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Hamilton seems to be ML ready, now, but he's just not good enough. It's like they put mid 2024 in hopes he just improves, and not necessarily matures.

It sucks not having baseball on a Friday.

Sometimes, you get a feel for how a team's make-up is going to carry or drop for the rest of the season by mid May, and certainly some teams can turn things around, for the good or bad, late in a season, but by the end of May, it seems like you just kinda "know." Last year, we had hopes some players would be returning from injuries and that Casas might be ready to replace Dalbec, but then he got hurt. We went 14-14 in May after that 9-13 April, and then June gave us false hopes (20-6), before July (8-19) and August (12-16) ended any sliver of hope.

I'm thinking this might be the one area almost everyone, here, agrees with. I'd also send Ort down to AAA before Kelly, when Whitlock is called up. When Bello is ready, I'd send down Kelly over Crawford, but if Crawford keeps sucking, maybe not.

It has to have more to do with the added 1-2 mph. They knew about the whiff% in their end of year rankings.

It would be interesting to see what their track record is. They do adjust their projections, at times. I was surprised they did not have Mayer in AAA to start 2024. The "late '24" designation for his first MLB game does seem conservative. I'm not sure others jump out at me as being overly conservative.

Whitlock went 6 IP 1 H (an HR) 1 ER 1 BB 8 K Meidroth went 3-3 w a BB and Mayer 1-4 w 2B Perales could not get out of the first. Bleis 2-4 w 2B & BB Castro 3-4 w 2B & BB Coffey 3 of the team's 11 BBs.

Sox by Age (Players & Prospects with 3+ years of team control, counting 2023) 18: Anthony, Alcantara, Coffey, Brannon, F Encarnacion, J Garcia 19: Bleis, Romero, Perales, E R-C, Ravelo, Paez, Castro 20: Mayer, Paulino, Jordan, Bonaci 21: Yorke, Lugo, Wikelman, Meidroth 22: Rafaela, Guerrero 23: Bello, Casas, Mata, Hickey, Abreu 24: Winckowski, EValdez, Murphy, Kavadas, McDonough, R Fernandez 25: DHamilton, Koss, Scott 26: Devers, Whitlock, Houck, Wong, Walter, Duran 27: Arroyo, Crawford, Dalbec 28: McGuire, Kelly, Mills 29: Yoshida, Schreiber 30: Story, Ort 34: Sale

soxprospects.com's ETAs: 2023: 2. Casas 5. Mata (mid) 17. Murphy (mid) 9. Walter (late) 15. EValdez (late) 2024: 4. Rafaela (early) 1. Mayer (late) 7. Yorke (late) 12. Drohan (late) 13. Lugo (late) 20. Kavadas (late) 24. Abreu 25. Guerrero 2025: 10. Paulino 14. Wikelman 18. Jordan 19. Hickey 22. Bonaci 2026: 3. Bleis 7. Romero 8. Perales 11. Anthony 16. E R-C 23. Coffey 2027 21. Alcantara

My opinion is he will make the bigs closer to your time than theirs. (They list "Late 2024.")

I'd only change May 1st to Memorial Day.

Hardly. I was maybe the first to jump ship, last summer. I hear you on commiserating with fellow Sox fans. I came to these sites, when I moved to Mexico and had nobody to talk Sox with.

