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Because they have a pattern of letting minor league players earning All Star accolades before promoting them. It may seem silly or strange to you, but it's the organizational philosophy. I'm glad they are looking at Devers' long term career path rather than jerking him around the way they did to Swihart.

I support Pedro Martinez, I hate Curt Schilling. Should have resigned Pedro. GOAT.

@PortlandSeaDogs Eduardo Rodriguez @eduardorod5 makes a MLB Rehab start tonight for Portland. Hurry up and get back you week kneed bastard!

http://www.sfexaminer.com/albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-agree-to-254m-deal/ The Angels made the move as the financially troubled Los Angeles Dodgers are in the process of being sold by Frank McCourt in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, a move that could give the region's NL team a new wealthy owner next year. https://losangeles.sbnation.com/los-angeles-angels/2011/12/8/2622757/los-angeles-angels-tv-deal-3-billion-20-years-albert-pujols-c-j-wilson-arte-moreno Owner Arte Moreno and the Los Angeles Angels shocked the baseball world at the Winter Meetings on Thursday morning by signing the best available hitter and best available pitcher on the free agent market, inking Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson to deals with a combined total of $331.5 million. The reason they were able to make it rain all over Dallas was thanks to a new television contract that will reportedly more than triple their current broadcast revenue. http://www.ocregister.com/2011/12/08/angels-are-signing-albert-pujols-cj-wilson/ Albert Pujols will be an Angel for 10 years! Albert Pujols will be on the Angels in April, and you will get to watch him. There is a not-bad chance this will turn out disastrous, and a not-bad chance it will lead the Angels to at least one World Series, and you can try do the math on which of those is more likely but just think about this for a second: Albert Pujols! Welcome to Albert Pujols Talk!

True enough. I forgot how long ago they had signed Pujols. Woof.

Oh s***, the Sox are turning into the Mariners. FML.

Nope. Why move around an AS caliber player for no reason?

A lot of people on here are talking about Prado. Mainly about how he costs too much and is on the wrong side of 30. He's not a guy I'd hitch my wagon to when the payroll also includes Pablo and Hanley.

Manny wasn't banned for steroids. He was busted for female fertility drugs and testosterone.

Peralta is just roster filler. He'll be gone once Devers is promoted on 7/13 after the AA AS Game.

Margot hasn't been that good this year. They need to do a 3 team trade where they get Travis Shaw and Espinoza back.

Being in LA (kinda), they feel the need to have stars, especially Latinx ones. Unfortunately, they will always be the little brother of Los Doyers. And honestly, having Mike Freakin' Trout should be enough to get people to the ballpark.

He's been very good. No doubt about that.

Ok?

Scott stinks right now.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-mlbs-new-home-run-era-its-the-baseballs-that-are-juicing/ Balls are juiced and Sox still can't hit HR's.

@PawSox #PawSox add 15-year MLB veteran INF Jhonny Peralta who will bat 2nd and DH tonight at Lehigh Valley. Pablo Sandoval bats 3rd and plays 3B.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/06/trade-rumblings-athletics-gray-marlins-red-sox-yankees-martin-prado-tigers-verlander-trade-deadline-padres-brad-hand.html Rival executives feel that the Tigers will market veteran righty Justin Verlander, Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports writes, though Detroit’s intentions (and asking price) remain unclear. He’d be an easy product to pitch were this 2016, when Verlander was in vintage form. But he hasn’t followed that up with any degree of consistency thus far in 2017. Still, the $56MM he’s owed in 2018 and 2019 seems fairly reasonable, and it’s hard to ignore the top-line upside that still seems to reside in Verlander’s powerful right arm. I think it's more likely DD makes a move for Verlander than for Prado. That's a lot of money though.

@redsoxstats Trading for Prado right now would take up all the remaining room under the tax line, and then $13.3 next year, $13.3 2019. Nah.

I think Prado is fine as a player, but don't think the Sox can add on more salary at 1B/3B/DH until Pablo and Hanley are gone. I can't imagine the Marlins looking to eat any of that contract.

Ewwww. Where'd you see that one?

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=2717&position=P&type=&gds=2015-08-26&gde=2015-10-04&season= He doesn't have to be 2016 good, he just has to pitch like he did in 2015 after coming back from injury.

Drew: Hey guys. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVzqblWgIJ5/ My wife is cooking up some crow. Hungry? Me: Ok. Can I hold out until the end of the season tho?

http://news.soxprospects.com/2017/06/scouting-scratch-owens-callahan-and.html Left-hander Henry Owens was demoted to Double-A on Monday after a string of poor starts with Pawtucket. For the year, Owens has 60 walks in 69 innings, and in his last three starts he has walked 19 hitters in 15 2/3 innings. I was at the second start of that stretch, when he walked four over seven innings. This was a weird outing for Owens, who struggled for the first two innings, then retired 14 hitters in a row. His overall line was seven innings, three hits, two runs with four walks and five strikeouts. It was clear from the start that Owens was struggling with his mechanics. He has been tinkering with them significantly since the beginning of the year including raising his hands at the start and going to a full windup. The Red Sox announced along with the demotion that they plan to drop Owens’ arm slot from high three-quarters to a true three-quarters. At this point, something had to be done—even though Owens had a couple strong innings in the start I saw, it was clear something wasn’t right with his mechanics. Owens long limbs mean he has a lot of moving parts than can be tough to keep in sync. In this outing, Owens was starting on the third base side of the rubber, but his foot was landing on the first base side and pointing in different directions each pitch. His arm was also dragging behind, leading to him constantly missing high and arm-side. Owens’ velocity was also inconsistent, varying from 86-92 mph, but primarily sitting 88-90 mph. He couldn’t control his fastball, and when he was successful, he was pitching backwards off of his curveball and changeup. His curveball and changeup both weren’t as good as I had seen in past years either. His curveball was rolling to the plate and he struggled to find a consistent release point for it, failing to record a single swinging strike against it. His changeup lacked the downward movement it had shown in the past and also didn’t fool any hitters, which used to be something he could rely on even when he was struggling. I hope Owens can figure it out, but he's closer to flaming out than ever pitching in the majors again.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/06/28/miguel-montero-to-be-designated-for-assignment/ The sad saga of Miguel Montero.