Speaker 1: Let's talk about the numbers. Curtis Mead, what have we
Speaker 1: got going on? Mister Curtis Mead, He's having a breakout year.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is finally putting together a good season.
Speaker 1: And this is a highly tatted prospect with the Rays
Speaker 1: a little while back, just never fully got it going.
Speaker 1: He ended up going to the White He was with
Speaker 1: the Rays for a few years. He went to the
Speaker 1: White Sox last year. I couldn't really get anything going.
Speaker 1: But he went to the Nationals this year, still only
Speaker 1: twenty five years old, by the way, and he's having
Speaker 1: himself a breakout year. He's hitting two fifty six, three
Speaker 1: fifty one on base, a five oh five on the
Speaker 1: slugging seventeen home runs forty eight RBIs a two forty
Speaker 1: nine ICEO percentage. So yeah, there's a there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like here. I think my initial reaction is is
Speaker 1: this sustainable? That's kind of where I'm at right now,
Speaker 1: because obviously he is only just having this breakout year.
Speaker 1: And when you do take a look at the metrics,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got a lot of good stuff going
Speaker 1: on here. I mean you got a lot of reds.
Speaker 1: The expected numbers, the BATA ball profile. The plate discipline
Speaker 1: has been very good. I mean defensively here, So I
Speaker 1: mean he's been mostly playing at third base. He's played third,
Speaker 1: he's played some first. He's not gonna play first with
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. He's played actually a few games at
Speaker 1: second base as well. He's the age. I find the
Speaker 1: timing of this really interesting because Caleb Durban was just
Speaker 1: saying today that he'd be okay with moving to second base.
Speaker 1: So is he going to be playing third base? I'm
Speaker 1: speculating about the fit here. Again, I got some questions.
Speaker 1: I'm this was not Here's the funny thing. When I
Speaker 1: was going over trade candidates. You know, obviously we all
Speaker 1: know the names, right, guys like Zach Neeto, c J. Abrams,
Speaker 1: you know in the middle infield, Luis Arise over a
Speaker 1: third base, Max Shaban, Esak Paratus. You all know the names.
Speaker 1: I looked at Curtis Mead and I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He just broke out this year, like he's just having
Speaker 1: a good year. The Nationals are looking to continue to
Speaker 1: step forwards, and he's under a lot of control. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I don't think you would be a trade candidate.
Speaker 1: Funny enough, here he is coming to the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little iffy on this one. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now, ladies and gentlemen, if you are
Speaker 1: a beat a Baseball Trade Values user, well, Baseball Trade
Speaker 1: Values does not like this trade. Why because Connolly Early.
Speaker 1: And it's so funny because I have mocked trades with
Speaker 1: Connolly Early and with like C. J. Abrams, Like I've
Speaker 1: made those proposals in my head thinking, hey, you know Early,
Speaker 1: it would be a really nice get for the Nationals.
Speaker 1: They need more pitching within that rotation. And in a way,
Speaker 1: it's like I actually because here's the thing with the
Speaker 1: Nationals and here's the thing with the Reds. So it's
Speaker 1: a surplus for a surplus. The Nationals have had a
Speaker 1: great offense this year, very good. They have one of
Speaker 1: the top offenses in the game, but they're pitching leaves
Speaker 1: a lot to be desired. The Red Sox, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, have had a lot of good pitching this
Speaker 1: year and they need an upgrade offensively. So you know
Speaker 1: that's funny. Now, there's now been two one for one
Speaker 1: swaps with the Red Sox in the Nationals, this time
Speaker 1: major leaguer for major leaguer. But going to go back
Speaker 1: to the offseason, I can't breathe. You had Jake Bennett
Speaker 1: for Luis Parwis. So that's two times now. They have
Speaker 1: made the connection with former Red Sox exec Paul Deboni.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting. This is a really interesting trade value wise.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you know, I'm not gonna say baseball
Speaker 1: trade values is the end all be all. I think
Speaker 1: it does a great job when it comes to the
Speaker 1: fundamentals of a trade of a player's trade value. But
Speaker 1: considering Curtis Meade just broke out, there's not really much
Speaker 1: of a track record at this point. Well early, well yes,
Speaker 1: he's still very no pun intended, still early in his career.
Speaker 1: He he has shown more up to this point. And
Speaker 1: with early obviously being a starting pitcher, has five more
Speaker 1: years of control. There's a lot of value there. So
Speaker 1: the way I read this from the Red Soxes, and
Speaker 1: every team is going to have their own algorithms when
Speaker 1: it comes to valuing a player, right, So the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: I mean they are buying in to Curtis Mead here,
Speaker 1: who was one of the you know, one of the
Speaker 1: higher ranked prospects in the game at one point on Fangrass.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty four, he was number thirty two overall.
Speaker 1: Let me pull up here the Baseball America rankings, and
Speaker 1: let me pull up MLB pipeline. Let me go back
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four, see where he ranked there. He
Speaker 1: was number fifty five on MLB Pipeline. He was a
Speaker 1: higher ranked prospect. So, I mean, this guy was putting
Speaker 1: up some really good numbers in the minor leagues a
Speaker 1: few years back. I mean, holy col nothing was clicking
Speaker 1: when he got to the Rays. It just, I don't know,
Speaker 1: he just never fully materialized. I mean, back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four he had an ops just like around five
Speaker 1: point fifty. I just I don't know that the Rays
Speaker 1: just decided to move on and then he figured it
Speaker 1: out in Washington. But it's funny you think about it.
