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  1. notin
    Offense is down across baseball but the Sox are ranked 25th or below in pretty much every category…
  2. notin
    Bogaerts isn’t a solution there…
  3. notin
    The bullpen could be an easier fix 1. Keep Houck in the pen. Make him a closer/high leverage pitcher. 2. Bring up Seabold for the rotation (to replace Houck). 3. DFA Barnes. Just to keep Cora from using him in the 10th. 4. Bring up Winckowski until Hill comes back from COVID. The Sox bullpen would get better if they left out here’s there instead of using them as starter depth. 5. Schreiber looks good in limited action. Crawford does not. Demote Crawford for now.
  4. notin
    In 4 of those losses, Sox pitching held the opposition to 4 total runs over 36 innings. And you can’t even blame all of them on the bullpen, since the loss in Tampa: 1. Was 0-0 after 9. Not exactly the bullpen failure you keep saying it was. 2. Should have ended on the groundout to Story. But the defense gave Tampa 4 outs…
  5. notin
    Lonborg got hurt over 50 years ago. Still too soon?
  6. notin
    I think barring injury, we can safely assume Toronto (Bichette) and Minnesota (Correa) will not be acquiring a shortstop unless said shortstop is willing to move to 2b. LAD might, assuming Turner is willing to move again. But they won’t be replacing a healthy Turner and sending him to the bench…
  7. notin
    I wouldn’t guarantee either is dealt. The hottest deadline commodity is always relief pitching. Eovaldi as a starter should have a market, but the Sox also might not get enough of an offer and might value the exclusive negotiation rights they get by keeping him. Bogaerts requires a specific case to be dealt - a contending team that needs a shortstop. Especially given his preference to not change positions. There aren’t really any teams that fit that bill except maybe the Yankees. And that deal is a little tough to foresee happening. But certainly injuries can happen sound the league…
  8. notin
    Barring a massive turnaround, does it do any good to hold on to Bogaerts? He reportedly plans to opt out and this team is going nowhere unless some bats wake up very, very quickly…
  9. notin
    Who said anything about Devers? Ever? Bogaerts has left himself in a rough spot. His opt out was poorly timed and the Sox got proactive in replacing him. That took away any leverage his agent had. And it doesn’t appear there has been much willingness to negotiate; no one knows what it would take to keep him…
  10. notin
    Because the Sox can’t hit!!
  11. notin
    While I totally agree, it still isn’t an excuse for the status quo…
  12. notin
    Because the lack of offense is costing than more games. The house is burning down and your trying to douse the burning drapes. Is it an issue? Yes. Is it their biggest one? Not by a long shot. And the solution is right there assuming Cora ever wakes up and tries it. Houck is not a good starter. And using him to piggyback Hill (who actually is a good starter is another waste. The 2 or 3 games the Sox might have won with a good closer are nothing compared to the number of games the pitching has held the other team to 3 runs or less and the offense still couldn’t do anything about it. I mean, ghost runners are a run basically handed over to the offense. You don’t even need a hit to drive one in. But the Sox have only driven in 3 of 7. The Sox bizarre defensive play in late innings just makes it worse. Robles should have 0 blown saves and the defense has given him two…
  13. notin
    The Sox scored 5 runs in 28 innings. Twice the White Sox scored 3 runs in the third inning and never looked back. How is a lack of a closer the issue there? Also they do win the extra inning game and Robles closes it out if the Sox play proper defense and guard the line…
  14. notin
    The Sox have allowed all 7 ghost runners to score, but have only driven in 3 of 7. The ghost runner is essentially a gimme. Hit a grounder to the right side and a flyball. It doesn't even require a hit. The RP can actually do his job well and let one score. But somehow the Sox just cannot get the ghost runner home. Also worth noting, one of the three they have driven him came after giving up 6 runs in the top of the inning when the Angels might not have been so concerned with him...
  15. notin
    What did the sun ever do to you?
  16. notin
    And the thing is, these “back in the day” comparisons always involve the elite arms from that time. Bob Gibson didn’t do this. Nolan Ryan did that. The Sox don’t have Gibson or Ryan. The Sox don’t even have Jim Lonborg. They have Nate Eovaldi. And the only way Eovaldi becomes the next Lonborg is if he takes up skiing…
  17. notin
    As long as the Sox don’t replace Fatse with Jarrod Saltalamacchia…
  18. notin
    But for every Jim Lonborg, how many Mark Fidrych’s were there?
  19. notin
    But will it be 60-70 all year? With no real ST, we had to expect those shorter outings..,
  20. notin
    So the closest thing he has to a qualification is an anagram?
  21. notin
    Taking starting pitchers out before they get hammered is hardly new; it’s been done for decades. That’s what pitch counts were for…
  22. notin
    It does take a lot of talent to shutdown this offense the way Fatse has…
  23. notin
    JBJ is also on a very short list of Sox players actually hitting. WTF Cora?
  24. notin
    Right. And how many of those players have Scott “Let me take you to free agency” Boras as their agent? Again, no counteroffer from Bogaerts? Don’t feed me the “he was too insulted” ********. Because chances are very good he wasn’t even there and because saying “no” without a counter is an old and extremely well-known Boras tactic. But if your argument is these guys are intentionally tanking because they are not being overpaid enough - let them all f***ing walk. Seriously. I can understand concern over contract. But tanking because of someone else’s contract? That shouldn’t be condoned…
  25. notin
    With this offense, absolutely…
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