How many big splash FA SP'er signings have worked out over recent years? 2023: 37 x 5 deGrom 27 x 6 Rodon 43 x 2 Verlander 15 x 5 Senga 18 x 4 Walker 17 x 4 Taillon 21 x 3 Bassitt 13 x 3 Eflin 17 x 2 Nate (10 x 1 Kluber) 2022: 43 x 3 Scherzer 23 x 5 R Ray 22 x 5 Gausman 15 x 5 ERod 24 x 3 Stroman 14 x 4 Jon Gray 25 x 2 Verlander 22 x 2 Rodon 11 x 4 Matz 12 x 3 Kikuchi 6 x 4 N Martinez 13 x 2 Alex Wood 21 x 1 Syndergaard 10 x 2 Cobb 17 x 1 Kershaw 13 x 1 Greinke 8 x 1 Kluber & T Anderson (5 x 2 Paxton, 7 x 1 Wacha and 5 x 1 RHill) 2021: 34 x 3 Bauer 8 x 3 Odorizzi 8 x 3 T Walker 19 x 1 Gausman 19 x 1 Stroman 9 x 2 M Minor 15 x 1 Morton 11 x 1 Kluber 11 x 1 Smyly 10 x 1 Richards (5 x 1 Perez) 2020: 36 x 9 Gerrit Cole 35 x 7 S Strasburg 24 x 5 Z Wheeler 17 x 5 M Bumgarner 20 x 4 H-J Ryu 18 x 3 Keuchel 9 x 3 K Gibson 12 x 2 T Roark 10 x 2 M Pineda 18 x 1 Cole Hamels 2019: 23 x 6 Corbin 17 x 4 Nate 14 x 4 Kikuchi 17 x 2 Happ 15 x 2 Morton 10 x 2 An Sanchez 18 x 1 J-H Ryu 8 x 2 Richards 13 x 1 Keuchel 11 x 1 Harvey 2018: 21 x 6 Darvish 25 x 3 Arrieta 14 x 4 Cobb 13 x 3 M Minor 8 x 2 J Vargas & A Cashner 2017: 16 x 3 RHill 9 x 3 I Nova 11 x 2 Volquez 2016: 31 x 7 Price 34 x 6 Greinke 22 x 6 Cueto 22 x 5 Zimmerman 18 x 5 Samardzija 16 x 5 Chen & Leake 15 x 5 I Kennedy 16 x 4 Kazmir 2015: 30 x 7 Scherzer 26 x 6 Lester 19 x 4 Shields 14 x 4 Santana 12 x 4 McCarthy 13 x 3 Liriano

One game from .500. No Story. No Whitlock. No Bello. No Joely, Paxton and Mondesi. We all wish the start of the season would yield better than a 3 and 4 record, but there is a 155 games to go.

Some seem to feel it is all but certain.

Thanks to Winck. ERA and WHIP 1.93 Kelly 4.2 IP (1.71) 6.00 Bleier 3.0 IP (1.67) 6.75 Brasier 4.0 IP (1.40) 7.20 Ort 5.0 IP (1.40)

Ort has options, too, so either could be demoted without being DFA'd, right?

Top Pen Arms on the Sox 0.00 Martin 4 IP (1.25 WHIP) 0.00 Jansen 2 IP (1.00 WHIP) 1.50 Winckowski 6 IP (0.83 WHIP) 2.25 Schreiber 4.0 IP (2.00 WHIP) Top and Bottom Starters 1.80 Pivetta 5.0 IP (1.20) 5.40 Houck 5.0 IP (1.20) 6.48 Kluber 8.1 IP (1.68) 11.25 Sale 8.0 IP (2.00) 15.75 Crawford 4 IP (2.50) Bottom Pen 1.93 Kelly 4.2 IP (1.71) 6.00 Bleier 3.0 IP (1.67) 6.75 Brasier 4.0 IP (1.40) 7.20 Ort 5.0 IP (1.40)

MLB OPS Leaders 1.621 Brian Anderson 1.578 Adam Duvall 1.478 Will Smith 6. Bogey 1.395 8. G Torres 1.349 10. Moncada 1.302 27. Mateo 1.109 44. Betts .990 50. Devers .957 72. Laureano .883 75. Verdugo .875 91. J Abreu .785 97. Turner .758 103. Yoshida .737 110. JD M .715 114. Hosmer .706 129. Kike .649 144. Beni .586 155. Schwarber .539 161. Correa .519 165. Casas .496 173. Arroyo .449 176. Renfroe .426 183. Andrus .382 185. Bregman .380 190. (last) Javier Baez .228

Kelly has been an adventure, too. He may be the first guy sent down- not Ort.

I will say, Martin faced better hitters than Bra-Man, so maybe that was the idea.

Max, you are a true fanatic, but fans can also be obsessed without thinking their team is only as good as they are playing that day or week. I enjoy your posts, and don't want you to change a thing about you, but you do get me shaking my head, from time to time. 👌

Story's return is a long way away. Surely, if Kike is still under .150 or even .200, and Duvall, Turner, Casas, Yoshida and Dugo are hitting well, he won't be playing CF FT. That is 5 guys who all have to be doing okay and be healthy. Kike could also move to 2B, if he looks better than Arroyo, when the choice is being made. No answer to my question is fine. I think we know where you stand.

MLB RBI Leaders: 12 Duvall 10 Y Alvarez 10 B Anderson 10 Will Smith 8 six tied

Not only do they pitch Brasier more than we like, they seem to have him in more important situations than Martin & Schreiber. (I get your points about Schreiber & Bleier now being sketchy, but Martin?)