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Maybe. "Two men enter, one man leaves" is from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It's spoken by national treasure Tina Turner.

That list looks like it has dust on it when it puts Whitlock at 24.

The year hops was introduced to Europe.

Uh, no.

400 total bases

Don't leave Greg Bird out of the equation...

Also, since Gonsalves has gone with an opener, he's thrown 10 Innings with 0 ER. That doesn't scream out as "been shelled, recently." Gossett was lit up last time out and has not followed an opener yet.

Ok, do you think they are going to trade someone? They've already been using guys like Gonsalves with an opener to get them used to it. That's why I think they'll roll that way.

If we need a starter, we go with a bullpen game or some sort of opener with one of the AAA guys.

As I said when he was in WOO, Workman is a reclamation project. Try to hide him, but I don't think an extended look will fix anything for him. His Statcast resembles 2020, not 2019. Not good. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/brandon-workman-519443?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb People are pulling him and barreling the ball.

I can't believe he'd actually want to go to a team with a shot to make the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 men enter, no man leaves.

Before the season? He was really strong in 2019 and not great after returning from COVID in 2020. I don't think anyone really knew what to expect. People wanted him gone the middle of April, but not before then.

Anderson with an "e"? So a completely different name then? That's like saying Hunter Renfroe and Hunter Renfrow are the same person.

1. robo umps 2. pitch clocks 3. allow pitchers to use sticky stuff 4. bring back the 2020 ball

It's a start.

Nope.

Please call me young again.

Average number of pitches is closer to 290 - 300 when last I checked.

At this point, notin is wondering "what is this guy going on about" and here is the answer. Yes, I'm old enough to know that Jeff Bagwell was traded. I was old enough at the time to have an opinion on the trade when it happened. Back then, the concern was that they were trading away Boggs' replacement as Bagwell had played 3b and wasn't the power threat he eventually became. While the playoff contender Red Sox of 1990 greatly needed bullpen help, thanks in part to trading Lee Smith (yet another future HOFer) for Tom Brunansky during the year, trading away a young promising player for only a few weeks of a reliever was a silly idea. The 1990 Red Sox weren't going to win the WS that year. No way were they getting by the A's in the playoffs. While a shortened rotation of Clemens/Boddicker vs Stewart/Welch is generally a toss up, the A's were just too good offensively (Ricky, McGwire, Canseco, Baines, Hendu). Ultimately, the A's were felled by the 1990 Reds who featured a solid young core of offensive players, a decent rotation and the Nasty Boys in the pen. Of the 4 teams in the playoffs, the Sox were well behind the Pirates/A's/Reds in terms of talent. So yes, it was pretty foolish to trade for Larry Andersen in 1990. No, they did not trade for an Anderson in 1991.

The only Anderson to ever pitch for the Sox was Jimmy in 2004. Everyone knows this.

This is the way.

Nick Yorke is hitting 469/525/994 in June. No homers yet, but that should come once he gets more time in the weight room. This comes after a dreadful May (didn't have a senior HS season last year).

No, we didn't.