bringing Munoz to NYC even though he would be my choice Tuesday,he’s bringing a veteran L’handed bat. Cordero will be in a WoooooSox uni once again..
Yes I would prefer Dalbec against a Lefty pitcher and Shaw against a Righty.
Yes I would prefer Shaw’s availability to fill in at third to give Devers a day off down the stretch.
The second coming of Martin Gonzalez!
Marwin, spellcheck got me!