The Grissom Watch

[5GoldGloves:OF,75]

Last three years with the Sox games played %:
Sale: 28%, 6%, 63%
Story: 58%, 26%, 5%

Sale clearly wanted to play more than Story who just wants to sit at home and collect a check. If you include the amount of time rehabbing in WOO, the numbers look even better for Sale.

So altogether, Sale was 97%? No wonder Atlanta gave up a future All-Star for him!

[Old Red]

Things could change. Sale could get hurt. Grissom could start to show some pop. But the early returns on the trade sure look like the Atlanta G.M., Alex Anthopolous, hustled the new kid on the block, Breslow. Hornswoggled him, if you will. Sometimes you just need to live and learn.

The Braves had been after Sale for awhile, but I guess Bloom was just to tough to deal with.

[dgalehouse]

The Braves had been after Sale for awhile, but I guess Bloom was just to tough to deal with.

The Dodgers found Bloom very pleasant to deal with.

[moonslav59]

The Dodgers found Bloom very pleasant to deal with.

Not so much Ben (CC dump.)

[notin]

The Dodgers found Bloom very pleasant to deal with.

All they had to do was outbid a Padres’ offer that turned out to be even weaker…

[mvp 78]

mvp is just yanking chains.

What? This is a completely serious argument! Unbelievable...

[mvp 78]

If Sale clearly wanted to play more he wouldn’t have ridden his bike, and tussled with that TV.

He didn't get injured in the tv altercation. It caused him to miss zero time. In fact, he was promoted to BOS directly after that start and pitched his next turn in the rotation.

[mvp 78]

The Braves had been after Sale for awhile, but I guess Bloom was just to tough to deal with.

That is what I've heard, that other GM's just didn't want to take his calls anymore.

[mvp 78]

All they had to do was outbid a Padres’ offer that turned out to be even weaker…

Depends on how much you like Josh Naylor/Campusano and if you think the Sox could have picked out any other Padres prospects.

[Old Red]

He didn't get injured in the tv altercation. It caused him to miss zero time. In fact, he was promoted to BOS directly after that start and pitched his next turn in the rotation.

That’s the most amazing part after all the injuries he’s suffered is that he didn’t get injured playing TV man.

[mvp 78]

That’s the most amazing part after all the injuries he’s suffered is that he didn’t get injured playing TV man.

It's because he was righteous in his anger that day. The tv had what was coming to it.

[moonslav59]

This is the same guy that was playing with scissors, but did not get hurt.

What changed?

[mvp 78]

This is the same guy that was playing with scissors, but did not get hurt.

What changed?

He was right about the jerseys too.

[notin]

Depends on how much you like Josh Naylor/Campusano and if you think the Sox could have picked out any other Padres prospects.

Naylor worked out, but most of the other names have not. Lucchesi, Quantrill, Myers, Patino. There was also another outfielder the Sox could have taken in place of Naylor.

I don’t think Campusano was in the final offer…

[moonslav59]

He was right about the jerseys too.

Agreed. I remember thinking he did the right thing, despite some flack he got from the media.