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.. which he can do at home. So we're both right...

There has to be some sort of balance, especially for only 2 months of a player. Casas might be Lars Anderson 2.0, but he also might be a perennial All Star. Most likely, he falls some where in the vast grey area between. Would you or would you not have traded him for 2 months of Anthony Rizzo? For me, no. He's 21 and playing in AA and could be ready to take over 1B at some point in 2022. However, someone like Gilberto Jimenez, whose only in A ball, and whose best position is very likely going to be held by Jarren Duran for the next few seasons, and who is considered a good enough prospect to at least the Sox in the conversation, is one guy I am actually surprised the Sox held on to. Now, maybe GMs really don't like Jimenez. Or maybe he was in those talks, but everyone also wanted him along with a good pitching prospect that the Sox just do not have. There are actually other possibilities beyond "Bloom just wants to hold his prospects"...

Dan Quayle!

At home?

If the Sox promote any minor leaguer, Connor Seabold is the bigger need right now. Not sure if his 20 innings of rehab is viewed as enough just yet...

Rizzo is the one guy I was disappointed that Bloom did not get. Hard to equate what players from the Sox farm. The Fangraphs Future Value system at least gives me a way to compare, but even it has flaws. But let's use it. Alcatara (FV: 50) and Vizcaino (FV: 45)gave the Cubs a decent return on Rizzo. From the Sox system ,in oprder to give them two prospects with a FV total of 95, we would need to include a one FV: 50 prospect and one FV 45 or 45+ (really a 45+ to "top" the Yankee offer). Before the season, the Sox had two prospects with FV of 50 - Casas and Downs. Downs has not made hiself look like a good trade piece so far this year, so it looks like we would need to include Casas. For the FV 45+: Mata and Jimenez. Has to be Jimenez, as Mata is out with TJ. For the FV: 45 - Noah Song, Tanner Houck, Jarren Duran, Connor Seabold, Bobby Dalbec (it's a preseason ranking) Realisitcally Duran has probably aded value and Downs has lost value. The Cuba also took a pitcher in Vizcaino, and this is probably not a coincidence. Pitchers on this list that are not good trad include Mata and Song. So to get Rizzo, it might have taken something like one of Casas or Duran and one of Houck or Seabold. Would you have dealt Casas and Houck? Or Duran and Seabold? Or who? At least using this objective system. But the bottom line is, some sort of Potts/Groome package was not going to get anything done.,..

I'm not so sure being an actual first baseman is a hiuge advantage. Look around MLB at who plays forst base. At least half of them came up playing other positions and moved to 1B. At the MLB level for a lot of teams, 1B is where you put the "can hit/can't field" player...

It also took a significant rebuild in July to get hem on the right track. Not one of those talking heads predicting another ring took Rizzo and Gallo into account...

One thing about the whole goo ban is it seems like it's kiilling the Soxmore than other teams. Certainly other pitchers were using the stuff. Some, like Tyler Glasnow, at least had the decency to injure himself and not become a problem for the Rays. But Perez and Richards continue to stay healthy. (I'm actually not totally convinced Perez was using anything. He's been awful since the ban, but his career is loaded with stretches like this. They are probably the reason he only gets the cheap one year deals.)

A few of them were low A ballers with promise, and varying ranks. Alcantara, for example, was #10 in their system on MLB.com (I think), but #7 on Fangraphs. Prospect- ranking is all very subjective anyway...

I think that's a little too wide open. Sometimes requests are unreasonable. If the guy doesn't offend anyone, let him have at it. Maybe some people like responding to his stuff. And what was he banned for previously? If he attacked other people or made derogatory comments (not counting those to Bobby Dalbec), he should be banned, but that doesn't mean he now has a new set of rules, like "If you make a thread about a demotion that could never happen under existing rules and also shows you have no understanding of how minor leagues work" is not an acceptable reason banning for anyone IMO. What's truly sad now is that Ghost has become a bigger topic that the current team. Maybe we do need him...

Change the seventh inning song from "Sweet Caroline" to Molly Hatchet's timeless mega-hit "Flirtin' With Disaster". For many, many reasons...

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...

September call ups don't count towards service time...

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...

I did. And not just September…

It didn’t help that most of the teams decided they could trade their better pitching prospects and in Boston, that cupboard is bare…

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…

The 2011 Sox had Beckett (2.89 ERA) and Lester (3.47 ERA)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

No, that was a team with a different plan on how to build a championship pitching staff…

Is that your assessment of the Sox pen?