RosterResource Chat - 5/28/26
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AvatarJon Becker
2:58
Assuming there's not some massive downturn in stuff, yeah. His fastball is ridiculous and he looks a lot more confident in the secondaries than he was when he first came up last year and teams pretty quickly realized that you can just sit on the fastball. Been a tough season for the Red Sox but having 60% of your 2027 rotation all but set with Crochet, Tolle, Early puts them in a good spot on the pitching side.
Scott
2:59
Punted saves and now own every potential closer…do Juan Morillo, Keaton Winn, or Gus Varland have any real chances for saves!?!
AvatarJason Martinez
3:01
I'd go with Winn.Morillo has fallen down the depth chart a bit. Not really his fault but Ginkel has re-emerged as a reliable option and a few others have also been great. Varland is stuck in a committee that has gotten more crowded with the return of Clayton Beeter and now Cole Henry is back from the IL.

Winn has been the Giants' best reliever. Because most of the others have been unreliable, Winn has to be used earlier in close games. As things stabilize (if they do), I'd expect Winn to get more save chances.
Norm Chouinard
3:02
Nuts and bolts question.  What is the date that the WW order stops using last year's standings?
AvatarJon Becker
3:03
Love a nuts and bolts question. The waiver wire goes by last year's standings, worst-to-first (the whole league sorted together, it's not the player's league and then the opposite league like it used to be) through April 30 and then it switches over to the current year standings on May 1. I believe that's based on the date on which the player is placed on waivers, which can be up to 48 hours after the DFA, if I recall correctly.
Phil
3:04
Breslow is starting to get asked about selling off at the deadline, although naturally his responses have been typically information-free. What is your sense? It seems quite possible that he'll do basically nothing, even though that's what always made people so mad at Bloom. But the team isn't good enough to "go for it," and he'd be selling low on a lot of the guys who are tradeable (e.g., Duran) or trading away guys who are both signed and likely to be useful next year (e.g., Chapman). Is the pressure to do *something* likely to play a role?
AvatarJason Martinez
3:06
They're only 3 games out of the WC race. And even if they were 10 games out, I don't know if Breslow has the job security where he'd be confident enough making trades to help a future Red Sox team. Best-case scenario, they'll stay within reach of the playoff race while creeping back to .500 and Breslow can treat the deadline like his job is on the line. So they'd be buyers and not sellers. Would have to be obvious that they have no chance for them to become sellers at any point. If they're trading big leaguers before mid-July and Breslow is still in charge, I'm assuming he was given a vote of confidence by ownership.
3:09
That will do it for today. Thanks for joining us. Have a great rest of the week!
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