Speaker 1: You think about, right, Paul Taboni coming from the Red
Speaker 1: Sox organization, where you know, over the last few years
Speaker 1: or so, the Red Sox have been very big into
Speaker 1: right hitting the crap out of the ball, more eggs
Speaker 1: of v low, you know, so kind of you go
Speaker 1: to Paul Taboni's system over there in Washington, and then
Speaker 1: things clicks, so I wonder how that goes over here.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting. There's a lot of upside with this.
Speaker 1: It's funny, like Curtis Mead was a guy when I've
Speaker 1: done like prospect videos and stuff in the past. He's
Speaker 1: always a guy that I've mentioned from time to time.
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, he's never got it going.
Speaker 1: But when you looked at all the scouting reports, when
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers in the past, there was
Speaker 1: a lot to like, it's just a matter of can
Speaker 1: he sustain what the scouting reports have said about him.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you know, sometimes it takes guys a
Speaker 1: little bit. You take a look at Jordan Walker. Jordan Walker,
Speaker 1: you have a twenty twenty first round pick, could not
Speaker 1: figure it out for a few years, and here he
Speaker 1: is breaking out this year, winning the home run derby
Speaker 1: just the cherry on top of a great year so far.
Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes it takes guys a few years.
Speaker 1: So are the Red Sox are they Is this a
Speaker 1: move where they're like, man, we have a shot to
Speaker 1: get him right now? Is this the time we pull
Speaker 1: the trigger and we don't miss out on an opportunity
Speaker 1: like this Because there is a ton of upside with him.
Speaker 1: There is. Then I also question why were the Nationals? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess you can answer. I can answer this question already.
Speaker 1: Why were the Nationals willing to move on from him
Speaker 1: at this point when he's putting up great numbers? So
Speaker 1: is there a possible red flag there? I don't know,
Speaker 1: or was it they just really needed pitching, That's what
Speaker 1: I lean towards that, because their pitching is so thin
Speaker 1: over there, they really needed a guy like Early. They
Speaker 1: need more young pitching in that system. So I really
Speaker 1: like this for the Nationals. Big fan of Connolly Early
Speaker 1: and a big fan. He fills a big need over there,
Speaker 1: So I like it for the Nationals. The question is
Speaker 1: time will As always with trades, time will tell, But
Speaker 1: that is really the case here with the Red Sox again.
Speaker 1: Can he keep doing doing what he's been doing? And
Speaker 1: you know what, when you take a look at the
Speaker 1: stack caast profile taking a look, and as always with
Speaker 1: mister Craig Breslo, he likes guys that can give you
Speaker 1: a nice good pull air percentage. So if we're looking
Speaker 1: and uh, just as I expected, a very good pull
Speaker 1: air percentage of about twenty three percent that fits with
Speaker 1: the green monster. So right now, the track record holds
Speaker 1: his value back, his trade value back. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of ceiling here, and he's already shown you floor
Speaker 1: this year. I mean again, looking at the numbers, hitting
Speaker 1: two fifty four eight fifty two ops of one thirty
Speaker 1: five WRC plus seventeen homers forty eight RBIs man, oh man,
Speaker 1: I mean there is a when it comes to he's
Speaker 1: got a little bit of speed. Now again, I get
Speaker 1: back to the question where is he gonna be playing third?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be dhing? That's where I kind of wonder.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know unless we've gotten like a rapport.
Speaker 1: I am reacting to this just like all of you
Speaker 1: right now. I have not gotten any preparation done. I
Speaker 1: just came on here, so I don't know if anything's
Speaker 1: been said. Also, I do want to give credit, making
Speaker 1: sure we give the credit. Jeff Passon, of course, mister Jeffy,
Speaker 1: Jeff putting it out. Boston Red Sox are trading left
Speaker 1: handed Connolly early to the Washington Nationals for infielder Curtis Meat.
Speaker 1: So I'm very curious. Here's the thing I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: unless I've missed it. It seems to me based off
Speaker 1: of the defensive profile, which is non existent. Really, does
Speaker 1: this still leave open the possibility that the Red Sox
Speaker 1: could add another bat somewhere if he goes to DH
Speaker 1: could they still add someone for the middle infield? Could
Speaker 1: you still add to someone for third base? Does he
Speaker 1: play third base? I don't know. I wonder if there's
Speaker 1: another move. Possibly if there's, and and the fact that
Speaker 1: you still have over a week, I mean, this could
Speaker 1: possibly be the first of multiple moves for the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: at least they try. I don't think this puts them
Speaker 1: out of possibly looking to upgrade at either short, second base,
Speaker 1: third base, or even catcher. I don't think that that
Speaker 1: puts it away. And the fact that you only had
Speaker 1: to give up Connolly early here and I don't mean
Speaker 1: to say that to sound like a negative towards him,
Speaker 1: but you only had to give up one player. Granted
Speaker 1: it is a big overpay in this situation because Mead
Speaker 1: lacks the track record, but you still have other younger
Speaker 1: players than the organization you could possibly look to move.
Speaker 1: And I'll also say this about Connor Early too. With
Speaker 1: Early when Jake Bennett emerged this year that to me
Speaker 1: was a possible sign. I've mentioned Connolly early as a
Speaker 1: trade candidate, going back the last few weeks. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about this, right, you know, you see
Speaker 1: Anthony Iinson. I've talked about him too, But I wondered
Speaker 1: a while ago. I'm like, man, you know Early, because
Speaker 1: Bennett has broken out, that kind of gives them a
Speaker 1: bit of a luxury of having just all these young
Speaker 1: left handed pictures. They're not moving totally. And with how
Speaker 1: good Bennett's been, how do you move him? I mean,
Speaker 1: funny enough, you could say the same thing with the Nationals.
