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  1. notin
    Overmatched or not, he won’t learn to hit MLB pitching in AAA. For a guy who likes to ignore points and cling to painfully obvious conclusions, not sure why you think he will…
  2. notin
    61 more mentions and I will have posted him out of existence…
  3. notin
    Exactly, which is why I keep mentioning 5’1” Andrew Vaughn…
  4. notin
    I could see Mayer replacing Story, who has fallen off a Cliff recently. I doubt they bring up Anthony without an outfielder injury or Devers actually moving to 1b…
  5. notin
    I would never make those trades, even if Brewers GM Pat Murphy kidnapped my family and made them ransom demands. Hoskins seems likely to acquire on his own. BTV gives him a negative trade value, which makes him a straight salary dump for Milwaukee. Of course the Brewers, like the Sox, are only 4 GB and might not start unloading players so readily…
  6. notin
    I think an unexciting 1b option might be in the near future. Reportedly they inquired about some surging AAA hitters on the older side of prospect status, like Phillies 3b Otto Kemp and White Sox 1b Tim Elko (since called up)…
  7. notin
    I didn’t expect Sandoval this year. But I did/do expect Crawford back at some point…
  8. notin
    That was never the argument…
  9. notin
    I’d call it a group effort that includes the pitchers themselves. Whats with the blame stuff? I think and I’ve been on this since spring training, if the Sox kept Whitlock, Slaton, Fitts, and Guerrero as the core of that bullpen, they’d be fine. I think thats still true. (For a long time I wanted Houck in there, but that was before Guerrero, Slaton and Fitts.) Of course I also advocated for cutting Justin Wilson minutes after he signed. So there is that..
  10. notin
    Not sure why the quotes. Chapman has been their best reliever this year…
  11. notin
    They did spend nearly $12mill on Chapman. Even if they expected Hendriks to close, they had a Plan B…
  12. notin
    Yes, but that’s hindsight. The big issue to me appears that they’re counting too much on Slaten and Whitlock in key situations. Also any time they get a promising young reliever, they push him into the rotation until he gets injured…
  13. notin
    Campbell just needs to learn to adjust to MLB pitching. There’s only one place he can do that. He’s not going to do that in AAA any more than he is at Dave and Buster’s…
  14. notin
    Can’t it be both?
  15. notin
    Well, I wouldn’t say the pen wasn’t addressed. They did add Aroldis Chapman and Justin Wilson, plus expected the return of Liam Hendriks…
  16. notin
    That’s really great that you know which number is bigger. Maybe tomorrow we can work on capital letters…
  17. notin
    Keep him up. Spell him occasionally with Hamilton. Whats he going to learn in AAA, besides that he can crush the pitching there?
  18. notin
    Romy Gonzalez is ok for a stopgap or platoon option, but he didn’t get released by the worst team in MLB history for being overly talented. At some point, the Sox should address 1b if Devers never relents (which he might). But the more pressing area needs are the bullpen and someone to replace Houck in the rotation. Hopefully the latter need will be filled by someone returning from the IL at some point. And maybe the former one as well..
  19. notin
    I’m not convinced either Breslow or Cora cares much about the disposition of Yoshida. It’s possible I care more about it then either of them…
  20. notin
    Speaking Spanish is certainly a plus. But I’d bet every team has at least one bilingual player…
  21. notin
    I’m not hanging him yet. I specifically called the usage “questionable”, which means “open to doubt, question, or challenge.” I think that’s fair…
  22. notin
    Not my fault. A couple centuries ago, his great, great, great, great, great grandfather spit in the face of the village witch. She cursed his family by claiming any time someone posted their heights in an online forum, the Vaughns would all shrink by an inch. Naturally, Ol’ Grampa Vaughn laughed, what with online forums being centuries away. But who’s laughing now?
  23. notin
    No .500 team ever looks likely to go on a winning streak. But it does happen. Less than 2 weeks ago, the Cardinals were 15-19 and not impressing anyone. Now a game behind the Cubs…
  24. notin
    Why is it always the coach’s fault? Maybe he’s getting good advice and not listening…
  25. notin
    The Sporting News is predicting - PREDICTING - that the Sox will trade for Rhys Hoskins. While it makes some sense, Milwaukee is basically in the same position as Boston (21-23 4 GB). They probably have to give up first, which I don’t see likely given they just got their ace back. I stand by my unexciting prediction of 5’2” Andrew Vaughn, who could probably be had today for very little…
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