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  1. notin
    Don’t the Sox have a team option? If so, why not start there?
  2. notin
    Points
  3. notin
    You spelled Larry Andersen’s name wrong 😑
  4. notin
    Gasper is a former Yankee farmhand as well…
  5. notin
    The Sox should ride that Gasper wave to shore, but also not act surprised when it actually gets there….
  6. notin
    A better comp might be fellow switch hitter Morgan Burkhart in 2000, who posted a .935 OPS across 95 PA, before returning back into MLB obscurity….
  7. notin
    But Rutschman has been a 3-5 bWAR guy, which is an upgrade…
  8. notin
    That might be exactly how his career pans out, but again - thats a lot to glean from one start. If Roger Clemens got judged with “hopefully we never see him pitch again” after his first handful of starts (35.1 IP, 7.13ERA, 1.83WHIP), the Sox might have given up a tad prematurely on one of the best pitchers of the past, heck, how many years can I go back here? One of the best ever…
  9. notin
    True, but the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” phrase originally came from The Simpsons, in an episode where groundskeeper Willie was teaching ESL to French students and began berating them…
  10. notin
    Yes for this one outing. It doesn’t mean he is done. Do people think in Glavine’s very similar debut, he looked sharp?
  11. notin
    I think you mean bean-eating surrender monkeys. Boston ain’t France…
  12. notin
    And you only needed to see 86% of 2026 to come up with it. It’s not about repeating 2024. Paredes simply isn’t as good of a player as Duran. But you’re saying one bad year from Duran disproves than and justifies the deal?
  13. notin
    I agree the Sox gave up a lot, but when all the dust settles it might wind up the Sox gave up Eyanson and a bunch of career minor leaguers for Rutschman, too…
  14. notin
    If Mead takes the field next year, corner INF is (hopefully) more likely…
  15. notin
    Kike started 78 games at 2b in two plus years. Not so willing to consider him a 2b…
  16. notin
    This ,535 team seems about right…
  17. notin
    So Duran was worth 10.9 fWAR over the two previous season while Paredes posted 5.7 fWAR in that same timeframe. Duran had more years of control and made less money. So your argument is the Sox should have traded the better, cheaper and more controllable player and the Sox are the team that screwed up by not adding more to the package? Nothing there seems right…
  18. notin
    Just like it was last year in the playoffs…
  19. notin
    Think they list in 1969 due to resting players? Or maybe from running into that Seaver-Koosman buzzsaw? Also 1969 was the first year of the LCS in each league. I could see a manager not navigating this new round correctly…
  20. notin
    It seems like the Astros were willing to move Paredes, but they were not willing to flat out dump him. They wanted something useful back. Do not overstate their case…
  21. notin
    His HR thing was largely carried by a 3 start stretch right after the All Star break. The rest of the season, he was fairly average in home runs. Unlike Drohan, he had actual MLB success prior to this year. Drohan was nothing special in the upper minors, and was selected and returned as a Rule 5 pick by one of the worst teams in MLB history. (Arguments that they didn’t get to be that bad by making good decisions acknowledged, as long as you acknowledge they didn’t return him for being “too impressive”.) Breslow might not like Kutter. He probably doesn’t like us much either. The man seems unpleasant to anyone who doesn’t pitch left-handed…
  22. notin
    Who did you expect more from in March - Crawford or Drohan? Sale went 4 years barely seeing the mound, and not being his former self when he did actually get out there. Also he was 35, unlike Crawford. And I keep hearing it was wrong to give up on him. By which I mean I keep hearing after he bounced back. (It was wrong to, but also understandable.)
  23. notin
    Not like those bastions of durability Dobbins, Fitts and Drohan. Aren’t Dobbins and Fitts both injured right now?
  24. notin
    Didn’t I mention Houck was the only one expected to miss that much time (as far as I know)? Haven’t I mentioned it twice now? What do you think had the bigger impact - trading away Dobbins, Fitts and Harrison? Or losing Crochet, Crawford and Oviedo for all but 6 games? And while Harrison has been good, do the Sox really miss Dobbins and Fitts? They’ve been closer to being a reason you need depth as opposed to actual depth. Dobbins has 54 IP for the Cardinals this year and another 15 in AAA. Fitts just has 15 IP in AAA. The Sox could use Harrison, but they also could use Durbin…
  25. notin
    It was frustrating, but it was also just one start. 3.2 IP 10 H 8ER 3K 2BB Surprisingly similar to another first career start from long ago back in 1987 where the pitcher went 3.2 IP 10H 6ER 1K 2BB against a bad (76-86) Houston Astros lineup. And I bet a lot of Braves fans hoped they’d never see Tom Glavine start another game after that. Not saying Paez is a future Hall of Famer. He very, very likely isn’t. Heck he might not even be a future Major Leaguer. But I am saying it’s one start, and I wouldn’t put too much weight on it just yet…
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