moonslav59

Maybe as a pinch runner?

I tried that idea a while ago and was schooled on the rules. Pablo would refuse his AAA assignment and once he cleared waivers, anyone could pick him up with th Sox paying his $19M and every penny counting towards the luxury tax budget. Because of his service time in MLB, he had more rights than Castillo did, when we dropped him from the 40 man roster.

Unless Pedey goes on the 10-day DL, which I doubt happens, we'd have to send down a pitcher to make room for Marrero. Now, might be Pablo's chance to shine.

I was at the games in Houston. No way were the HBPs intentional. 1) There was no reason to single out either of these two players for anything they had done earlier. 2) The Sox had not done anything to bring on a "payback". 3) The game was way too close for the Astros to put two guys on with no out. Fake news.

I can't find the Yankee thread. Gleyber Torres, the Yankees' top prospect and the No. 2 prospect in all of baseball according to MLB Pipeline, will have season-ending Tommy John surgery after sustaining a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.

So, is it at least partially "on the manager" that players haven't performed as expected?

Hanley's injury may be the reason he has basically sucked this year.

Moreland will probably want too much money next year for us to be in hot pursuit of his services. Depending on Holt's health, and maybe even if Holt is 100% okay next year, we might prefer to sign a player who can play 3B, 1B and LF. With Young and Moreland becoming free agents and 3 top prospects (Deverss, Travis & Swihart) looking to be ML ready by opening day 2018, I doubt we bring back either of our free agnts-to-be.

"...I also think the CC injury kinda started this fiasco...." Injuries to starting pitchers has led to several teams going through tough stretches. The Astros were on fire, then...kaput! The Sox have had to deal with starter injuries all year long, and we've clawed our way to a tie for the division lead and the second best record in the AL. Based on 14 starters per 5 starters, the Sox have missed these amounts of starts from our original rotation: #1 Sale: 0 #2 Price: -9 #3 Porcello: +1 #4 ERod: -4 (and counting) #5 Wright:- 8 (and counting) Starts made by our #6 and lower starters: #6 Pomeranz: 13 #7 Kendrick: 2 #8 Johnson 4 (Now, he's hurt.) #9 Velazquez 1

EE as our FT 1Bman scares the hell out of me. He's best utilized as a DH and we already have $41M spent on DH-only types: HRam & Pablito. Same with those who said we should have signed Holliday. His only spot on this team would have been DH and 4th OF'er. Plus, he'd have made Young's role on this team a waste of money. If we were going to spend big on a bat last winter, clearly 3B was the slot to fill. Plus, had we signed EE, Beltran or Holliday instead of Moreland, we'd have less cap space to get someone this summer.

Or, play Pablo at 1B.

Timely hits too. I think we left 4 runners on base to Houston's 14! Our M.O. seems to flipping. We finally we outscored in a series and managed to win it anyways. I'm not sue how often that has happened in recent years, but I know we've lost many more series despite outscoring the opponents.

I don't think keeping Pablo around is about "being a nice guy." It's about making a long-lasting financial decision on paying a guy $19M to play elsewhere. If there is a sliver of hope he can regain some sort of value to this team, even if it is as a platoon DH and back-up corner IF'er in 2018, it might be worth keeping him around a while longer to see if some sort of revitalization occurs. I doubt it happens. I'm pretty keeping a roster spot for a platoon DH is not the best way to fill out a 25 man roster. But, $19M is a lot of money. We payed Young $6.5M and Moreland $5.5M to be platoon players. They both ended up taking on a role vs off-handed pitchers. Imagine this, we DFA Pablo, and we go with Devers, Travis and Swihart/Hernandez as replacements for Moreland, Young and Holt. We make HRam the DH, Travis the FT firstbaseman and Devers the FT 3Bman. What if any of these guys struggle or get hurt, we might end up having to sign a guy to play 3B, 1B or DH-- all positions Pablo could conceivably play-- and be paying $19M for Pablo + whatever we have to pay the next Moreland/Young type. Now, we're up to $25M combined cost. I truly think that if Sox management was 100% sure Pablo was toast, he'd be gone, and Marrero would still be on the 25 man roster giving us the added depth we need. They must still have some sliver of hope, or they don't see Marrero as an upgrade over Pablo, even if it does not seem well founded right now.

The contract affect on the luxury tax makes adding him to the 40 man roster prohibitive. I guess we could add him for just part of this year, so his contract would be pro-rated, and then DFA him again at some point, to take the luxury hit away in future years, assuming he does not earn a roster spot while up in Boston.

Henry would love to save a few million, so if we could trade him and save money, assuming the rules allow it, I think he might be traded. Even if the money is taxed, if we work out a deal where we save more money than the increased tax would be, we might do it.

I don't think "the time" has to be right now. If Devers is not ready, then keeping Pablo around has some merit, especially when you look at his contract.

We took 2 out of 3 on the road vs the best record team. We were outscored in the series and still won: that doesn't happen often for us. Bogey finally showed some power. Price got hit hard but kept us in the game. Nice game. Nice win. Tied for first.

HRam played tonight. I doubt we DFA Pablo anytime soon, but Rutledge sure is playing a lot Lately, so Pablo sure does seem like a wasted roster spot, if he only plays when we face a righty and we have a righty starter pitching.

I still like our chances of winning it all, or at least winning the AL. The offense just isn't as good as I thought, and other teams' offenses are better than I thought.

Just got back from a great time at the game. Went out for some seafood before the game for Father's Day. We hit the ball hard for a lot of outs early in the game, then went soft. I had a feeling we were going to lose. Big win. The Yanks lose. What's all the fuss been about?

Our oldest player is only about 33 (Pedey and Young). I do see a lack of "fire", but I don't think it is related to any lack of youth..

I burn 1500 calories on the treadmill over 62-68 minutes, according to the machine's readings. I do light lifting and crunches afterwards, followed by 2-4 leisurely laps in pool as "cool down". I had gotten up over 295. I'm at 251 now. I'm trying to get down to 210-220.

It might not take a concerted effort to limit HRam's PAs. He gets hurt enough- all by himself.

lol!

Before last year even started, I said I would trade HRam, even if he hit .330 with 30 HRs in 2016. He's just too inconsistent and injury prone to be able to count on him year-to-year. His trade value would have returned by having a great 2016, and we might have been able to get out from under at least one of the two big mistake contracts we gave out to Pablo and Hanley. Once Papi retired, it was hard for me to still hold that position of trading HRam last winter, but it looks like we should have done it.