1 hour ago, Michael said:

Hector Gomez saying Cubs, Padres, Blue Jays have called about Sandy.

really hoping it's not the Padres. tired of getting their shitty broken guys.

1 minute ago, rmc523 said:

Bowden at the athletic has proposed this trade:

Red Sox, Marlins, Padres swing a three-way

Red Sox get: RHP Edward Cabrera from Marlins
Padres get: LF Jarren Duran from Red Sox
Marlins get: C Ethan Salas from Padres, RHP Luis Perales from Red Sox

@Rydawg do you approve of three-ways?

37 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

Bowden at the athletic has proposed this trade:

Red Sox, Marlins, Padres swing a three-way swap

Red Sox get: RHP Edward Cabrera from Marlins
Padres get: LF Jarren Duran from Red Sox
Marlins get: C Ethan Salas from Padres, RHP Luis Perales from Red Sox

Bowden is a long-time former GM for a reason. Athletic needs to drop him. He's almost as bad as Frisaro on tradeideas.

37 minutes ago, hovertical said:

really hoping it's not the Padres. tired of getting their shitty broken guys.

Who do they even have left? I certainly prefer the Cubs here although not too familiar on Jays system.

How reliable of a source is Hector Gomez?

1 hour ago, Michael said:

Bowden is a long-time former GM for a reason. Athletic needs to drop him. He's almost as bad as Frisaro on tradeideas.

Who do they even have left? I certainly prefer the Cubs here although not too familiar on Jays system.

I read something the other day that was talking about how their system has gone down recently with their trades

17 hours ago, hovertical said:

@Rydawg do you approve of three-ways?

@Admin is always up for a 3-way ,he loves DPs

59 minutes ago, el_gmac said:

@Admin is always up for a 3-way ,he loves DPs

A good DP is a thing of beauty that I could watch over and over again.

26 minutes ago, mystikol87 said:

A good DP is a thing of beauty that I could watch over and over again.

My man

On 7/25/2025 at 4:39 PM, rmc523 said:

Bowden at the athletic has proposed this trade:

Red Sox, Marlins, Padres swing a three-way swap

Red Sox get: RHP Edward Cabrera from Marlins
Padres get: LF Jarren Duran from Red Sox
Marlins get: C Ethan Salas from Padres, RHP Luis Perales from Red Sox

As a Red Sox guy myself this is a win win all around. I LOVE Jarren but the poor guy is a basket case that visibly lets the pressure get to him and coming here where no one gives a shit would do wonders for him lol

Edit: NVM I read that wrong lol I thought the Marlins got Duran.

Edited July 26, 2025Jul 26 by marlinsmaniac

1 hour ago, mystikol87 said:

A good DP is a thing of beauty that I could watch over and over again.

45 minutes ago, marlinsmaniac said:

As a Red Sox guy myself this is a win win all around. I LOVE Jarren but the poor guy is a basket case that visibly lets the pressure get to him and coming here where no one gives a shit would do wonders for him lol

Edit: NVM I read that wrong lol I thought the Marlins got Duran.

The other problem here is that the two guys Bowden mentioned the Marlins getting have combined to play 10 games this season in the minor leagues.

I'd rather my acquired prospects be healthy and preferably trending upwards.

Fuck Bowden. lol

Also consider me very surprised to find out Duran is already 28 and will be 29 in a month and a half. I thought he was like 25. This trade really benefits Boston only, at this point. Duran maybe resurges in San Diego but crikey.

3 minutes ago, Michael said:

The other problem here is that the two guys Bowden mentioned the Marlins getting have combined to play 10 games this season in the minor leagues.

I'd rather my acquired prospects be healthy and preferably trending upwards.

Fuck Bowden. lol

Also consider me very surprised to find out Duran is already 28 and will be 29 in a month and a half. I thought he was like 25. This trade really benefits Boston only, at this point. Duran maybe resurges in San Diego but crikey.

"lets do a trade that doesn't benefit the Marlins at all and post it as a good idea. they have no fans so who cares"

Just now, hovertical said:

"lets do a trade that doesn't benefit the Marlins at all and post it as a good idea. they have no fans so who cares"

That is probably his exact thought process.

On 7/25/2025 at 4:40 PM, hovertical said:

@Rydawg do you approve of three-ways?

Yes, but no devil's triangle.

6 hours ago, mystikol87 said:

A good DP is a thing of beauty that I could watch over and over again.

I think I'm hard now.

On 7/25/2025 at 4:39 PM, hovertical said:

really hoping it's not the Padres. tired of getting their shitty broken guys.

I don't know. I think Snelling and Marsee could be pretty good. Snelling might even have #2 starter upside. Mazur also looks like a useful pitcher, also. Still too early to have a informed opinion on Head. He's still far away.

On 7/25/2025 at 5:18 PM, Michael said:

Bowden is a long-time former GM for a reason. Athletic needs to drop him. He's almost as bad as Frisaro on tradeideas.

Who do they even have left? I certainly prefer the Cubs here although not too familiar on Jays system.

I mean, we would need more, but isn't Ethan Salas one of the top prospects in baseball?