Speaker 1: How could you move Curtis Mead at this point? Right?
Speaker 1: But the Red Sox had a big surplus here and
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. But wonder Early, he's got really good
Speaker 1: trade value and I had an inkling feeling that he
Speaker 1: was going to get moved. This is interesting again, where
Speaker 1: does he play now? I saw someone in the chat
Speaker 1: say that this is probably the end for Masa. Well,
Speaker 1: here's well the thing with Masa right lefty bat. So
Speaker 1: let me actually double check on Mead with the splits,
Speaker 1: looking at the splits, so, yeah, he does a lot
Speaker 1: better against left handed pitching hits two seventy nine against lefties,
Speaker 1: two thirty nine against righty's, and then ops. He's actually
Speaker 1: got a good ops against both, eight ninety five ops
Speaker 1: against lefties, eight twenty seven ops against righty's, So there's
Speaker 1: not really a big difference there. But yeah, you kind
Speaker 1: of wonder here is masa at risk here of really
Speaker 1: losing a good amount of playing time. So I don't
Speaker 1: know my guess right now. Initial reaction is he's gonna
Speaker 1: be your DH because the defense just isn't good. And
Speaker 1: then I still think you can go get another bat.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting to me. It's really interesting. I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of upside with this, a guy that
Speaker 1: I didn't think was even available. It's Funny's and again
Speaker 1: Craig Breslo and the Red Sox for an office that
Speaker 1: they pull it off again where they do another trade
Speaker 1: that no one saw coming, both player wise and timing wise.
Speaker 1: We're all enjoying our Saturday nights over here. Goodness, gracious, luckily,
Speaker 1: I just got home a little bit ago. I went
Speaker 1: out for a nice date night tonight, and I good
Speaker 1: as gracious, thank goodness, I was home. Man oh Man
Speaker 1: didn't expect this. Let me see what you're all saying
Speaker 1: here in the chat. I think we had a couple
Speaker 1: of super chats. Let me pull these up. We got
Speaker 1: some quite reactions over here. We got four super chats
Speaker 1: New York Sports, Zach Do you like it? I like
Speaker 1: the possible upside, right, I mean, obviously he's having a
Speaker 1: good year, So I am that's great. Hey, I mean
Speaker 1: he's already shown you what he can do this year.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Hey. If he keeps up what he's been doing,
Speaker 1: that's an awesome addition for the Red Sox. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of has he fully figured it out? Right?
Speaker 1: Is this gonna stick? And one more time, when you
Speaker 1: look at these metrics, they're pretty good. And that's another
Speaker 1: thing too. And I'll say this, I'll commend all the
Speaker 1: Red Sox fans out there that we're talking about Zach
Speaker 1: Netto saying he strikes out too much. Well, you can't
Speaker 1: say that here because he's only striking out nineteen percent
Speaker 1: of the time. That's really good, really good. What is
Speaker 1: Ari Alexander saying? Ari Alexander, I'm gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be doing too many of Like where I look at
Speaker 1: the you know where I'm looking at the Twitter machine?
Speaker 1: All right, Aria, Okay, here we go, Aria, Alexander. He
Speaker 1: said the feedback that I've heard the last few days
Speaker 1: of the Red Sox had been eyeing the top of
Speaker 1: the market, Jeremy Paine is zach netto Shay Langleiers, et cetera. However,
Speaker 1: industry sources are skeptical any of those guys get traded
Speaker 1: at all. Astro's shutting down anything on Payna. At least
Speaker 1: one team got shut down on Langleiers. So the Red
Speaker 1: Sox went out and made a workable deal. It's interesting,
Speaker 1: and I've I've said that. I've said I've made a
Speaker 1: tweet the other day, and I say it all the
Speaker 1: time to you know, when people say, oh, we need
Speaker 1: to go get this guy, it takes two to tango.
Speaker 1: You know. You can sit here and say we need this,
Speaker 1: we need this. Well, I mean you have to go
Speaker 1: with what's available, right and I mean, listen. I'll also
Speaker 1: say this about the Nationals again, Nationals fans, you're getting
Speaker 1: you're getting a really good arm for the rotation. Not
Speaker 1: just a good arm, but a guy with a good
Speaker 1: head on his shoulders, a guy you know, if you
Speaker 1: think about a future, a future one to two punch
Speaker 1: of kid Cavali and Connolly early. That's really nice at
Speaker 1: the top of the rotation right there. So Nationals fans,
Speaker 1: I know you're giving up a big bat here, but
Speaker 1: you're getting some much needed pitching. And I mean again, now,
Speaker 1: they just got rid of a righty. They have so
Speaker 1: many lefties in this lineup, so you know, they felt
Speaker 1: they were okay with the bats that they have. You know, again,
Speaker 1: they've had one of the best offenses in the game,
Speaker 1: and I believe too they I mean, Eli Willits, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be coming up right now. He'll be
Speaker 1: up at some point, probably the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: Really quick. Let me go to the Nationals. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not like I mean, besides Willits, there's not, at least,
Speaker 1: you know, anywhere near the top, a big bopper that's
Speaker 1: going to be probably coming up soon. They got some
Speaker 1: guys that have some upside, but yeah, I guess they
Speaker 1: feel they're okay without them. And if you think about
Speaker 1: it from the Nationals point of view, here I'll get
Speaker 1: back to the Red Sox and just the second ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. But you know, the Nationals right now, where
Speaker 1: are they at in this wildcard I mean they're too out.
