Some of the moves would exclude the others, but in that plan I'm deliberately looking to make Pivetta expendable for a trade. Hill seems like he could be in a spot where it's Boston or bust, and maybe he's fine being a long reliever/bulk guy if the pen is otherwise full. This is shaping up to be the one of the most volatile high risk/high reward staffs I've seen on the Sox in a long time, and we need rotation depth if we're going to hope to have healthy starters in October.
The full flush of moves (including a Verdugo trade) up top would produce this 40-man roster:
Bogaerts - SS
Devers - 3B
Hoskins - DH (1B)
Story - 2B
Casas - 1B
Haniger - LF (DH)
Kepler - RF
Hernández - CF
McGuire - C
Bench: Arroyo (2B/3B/SS), Stallings (C), Refsnyder (OF/DH), Garcia (OF) (40-man minors: Park, Valdez, Rafaela, Hamilton, Abreu)
Hoskins plays plenty of first base, especially against tough lefties, which opens up the DH spot for Refsnyder and Haniger, whose outfield duties Garcia can help cover. Kepler can also play center field.
Sale, Kluber, Bello, Whitlock, Rogers, Paxton
Jansen, Schreiber, Martin, Houck, Barnes, Rodriguez, Brasier, Hill (40-man minors: Taylor, Kelly, Crawford, German, Winckowski, Walter, Murphy, Mata)
Traded: Dalbec, Duran, Pivetta, Verdugo, Wong, Hosmer
Traded/DFA'd/Outrighted: D. Hernández, Ort, Seabold, Downs
(That's a 27-man roster but certainly someone will be on the IL)
Anyway, I'm eager to see what happens this week. Crunch time.