22 minutes ago, Rydawg said:

I mean, we would need more, but isn't Ethan Salas one of the top prospects in baseball?

Kindasorta but only 10 games this year and his career slash is bad.

That said he's literally 19 in AA.

3 games under and going for a sweep in MIL tomorrow…I think this kills the idea of trading Sandy, Cabrera, and Cal. That’s signaling defeat with a hot team and I don’t care who you bring up to replace them, it’s not going to be an improvement.

I’m still leaning towards trading Cabrera, Bender, and Jesus as priorities. Cabrera gives you your haul of two AA/AAA top 100 prospects that may even be able to help right now plus 1-2 younger high upside guys to fill A/A+. Bender gets you a fringe top 100 guy and can be replaced easily. Sanchez gets you two top 30 guys in some teams farm to fill out the farm depth, let’s Marsee come up which may be an immediate upgrade, and opens up an OF spot for next year.

All three of these moves make you better next year hopefully and most likely don’t kill our momentum (Cabrera is hard to replace but worth selling high on).

If you want to make an argument for Fortes, Cal, Dane, and other BP guys then I’m all ears, but while each of these guys individually aren’t a huge loss I think it’d be hard to replace in the aggregate this season.

Sandy is still a hard no IMO, but I fear he is even more likely to be traded than Cabrera because of his salary which is very disappointing. We shall see.

Edited July 27, 2025Jul 27 by EricOwens!

10 minutes ago, EricOwens! said:

3 games under and going for a sweep in MIL tomorrow…I think this kills the idea of trading Sandy, Cabrera, and Cal. That’s signaling defeat with a hot team and I don’t care who you bring up to replace them, it’s not going to be an improvement.

I’m still leaning towards trading Cabrera, Bender, and Jesus as priorities. Cabrera gives you your haul of two AA/AAA top 100 prospects that may even be able to help right now plus 1-2 younger high upside guys to fill A/A+. Bender gets you a fringe top 100 guy and can be replaced easily. Sanchez gets you two top 30 guys in some teams farm to fill out the farm depth, let’s Marsee come up which may be an immediate upgrade, and opens up an OF spot for next year.

All three of these moves make you better next year hopefully and most likely don’t kill our momentum (Cabrera is hard to replace but worth selling high on).

If you want to make an argument for Fortes, Cal, Dane, and other BP guys then I’m all ears, but while each of these guys individually aren’t a huge loss I think it’d be hard to replace in the aggregate this season.

Sandy is still a hard no IMO, but I fear he is even more likely to be traded than Cabrera because of his salary which is very disappointing. We shall see.

1,000% agreed. Ironically, while Sandy’s salary makes them more likely to deal him, his salary makes him more appealing to the interested teams I would think.

9 minutes ago, EricOwens! said:

opens up an OF spot for next year.

Conine return or whoever we get for Sandy/Cabrera.

9 minutes ago, EricOwens! said:

If you want to make an argument for Fortes, Cal, Dane, and other BP guys then I’m all ears, but while each of these guys individually aren’t a huge loss I think it’d be hard to replace in the aggregate this season.

I don't know that anyone wants Dane, but Cal definitely goes - he is doing exactly what he was meant to do, be a rental and look good enough to be serviceable to flip at the deadline.

Ship Fortes out and bring up Joe Mack. Defense should stay about the same.

If it's a soft sell or half-and-half, this team can keep it rolling.

2 hours ago, Rydawg said:

Still too early to have an informed opinion on Head. He's still far away.

My wife feels the same way.

2 hours ago, Michael said:

Conine return or whoever we get for Sandy/Cabrera.

I don't know that anyone wants Dane, but Cal definitely goes - he is doing exactly what he was meant to do, be a rental and look good enough to be serviceable to flip at the deadline.

Ship Fortes out and bring up Joe Mack. Defense should stay about the same.

If it's a soft sell or half-and-half, this team can keep it rolling.

Opening up an OF spot was a positive point to moving Jesus because there’s plenty of competition that qualified

12 hours ago, EricOwens! said:

3 games under and going for a sweep in MIL tomorrow…I think this kills the idea of trading Sandy, Cabrera, and Cal. That’s signaling defeat with a hot team and I don’t care who you bring up to replace them, it’s not going to be an improvement.

I’m still leaning towards trading Cabrera, Bender, and Jesus as priorities. Cabrera gives you your haul of two AA/AAA top 100 prospects that may even be able to help right now plus 1-2 younger high upside guys to fill A/A+. Bender gets you a fringe top 100 guy and can be replaced easily. Sanchez gets you two top 30 guys in some teams farm to fill out the farm depth, let’s Marsee come up which may be an immediate upgrade, and opens up an OF spot for next year.

All three of these moves make you better next year hopefully and most likely don’t kill our momentum (Cabrera is hard to replace but worth selling high on).

If you want to make an argument for Fortes, Cal, Dane, and other BP guys then I’m all ears, but while each of these guys individually aren’t a huge loss I think it’d be hard to replace in the aggregate this season.

Sandy is still a hard no IMO, but I fear he is even more likely to be traded than Cabrera because of his salary which is very disappointing. We shall see.

I see Bendix sticking to his timeline/plan, not reacting to unexpected success