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Paxton makes sense. Most of the time, herniated disks are treated with injections and rest. You also cannot inject then operate immediately due to problems with healing. For Sevy, I don’t get it. It’s likely not going away. Remove them

Confirmed by Sevy himself. Exam results pending, but says it’s the same pain as October, only hurts on changeup. He was told it was the loose bodies. Just f***ing get them removed and come back strong in July. f***

It tells me that this was player driven and likely condoned by Cora. Cora is gonna take the fall.

I’m still entirely dumbfounded that the replay rooms were placed next to the home dugout, btw. Ridiculous. Replay was rushed into the game and placed next to dugouts basically begging players to use it. I’m going to predict the following. Sox get hit harder for a lesser charge due to precedent. They’ll lose their top 2 picks for two years and have their IFA budget slashed by $1 mil for both years. Cora will get a 2 year ban since the Sox issue wasn’t as egregious but still the coach has to be punished for both Houston and Boston. Manfred will shut down all further complaints and try to move forward with locked replay rooms

It is grasping at straws. Girardi said they had the FO altering them when other teams were cheating. That’s not illegal. What you need to punish, per Not a Man-fred is confessions, admissions, etc of using video in game to figure out what’s coming. Also, if other teams did it, Not a Man-fred isn’t going to care. The Astros did it egregiously and won a WS. The Sox violated the rules and won a WS. The Yanks didn’t win during that time. The optics are terrible that two title teams in a row cheated.

Grasping at straws again. The desperate need to convict your rivals of the same crap the Sox did is actually really amusing. Kinsler has already condemned the Sox with his public diatribe. Even though, to me, it’s pretty harmless and basic, but according to the rules, it’s a violation. Kinsler said the Sox would go into the replay room and watch their ABs after the fact, but use the video to decode the signs from the pitcher. While that’s better than a camera in CF relaying real time info to hitters second by second, it violates the rules and as second time offenders, the Sox are going to get hit. Going forward, MLB is said to be locking the replay rooms and forbidding players from entering them during games. That should have been an easy call FROM THE BEGINNING. The idea that this wouldn’t happen in game is plain stupid and shows a total lack of foresight from the commish, again

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inquirer.com/phillies/yankees-phillies-joe-girardi-cheating-astros-steal-signs-mlb-network-20200220.html%3foutputType=amp He maintains that they didn’t cheat and that this was how they caught cheating teams. He’s a Phillies manager now and maintains that they didn’t cheat. More fake news from sour Sox fans

And I stand by that. What the f***

He apparently has a “loose body” in his elbow that they f***ing knew about in October. Why the ever living f*** didn’t they remove that?

We have the depth to have a real prospect starting. But that’s not what we want when we are the favorites to win a title

A wise man once said, “you can never have enough pitching.” We have Paxton and German coming back June 1. If this is just soreness and nothing else, then we dodge a bullet. If this is TJS, then we roll with what we have and thank god we got Cole

The Paxton injury was not as painful knowing Sevy was coming back. This one is painful. Let’s hope it’s nothing, but damn that’s not good

Lol, “our team cheated so yours must have too!” Great excuse. If Kinsler is being accurate, then this isn’t as bad as what the Astros did, but as a second offense and for the commish to save face, it sounds as if the punishment could be even more severe.

Red Sox 2020 season Opening Day roster WWW.MLB.COM BOSTON -- The Red Sox are finally ready to start their 2020 season, and they will do so with a 30-man roster that they set on Thursday. The roster will dip to 28 two weeks into the season, then to 26 two weeks after that. “So I talked about the A prediction on the roster from yesterday

I agree with you Ted. If the report doesn’t completely exonerate the Sox, my bet is they get hit with an over the top penalty.

The commissioner, Rob Manfred, was not a fan favorite prior to this offseason. He’s the face of the current CBA where the Lux tax limit has been treated like a real cap for third time offenders, essentially pulling big markets out of the market for big name FAs. The fact that Harper and Machado ended up in small markets was the worst thing for the MLB. But this was collectively bargained and they can change it for 22. Manfred has been the face of declining viewership and has done nothing to push the game to the younger generation. The best player in the game isn’t marketed at all. The second best player wasn’t marketed at all either (Betts). The individual markets were handling marketing themselves, but MLB push marketing doesn’t exist. Also, the MLB regulates their highlights to the point where you need to pay for them. Bauer has a great comment on this comparing the NBA (where a LeBron James bounce pass assist is viral within 10 seconds) to the MLB (without paying, you cannot see any Mike Trout highlights). Instead, Manfred thinks the length of the game is the issue. If you love baseball, you don’t care how long it is. If you cared about the younger generation, the games would be on when kids are awake. But no, now we have to regulate mound visits (which were necessary due to cheating) and batter limits for pitchers. But this year’s handling of the Astros crisis is the war cry for a new commish. The players got full immunity, which makes some sense to avoid fighting the union, but was actually demonized by the players themselves. Then the commish calls the WS trophy a “piece of metal” thereby diminishing the spoils for winning a title. The commish just diminished his own title trophy. That’s insane. The time has come

The problem for JBJ is that his defense was barely average last year. If he was still a leader in runs saved and zone rating, he’d have been dealt. But he’s coming off a year with uncharacteristic errors and a concern that he’s lost a step

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-red-sox-asked-influencers-194709235.html That’s a bad, bad look if true. Wow

The luxury tax number is the average annual value of the contract. It is not the payment made in a specific season

Vjc you’ve got the numbers all wrong. Remember, JH cares about the Lux tax. Myers is due $67.5 mil over the next 3 seasons, but with his contract being back loaded, his actual Lux tax number is only $13.8 mil AAV. If the Padres eat $33 mil (nearly half the deal), then the Lux tax number will only be $3 mil AAV. That’s palatable, especially if it allows you to buy a prospect or two. Even with Downs in system, the Sox system lacks any sort of depth. This is a way to buy a prospect and have it look like you’re barely paying anything for them

That sucks

Moon, while I agree that Chavis’ stock is down, I don’t deal from a farm that’s scorched earth if I don’t have to. I wouldn’t even sell JBJ low. The Pads are looking for a salary dump. Give them Bandy. Literally nothing else. Eat half Myers’ contract. Take Quantrill if that’s what they’re offering. He becomes your 5 and you’ve got at least a near complete team. Right now the pitching depth is the place where the Sox are at their worst. Add to it by eating a bad contract, yet with some creative math, not have it hurt the Lux tax number much.

The Padres would be selling a bad asset with the promise of a real prospect. I like Quantrill. I think he’s the kind of high upside arm you want to be grooming. There’s literally no point to throwing BJ out there to get stomped

Looks like Bloom has his eye on buying a prospect or two from the Padres. The current floated idea is the Sox take Quantrill and Myers (maybe more) with the Padres eating half of the contract. The Sox would send a garbage player back and essentially they’ll buy Quantrill for half of Myers’ deal

You cannot produce when your boss publicly blabs about your intentions and everyone waited you out, knowing you wouldn’t be able to dabble in the FA market. Bloom has been the consummate professional and got great value in his first major move. He came into extraordinary circumstances