Standings through June 18 vs. Standings from June 19 onward.
Chris Hatfield
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Adley deal, in a vacuum, is a HAUL for the O's. But if the alternative is they get nothing, is that worse? See 2025. Can't make the O's take less for Adley. They clearly looked at other options based on the reporting. Can still hate it. I might? Just a bigger perspective.
Has 5 years ST so can't be optioned. If Wong is still here and healthy he gets DFA.
Mike O’Brien@mikelobrien.bsky.social · 2d agoAhhh. Then Rogers will head to Triple-A - assuming he has options left?
Rogers fills the roster spot until Adley comes off the IL.
Ssoxinmi.bsky.social@soxinmi.bsky.social · 2d ago
If you are going to give up that much, you have to get back at least one other “piece” and Rogers isn’t that. Even if the first piece was Adley.
Complete speculation, PTBNL being reported now strikes me as a response to the medicals. If Adley stays healthy, it's one thing, if not, someone else or, like the Jordan Hicks deal, it goes away.
Yowza. #2 (Eyanson), 3 (Witherspoon), & 6 (Azocar) prospects in the #SP60 in the deal, with Azocar moving up at least one spot with Bennett graduating in our update this week. Plus Narvaez who was almost a 3-win player last year, but has struggled in 2026. That's a haul for O's.
Alex Speier@alexspeier.bsky.social · 2d agoPer sources: The Red Sox are getting Rutschman and Jake Rogers as well as cash for Anthony Eyanson, Enddy Azocar, Kyson Witherspoon, and Carlos Narváez.
I'm told by a team source that there were other terms of the CWS deal related to the PTBNLs, and that there actually will not be any other players moving in that deal now. So there you go.
Chris Hatfield@spchrishatfield.bsky.social · last wk.As the deadline approaches, remember there are 2 pending outgoing PTBNLs and 1 pending incoming PTBNL from the Hicks/Sandlin/Ziehl trade with the White Sox. They're due to be exchanged by 8/1. Also, the PTBNL going to Detroit for Jones is outstanding, of course.
Greenville, on both sides of the ball, strikes me as the level from which we may see the Red Sox look to deal from. Loaded lineup and the rotation runs something like 7-9 deep depending on how generous your definition of "interesting" is. First use of that depth here.
Alex Speier@alexspeier.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Red Sox are sending LHP Jojo Ingrassia to the Tigers as the player to be named in the Jahmai Jones trade. Ingrassia had a 3.27 ERA and 33 percent strikeout rate in High-A Greenville this year.
LHP Jojo Ingrassia is probably a better player than I thought they'd give up for Jones. But he has a long injury history: Missed most of May with an elbow strain. Missed May-Sept 2025 in part due to a shoulder injury. Missed a month in 2024 with left elbow inflammation.
Potential that today will be a very busy day on the farm. Deadline day for the Hicks PTBNLs (2 out, 1 in), Schaffner and Hull headed to Greenville (per Andrew Parker), Cespedes to Portland (also Andrew). Could see more moves to get the draftees on the DRL as well.
As the deadline approaches, I wouldn't be surprised if the Red Sox move 1 or 2 low-minors catchers out of necessity. They have 3 guys each in High-A and Low-A they probably want to get innings, five of whom probably should be in Greenville. Maybe 1 to CWS as a PTBNL?
As the deadline approaches, remember there are 2 pending outgoing PTBNLs and 1 pending incoming PTBNL from the Hicks/Sandlin/Ziehl trade with the White Sox. They're due to be exchanged by 8/1. Also, the PTBNL going to Detroit for Jones is outstanding, of course.
Can confirm, per team source, John Holobetz (#SP60 #13) is being promoted to Triple-A Worcester, as first reported by Chris Smith. In addition, RHP Joe Vogatsky will move up from Greenville to Portland.
Some injury news: IF Henry Godbout (#SP60 #8) is expected to begin rehab games next week, potentially with Salem but perhaps at the complex. He's been out since May 30 with a broken hand from a HBP that required surgery. He was hitting .277/.410/.492 before the injury.
Confirming news first reported by Tommy Cassell on Twitter and @alexspeier.bsky.social here, the system's top prospect, Franklin Arias, is being promoted to Worcester.
Why Alec Gamboa was only added as the 27th man for game 2 today while, for example, he was added for both games last Friday: The 27th player isn't eligible for the 1st game if the postponement was earlier in the same series, unless the teams agree otherwise. No idea why that is.
RHP Sadbiel Delzine (#SP60 #10) has been promoted from the FCL (which ends on Thursday and where he'd likely made his last start anyway) to Salem. 39.2 IP, 2.72 ERA, 43 K, 18 BB, 1.06 WHIP on the season.
Depends on how deep they think Suarez can go tomorrow, I think. Bello as the long relief option makes sense. Otherwise send him down to stay stretched out.
Leigh Grossman@swordsmith.bsky.social · 2w agoI wonder if Bello or Rivera gets sent down when he's activated.
I'm not sure there's a clearer sign that the energy has flipped with this team than the news that Ranger Suarez will start tomorrow after a minimum IL stay. Two months ago he's out at least 6 weeks.
What better way to celebrate 13 in a row with some Sox talk, kid?
I love this from SP forum poster Incandeza: The Red Sox bonuses were roughly equivalent to slot for picks: 49 (Schaffner) 50 (Mataczynski) 61 (Shelar) 71 (Hull) 93 (LaFavor) BOS had picks 20, 67, & 96. So it's as if they traded back from 20 for 3 late 2nds: ~ 49, 50, & 61.
On the uniqueness of the Red Sox draft strategy: I looked at MLB.com data for pick 11 to the end of the 1st rd from 2017-2025. The largest discount was ATL signing Tate Southisene for $1.36m under slot last year at 1-22. Schaffner signed for ~$2.374m under slot.
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$1.5m signing bonus for 9th-rd pick Martin Shelar, reported by @ChrisCotillo and @AriA1exander, looks like a record for that round, after checking the B-Ref and Baseball America draft databases. Previous record was Clay Holmes at $1.2m in 2011.
The Red Sox will be announcing the signing of most of their draft picks today, including all players picked in the first 10 rounds.
Imagine you are but a humble FCL Red Sox pitcher, at the start of your professional career, and you see this atop the Braves lineup today. Good luck, kid! 😂
