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  1. notin
    You need to add the phrase "until they have to" at the end to make it actually true. The Sox have several players still developing on the 40 man roster, including Groome, Downs, Rosario, Potts, Mata, etc...
  2. notin
    September call ups don't count towards service time...
  3. notin
    The big problem with Casas is he is not doing much in AA to make me (and probably a lot of others) think he is any sort of immediate upgrade over Dalbec. And despite the common logic of "he can't be any worse", he can. While Dalbec has set the bar pretty low, turns out there are still some .600 OPS points of room to snake under...
  4. notin
    I did. And not just September…
  5. notin
    It didn’t help that most of the teams decided they could trade their better pitching prospects and in Boston, that cupboard is bare…
  6. notin
    Heck you and I say things all the time the other one doesn’t like. But we don’t launch campaigns to ban each other…
  7. notin
    The 2011 Sox had Beckett (2.89 ERA) and Lester (3.47 ERA)…
  8. notin
    I honestly don’t get the ire. He complains about a lot of things (and right now there are plenty of reasons to complain) but so what? Is the Internet, folks. As in World Wide Web. There are bound to be people on it who say things you don’t like…
  9. notin
    Ghost is allowed to say whatever he wants. Yeah his threads are usually pretty shallow,, but they don’t offend anyone except maybe Bobby Dalbec. If you don’t like them, don’t click them…
  10. notin
    The problem with Robles and Davis isn’t so much that they’ve been ineffective. It’s that Cora insists on using them every game. They’ve combined for 7 appearances since the last time Garrett Whitlock pitched…
  11. notin
    I find it hard to believe any closer just doesn’t try as hard just because it’s not the ninth inning. It seems like it’s not uncommon for relievers to struggle after a trade. Kimbrel got beat up today. Diego Castillo had 2 blown saves. The Sox relievers have been scored upon. Ditto Yimi Garcia in his brief stints. Rodriguez and Graveman have been flawless so far. I do wonder if maybe part of the problem comes with learning all new signs. A starter can have this problem, but then he gets yelled at by the catcher after t the first inning or so. But a lot of the guys I named come out for just one inning. And if they get confused before the catcher realizes it, I could see it being costly every now and then…
  12. notin
    No, that was a team with a different plan on how to build a championship pitching staff…
  13. notin
    Is that your assessment of the Sox pen?
  14. notin
    And yet we’re still in the postseason hunt. I will say, after the first 3 games of the season, how many people thought the July 31st deadline complaints would be about Bloom not keeping the team competitive? What a difference 3 months can make…
  15. notin
    Actually while I did feel the Yankees “too right-handed” criticism was stupid (they have pretty even splits as a team vs RHP and LHP), I thought Cashman had a good deadline. As I don’t know much about the prospects they gave up, those are the deals I do wonder why Bloom wasn’t involved. Although I get ignoring Heaney. And Gallo would have been an odd choice at 1b, since he’s already a Gold Glove outfielder. But Rizzo would have been nice…
  16. notin
    So let me get this straight. The criticism that Bloom “gave up the season” is based on him not getting starting pitching for the Sox prospects. Wouldn’t dealing the team MVP really emphasize that point?
  17. notin
    What about the Anthony Rendon contract (12 years/ $245 million)? Think Devers is with that much?
  18. notin
    Cora has both of them on an incredibly short leash as well. With Sale and Schwarber both returning soon, the Sox will need to make room on the 40 man roster. I suppose it’s possible both of them are jettisoned. That would leave the Sox incredibly shallow in the starting pitching department, however. Not sure what that solution is. Maybe we see Taylor take a few “starts” as an opener. That seems like an unwise strategy at this point in the season as it would certainly tax the bullpen. But then if Taylor (or whoever) only goes 2 innings, it’s really not that much less than what Perez and Richards are giving this team anyway…
  19. notin
    Moon makes a valid point about the Sox defense. If you give any credibility to FIP (and Porcello being unsigned doesn’t discredit it), the Sox starter ERA is 4.21, 7th in the AL. The starter FIP however is 3.91, a slightly more respectable 5th in the AL. Davis and Robles have barely pitched, with each getting about 3 innings so far. But for both (Davis - 2.70 ERA, 1.66 FIP; Robles - 9.00 ERA, 0.83 FIP) the difference is already showing up. Schwarber is definitely t going to solve the defensive woes of this team. He’s actually likely to contribute to them. (And Robles has at least had a few decent seasons; he’s not a horrible reliever.) But the only thing they did was maybe free up a potential pen like Houck to make a few more starts. I suspect unless Richards makes a huge turnaround very soon, he could be DFAd to make room for Sale..
  20. notin
    When Schwarber and Arroyo return, they will severely cutt into the playing time of Dalbec and Gonzalez, and probably remove Cordero from the active roster…
  21. notin
    Ignore him. You have the tools in front of you. Not everyone uses these boards for serious discussions. Maybe he just uses them to vent off about stuff that he just can’t say in public without getting ridiculed. As Denny says, unless he gets personal or political, he’s not really a problem. Plus he seems to take a lot of abuse without whining too much.
  22. notin
    They needed and still need help. What really hurt this team was the willingness of other teams to part with elite prospects the Sox just didn’t have. Especially with Downs flummoxing in AAA and the closest thing the Sox have to actual pitching prospects all went down with TJ..
  23. notin
    Old news. It still doesn’t fact the the Nationals accepted a package of an MLB ready starting pitcher and an MLB ready catcher, both of whom were ranked very highly by every by scouting bureau and both immediately fill positions the Nationals need. What exactly do you think the Sox should have offered for Scherzer that was so much better but Bloom held back?
  24. notin
    Do teams really quiet about screwing a guy up by playing him early? Or do they worry about using his early years of control to watch him improve and then see him reach free agency at age 27 or 28 and command mega dollars?
  25. notin
    Well, the grass is always greener down on the farm..
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