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  1. notin
    Oh it's very likely. If us under-informed folk like him so much, safe bet he is not a secret from the front offices around the league...
  2. notin
    Why? The Sox are not likely to make the postseason anyway. So why not either let Devers see if he can handle 3B or move him to 1B and see if he can handle that position? There is absolutely no point in making a 24yo player a full time DH just so a 34yo high-salaried player player can show us what we already know about his defensive skills. Wherever Devers plays, his defense is NOT going to be why the Sox miss the post-season. There is no reason to pigeonhole him into the most limited role in the lineup before he turns 25. Not to mention, who takes over the corner INF positions and what outfielder takes a seat under this scenario?
  3. notin
    And let's get this straight - Youkilis played 16 games at 1B in Pawtucket in 2005. Plus a couple games there in Pawtucket in 2004 and 40 games in A ball at 1B. My statement was he played less games than Casas' total of 96 at 1B prior to 2006. And he did. He played 67 games at 1B prior to 2006, and they were spread out over 4 seasons in 3 different leagues and while he played a lot of other positions. As this season was never really an attempt to make the postseason anyway, due primarily to Sale being out, the Sox actually could try to switch Devers midseason and it won't be why they miss the playoffs. But most likely, they give him one more full year to see if he can handle the hot corner before making any decisions...
  4. notin
    It most likely would, but if they put him at 1B during the season, they wouldn't be breaking new ground. Mark Teixeira, for example, played 15 games at 3B and the Rangers just gave up on him and moved him to 1B without ever sending him down to learn the new position. They also stuck him in the OF that same year without ever sending him down, but they gave up on that, too...
  5. notin
    He did play 9 games there in 2005, where he also played 2 games at 2B (but only 7 innings total) and 24 at third. Thinking mid-season change myself...
  6. notin
    Second place thanks to the alphabet!!!
  7. notin
    Like Jaden Hill? Same strategy the Royals used grabbing Hunter Dozier in the first round and saving slot money for Sean Manaea...
  8. notin
    Also more than Kevin Youkilis had prior to 2006...
  9. notin
    Even bad baseball teams are still comprised of some of the best players in the world. Yes, you want to beat up on the worst teams, but unlike in other sports, those "worst teams" are still going to win about 40% of the time...
  10. notin
    But yes their trade for those two while giving up a potentially decent catcher does seem questionable and looked like the dumbest trade of 2021 until the Yankees acquired Rougned Odor...
  11. notin
    Mazza was nowhere near one of the worst pitchers on that staff. He was actually one of the better ones, which is the real tragedy...
  12. notin
    Just laugh at the movie reference next time. The grounds crew in that flick was funny and that film came out many years before the Sox got swept by Baltimore
  13. notin
    I think if I were drafting (and fear not, I am not drafting and Bloom has blocked my Twitter), I would seriously consider Henry Davis at 4...
  14. notin
    Why can't the Sox afford Devers? He's under team control through 2023. After the 2022 season, the Sox shed the following contracts: Eovaldi, Martinez, Perez, Hernandez, Richards, Price (half) and possibly Bogaerts. Basically the only player left making any guaranteed money will be Sale and the only player with a vesting/conditional option is Sawamura. Unless Bogaerts stays. If the Sox replace enough of those players internally, extending Devers will be even less of an issue...
  15. notin
    I still expect some fans to be like the grounds crew in the first Major League movie. “They’re still s*****”...
  16. notin
    Never too early to sweep the Rays...
  17. notin
    I know. I doubt he falls to three. In my mock draft, Rocker, Leiter and Fabian go 1-2-3. So who becomes the best choice at 4? (Probably worth pointing out my mock draft stops after 3 picks.)
  18. notin
    I take it if he ever saw the process for separating plasma from blood cells, he would deem it witchcraft...
  19. notin
    I'm just glad they stopped those overly optimistic MLB Comparisons. We all knew Lars Anderson was a good prospect, but to blatantly call him the next Justin Morneau (an MVP, no less) struck me as being beyond hopeful...
  20. notin
    Give me physics anyday...
  21. notin
    Nobody does. It's the softest of the soft sciences...
  22. notin
    .. which is what I thought. I think the folks at soxprospects.com, who have made massive strides towards excellence over the years, do occasionally drop the ball on the option years thing...
  23. notin
    Maybe second round, fourth pick? Bloom comes away with Leiter and Hill? Dare I dream it?
  24. notin
    While possible, the future divisional alignments of the sport did not make those teams more watchable at the time. I did not find some of the poor Patriot teams in the Grogan Era more watchable because I knew one day the Colts would leave the AFC East...
  25. notin
    Or when a pitcher who typically handles the save situations fails because it isn't one. "Well, Rob Dibble struggled here because he had a 4 run lead." No, he struggled because he could not pitch that particular day. It happens to human beings. I mean, if the argument is the close ninth inning games are difficult due to the high pressure situation how does less pressure make it even more difficult?
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