There are exactly eight weeks until this year’s trade deadline, which as you recall carries more significance after rule changes prohibiting August waiver trades.
The Sox are currently 7.5 games behind the AL East-leading Yankees with a full 14 games against them yet to play. They’re tied for the second Wild Card with a overperforming Rangers team, and one game ahead of Cleveland and Oakland, who could easily turn it on.
As I understand it, the Sox have a luxury tax payroll of $241,269,167, which is a $4,730,803 gap before they hit the $246MM top tax threshold. If I’m not screwing up these back-of-the-napkin calculations, this means they could theoretically take on the prorated salary of a player (or players) making roughly $14 million in 2019 if they make a trade on *exactly* July 31, assuming no other salary subtractions.
They have, in my view, at least one substantial hole in the bullpen to fill. And depending on how the 1B/2B shuffle shakes out with injuries and ineffectiveness hitting Moreland, Pearce, Holt, Nuñez, Pedroia, and possibly Chavis, they might be able to use someone there (though Brock has had a nice 21 PAs since returning from injury).
Not sure if they’re looking to throw yet another body in the right side of the infield, but one guy I’d throw out there would be Logan Forsythe. He seems like a swing change guy this year, putting up a .388 wOBA with excellent contact skills and plate discipline while making $2M. The Rangers would have to fall out of the race, of course.
Other ideas?
The Sox are currently 7.5 games behind the AL East-leading Yankees with a full 14 games against them yet to play. They’re tied for the second Wild Card with a overperforming Rangers team, and one game ahead of Cleveland and Oakland, who could easily turn it on.
As I understand it, the Sox have a luxury tax payroll of $241,269,167, which is a $4,730,803 gap before they hit the $246MM top tax threshold. If I’m not screwing up these back-of-the-napkin calculations, this means they could theoretically take on the prorated salary of a player (or players) making roughly $14 million in 2019 if they make a trade on *exactly* July 31, assuming no other salary subtractions.
They have, in my view, at least one substantial hole in the bullpen to fill. And depending on how the 1B/2B shuffle shakes out with injuries and ineffectiveness hitting Moreland, Pearce, Holt, Nuñez, Pedroia, and possibly Chavis, they might be able to use someone there (though Brock has had a nice 21 PAs since returning from injury).
Not sure if they’re looking to throw yet another body in the right side of the infield, but one guy I’d throw out there would be Logan Forsythe. He seems like a swing change guy this year, putting up a .388 wOBA with excellent contact skills and plate discipline while making $2M. The Rangers would have to fall out of the race, of course.
Other ideas?