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Since 2017: GS IP 96/543 Rodon 87/469 Paxton Shocking differential, here, right?

Rodon to start the year on the IL.

Grooming him to be a Yank.

The plan has to be that the major upgrade in OF offense will outweigh the drop in D. Hopefully it works, and then some.

And now, suddenly, it's okay to pencil in Dugo in RF FT and put a corner OF'er in CF and sign a DH to play LF. But hey, at least our 1B defense should be much improved.

That was another "head-scratcher," to me. All year long, I pointed out how we seemed to be stockpiling LF'ers, and at the deadline, we grab a LF'er. Nothing against Pham, but moving Dugo to RF seemed to go all out against their plan, to start the year, in fact, while JBJ struggled, they even put Cordero, Duran and even Arroyo in RF, before moving Dugo there. If Dugo was viewed as "capable," why not Cordero/Duran/Arroyo in LF and Dugo in RF before the Pham addition?

I thought, right from the start, that as much as I hated the deal, it had to be about building the farm, and Bloom must have seen something in Hamilton & Binelas that most others did not see. I suppose one may still shine, but I'm not counting on it.

It just seems strange to me, that the Sox seem to change their priorities, so quickly. It seems like last winter, they felt the need to shed Renfroe's poor D and add JBJ and his plus D. Then, this year, they flip back. One can argue, we got worse at all 3 OF positions, on D, over the winter. (We should get way better on O at all 3.) All defenders listed with 100+ Inning at this position: LF: Dugo/Pham > Yoshida CF: Kike/Duran/JBJ/Ref> Duvall RF: JBJ.Dugo/Ref?Cordero/Arroyo> Dugo

Talking D not O.

Wow. I thought Red was pessimistic. Mondesi has never had under 50 in his 7 years in the bigs: 54 and 60 in 2 of the 7 years, yes, but WOW!

I do know they are extreme creatures of habit and routines. Starters do throw hard on a day between starts, so I do think it might not be such a hard thing, physically to move from SP to RP, but the mental aspect is another thing, altogether.

One site had Mondesi out until May.

Sounds about right. Probably one or two from Bonaci, Pauilino and Lugo will shine, this summer. Does Drohan have hopes?

One last try as a starter - not as a pitcher, and he may very well get more tries to start. I'm just saying I've been against jerking him around, but think starting him off in the rotation makes sense, now.

Feel Good Story.

A pretty common occurrence with many players and GMs, every winter, right? Next year's Rule 5 List: (with SP's ranking, if top 60) Rivaldo Avila Angel Bastardo #42 Brock Bell Bradley Blalock Royman Blanco Brainer Bonaci #16 Zach Bryant Maceo Campbell Allan Castro #44 Brendan Cellucci Felix Cepeda Juan Chacon #52 Casey Cobb Nathanael Cruz Osvaldo De La Rosa Luis De La Rosa Nick Decker Kelvin Diaz Jordan DiValerio Shane Drohan #22 Juan Daniel Encarnacion #43 Alex Erro Albert Feliz Durbin Feltman Ryan Fernandez #27 Ryan Fitzgerald #54 Grant Gambrell Jhon Garcia Jhostynxon Garcia Wikelman Gonzalez #12 Bryan Gonzalez Devlin Granberg Alexis Hernandez Graham Hoffman Gabriel Jackson Joe Jacques Lyonell James Gilberto Jimenez Christian Koss #33 Robert Kwiatkowski Chih-Jung Liu Eduardo Lopez #50 Blake Loubier Bryan Lucas Matthew Lugo #14 Naysbel Marcano Elih Marrero Yorberto Mejicano Jose Mendez Ryan Miller Henry Morales Henry Nunez Yusniel Padron-Artiles Eddinson Paulino #11 Luis Perales #10 Railin Perez Jose Ramirez Oscar Rangel Jorge Rodriguez Ronald Rosario Cesar Ruiz Johnfrank Salazar #37 Stephen Scott #40 Cody Scroggins Reidis Sena Chase Shugart #57 Karson Simas Nick Sogard Cesar Soto Dylan Spacke Joey Stock Luis Talavera Nate Tellier Freddy Valdez Michael Valera Brian Van Belle Eduardo Vaughan Diego Viloria Jeremy Wu-Yelland Alex Zapete Ryan Zeferjahn #58

Only when full.

I was thinking, maybe his sharp drop in effectiveness was due to some minor injury that was never mentioned or even noticed. He could also have just gotten tired.

I do agree, players with lower K rates in the minors have a better chance at sticking around. I like Casas' chances.

I like this trend.

He really dropped off, last year, after a nice start. Maybe he need to be moved to the pen, soon. Maybe he had a minor injury.

Schreiber and others may go 2 IP, from time to time, as well.

Agreed. Casas has a much better chance of sticking around than Bobby Dee ever had. Again, I'm just saying the sample size is too small to know much. His ST'ing is looking real good. I'm pumped on this kid.

I was pretty excited about the BB rate, too, and he showed the power he is known for, too (35 HRs per 650.) I'm just pointing out the sample size it too low. (Bobby Dee had 92 PAs and a .959 OPS in 2020.)

In today's game, that's not all that rare. Also, with 13 man staffs, and assuming we have 2-3 long RP'ers on the 26 (Crawford, Wink & maybe Mata), maybe it will be okay.