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I'mWithDan said:
Boston had the luxury of having maybe the best farm system in baseball. They have drafted and acquired talent incredibly well at the lower levels. They have obviously dipped in to that system the last few years but man, their potential team is absurd. Redsox just swapped out someone in their rotation with a near 5 ERA with one the best LHP in all of baseball. :puke:

I think it is an instance where both teams won. Boston has a lot of really good young talent and can afford to move a prospect of Mocada's value. The White Sox get a great return for a guy they didn't particularly like (internally from a culture standpoint) and they can start rebuilding around the best prospect in the game.
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I actually think this is a win for the White Sox.

Mark me down as someone who thinks this move doesn't move the needle that much for the Red Sox. Good pitcher? One of the best in the game. Upgrade over their bottom guys? Big time. But it wasn't their pitching that hurt them in the post season. Also curious to see how Sale's numbers look having to go from pitching a bunch in Comerica, Kauffman, and US Cellular to now pitching in Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Rogers Centre, and Camden...keep in mind he isn't a pitcher who generates a lot of GBs, and gives up a weirdly high % of HRs per flyballs for how good he is...and now he gets to pitch in a bunch of hitter friendly parks.

I'll make sure to revisit this eventually, but I think he underwhelms a bit in his 1st year in Boston.

But Moncada came into the winter as an "untouchable" according to the Red Sox. He alone is better than the entire package that the Nationals were rumored to be offering the White Sox for him. Then you add in Kopech who might be a top 5 prospect in his own right in a year or 2 if he keeps pitching like he has in the lower levels in the upper levels.

If I was a White Sox fan, I'd be very, very happy that the next 6+ years I get to watch Anderson and Moncada up the middle.
 
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Marcus said:
Red Sox look downright scary on paper, but it's baseball and anything can happen.

Regardless, I think they win the AL East running away.
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Considering nobody else in the AL East looks better than they did last year, I agree it's their division.

However, I'm not sure they're going to be much better than they were last year when you account for Big Papi's retirement, and that I don't believe JBJ or Porcello will come close to matching their production.
 
Out of the Rafters at the Q said:
Does Price continue to choke in the playoffs?

Do Carrasco and Salazar make it through a year healthy?
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I see no reason to believe Carrasco won't make it through he year. His injury was fluky. I can see being concerned with Salazar though. His issues seem to be durability related.

Porcello is the real question mark out of the bunch in my opinion. I think he's more likely to return to his career #'s with an ERA in the 4's than he is to look like a top end starter again.
 
D-Wreck said:
I see no reason to believe Carrasco won't make it through he year. His injury was fluky. I can see being concerned with Salazar though. His issues seem to be durability related.

Porcello is the real question mark out of the bunch in my opinion. I think he's more likely to return to his career #'s with an ERA in the 4's than he is to look like a top end starter again.
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I mean, for every Indians fan saying the injuries are fluky and we should be able to count on health, there's a Red Sox fan saying that Price's playoff numbers are just an anomaly and at some point, they should reflect how good of a pitcher he actually is.
 
The Red Sox were raped and pillaged.
 
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