moonslav59

A player's job is to play where the manager tells him to and do the best he can to help the team. So, the GM and or manager made a mistake. That does not change the fact the player is expected to do his job, too. My boss makes mistakes, too. I don't tell him, I'm not doing my job, because you made a mistake.

Sounds like a relatively inexpensive option. BAL may wait, until they are farther out, as they are just 6 GB the last WC slot.

I agree. I don't like this, at all.

Criswell let up 3 runs in the shortened game, but his ERA is still 3.99 w WOO. POR lost 9-4 in 10. Romero 2-5 (.885) Ferguson hit his first dinger. GRE lost, but Dean pitched pretty well. (2 hits, 1BB and 9 K in 4.2) Arias 2-4 w 2B (1.011) SAL won 11-9, as Encarnacion continued his bashing by going 3-4 w BB, 2B and HR (.925) Nunez & Salazar homered, too. FCL got clobbered, but Azocar went 4-4

Anthony Rizzo? LMAO.

I was hoping Devers would want to play 1B. He's upset they even asked him. Yikes! I guess the best choice is Campbell to 1B and call up Mayer for middle infield. Even with the little life shown by Rafaela, recently, I'd also call up Anthony- sooner, not later.

Maybe Bello will reach the potential we hoped he'd do in 2024. He's got good stuff. Maybe the nice start will give him a confidence boost, which never hurts.

No. Jh Garcia will not be ML ready, this year. We have two top prospects that are ML ready. Shuffle someone to 1B and make room for one. Campbell seems to make sense. Story is an option, but Campbell is taller and has no set position, anyway, right now.

That was a sweet win. We needed one.

True. He should have been in the "acquired" category. He has spent a lot of time on our farm, but that doesn't make him semi homegrown.

I would not trade anything worthwhile for a 1Bman. We have prospects that are ML ready. Just shift someone around and use what we got, or find the next Dom Smith.

These guys need to show something at the big level, but this is highly encouraging. The change is young and new pitching evaluation, acquisition and development seemed to moving at a snails pace for more than a decade, but I will add this: we've heard talk about how we haven't seen great homegrown pitching (especially starter) since the Lester-Buchholz days, and that is very true, but we have been seeing some recent improvements at the ML level over the last 5-6 years. Still, nothing like Lester, but a clear and measurable improvement in quality and quantity of pitchers helping the big club. Several were acquired by trade, Rule 5, waivers and other non draft and IFA signings. Some were not developed only within the Sox system, but the list of pitchers has been an improvement. (I'm not talking about the Crochets and Klubers- I'm talking about prospects or very young pitchers with no or very little ML experience when we acquired them.) Add these guys to the growing list of drafted and IFA additions, where we have been drafting more pitching and spending more IFA bonus money on pitching than before, and the trend is clearly in the right direction. Established homegrown pitchers: Houck, Crawford, Bello Semi-homegrown: Whitlock, Slaten, Fitts, Winckowski, Kelly, I Campbell Acquired: Criswell (37 IP w 2 teams) Weisser (30 IP w NYY) Prospects w ML experience: Dobbins, Guerrero, Penrod, Murphy Prospects w/o ML experience: 4 Perales, 13 Tolle, 19 Clarke, Valera, 10 Early, 8 Sandlin, 16 Paez, 22 Reyes, 23 Cason, 29 Mullins, 30 Delzine, 25 Wehunt, 28 Monegro, 32 Tygart, 36 Ingrassia, 40 Aita, plus Fajardo, Drohan, Mata, Carlson, Rivera, Sena, Neely, Dean, Rogers and others Pretty impressive, despite not seeing the next Lester, as of now.

It doesn't seem like a mega luxury tax works as intended, but only for a couple teams, as of now (LAD & NYM.) I do think it keeps 8-12 teams from spending wildly. Half the league doesn't even care about the lux tax line as they will not spend over the line, even if there was no tax. One way the players may agree to a soft or semi-hard cap would be to have a hard floor cap that significantly rises over a few years and forces the low budget teams to spend way more. Some owners may sell their teams, but maybe that would be a good thing. (Some teams might move cities.) Something different has to be implemented. I'm not sure how or what it can/will be. If the mega taxes were used to force lower budget teams to spend (using the tax money only to increase their spending) maybe it could work. The players would love it, since forcing lower teams to spend much more would only drive contracts up and force higher spending teams to bid more and more. I'm not sure what would happen. I hope there is no lock out, but with radical changes almost a certainty, I think it will.

Likely, but many of these journeymen/tweener kind of RP'ers have up and down seasons and partial seasons. Maybe, we need to try and harness some up seasons. There is no guarantee his AAA success, so far will translate to the bigs, and the whole trial and error process can hurt a team, if every guy we cycle through sucks, but some of the guys we have now are sucking, so what's the harm? (I know, we might demote a guy just as he was about to have an upswing.)

Anthony could play FT LF, starting today. Duran CF and Abreu/Ref RF (or Abreu/Raf.) The only starter affected would be Rafaela, and he would be a super utility guy that would end up booting Romy or DHam off the 26, as the other guy most affected. The Mayer call-up is much more complex, but move of Campbell to 1B would create a FT single position for Mayer: SS (Story to 2B) or 2B. (The Campbell move may "affect his development," but he seems to be a quick adjuster.)

Well said. I'm feeling more and more confident that our farm system will remain highly ranked, even after the big 3 graduate- maybe not top 3-5, but top 6-8, maybe.

Hopefully, this is a sign our young pitching talent evaluation process has improved, greatly.

Wow, the Sox are better than the Celts, right now.

Anthony and Mayer with 2 more hits, each, again. What more do they need to prove? Anthony added a BB, while both Mayer's hits were XBHs. Sabol and Grandal both has 2 hits, too. Drohan let up 1 run in 3IP and Luis Guerrero got the win in relief (2 no hit IP.)

U are not alone- just far from me.

For a while, it looked like we might find a new way to lose, but wow 104 mph from Chapman. DAMN!

Thanks for the condolences. I just guessed on the 20-17 thingy. This should fuel the anti-Cora crowd.

Aita went 5 scoreless today (2.73) 3 hits and 0 BBs. Yuten & Cespedes hit their first dingers. Valera went 5.2 with 8Ks and just 1 BB (4 hits and 0 runs) Arias and Taylor went 3-5 (Taylor had 2 dbls and a trpl) Bleis 2-3 w BB (.838, now.)

Of course. I was just addressing your Yoshida point. The Mayer call-up and Devers staying at DH would be the call-up to doom Yoshida- not an Anthony promotion. I'd think of doing both. Yoshida is not even ready, yet.

So, what were Sox fans complaining about our spending when we were top half every year?