Speaker 1: That's a real This is a very interesting trade because
Speaker 1: the Nationals are right there and they really needed pitching,
Speaker 1: so they must feel confident that their offense is good
Speaker 1: enough to help them down the stretch here. And you
Speaker 1: know early he's been progressing in his rehabs, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry about that. You know, this, this is actually
Speaker 1: a like a man. It's a very unique move. It's
Speaker 1: like a it's a young player for young players, swap
Speaker 1: while both teams are in the wildcard race, two good
Speaker 1: upside players and you and you swap them in the
Speaker 1: middle of a of a postseason race. It's very interesting,
Speaker 1: like it's a it's it's a pretty cool trade in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Now, I know a lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna getting back to the values. Yeah, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, oh wow, this is a
Speaker 1: this is a fleece from the Nationals. The Red Sox
Speaker 1: got fleeced. You know, I think with me, when you
Speaker 1: consider the amount of control that he has left with
Speaker 1: the type of year that he's having, had a good
Speaker 1: prospect status at one point. My guess is the Red
Speaker 1: Sox they saw more value here, but also they saw,
Speaker 1: like Ari Alexander just said, they see a guy that
Speaker 1: could be had. This sounds like a very unique opportunity
Speaker 1: where you know, it's two teams that just matched up
Speaker 1: perfectly and at the it's like the right time, right
Speaker 1: place kind of a trade. Right no one else is
Speaker 1: looking to, you know, Netto. I guess the Angels are
Speaker 1: maybe hesitant on him Langlers, who knows if he's going anywhere. Paine,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere, So it's it's like
Speaker 1: a right place, right time kind of a move. I
Speaker 1: think you could say the Red Sox it's it's a
Speaker 1: little more I'll say one more time. I know I'm
Speaker 1: repeating myself. It does feel a bit more risky for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox because Mead hasn't shown that consistency over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, but he's looked really good
Speaker 1: this year. So that's my guess. The Red Sox they
Speaker 1: seem more value there. And in the chat Edwin, like
Speaker 1: we just said, pull air percentage. He fits nice and
Speaker 1: it fits nicely at Famway Park from Australia. You know,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox they're gonna be they're gonna be hyping
Speaker 1: that up. They're gonna be hyping that up. Hey, Jim's
Speaker 1: in the chat extremely risky. There's there's risk here. It's
Speaker 1: more so like it's because we're only just seeing him
Speaker 1: hit now, you know, that's the only thing that it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. Hopefully it keeps, you know, it sticks.
Speaker 1: I'll say one more time, if there are more moves
Speaker 1: to be made, then the Red Sox got a lot
Speaker 1: more time to still figure out other moves. And if this,
Speaker 1: if this ends up only being being the only bat
Speaker 1: the Red Sox acchoir. You know again, time will tell.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say, you know, yeah, would you have
Speaker 1: liked more of a sure thing going back over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, you know, like Netto or Langliers
Speaker 1: or you know Abrams. You know, you can even say Abrams.
Speaker 1: He fully broke out this year, right, that's another guy.
Speaker 1: He's had some good stuff over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: but he has really put it together like this, This
Speaker 1: to me is CJ. Abrams breakout breakout year. You know,
Speaker 1: he's shown good stuff, but this is like his best
Speaker 1: season by far. So AJ and the Chat had he
Speaker 1: trade Early for this. I mean, you know, if if
Speaker 1: he ends if this ends up sticking, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a good trade. If it ends up sticking
Speaker 1: ops at eight fifty two five WRSC plus a swing
Speaker 1: built for Famway Park. The only negative I'll for like
Speaker 1: the eighteenth time, it's just the lack of the track record.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if it sticks, this will end up being
Speaker 1: a great trade for the Red Sox. For the Nationals,
Speaker 1: I already like it for them. There's more floor for
Speaker 1: the Nationals. For the Red Sox, it's a bit more weight.
Speaker 1: And see so let me get back to the other
Speaker 1: super chats here. We got almost one thousand people in
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Speaker 1: And uh, let's take a look, Brady Fox, what's going on.
Speaker 1: Let me size this up a little bit. Very strange
Speaker 1: trade mead looks okay according to a savant page, But
Speaker 1: you need more for Early. In my eyes, that is interesting.
Speaker 1: I do my guess. I would like to think that
Speaker 1: the Red Sox were really trying for more because surplus
Speaker 1: value based off of current projections. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's yeah, there's not too much when it comes to
Speaker 1: needs future projections as of right now. I mean just uh,
Speaker 1: just to explain what I'm talking about. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can see it, you might not be able
Speaker 1: to see it. Let me see, Okay, So zips again,
Speaker 1: this is based off of what we've seen from him
Speaker 1: most of his career so far, but zips right now,
Speaker 1: they're only projecting him for around a one wins above
Speaker 1: replacement for the next three years. But I don't think
Speaker 1: those those haven't been updated yet. So I think you
Speaker 1: gotta like wait a little bit for more updates. And
Speaker 1: you know, those people behind the projections, they're probably wait,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting to see if this sticks a little
Speaker 1: bit more, you know, And I think there is a
Speaker 1: good chance it does, because the metrics look good. And
Speaker 1: that's another thing too. I wonder if the Red Sox
Speaker 1: actually look to tap in more for him to hit
Speaker 1: the ball harder more consistently. That's something the Red Sox
Speaker 1: they you know, we've seen it time and time again. Right.
