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  1. illinoisredsox
    I don’t think the “it” factor that all championship teams seem to have was never there and would not have been. It wasn’t going to be if Cora had run the tightest camp in the history of spring training.
  2. illinoisredsox
    My response was due to the your statement that Castillo would be off the books. You are correct; they have to pay him anyway but he doesn’t cost extra unless they bring him up.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Castillo is not on the books unless they bring him up. If they do, he counts thru 2021. Pedroia isn’t going to retire. He won’t play, but he’s not going to officially retire.
  4. illinoisredsox
    The spring training regimen explains April. It has utterly no bearing on the current performance of this team.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Looks like he was crossed up to me; the fact that he visited the mound right after tells me he was.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Devers quits on a catchable foul ball that should have ended the inning.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Vazquez is banged up from that foul off his knee last night; I don’t see him playing tonight.
  8. illinoisredsox
    I don't see JBJ back. They can find someone to backfill at less cost. It wont save the entire $10M, but maybe half of it. Wright will be released, not that he saves that much. Leon will be gone as well. I think somebody may get a bit of a bargain with Porcello but it wont be the Sox. This is by far the worst year he's ever had; someone will take a flyer on him for a year at 1/3 of what he's making now. The Sox can't afford that chance.
  9. illinoisredsox
    I'm guessing that there may have been brief inquiries on a few guys that were quickly rejected. Barnes may have drawn some interest as a 6-7-8th inning guy. Ditto Workman. I'm sure teams asked about Hernandez. The rest, no.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Listening to the game with Castiglione and company and they made it sound as if it went over the pole, though now that I think about it, they may have said higher than the pole.
  11. illinoisredsox
    After the first inning he smashed a couple. Didn’t help him in the second unfortunately.
  12. illinoisredsox
    I’ve said it before, solo homers usually don’t really hurt you (provided you keep the number allowed reasonable). 3 run homers do. And there was a big of bad luck on it; went right over the foul pole and probably isn’t a homer anywhere else except Fenway.
  13. illinoisredsox
    True; probably too soon to go back to back with him.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Seriously, adding a piece or 2 wasn’t going to fix the team. Unless/until the starting pitching figures something out, it wasn’t going to matter.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Yep. Like I said, later on give Eovaldi an inning to see if he can get some sharpness. Hernandez an inning or two for experience. Ditto Taylor. We know what the others gave (or don’t have).
  16. illinoisredsox
    Porcello can be his own long man tonight. Use Eovaldi late to get some work in.
  17. illinoisredsox
    You have to have stuff of value to get value; lack of moves is as much about the barrenness of the Sox farm system as anything else. They couldn’t plug one hole without creating another. Example, you trade Beni for a bull pen piece and backfill with who?
  18. illinoisredsox
    You determined Taylor is not a ML quality pitcher from throwing to 1 batter? I don’t understand why you are here and not on the staff of some MLB team.
  19. illinoisredsox
    When did Toronto or Baltimore pass us in the East?
  20. illinoisredsox
    It wasn't a pop up, so I guess it goes down as a soft line drive (radio guys described it as a very soft liner).
  21. illinoisredsox
    Well, if nothing else, they've at least turned the line-up over so that Devers and Bogaerts will hit in the 9th (or earlier).
  22. illinoisredsox
    Just my probably uninformed observation, but it seems like Vaz hits better with no one on.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Puig's Indian debut may be delayed by a couple games. He's still in the game (or was) and got into a bench clearing brawl. Apparently some decent punches were thrown.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Sox supposedly talking to Arizona about Andrew Chafin.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Don’t bother, they’re here.
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