I'm willing to live with it, but I think we're going to hear a lot of complaining when Fitts and Priester have inflated ERA's due to a few blow ups even though they could show more than we've ever seen from Bello or Crawford.
Since de Grom is probably TEX Opening Day starter, I think the 2b will be Hamilton. I don't think he'll be the permanent 2b for '25, but he'll get most of the reps early on and that's fine.
The big problem the Sox will run into if they have Fitts and Priester in the rotation together is inconsistency. They are young and may have decent ceilings, but it may be a rollercoaster in the short term until they are solid contributors.
He's probably not 5th starter material in a perfect world, but he's probably going to get his shot at some point. I don't believe his contract includes an opt out.
What we are talking about are your projections which include the Sox doing worse defensively. Then you follow up with a post that says "but last year's DRS blah blah blah" which is most certainly NOT the current year projections from your initial post. Those are two completely different topics IMO. I believe in ranking defense after it happens. The projections are just for fun.
And again, when you dig into the PROJECTIONS, you see that Wilyer had higher DRS last season than Riley Greene (DET first team I looked at), but is projected to have half the Fld in '25... The projection for Duran also shows a dramatic defensive regression for Jarren Duran.
If you are going to talk about the PROJECTIONS that you posted and why the Sox are ranked low, talking about the '24 numbers is kind of useless unless you're disregarding your earlier post.
That's a pretty high pacing for Casas. If he played a full 162 game season in '23, he would have only reached 616 PA's. Last year, his PA's prorate to 625 over 162.
McCarver yelling "that ball wasn't even close" when Clemens throws up and in on Manny the previous season. Those knuckleheads were so anti-Red Sox that I'm glad they had front row seats to see the Sox beat their Cards in the WS.