Speaker 1: They did it with Wilson, Right, Wilson was a guy
Speaker 1: who's always been a good hitter. But they said, you
Speaker 1: know what, we can put him into our system. We
Speaker 1: can put him at Famway Park and we can get
Speaker 1: more out of him. That's a guy that we can
Speaker 1: tap into a little bit more, and they did. So
Speaker 1: you wonder if the same thing could happen here. You
Speaker 1: wonder could they even get more out of him with
Speaker 1: already the good year that he's having if they if
Speaker 1: he can, if they could find a way for him
Speaker 1: to hit the ball harder, more consistently. Man, that's definitely
Speaker 1: that's fun to think about. But again, you are taking
Speaker 1: a bit of a risk. It is a risk because
Speaker 1: who knows it's good now, but got to see what
Speaker 1: you know, things are looking like over the next year.
Speaker 1: But at least you have a lot of time here
Speaker 1: where he's got a lot of control left, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Moving on, let me go back to the super chats here,
Speaker 1: what do we got from cam? From cam, do the roar?
Speaker 1: What's his pull air percentage? Okay, I think we got
Speaker 1: to that earlier, So yeah, let me look at that
Speaker 1: one more time. The pull air percentage twenty three percent
Speaker 1: of the time. That does rank towards the top in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. This year that is in the Reds.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean the swing, it's looking pretty good
Speaker 1: for Femway. Red denis what's going on. My friend felt
Speaker 1: like early, where's our biggest ship we were willing to
Speaker 1: use for the deadline? No shortstop or cacture. Now I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna leave open the possibility that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that they could make another move. Still, it kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of the Sonny Gray move. Remember when they
Speaker 1: got Sonny Gray earlier in the off season, everyone was
Speaker 1: freaking out about it. Go back to the react the
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray reaction stream back in the off season. Go
Speaker 1: read the comments. If you're looking for a good time,
Speaker 1: go look at the comments and look at how many
Speaker 1: negative comments they were about Sunny Gray. That was a
Speaker 1: fun one. But he made the move for Gray, and
Speaker 1: I said at the time, I'm like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: good insurance for the rest of the off season. You know,
Speaker 1: depending on how things play out, at least they get
Speaker 1: someone like Sonny who's going to help your rotation. And
Speaker 1: then later down the road they eventually added more starting pitching.
Speaker 1: You had johann O Vieto I believe was the next one,
Speaker 1: and then you ended up getting grings with Suarez. So
Speaker 1: this kind of feels like that because we're still over
Speaker 1: a week away, so you got a lot of time
Speaker 1: here to make more moves. So I'm glad that they
Speaker 1: got the biggest need, a right handed bat that gives
Speaker 1: you some pop. They got it done over a week away.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. It's pretty I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: give them some credit for that to get ahead. And
Speaker 1: you never know what can happen with this market over
Speaker 1: the next week. Things can change just like that a
Speaker 1: couple of days, all of a sudden, a team is like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know we're gonna move this guy. So
Speaker 1: I don't think the Red Sox they could be done,
Speaker 1: but I don't think you shut the door on that completely.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this is as well. I've said multiple
Speaker 1: times we can talk about all the hitters here. For
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, I think they need to make a
Speaker 1: move for the bullpen. I think they could use them
Speaker 1: their arm or two back there, especially a lefty, a
Speaker 1: high leverage lefty. So the fact that they got something
Speaker 1: done here, if nothing else materializes for the offense to add, well,
Speaker 1: then you can turn your attention to the pitching side.
Speaker 1: So Carter Hawkins. I feel the need, the need for meat.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. We gotta start, I
Speaker 1: gotta start getting better at coming up with nicknames. I
Speaker 1: gotta I'm gonna try and think of one for meat.
Speaker 1: Where was I h super chats? Can you see the
Speaker 1: Red Sox showing interest in Francisco Alvarez? I was just
Speaker 1: talking about this was someone yesterday. There's a lot there
Speaker 1: is some intriguing stuff about Francisco Alvarez. Obviously the Mets
Speaker 1: are complete mess, but they don't have to move him.
Speaker 1: He still has a lot of control left his bat.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, if you're looking at you know, the
Speaker 1: type of profiles the Red Sox have been looking to
Speaker 1: add well, Alvarez definitely fits the bill. He's just had
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries. That's been the only problem with him.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can say some things about the defense.
Speaker 1: It seems to me the defense has been inconsistent behind
Speaker 1: the plate with Alvarez. But this is a guy that's
Speaker 1: mashed in the past. He just can't stay healthy. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I kind of wonder, like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was talking with someone yesterday. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, Alvarez with the offense and Carlos Narvas with
Speaker 1: the defense. It's a pretty nice tandem back there. You
Speaker 1: just kind of wonder, like Alvarez with the bat, you'd
Speaker 1: I think you would like to have him play every day,
Speaker 1: but like that would be a pretty good tandem if
Speaker 1: they were to figure that out. And uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know Alvarez though, I think the Mets they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get a really good offer to give him up.
