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  1. notin
    Romy Gonzalez hasn’t improved significantly? In 3 years of limited action with the White Sox, he had an OPS of .600. In two years in Boston with far more PA, he has an OPS of .791. I’d call a jump of 191 OPS points “significant improvement”…
  2. notin
    Thats just Cora, cooking with the groceries he’s given. Completely without any say on the shopping list…
  3. notin
    So “above average” means with the bat only? You must miss Devers. A .720 OPS from Rafaela is not the same as a .720 OPS from Toro…
  4. notin
    I have no idea why - and this is not a first - I keep thinking Isaiah Campbell’s last name is Kennedy…
  5. notin
    The Sox have used 20 different relief f pitchers so far this year. Just relief pitchers. And that’s not counting Abraham Toro and other position players. Cora can only use the groceries purchased for him, but at some point if he looks in that cupboard, he is going to find a can of SPAM. And so will every other MLB manager. But will they all find it on the 20th try or earlier?
  6. notin
    Having one player hitting at league average is NOT building the team around mediocrity, especially if that one player is among the team leaders in WAR because he is elite defensively. Your expectations are getting unrealistic…
  7. notin
    I ask in all seriousness, was the sarcasm in that post not apparent enough? I thought I iced it by blaming yesterday’s loss on Abner Doubleday. Campbell isn’t much and is probably also peaking. But the inability of Weissert and Whitlock this one day was NOT his fault. And if we are going to play some sort of hypothetical game here, why did Cora resort to Chapman to get one out with only a runner on first and the #9 hitter due up? Overkill? Couldn’t Weissert have done that? Everyone is blaming Campbell, but the Sox did win the game he pitched…
  8. notin
    … which is where for years I wanted Boston to move him. How are his numbers at third? (Before you go too far down this path, this was not a serious comment. While Devers is a lackluster 3b, I do doubt he is capable of derailing an entire pitching staff single-handedly.)
  9. notin
    I’ve been telling you about his defensive shortcomings for years…
  10. notin
    I didn’t like the trade and was quite vocal about it. But it certainly could be a good, and possibly excellent, trade for Boston. If all that matters is “right now”, the the Sox won the Andersen-Bagwell trade during the 1990 season…
  11. notin
    AL average OPS is .720. So now league average is unacceptable? For a player who brings it with the glove?
  12. notin
    Former Pirates/Twins closer Kent Tekulve used to say “if it was up to me, I would never pitch 3 days in a row and never go 3 days without pitching.”
  13. notin
    Whitlock - 6 IP in August. And it’s more of a HIP than a WHIP, since he only has one walk…
  14. notin
    So clearly yesterdays bullpen explosion was Cora’s fault, because if he didn’t overuse Betnardino and necessitate a demotion for some R & R, then Campbell would not even be on the roster forcing the use of Chapman unnecessarily two days ago, leaving Chapman available to pitch yesterday in the event both Whitlock and Weissert were unable to lock anything down. Or is that too silly? Maybe it’s Bloom’s fault for acquiring Campbell in the first place. Frankly, I blame Abner Doubleday for bastardizing Cricket in the first place…
  15. notin
    I agree on the latter part, and think Whitlock and even Weissert have been fine in those roles. But they are going to have the occasional bad day, and blaming Campbell for those days is beyond silly…
  16. notin
    Toro would need to be DFAd first. He might get claimed. He seems to quite often…
  17. notin
    Because it’s beyond silly for blaming Campbell for Whitlock, Weissert and Matz not doing their jobs just so folks can create a hypothetical scenario where Chapman pitches, which, as good as he’s been, still isn’t a guarantee…
  18. notin
    Blame Campbell for what?
  19. notin
    It happens…
  20. notin
    Reportedly the shortstop(Bobby Witt) told him while he was rounding second. And for the record, nothing screams “tanking for a draft pick” louder than DFAing players for hitting grand slams…
  21. notin
    Campbell might have a higher ceiling than either of them. I get Lowe over Toro, but the upgrade is potentially negligible. But if the DFA Sánchez, it at least can be undone…
  22. notin
    To be fair, we knew Priester was a RHSP capable of pitching in MLB, and trading him away needlessly depleted our depth. Some of us said so at the time. We also knew he was rarely if ever hurt. In fact, some legends have it Priester can only feel pain when stabbed by a knife that’s engulfed in the light of a waxing moon. The man is a legend…
  23. notin
    Well, you were the one who brought up making a deal with Washington, so as to avoid the full price tag. Per B-R.com, Lowe has 4.145 years of service time, so he is below the 5.000 year mark after which he could refuse assignment. But he still can if he has ever been outrighted to the minors before. While I doubt he has, I’m not sure. Although I think Washington will release him and save the pro-rated portion of minimum wage on his salary…
  24. notin
    So NOW you want to work out a deal with Washington for Lowe? I suppose you’re finally ready to ship off Tolle for him. I do doubt he gets claimed. I think if he clears waivers, Washington has to release him. I doubt they can demote him to AAA…
  25. notin
    Nobody has ever spelled that name right…
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