It would take years and years and years for attendance to really dip to the point where it impacted any decision making anyway considering how strong attendance has been.
What has Nate Eaton done except look like a perfectly capable bench guy every time he was given a chance. Some people like Nate Sogard a lot and he's been fine enough. Seigler, Gasper and Monasterio are more taxi squad guys. The problem is that you don't want all five of them on the roster at once. Two at most is good.
I think most everyone on here agrees that Schwarber should have been re-signed for '22. They could have hidden him somewhere defensively for one year and then he would have been fulltime DH going forward.
I think most people on the board said the same thing back then too.
Run differential is kinda meaningless when a lot of the differential is due to the Sox having a great pitching staff with an offense that is not being able to put up any runs. Of course they'd have an ok differential. Even their comebacks are constantly falling sort because of their lack of offensive firepower. Who cares about them climbing back from being down 0-3 to tie it up 3-3 only to lose 4-3. It just helps dum dum Pythagorus.
This team stinks because they put zero effort into having a lineup with any testosterone in it.
Keep runnnig him out there and hope he gets better. If he doesn't turn it around, trade? Non tender? IDK what you do with the guy. I'm sure there is a team out there that would take him, just not at the value Craig wants.
Arias and Betts are not remotely the same player. Maybe he winds up with the same offensive profile as Xander, but better defense? Maybe? Really overselling what the expectations are for Arias. He's not some savior that is going to come up and lead this team. He'll be a bottom of the order bat for the first few years.
People made Betts comparisons with Rafaela when he was in MiLB too because of his power output. Just remember how much different the pitching is from level to level.
Arias will get called up to AAA in a few weeks. Maybe he'll get a late season callup to BOS. There really is no rush as this is a completely lost season. Arias can get as much work done this offseason hitting against trackman as he can being up in Boston right now.
I agree he got better because he was traded to MIL.
I think they probably still needed another depth starter and this move only happened because they couldn't re-sign Breggie and the Paredes deal didn't work out. Figuring out a Duran for Paredes deal seems like a big miss right now.