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@IanMBrowne Enrique Hernández has Covid. Christian Arroyo identified as a close contact. Munoz and Arauz will take their spots on roster. Yairo leading off.

Did I say Kimbrel was a HOFer?

Yes

Kiké got a positive test.

You had mentioned that Radbourn was dead and Houston was alive. That's the only reason I brought up their post playing days.

Kimbrel in less innings has almost twice the fWAR. Got it.

He's a valuable acquisition for a team that has room on their bench for a glove only UTIL guy.

Radbourn was considered a hero by some because of his courage in stopping a run-away buggy on the evening of July 12, 1892. On the evening in question, George Fletcher, his wife, and son had come into town for supplies. While Mr. Fletcher was inside a store, he left his wife and son waiting in the carriage. Not long after Mr. Fletcher got out of the buggy, something spooked the horse and the horse took off running. The horse, buggy, Mrs. Fletcher and their son were careening out of control down West Washington Street. As the runaway carriage passed by Radbourn’s billiards hall and saloon, “a young man wearing a white jacket dashed suddenly, and with the stride of a professional sprinter…like a flash was at the running horse’s head. With his right hand he seized the bit and with his left put a powerful clamp upon the horse’s nostrils. The plunging horse dragged the man along with him, and would possibly have gotten away had not the man dexterously turned him so sharply as almost to upset the buggy, thus bringing the animal suddenly almost to a standstill.” Bystanders rushed to the carriage to see if Mrs. Fletcher and her son were okay, and they were unharmed. The man in the white jacket (whom people at the time did not know was Radbourn) quietly walked back to the sidewalk and back into the saloon. Because of Radbourn’s quick reflexes, nerve, and grit, a terrible accident had been averted. After retiring from baseball, Radbourn opened up a successful billiard parlor and saloon in Bloomington, Illinois. He was seriously injured in a hunting accident soon after retirement, in which he lost an eye, and spent most of his remaining years shut up in a back room of the saloon, apparently too ashamed to be seen after the injury. He died in Bloomington in 1897 and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery. Let me know when Street chases down a horse and gets shot in the face.

He paid a high price (could have maybe sent less players over) but the trade worked out in DD's favor. People spent more energy worrying about Logan Allen than Manny Margot, the actual good player traded.

680 innings. Old Hoss Radbourn pitched almost that many in '84 alone! Strasburg looks like old dependable against those Huston Street numbers. 1400+ innings for that rubber arm.

If we went by BTV, you could get quite a haul from MIA for Duran. I'd trade Duran for 2 pitchers.

If he develops a third pitch as a reliever, you can try to move him back to the rotation. I think he has a very high ceiling as a reliever and that's not a knock on him. It's a different skillset.

Looks good in the suit tho.

And both of those guys had injuries that vastly decreased their careers. Coincidence?!??!

They aren't going to stay under forever. Bloom has said as much. I think they could give Schwarber a shorter deal than 6 years. Maybe 4/60? That doesn't wreck the payroll.

If it's Schwarber vs Dalbec, it's Schwarber. Dalbec just isn't in the conversation yet. We like the power, but the rest of his game leaves something to be desired. Schwarber is hitting 2nd. Dalbec hits 8th or 9th and doesn't play defense very well.

He's like a baby Joey Votto!

Sacrificed, maybe. Dumped on? Scrapped?

IMO, he's not a good 1b. He's not natural over there. If you put him in LF, maybe he could be a little more comfortable. He's spent the majority of his baseball career on that side of the diamond. I think Casas comes up next year. At that point, Dalbec will not have a full time role at 1b. May as well transition him off there now.

It's why it's unfair to completely abandon younger players. They need to play through their cold stretches. This goes for Duran too. Having him sit on the bench isn't going to do him any good. All these posters who only want to bring players up through the farm system are going to have to learn to deal with down years when the Sox are going through growing pains.

Allen was dealt, he was not pilfered. You could say that DD pilfered Kimbrel from the Padres, but you can't say he pilfered Allen to the Padres.

Yes. I'd rather him stay for another year or two.

He'll need to opt out before the CBA is agreed to for sure. They are going to drag this CBA negotiation out. Tony Clark took a lot of heat for the last CBA. He's going to give more push back this time.

The problem was that his swing was too slappy and he wasn't making hard contact. The only way to get him to make hard contact was to revamp his swing. He had a 634 OPS in AA with his old swing. That wasn't going to get it done at higher levels.

It would get him to opt out.