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ERA is not remarkably useful when a pitcher has 4 IP...

Babe hit this board, too? He must have quit his job to troll full time.

Three days ago, this team was pitching and hitting well and looked to run over Houston. Today, this team is not pitching well and not hittng and should be eliminated by Hosuton. If it switched one way so quickly, why can't it switch back? Part of the reason seems to be we evaluate the Sox solely on their most recent games, but then evaluate Houston on their season-long performance and assume they had day-to-day consistency for 162 games. They are just as capable of rolling over and dying as Boston is...

Let's assume Taylor is closer to Kike Hernandez money. That makes sense to me. They're very similar players who now both have post-season games in which each has hit 3 HRs. As much as pitchng is the top priority, there really isn't anyone on this free agent market the Sox should be dedicating massive wads of cash to. We talk about Stroman, but will he be looking for Eovaldi money and years? Or will he be looking for Patrick Corbin money? If it's the latter, let someone else have him. The trade market is probably the better way to go, since free agency largely means paying players in their 30's for whatever they did in their 20's for another team. The Sox would be better off identifying some of those 20-something arbitration eligible pitchers that small market teams are looking to offload to save money. Oakland is an obvious place, with Montas, Bassitt, and Manaea. Also maybe KC (Keller, Junis), Detroit (Boyd, Fulmer), Arizona (Luke Weaver, Caleb Smith), Colorado (Freeland, Senzatela), and the Chicago White Sox (Lopez) might all be looking to move pitchers who are pricing themselves out of their team's budgets. And it is possible Cincinnati (Castillo, Mahle) might be as well, depending on how other arbitration cases work out. Obviously, every pitcher named here is not a "ace," however you define that term. But I think there are a few diamonds-in-the-rough that could he had cheaply and perform surprisingly...

Yeah he's not all that wild about you, either I'd be all for Taylor if they let him play 2B and nowhere else. Put Schwarber at 1B, Verdugo-Hernandez-Renfroe in the OF. And get some pitching...

Please

Maybe it's a compromising picture of both of them together?

Taylor is certainly a very good player who is now having a terrific NLCS. But at some point hopefully the Sox will stop grabbing all these multi-positional guys and get someone to pay an actual position every day.

No. Interleague play is fine. Just get rid of the whole "pitchers batting" thing. Watching pitchers bat is like watching punters tackle...

No one is saying trade him, release him, or DFA him. Just bench him. For one game. Patience is something the Sox cannot afford right now….

Maybe Boone just has some really compromising picture of Cashman…

Since it’s a discussion about rum, can I assume that in your request about Schwarber, “DFA” means “Drink, Fat Ass!!”

Hicks is on the books for $40 mill over the next 4 seasons...

JD is producing rum? Time for shots and Cowboy up!!!

But then he'd hire him back next week. You need to let go of this image that as owners go, George was anything less than unstable and unpredictable...

See? I knew he was the better name...

Schwarber gets on base a ton and keeps the line moving. There is absolutely value in that...

Duran and Darwinzon Hernandez to Oakland for Bassitt and Trivino. BTV accepts it. Also, only 2 D's...

Interestingly, his .217 OBP is less than Renfroe's...

At the very least, if you keep instant replay, stop using to see if a sliding base-runner breaks contact with the base for an infinitesimal period of time...

He was put in a rough situation in 2021 and did not respond well. But it does seem like he is a talented player and can and will adjust as he needs to...

Also among the Oaland A's pending arbitration cases is Lou Trivino. They will deal him somewhere. Book it...

But at least Schwarber is hitting. Renfroe was given ample opportunity and has simply not been...

Possible, but the pitch clock is already in the rules...

One of Houck or Whitlock can close. The other will probably become a starter...