jacksonianmarch

Not true anymore. My teammate played in 1 game and was 1 for 1 in his major league career. No pension, no medical

Either way, after our rotation was vilified in the Fens, we’ve thrown 13IP of 4ER ball while winning 2 games against the best offense in baseball. I’ll take it. Our rotation can pitch. They just sucked as a unit for a month

I was in the shitter for that one. Listen, he’s sucked. There’s no question. He’s giving a bit low. Sale kept going high. He got squeezed. No question

It’s a bad call. No question. He’s not calling a real strike zone. I’m not arguing that. What I’m telling you is the guy is calling the ball low and is avoiding the high strike. German was living low. Sale was living high

The ump has been bad, yet consistent. He’s giving about 3-4 inches below the zone and isn’t giving the upper 3-4 inches of the zone. Sale didn’t adjust

How a stupid game plan against Lemahieu can ruin a game. You don’t go away. Btw, this ump is bad

Wow. DJ!!!!! 7-1

Sale choking again. 4-1

The bottom of our order got a run home. Wow

Nasty changeups there. Keep holding them until the sox pen comes in. Sale is dealing too

Sale is afraid of the fastball. Yanks are gonna hammer him if he cannot locate the fastball. You can only throw all sliders for so long

Vasquez is hurt and it’s a DHer. Leon is gonna start

The bottom of our order is an auto out

No repercussions. You saw the cockshot Kahnle threw earlier in the year that split the plate middle middle and Angel called it a ball. BOOM Lemahieu

That was a bad call for sure

We had to get the immortal Breyvic f***ing Valera in the lineup. Sounds like Didi is out for today. This is not our A lineup but let’s see how we hit Sale

The sox were leading the league in blown saves for awhile, so it isn't like they didn't get leads

Really, you want me to?

Everyone knew your team wasn't set. Everyone knew your pen was a dumpster fire. DD made moves with his heart and not his head this offseason

The problem with hiring Dombrowski is that you knew you were making a deal with the devil. I think, Kimmi, you were on record as a Cherington defender and have been to some degree a Dombrowski defender as well. DD was brought here with a purpose. You knew the mission was win now and he achieved that mission. You knew the cost was a scorched earth rebuild with players getting paid far beyond their best production. The fans of Cherington wanted to suckle off the teat of Epstein and keep a strong farm system foundation while building a team that could win for a long time and was sustainable. Cherington was pushed into signing Hanley and Pablo and when they bombed, he paid the price for it. DD comes in, sells off everything Cherington worked for and won 3 straight ALE titles and won the 2018 big league title. I think Henry saw the Yankees in a down phase and made the move when he thought the ALE was easy to win. He was right. In doing so, he desecrated his farm and essentially doomed the sox to a long rebuild. You take that if you win the title. Sox fans shouldn't be upset about it. This was the deal Henry made. He took advantage of a weak ALE, made a team that was a juggernaut and won a title. This season may be a world series hangover, but it is rapidly looking like a team with players starting to fall into the down phase or players coming down from career highs that won't be reached again. With every possible depth piece now in other organizations, he has nothing left. The one major critique on DD is that he drafted poorly and development bombed. But for the most part, this is the end of the window. Sox fans cannot lament it. You won 3 ALE titles and a world series. Time to pay the piper

We don’t have an ace on our club. Paxton can be the ace, but aside from last night he hasn’t pitched like one. Now let me get this straight, Sale is an ace in WAR but not an ace when you need him? I think every one of you guys is bagging on him for sucking on big moments and losing velo, but because of WAR, he’s great? I’m confused. This is the problem with WAR in this day and age. The over-reliance on K rate in a K league has artificially inflated WAR for Sale. You, me, and everyone else knows he’s not an ace anymore. Price is a good pitcher for 5 innings.

Sale-German game 1 Johnson-pen game 2 It’ll probably be Green-Cortes for game 2. IIRC, were undefeated in Green “starts”.

That was a statement game from our staff. Everyone says the Yanks don’t have the pitching, our starter goes out and gets punched in the mouth in the first then he dominates from there. Paxton is a legit starter who hasn’t been pitching like one. He shut the top offense in baseball down and made 4 runs seem insurmountable. Great job from this staff.

Trading Betts will return depth to the farm, but it doesnt fix the fact that $77 mil AAV is stuck in your rotation between 3 guys who aren’t even 1-2’s in Price, Sale and Eovaldi and it will stay that way for 3 more years. My bet is DD rides with this squad for one more hurrah and the Sox probably do achieve more than 2019 just based on them being managed better in ST and likely not playing deep into October. But I doubt the Sox reach title contention in 2020. But I bet DD thinks they will

I must say I am enjoying this season, even if my team didn't upgrade at the break. That being said, this is my post from 2017 predicting the 2020 closing of the window. Bradley and Sale fell off, which is why Sale signed for less money and Bradley is staring a DFA in the face. Bogey extended at cheap money for the sox. Kimbrel went packing. The sox did next to nothing in the draft and development range outside of getting Casas who is a long ways off. This 2019 team is seeing what a lack of depth and development gets you. Nobody to deal off for parts, no rookies to bring up to bolster the team's weaknesses. The sox farm is considered so bad that they are 30th in baseball with a "wide gap" between them and the 29th ranked team. The sox looked for pen options at the deadline, but teams had no interest in their minor leaguers due to either lack of production, ceiling, or proximity. This is why I am glad Cashman didn't pay the insane prices being asked of him. When you deal off major talent for short term upgrades, you end up with a window and a cliff. The sox haven't had a cliff like this one in the Henry era. Theo and Cherries ALWAYS maintained a solid farm system. Even if the sox took a step back in farm rankings due to promotions, they were only a year off before the next wave replaced their losses. Yes, the sox spent 3 glorious years in last place since 2003, but during that time elite talents like Bogaerts, Betts, and Devers were making their way steadily up the chain or graduating to the club. Shrewd moves like dealing Miller for E-Rod helped replenish the depth and add to the team on graduation. The problem you have now is that DD shot the load and either graduated or traded every prospect with a pulse. He then brought in a development team that has failed immensely and the sox 2 scouting directors who have been utter disasters. The sox then spent a wild amount of money on players and extended others leaving them with no financial wiggle room for years to come. This leaves the sox in their current predicament. Farm is too bad to deal for any major upgrades, cap is too close for the sox to spend. Without a drastic deconstruction of some sort, the sox are staring at a prolonged and protracted rebuild. One of the only ways I can foresee the sox jump starting this process is to actually lose enough to miss the playoffs this season and sell Betts. One year may not garner the type of return he would have a couple years back, but his return would be pretty substantial to a team with literally no depth. The only way that happens, though, is if the sox miss the POs by a wide margin. DD isn't the type to blow it up unless it is painfully obvious he needs to do that. If the sox win the WC or miss it by a game or 2, that may embolden DD to sell off whatever assets he has left to make one last push, which will deepen the cliff once Mookie leaves or gets paid.