Speaker 1: And and I've said this before, like are the A's
Speaker 1: gonna move Langlier? Are the Rockies gonna move? Goodman? It's
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot to get those guys. Those teams
Speaker 1: don't have to move those guys. So that's where I wondered,
Speaker 1: are the Mets because we saw this report about Alvarez,
Speaker 1: the Mets were I guess willing to listen on him
Speaker 1: or I'm paraphrasing. It kind of made me wonder, are
Speaker 1: they looking to leverage the ketcher market? You know, like, okay,
Speaker 1: teams out there are looking for catchers. Well, let's ask
Speaker 1: him what they'd be willing to give up for Alvarez.
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of think about that. But Alvarez, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like profile wise, I could see a fit there. Right
Speaker 1: handed back tends to pull a little bit more often.
Speaker 1: There is a good amount of strikeouts with him, but
Speaker 1: you will if he's healthy, you would be able to
Speaker 1: get an upgrade offensively at Ketcher. So, I don't know,
Speaker 1: keep your eyes on him, Matt, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: I don't like this straight. I know he's had a
Speaker 1: good year, but there's no sample. Listen, you are absolutely
Speaker 1: welcome to feel that way. Well, We're all welcome to
Speaker 1: feel however way we want. But I think that again,
Speaker 1: that is a genuine concern. There is wait and see here.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the upside. Hopefully it continues. But you're right,
Speaker 1: you know, there has been the lack of track record. Right.
Speaker 1: The Rays gave up on him like so quickly. I'm
Speaker 1: like why, Like I remember when that happened, Like wow.
Speaker 1: He was like I don't know, just like, wow, you
Speaker 1: really gave up and I'm that quick. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how it turns out. Greg hate
Speaker 1: this Early is promising. Here's the thing. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: that they traded early. I really like Connolly Early. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of upside with him. But to me.
Speaker 1: He was as good of a trade chip, one of
Speaker 1: your better trade chips, Like if you needed to go
Speaker 1: get something for the offense, he was like clearly one
Speaker 1: of the guys that you would move like, especially with
Speaker 1: the breakout of Jake Bennett. So I don't hate trading early,
Speaker 1: right at the end of the day, I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: I always I want to keep all of these players, right,
Speaker 1: but if there's a need and you had a surplus,
Speaker 1: you got to move from the surplus. So again, I'm
Speaker 1: not mad about trading early. I think he you know,
Speaker 1: with a couple of circumstances this year, it just developed
Speaker 1: to where he was a good trade candidate. He had
Speaker 1: good value. So we'll see how it turns out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, again, I'll say it one more time. There
Speaker 1: is a lot of promise here. There is man like,
Speaker 1: you got a lot of reds here. The expected numbers
Speaker 1: look good, the ex wOBA looks good. It's good, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: I think there's there's a lot of promise here and
Speaker 1: this could be a really good bat for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: And he's only twenty five. You know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: to dream about. It's it's fun to dream about a
Speaker 1: C fielding is a concern. Yeah, Dad, I want to
Speaker 1: see where fan Grafts is putting him. Where are they
Speaker 1: putting him? They haven't even added him to this team.
Speaker 1: Why they already put the trade here, So why haven't
Speaker 1: they put him in this lineup? Come on, Fangrafts, help
Speaker 1: us out. But yeah, you know you kind of wonder.
Speaker 1: I actually wonder if Jamai Jones is probably gonna get
Speaker 1: DFAD here or he's gonna get released or whatever. I
Speaker 1: feel like he would be the odd man out and
Speaker 1: then Massa probably moves to the bench at this point,
Speaker 1: and then Mead is your is your d H. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm guessing they're gonna go at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't put him at third base because Durban's there, right,
Speaker 1: so that's not happening. Like you can't take away that
Speaker 1: defense at third base. So I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: see that. I feel like he's gonna be the DH.
Speaker 1: That's the way I see. It could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: you know, he is a guy that at least he
Speaker 1: has that versatility. So if you needed you know, if
Speaker 1: Wilson needed a day off or whatever, he can play
Speaker 1: first if you needed him. In a pink shit third,
Speaker 1: you can do it so and heck, he's even played
Speaker 1: a little bit of second base, so yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play third with how good Durban's been there,
Speaker 1: So I think DH seems like that's the most logical spot,
Speaker 1: and hey, I'm cool with that. That's lets him focus
Speaker 1: on the bat even more. I'm good with that. Hey,
Speaker 1: So if you really want things to stick, well there
Speaker 1: you go. Have him just focus on his headache. H
Speaker 1: Zay's a reviews Robbie thoughts of this trade Netto and
Speaker 1: Detmer's for Campbell, Arius and Rivera. I don't think Arius
Speaker 1: is gonna be going anywhere, you know. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that came into play a little bit here too. I
Speaker 1: wonder if the Red Sox, they were connected pretty heavily
Speaker 1: with Netto, were they demanding Arius, like were they not
Speaker 1: willing to do Marcelo Meyer a package of Meyer and
Speaker 1: like Connolly early, you know, with some other prospects attached.
Speaker 1: Were they saying, Nope, it's got to be Arius, or
Speaker 1: we're not doing it. So I wonder if that came
Speaker 1: into play a little bit. I don't think Arius is
Speaker 1: going anywhere. I've been told behind the scenes that they
Speaker 1: love him. There. I don't think he's gonna get moved.
