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If it's not the Sox, then I don't really care who wins. If the Cubs or Yankees win, it doesn't change my life at all.

They have 7 games against the O's and 6 games against the Jays left. Those series are far more important than going .500 on a west coast swing.

If they pick up the option, they aren't trading him.

I'm not a Farrell fan, but I can't blame him for going easy on Ortiz this year. I want him as close to 100% as possible when October comes around.

The Sox are beating up on bad pitching and struggling in low scoring games. It's a sign of a good regular season team that will lose quietly in the postseason. Pythagorus hates them!

He's not overpaid today. He'll probably be overpaid tomorrow. He has had a terrific bounce back season. I won't take that away from him. Let's see if he can keep it up.

Hernandez isn't even in Holt's offensive stratosphere.

Um, ok?

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=660162#/splits/R/hitting/2016/MINORS Not sure he has hit "well enough" against lefties in 2016.

Really? He let Lester and Lackey go. He had 3 last place finishes under his watch. He was a player development guy who was unable to develop any pitchers. He wasn't "horrible," but he wasn't much more than mediocre.

He grew up playing 2b, 3b and SS. http://oncubamagazine.com/sports/yoan-moncada-new-cuban-baseball-wonder-boy/

Beni should be the #2 hitter next year.

No, the Sox throw a lot of money at payroll. They have let some large fish go because of analytics and foolishness, but overall they have no problem opening their wallets. They have redesigned and expanded an old, broken stadium, but that's because it is genuinely loved by the fanbase. The biggest issue the Sox have had is that there were too many cooks in the kitchen when it came time to bring in new players. Ownership seemed to want to have a hand in every decision for better or worse. That seems to have changed somewhat since they brought in the new GM.

Common sense doesn't work with the hot take crowd.

Yes you are. You are again trying to make an argument about something you've been ranting about since coming here.

Shaw has been terrible lately so this isn't a big loss.

Probably.

I don't see how anyone would "overpay" on a guy who missed a whole season due to injury and wasn't all that impressive when he was playing full time.

Roush Fenway Racing has been s*****, but who cares about that...

John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and of Fenway Sports Group, bid successfully for the club and took ownership in October 2010.[35] Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former player & manager Kenny Dalglish taking over.[36] Despite a record 8th League Cup success against Cardiff and an FA Cup final defeat to Chelsea, Liverpool finished in eighth position in the 2011–12 season, the worst league finish in 18 years and led to the sacking of Dalglish.[37][38] He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers.[39] In Rodgers' first season, Liverpool finished in seventh. In the 2013–14 season, Liverpool mounted an unexpected title charge to finish second behind champions Manchester City and subsequently return to the Champions League, scoring 101 goals in the process, the most since the 106 scored in the 1895–96 season.[40][41] Following a disappointing 2014–15 season, where Liverpool finished sixth in the league, and a poor start to the 2015–16 season, Brendan Rodgers was sacked in October 2015.[42] He was replaced by Jürgen Klopp,[43] who became the third foreign manager in Liverpool's history.[44] In Klopp's first season at Liverpool, he took the club to the finals of both the Football League Cup and UEFA Europa League, finishing as runner-up in both competitions.[45] It's been up and down, pretty much like the Sox have been recently.

There were better options last offseason, there will be better options this offseason. However, I don't think picking up the option precludes them from grabbing another FA arm or two. If they don't load up in the pen, they are fools.

He was going through a tremendous change in his life. Moving from Cuba, learning English, having more money than he knew what to do with is harder than you guys give it credit for. To keep the transition comfortable, the left him at 2b until they felt his transition was completed smoothly. I can't fault them for this in the least. Once he's comfortable and hitting, then you can mess around with where he's playing. It hasn't hindered his development and he wouldn't have been up any sooner anyway. He'll have all offseason to workout at 3b. Similarly, didn't they leave Betts at 2b for awhile in the minors? That seemed to work out ok.

So let's not talk about anything then...

Everything is hindsight apparently...

Kimbrel should have come in during the 8th for Tazawa, but couldn't because he was used in a non save situation last night. :/