They're trying to find something that fixes some important calls without totally offending the purists.
The test run indicated that it shouldn't be overly time-consuming.
Let's see how it works.
I see no similarity between the umpiring profession and the medical profession. We don't need more umpires. And the umpires we have are generally good. But calling balls and strikes 100% accurately is impossible and this gives everyone a chance to fix a few calls every game.
And they traded Devers in the middle of June, so they had a lot of time in which they knew they were down a big bat.
They might have been held up by the simple question of whether they were actually a legit playoff contender or not.
It's just very unusual for a team with playoff aspirations to trade a starting pitcher early in the season for prospects. I can't remember very many instances of it.
I don't really remember a trade like this ever, in fact.
Agreed. But man, Priester is 13-2 with a 3.25 ERA and will pitch about 160 innings. This is not a feather in Brez's cap. And Sox fans are getting tired of the Longview stuff.
Not sure about counting Mayer, he's still an unknown quantity. The loss of the other two at the same time is huge. I think if there's a criticism it's that he subtracted a big bat and didn't do anything to replace that bat.
Grissom is a goner. Hamster I'm not sure about, he manages to stick around and he has flashes of being a decent player. He has a 3.5 bWAR in less than a full season's play.
His back of the card offensive numbers stink, that is for sure.
A lot of people wanted a first base bat to replace Toro for quite a while.
The fact is they lost a huge bat in Devers and did next to nothing about it.
Hate to say it but if the Sox miss the playoffs Craig is going to take a ton of heat for not doing more for the offense after trading Devers. We ended up in a position of counting on Anthony a bit too much and then we got a bad break.