Speaker 1: The only time I get that, you know, one of
Speaker 1: these top prospects that get moved around this time was
Speaker 1: last year with Leo Debrees. That was bonkers, Like I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that. You know, Mason Miller's they don't come
Speaker 1: around very often, so I get I can understand that,
Speaker 1: but holy col Minim. But yeah, I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: You know, I wonder if there's more moves that could
Speaker 1: be on the table. It's gonna be interesting. I'd red
Speaker 1: SOX fans. I would not think to yourself, Okay, well
Speaker 1: we're done for the deadline, We're done. No, I still
Speaker 1: think you pay a lot of close attention over the
Speaker 1: next week or so. MXP. What's going on? Better on
Speaker 1: base percentic slugging ops and ops plus than Netto and
Speaker 1: Paratus and listen, I love it. I love it because
Speaker 1: here I've been having these conversations about Neto with people.
Speaker 1: There are flaws, right that, you know, strikeouts, defense, But
Speaker 1: a guy that's very athletic, he's gonna give you some
Speaker 1: good pop. He's on pace for a thirty twenty season.
Speaker 1: He's like a healthy Trevor story basically, so I can
Speaker 1: understand the concern with acquiring someone like Netto and but
Speaker 1: with me, he really checks off all the boxes offensively.
Speaker 1: And if there is an organization, in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to sound biased, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to an organization, I feel like the Red Sox they
Speaker 1: I mean, they've done so well. I mean, yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You know, you can say Roman obviously is her Meyer
Speaker 1: hasn't fully you know, come into his own yet. But
Speaker 1: the Red Sox have done very well over the last
Speaker 1: several years. I mean going back to you know, the
Speaker 1: early two thousands developing position players there. So if there
Speaker 1: is one of the organizations out there that I think
Speaker 1: would have success in helping this stick, it is Curtis Meat.
Speaker 1: I mean, we can, you know, I to me, you know,
Speaker 1: yeah you can. You can look at these numbers. But
Speaker 1: I think player development is as important as ever in
Speaker 1: today's game. It's so much much bigger than I think
Speaker 1: we realize. You know, I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: times when you put guys in the right place that
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times you know a guy
Speaker 1: could be so talented, but it's just not working in
Speaker 1: a certain spot, you know. So to me, at least
Speaker 1: on the surface, it feels like this is a good
Speaker 1: situation for me to help him have a sustainable career
Speaker 1: moving forward. I mean, yeah, there'd be other organizations two,
Speaker 1: of course, but I think the Red Sox are one
Speaker 1: of them that can help him stay on that path. Quinston,
Speaker 1: why are they asking for all? Right? Why is zach
Speaker 1: Netto going for so much? Why are they asking for Arius?
Speaker 1: Who knows if they're asking for Arius? But I kind
Speaker 1: of wonder if that came into play because they they
Speaker 1: were calling about netto Jason, how was dinner? Did it
Speaker 1: was great? Then? It was great? I'm glad I got
Speaker 1: home in time. Goodness gracious man oh man, the Ory
Speaker 1: King so ready for the deadline to light on fire. Hey,
Speaker 1: well we got something here once again, the Breslo to
Speaker 1: Bony connection. AJ. This is the same organization that had
Speaker 1: Durbin swing on your sixty eight percent. I mean, listen, AJ,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have guys out there. Like I said, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not gonna fully click. Many many players have had
Speaker 1: their own hitting guy, their own hitting coach, the guy
Speaker 1: that Caleb Durbin just worked with for everyone in the chat,
Speaker 1: do you know that hitting coach also worked with Mookie
Speaker 1: bats back in twenty nineteen. Remember when Mookie Betts got
Speaker 1: off to a bad start in twenty nineteen, or the
Speaker 1: MVP numbers that he put up in eighteen, they were
Speaker 1: he wasn't performing up to that level. Where did MOOKI
Speaker 1: go to help get him back on track? Gradam g
Speaker 1: Swing I know if people remember that very much. So
Speaker 1: Jadie Martinez I think had dumb some stuff with them.
Speaker 1: So guys, I mean, Bregman had his own hitting coach
Speaker 1: last year. You know, it's like, guys are just gonna
Speaker 1: do it sometimes, Phoenix in the chat, it's an odd
Speaker 1: gamble for me giving up a plus arm like early
Speaker 1: if it was bo. Yeah, Beo's got negative value at
Speaker 1: this point. So yeah, I know, of course you would
Speaker 1: like that, but you have to, like the old saying goes,
Speaker 1: you got to give up something good to get something good.
Speaker 1: So my guess is the Red Sox they see upside
Speaker 1: here that they think they can sustain. We'll see, we
Speaker 1: will see. Do we have any more super chats? I
Speaker 1: don't think we. I don't think we do. But ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I think I am going to start getting
Speaker 1: out of here. I don't want to run this too long.
Speaker 1: I want the replays to be pretty good with this. Actually,
Speaker 1: we got some members in here, Carlos, what's going on?
Speaker 1: It's the surplus of good pictures that made this trade possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without Bennett, this isn't happening. This is not happening. Cam.
Speaker 1: This deadline move is better than any under that's a
Speaker 1: good point that you. I mean again, you gotta wait
Speaker 1: and see how is this going to do over the
Speaker 1: next year or so. I think you could still expect
Speaker 1: that this is based off of what he's done this year,
Speaker 1: that you could expect, you know, at least something similar
Speaker 1: moving forward. So I think you could say this is
Speaker 1: easily one of Breslo's better deadline moves so far. Listen,
Speaker 1: what would you rather want? Do you want? Remember when
Speaker 1: the Red Sox needed a right handed bat in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, We're all thinking, oh man, all right, we
Speaker 1: got to get this. We got to get a dude
Speaker 1: to really help this lineup out, and that dude ended
Speaker 1: up being Danny Jansen. Well, what do you want? You
Speaker 1: want Danny Jansen or Curtis Meat. I think we all
Speaker 1: all take Curtis Mead. I still remember that. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: like Danny Janssen, like this is the right handed bat.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not having a bat. He's good defensively.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'll take Curtis Mead all day, every day.
