Rob Bradford

So you want to go run prevention?

Well, Paradis and Suarez aren't run prevention guys.

And so you have a ton of ground ball pitchers all of a sudden.

You need guys to field ground balls.

That would seem to be important.

But you also need home runs, and that's where a guy like Suarez comes in.

A guy like Donovan isn't a guy who's going to hit home runs.

It's just there isn't right now seemingly the ideal fit.

What's interesting to me is

we're trying to piece this together with free agency and who guys are available or guys that are obvious trade candidates.

Well, we've got to start thinking outside the box a little bit.

And one place maybe we should start looking at a little bit is the Mets.

And the Mets, whether it's Mark Vientos or Brett Beatty, all of a sudden places that you have surplus of guys.

So I think that that's worth looking at.

And here's the other thing, Peter, is that you look outside the box because that's where they're looking.

Right before the Suarez deal, I mean about two hours before, I got word that the Red Sox were very, very aggressively for the last few days really, really looking at pitching that you would almost not expect them to be looking at in terms of trade, like high-end, controllable guys.

So when we look at where the bat's going to come from, maybe it's not so obvious.

All I know is that they're going to get one.

First of all, happy six year anniversary of the, of the Danny Hurley.

Uh, you better get us now press conference.