Plawecki is getting a lot more starts, answering the calls of many Talksox posters.
The paternity leave thing is great, but Dugo's seems to have been the longest one ever.
June 5/21 on Realistic Look Part 2 was the day we got into the discussion about this. You suggested it could be a good idea to trade Barnes even if we were in contention.
It was a good seller's market if you had a Scherzer/Trea Turner or a Berrios to sell. And those teams were way out of it so they did the logical thing.
The Red Sox were in first place.
I really don't think it was the team's intent to give up on 2021. Nobody saw this kind of slide coming. Expectations of adding Sale/Houck/Schwarber/Arroyo etc.
It's always about the W's and L's. A stretch like this with too many L's makes fans sour on everything from the owner down to the ballboy/girl/person, and full of opinions on what should have been done and who f***ed up.