Speaker 1: Oh buttered sausage. What's going on one of our members? Hey, Robbie,
Speaker 1: how's it going, buddy? Funny? I took the third trade
Speaker 1: deadline day off after I was scheduled, so I see
Speaker 1: all the news all day. It'll be crazy. Man. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be live all day over on the main channel,
Speaker 1: not here on massive territory. On the main channel, We'll
Speaker 1: be live all day. We'll be reacting to all of it.
Speaker 1: And hey, we got our first first big move. Gotta
Speaker 1: love it. In the chat cactus high risk, high reward.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to put it. There's
Speaker 1: definitely risk, definitely risk. AJ I mean, listen, you make
Speaker 1: a good point. I would rather not move early for
Speaker 1: such small sample. I don't think that's the wrong way
Speaker 1: to that's a bad opinion. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: bad take. But yeah, there is definitely a lack of
Speaker 1: sample here. You're taking a chance. Socks fan for life.
Speaker 1: Duran Gone, I don't know. I feel like that comes
Speaker 1: down to Roman and doesn't seem like Roman's coming back
Speaker 1: anytime soon. I think he's still in Fort Myers. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's even he's in Fort Myers. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's taking a swing yet. I don't know. Benny
Speaker 1: Barrels Early was a dog. Wouldn't have traded him early.
Speaker 1: He's got a good head on his shoulders. Man, that's
Speaker 1: a guy. If you want to start a postseason game
Speaker 1: down the road, give that ball to Connolly early and
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you a chance. Nothing fazes that guy.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone talks about Jake Bennett, how he doesn't
Speaker 1: show any emotion out there. Early too Early was very
Speaker 1: similar those two, very stoic, so Corbyn. I like the
Speaker 1: point Milliken made they might not have they might not
Speaker 1: have wanted to be in the same situation as they
Speaker 1: wore last year. Joe Ryan, I mean, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier, just saying earlier he did it
Speaker 1: with Sonny Gray. He I think he Actually I just
Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier with Sonny Gray, how they got him
Speaker 1: early in the off season. I think he learned his
Speaker 1: lesson at that trade deadline last year for the off season.
Speaker 1: I think he brought that same awareness to go get
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray early in the off season, see how everything
Speaker 1: else materializes, and then he ended up getting ranged Er Suarez,
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I think personally he did a
Speaker 1: good job on getting ahead here. I've said it a
Speaker 1: few times. He still has over a week over a week.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of positives with this. It's
Speaker 1: just a question mark, you know, moving forward, you know,
Speaker 1: over the next I say that more so over the
Speaker 1: next couple of years. This year, I'm not really worried
Speaker 1: about it because there's not really like a lot of
Speaker 1: red flash with Meat. I mean, Eve either to take
Speaker 1: a look at how he's been doing against certain pitches.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got positive run values across the board
Speaker 1: against all pitches. I mean he's hitting fastballs well, sinkers.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a low batting average against sliders,
Speaker 1: but he's slugging four fifteen against them. Change ups, he's
Speaker 1: hitting two seventy six against them. Cutters, he's hitting two
Speaker 1: seventy three, seven to twenty seven slugging. So it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no red flags really there. You know,
Speaker 1: sweepers he hasn't done well against. But you know it's
Speaker 1: not like a one. Oh he can't hit breaking pitches. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's had trouble against off speed. He say he's had
Speaker 1: trouble against fastballs. Well, there's nothing really there. So he's
Speaker 1: not striking out, he's walking a lot, he's not chasing.
Speaker 1: I mean, this looks pretty safe, looks pretty safe. I'm
Speaker 1: more so talking about year to year. You know, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, on on a second, let me let me
Speaker 1: backtrack a little bit. So, Okay, the metrics are pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Last year, he's still a good bat speed. He wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was still making a lot of contact. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously something clicked this year going to Washington. He
Speaker 1: went there and he got with those guys over there
Speaker 1: and just something clicked. I don't know, man, So yeah,
Speaker 1: just got to see if it sustains. Glenny Old. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Man? Ninety nine cent super chait. Appreciate my friend.
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well, brother, Anthony. Will he play tomorrow? Uh?
Speaker 1: Where were the Nationals playing? Were they at home? I
Speaker 1: mean they're not too far away, so I think he could.
Speaker 1: And it's not like he's over on the West coast,
Speaker 1: so maybe he ends up playing tomorrow, or maybe they
Speaker 1: give him a day. I feel like you've seen that
Speaker 1: in the past when when trades are made. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you feel like they well besides Doug Mirabelly, of course,
Speaker 1: you feel like they kind of give him a day
Speaker 1: right to get acclimated with everything, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: get them get their bearings set. So yeah, I would aj.
Speaker 1: I imagine he's on the plane now. So, oh man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing a flight watch for Curtis Mead
Speaker 1: like Dice came ats Zaka. Oh man, flight watch for
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead. Alrighty, I'm ot here, everybody. I'm gonna wrap
Speaker 1: it up right there. Do you want to thank you
Speaker 1: all for coming out here tonight