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Dalbec might be the worst defensive 1Bman we’ve had in a long time. He had a long way to go to get to average.

At $10M?

Bobby Dee surprised himself with that one.

I see what you guys are doing.

Bobby Dee!

The DH doing things DHs do!

Schwarber is a pure hitter!

.787 August OPS Not great but not something to get overly concerned about. He’ll be fine… I hope.

Sure does!!!!

Oops. I’d blame it on being sick, but I just spaced on him.

Agreed. He looked good in RF, last year. Santana has not looked great, but it was so long ago and his sample is so scattered.

Now, a look at the 2022 Pitching Staff. Personally, I'd like to see us acquire and ace or solid #2 and a solid closer as well as another solid pitcher, but this post is about who are under team control, next season. Starters: Chris Sale: Chris Freakin' Sale is all I have to say. Nathan Eovaldi: Has been a rock since 2020, and not many thought he could ever be this durable. Nick Pivetta: Another nice find by Bloom. Ideally, he’d be a number 5, but he may end up being our 4. If he’s our 3, we are shooting for 2023. Connor Seabold: I like this guy's chances as a decent 4 or 5, and maybe over time, even better. Josh Winckowski, Kutter Crawford, Brayan Bello, Chris Murphy, Jay Groome, Frank German & Raynel Espinal all offer decent farm depth, and some may be ML ready during 2022. We could probably use a few depth signings to minor league deals. Starter/Relief Pitchers Garrett Whitlock: I like him as a starter more than Houck, but both could be greats in the role. Blooms best find, for sure. Tanner Houck: Maybe he could fill the obvious hole we have at closer, and some speak of him needing a 3rd pitch to be a good long term starter, but I'd be fine with him in either role, or even as our top set-up or swing man (like Whitlock is now.) Relief Pitchers Matt Barnes: I'm actually confident he can come back as a very good set-up man for us in 2022, but certainly questions are plentiful. Josh Taylor: He's moved up on the chart, and I'm not sure we can count on him as a solid set-up man, but he will make the opening day roster. Darwinzon Hernandez: His injury came at the wrong time. He still needs to watch the walks, but look what Ottavino can do after walking the first guy he faces nearly every game. Hirokazu Sawamura: I'm not counting on him for much high leverage opportunities, but he should make the 26 man roster. Phillips Valdez, Yacksel Rios, Eduardo Bazardo and maybe Austin Davis and Durbin Feltman may show they belong, and there can be some comfort in numbers of marginal pen help, but let's not slot any of these guys in the 26 man roster, right now. Who are going to leave or are likely to leave? $8.5M Richards ($10M or $1.5M buy out likely) Bye-bye $8.9M Ottavino Not easy to replace $8.3M ERod Not easy to replace $4.5M Perez Bye-bye $2M H Robles Bye-bye Add these guys up and we have about $34M and just 2 need to be replaced in kind or better: ERod & Ottavino.

Hey, I'm like 3 for 100!

Errors are not everything. Balls hit into your zone and not caught are counted against a defender. I must admit -6 looks absurd.

Repost: I really like what Bloom has added to the farm and big club, in terms of prospects and recently graduated prospects. Whitlock Mayer Yorke Seabold Downs Jordan Wong Winckowski Bleis RHernandez McDonough Hickey And others that may rise quickly through the ranks. I have to admit I was a little disappointed by Rosario Potts German Wallace

Nick Yorke props... http://news.soxprospects.com/2021/09/august-players-of-month-nick-yorke-and.html

In small 2021 samples, but career, too?

I don't disagree, here, guys. My point is I will not criticize someone for doing something I supported at the time. That's not the same as saying I think he did the right thing. With all the evidence that came out afterwards, some of which just brought up here, sure the choice looked wrong, but Pedro was the greatest Sox pitcher of all time. I think you can find better examples of something undebatable.

I got no Sox fans in my community. When I moved to Mexico, I forgot to bring the water cooler.

I was nearing 100K posts on BDC. Rumors were they shut down the site because of Y2K type concerns with their system crashing had I reached 100,000.

There is some merit in examining every Theo move after the Nomar trade in 2007 and thinking the overall grade was NOT a C+ or better.

I'd guess, no, but with Little, who knows. I'm just saying I'd be a hypocrite for bashing Little in hindsight for doing something I agreed upon at the time. I'm not saying people are wrong for bashing Little, and of course hindsight is always 20-20.

How many times do I have to say I'm not saying I was right? My position is that, at the time, I wanted Pedro to stay in. It wasn't an absurd position. The choice failed, and even though we don't know if the other choices would have worked, I will not be a hypocrite and criticize Little for doing something I agreed with, at the time. In hindsight the choice was wrong. Looking at all the evidence I know now, it looks calling it the wrong choice has a lot of merit, but I still think a 75% Pedro is a great pitcher. I can't say Little was wrong on that. Sorry.

Can't we wait to rest Verdugo until some of the others return?

Whenever he agreed with me, which was maybe twice, I always reanalyzed my position. One point he agreed with me on, which turned out to be one of the most posted thread in BDC history, was my "No Manny- No Rings" thread. Yeah, I know right? Who could disagree on the essentiality of Manny?