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97th percentile hard hit in 2018 52nd percentile hard hit in 2019 Fastball velo 78th percentile 2018 Fastball velo 47th percentile 2019 I can do this all day.

His 3.82 ERA over that timeframe is what you're trying to highlight? 1.2 HR/9 that was twice as high as 2018?

He was clearly not 100% at the end of the year. Prior to the injury, he averaged 6.1 per start. The longest he went after was 5.1 in 7 tries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was clearly injured.

The Angels do it with some of their guys. I'm not sure anyone wants to be like the Angels though.

Hendriks to rehab in WOO on Sunday.

Wow! That means he was totally healthy, right!

Every start after hitting the IL: 9/11 1 IP 9/16 3 IP 9/21 3 IP 9/26 4.2 IP 10/5 5.1 IP 10/13 4 IP 10/23 4 IP He was totally healthy!

Yes he was. He only pitched 158 innings in 2018. Didn't pitch at all from Aug 13 - Sept 10 due to a shoulder injury. From Over the Monster: Sale suffered a shoulder injury in late-July, then came back for one amazing start in August — one hit and 12 strikeouts over five innings against the Orioles — before missing another month with the same ailment. Once he got back, Sale made four starts in September to finish the year, but they weren’t typical starts. Instead, he was being eased back in to get ready for the postseason. It was the right move for the team, but it did cost the southpaw a legitimate chance at the Cy Young. Then, the postseason rolled around and the team was hoping to get the midsummer version of their ace on the biggest stage... For his standards, this was a negative as he never recorded more than 16 outs in a start and finished the playoffs with a 4.11 ERA. The team won four of the five games in which he appeared, but he wasn’t the dominant Sale we wanted to see. The ace is set to hit free agency after the 2019 campaign, which means we can be expected to hear a whole lot of extension talk throughout the year, unless it gets done sooner. He has expressed an interest to get something done, per reports. As far as him on the mound, his shoulder should recover through rest this offseason, and the team will be sure to take it easy on him in spring training.

Some people on here treat each regular season game like it's more important than that surgery.

So then you add a guy to the 40 man that you can't take off without DFAing no matter how poor his bat is. Eventually you burn through his option years and by the time he's 23 he'll need to be MLB ready or you'll have to release him.

And if you really like the guy, why start his MLB clock before he can really handle MLB pitching?

The theory is that they signed Sale and Eovaldi because they couldn't re-sign Mookie, right? Even so, don't sign a bad contract just because you have the ability to. Chris Sale was injured at the time. It was a clear overpay. I know the Sox feel like they got a below market deal because of the injury, but signing injured guys is just dumb (see Story, Paxton, et al).

Unfair.

Scarier than my father in law tinkering in my yard.

Now batting Franklin Arias Mr 400 OPS. I'm pretty sure Salem's bus has air conditioning and the catering is fairly decent now. It's not the 1970's.

Ads have been around forever, I just don't like the online betting ones.

I don't have a problem with the stolen bases and believe the pitching clock is not impacting pitchers at all. What is impacting pitchers is max effort for each pitch. If they dialed it back and learned more command and control, their arms would last longer.

I think the ball is in Casas' court right now. Cora said it's a pain tolerance thing. Casas said he's struggling in at bats after he fouls off pitches. I think the Sox would love to have him up, but they are waiting on him. @alexspeier Casas said his greatest difficulty is during at-bats after foul balls. Since 8/4, he’s 2-for-12 with 6 Ks in at-bats in which he fouls off a pitch. @alexspeier What does Triston Casas want in order to say he’s major league-ready? To be “pain-free” - but he knows he might not get there by the time he’s activated

That's a trend we haven't seen in a long time. I'm here for it.

If Breslow picked up Eflin, they'd still be on the outside looking in of the playoffs with a horrible looking pen.

We all agreed this offseason that they didn't do enough. I think a lot of this conversation is just talking in circles. Without Henry allowing the Sox to go over the CBT, the rotation will just look like Frankenstein's monster for awhile. This monster was scary good for a little while and then scary bad later on once the villagers figured out how to fight it.

He only looks solid because of how horrible the SS defense has been the past few years. Once the Sox get a decent defensive SS, nobody will want Rafaela there again.

He's better than Rafaela that's for sure. I think it's important to make sure you take time and develop these guys the right way, especially guys that miss lots of time due to injury like Mayer. With Mayer, they'll super two him and he'll be up before the ASB next year. Just get a cheap defensive SS in the offseason. This season seems kinda toast with how horrible the pen is anyway.

656 OPS in Salem. He's years away from being ready. Not everyone is Trout or Soto.