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I missed this yesterday. I'm not sure I agree. Are you saying that because his value to our team will be much less that other teams will have a stronger position in negotiating?

There is kind of sort of have the same joke going on here........ I'm pretty sure all Sox fans get where you are coming from.... we even kind of sort of hate small players here.... which I'm sure you will hear about at some point. Personally...... I dislike lefthanders....... why go through life like that.... it's evil

I get that Vaz is loved by the pitching staff. He's good, probably phenomenal at that position and it's almost easy to see. But there is a line where his bat has to perform. And there is a line where he has to come back from a major surgery and perform for a year or years to come. We don't know that yet. And the set back last year really hurt us knowing what we have. Maybe patience is the best practice here. I'm agreeing with you that Swihart can get a very good return in a trade. I think it could be even better with some seasoning with him at the position. For all we know he could have been shopped before V went down and didn't yield a return that was worth it. Personally..... I wouldn't trade for a promising catcher. His stock went up in the offense category last year. The guy hit over 300 the second half and he proved himself. He just needs work on defense, which he never had. I think comparing him to Vazquez is a problem. One of them are trade chips and it doesn't matter how much better one is. We win if they are both good players. The one that looks a bit behind gets delt. The other thing is which one is more important to the current pitching staff. We have Vasquez trying to rescue a bunch of struggling pitchers. If we had a staff we were confident in, then maybe Swihart and his not so good behind the plate ability would be ok with him racking 300 at the plate. Yes, we may have missed the boat. But I think we saw some greatness out of a AA player than needs reps.

Ok.... today was a clean inning. Fair enough. I posted the question when they were reviewing the call. To me it OBVIOUSLY hit Freemans foot as balls don't bounce to the right when spinning to the left and hitting the dirt. But.... ok......... And for the love of Gob. All I'm saying is he hasn't had many clean innings, and I couldn't remember one. I'm not worried about him at all yet. He'll most likely knock'em down at a rate that we will be happy with the rest of the year. In fact I loved his confidence after last nights game. He pretty much said that s*** aint happening the rest of the year, which I think most people would agree with. Maybe he had one clean inning in Toronto...... ok...... he's not looked sharp so far..... obviously.

So we trade Swihart when we don't know if Vasquez can come back from the injury. What if V was done, then what do we do? Swihart has a higher ceiling projected as a catcher as there are hopes that he can sure up his defense. And figuring he's only been a catcher for I think 4 years, there's a lot he can learn. Swihart pretty much skipped AAA due to injuries. And if...... if Vasquez can hold down the catching duties while displaying some offense, then Swihart has much time to learn the position in AAA. Then it's a decision between two good options. Don't rush the kid...... Swihart was in the top 20 prospects of all of baseball last year as an AA reassigned catcher. That doesn't sound right to me..... I could be wrong...

His stock may even be higher when he has some time in AAA learning to be a catcher, which he didn't have last year after moving pretty much straight from AA to the roster.

Ok.... in the books it was a clean inning. But tell me that didn't hit Freeman, seriously. And f***ing relax. I just can't remember a clean inning from him.

Gotta love how Porcello has been looking........

Not saying he wont be fine. Heard his numbers get better past April. I just seriously couldn't remember a clean inning from him. And this one wasn't really...... Freeman took that off the toe.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has Kimbrel had a clean inning yet?

Sit down jackass.

This kind of makes me feel for the Atlanta fans. That guy loved giving up homers.

Yea, that dude. I had to look it up. He's with a club, we might even see him in this series.

Is Ogando with any club this year?

Hell yea Ross..... Nice punch out!!!!!!!!

It really is. He seemed to have everything working tonight.

That felt like it lasted a half an hour.

Just flat out missed it.

That Shaw slide was interesting. I think he almost missed the tag. I wonder if he practiced that.

They should just hire that trainer that helped him before. He knows what Pablo needs to succeed. The trainer said it wasn't hand holding, it was military discipline like.

I second that. Those people would bring a lot to this board.

I'm smiling....... Feel like we need to stay alive until this team gels..... hope it gels...... man our pitching sucks..............

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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