Brooks Baldwin

After three miserable starts, he was optioned to Charlotte and stayed in the minors for the rest of the season.

In addition to Hayes, Dominguez, and Smith, others the Sox were counting on but didn't deliver for one reason or another were Brooks Baldwin, Jonathan Cannon, Jordan Leasure, Everson Pereira, Lenin Sosa, and Tyler Gilbert.

The catching was supposed to be this team's strength, but injuries and regression turned it into a concern for most of the season.

The Sox lost Munetaka Murakami to injury for 35 games.

Um, Mike, they had Chase Maja each playing a lot of shortstop, and then he moved over to second base when they called up Colson Montgomery.

Then they had Brooks Baldwin playing all over the field that year.

Now, he's been hurt.

Uh, he got hurt in spring training this year, and so h- he should be ready for next year.

I'm willing to see like what it looks like when they have to do that versus if they're still in the acquisition mode and still like trying to find post hype prospects and, uh, other guys to give auditions to and give lots of playing time to.

Like, you know, the original outfielder was supposed to be Everson Pereira and Brooks Baldwin and Luis Angel Acuna.

Like it was supposed to be those guys, uh, and that didn't happen.

And, uh, they were able to pivot and solve it pretty well to where they're like a top half of the league outfield or, uh, or, sorry, actually depending on the win estimations, like top 10 outfield.

My guess for trade targets this offseason would be like William Bergoglia.

Brooks Baldwin makes a lot of sense as a guy who could get traded.

Those types of guys.

I don't think anybody who's in the starting infield is getting traded.

Tim Elko made the majors.

Brooks Baldwin was a 12th-rounder.

Spencer Adams was a 13th-rounder.

Shane Murphy was a 14th-rounder.

That's a dude that's just always been hurt.

That's looked pretty healthy right now.

You know, Eli Brown is another one of these guys who's like a 12th rounder kind of reminds me of like Brooks Baldwin like he's just this 12th rounder that's all of a sudden in the big leagues and you're like, Oh, where'd this come from type of thing so You know, the fact that they're doing this basically without stud pitchers is pretty impressive.

Yeah.