What is Abreu and or Duran's future in Boston?

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00:00This is Joe from Weymouth. Hello, Joe.

00:05Hi, good morning, Greg. How are you?

00:07What's up, Joe? What's on your mind?

00:10All right, what's on my mind is, well, I'm no baseball bread,

00:14but I think I have the qualifications anyway to at least speak,

00:19since you and I are the exact same age and I've never lived anywhere else except in Weymouth.

00:27So, but I have to respectfully disagree with him as far as Durant,

00:32and you've got to give something up to get something back,

00:36and Durant has the term and Ryan has the term, and let me tell you why.

00:40So, here's the deal. I love Durant just as much as the next guy.

00:44I love his enthusiasm, his Wally thing, the way he dabs up the guys behind the wall pregame

00:51and all that good stuff, but the thing is, the starting lineup,

00:56the starting outfield next year is Roman Anthony,

01:01Sadan Raphael in center, and Abreu in right.

01:03It's as simple as that.

01:06And Durant is not going to stick around to be a platoon player next year.

01:10So, I mean, as much as I hate to par with him, it is what it is.

01:14You know, the three young studs of the lineup for next year, that's the outfield.

01:18Yeah, I mean, some talk of Raffaella moving to the infield.

01:26He doesn't want to do that, though.

01:28He told Pete Abraham from the Boston Globe that he wants to stay in center field.

01:32Right.

01:33And they're saying he's like, I forget where, it might have been Jones and Keith

01:37that were talking about this, but some ESPN baseball writer had him

01:41as one of the best center fielder in baseball.

01:45So it looks like he has a chance to be a gold glover in center field.

01:49Why would you move a guy like that to the infield

01:53when you obviously have Christian Campbell down?

01:59And I know he's down in the minors,

02:00but why would you move a guy who is such a good defender for you

02:04to move him into the infield?

02:06And that's why I said, what are the Red Sox going to do with Duran

02:10in the offseason?

02:12If you're going to look to trade him...

02:14But you're going to get more value for him in the offseason

02:16than you're going to get right now being up against a deadline

02:20and everybody knows that you need pitching.

02:22Like, I mean...

02:23Right, but if you know that you're going to move on from anywhere

02:27and if that value you could get now can help you potentially win a World Series,

02:33then you do that and you say, you know what?

02:35Maybe we did leave a little bit on the table trading him

02:39before the trade deadline than in the offseason,

02:41but that trade helped us win a World Series

02:44and the guy that we got back is, you know,

02:47a big part of why we're able to win that.

02:50Yeah, I mean, I understand people really like Duran

02:53and they think that he's better offensively

02:56than he's shown so far this season,

02:58but you do just have an excess at that position

03:02and you need help with pitching.

03:04And I don't know if prospects will be enough.

03:07Like, I'm not in the weeds enough to know

03:09if some of these other clubs, what they're looking for,

03:11if prospects are going to be enough

03:13to trade somebody who's going to be a number two in a rotation

03:16or even a number three.

03:18Like, yeah, maybe for a number four or five pitcher,

03:20a 41-year-old like they're talking about coming from Baltimore,

03:23but not with what you really need.

03:25I mean, Brett brought it up,

03:26but you can probably get Nathan Evaldi for prospects.

03:29Like, would that not make you happy?

03:31Of course it would.

03:32He's awesome.

03:33Yeah, that would definitely, I think, make a lot of people.

03:36It meets all your needs.

03:36You're able to keep Duran on the team

03:38and bring in a legitimate pitcher to add to your rotation.

03:41Right, but if you're able to bring in a,

03:44like Brett said with Joe Ryan,

03:46who is more than a legitimate pitcher,

03:49is like, you know, maybe a one-ish on some teams,

03:54but here he's your legit number two when you want that,

03:59and then you have control of him.

04:01You have control of him for two years.

04:03Right, and I mean, Evaldi has a 1.5 ADRA.

04:05Like, he is also that, he is equal to that,

04:08and you don't have to give up Duran.

04:09It's like a win-win.

04:10But you're going to give up Duran anyways in the offseason.

04:12Well, you just want to give up Duran.

04:14No, no, no, you're going to give, so.

04:15Yeah, but you could get more for him in the offseason.

04:17You're not going to keep,

04:18are you going to keep Duran next season?

04:20Well, they have, they wanted to.

04:24I mean, they signed him for long-term.

04:27I mean, I, they, the guy, as Meggo said earlier,

04:30he was an all-star.

04:31I mean, he's having an off-year offensively,

04:34but, I mean, I don't know.

04:36I don't know what they're going to do with Duran.

04:38It feels like it would be between somebody like him or Abreu,

04:44and Abreu is 26, has more power with the home run so far this year,

04:49maybe has a brighter future.

04:50Like we've talked about before, it kind of comes down to,

04:53are you betting on the guy who you've seen from Duran

04:56over the next couple of years,

04:57or who you think Abreu is going to be over the next couple of years?

04:59But my question to them is,

05:02why haven't you signed Duran already then?

05:06If you feel like he's a big part of your future,

05:08and he is what he looked like last year,

05:12why wouldn't you have signed?

05:13What do you mean?

05:13Like, he's basically been on one-year deals.

05:16Like, they haven't given him a real contract,

05:19so why wouldn't you have signed this guy like a Christian Campbell

05:23or like a Sedan Raphael?

05:25Well, Christian Campbell's got, like, that super early.

05:28No, no, no.

05:28I feel like nobody really has that deal.

05:29Okay, so why hadn't they give Duran one of these veteran contracts

05:34that you would say, like, all right, he's, you know,

05:37he's going to be here for the next six, seven years?

05:40Yeah, I don't know.

05:41Because they're probably going to trade him in the offseason, right?

05:43Like, that's the point.

05:44Right, so I guess that's the point that I'm making.

05:46They don't see him as part of their future.

05:50But isn't it better to have a guy like Ivaldi and Duran on this team

05:54if you're trying to push for a World Series than to have Joe Ryan?

05:57Listen, I agree with you.

05:59It's an easy.

05:59But Brett also said that Texas, I don't know,

06:03are they going to be willing to give up Ivaldi?

06:05It seems like Joe Ryan.

06:07They're right around 500, sir.

06:08It seems like Joe Ryan wants to be on the first thing smoking

06:11to get out of Minnesota.

06:12He's like, send me anywhere.

06:14I love Minnesota, though.

06:16Love Minnesota.

06:17July is such an exciting time.

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