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  1. notin
    So do you think the Sox should trade for Jake deGrom this off-season? He’s only got 3 years / $115 mill left on that deal…
  2. notin
    There’s a difference between general profanity and the use of epithets targeted at a particular group…
  3. notin
    I hoped on this guy for 4 years to come back and lead the Sox like he’s doing here. Maybe even 5 years, since he was nowhere near this effective back in 2019. I get why the Sox tried to move him. But this deal and everything around couldn’t have gone more wrong…
  4. notin
    He only went 7 innings twice since 2019. His comeback is unprecedented….
  5. notin
    Or keep actively pursuing pitchers as teams clear out 40 man roster space. It’s possible another team might dump a few contracts to get under the tax threshold like the Angels did last year. Toronto and the Cubs are candidates. Kyle Hendricks anyone?
  6. notin
    Flashes, yes. But even the Braves wouldn’t give up anything for him unless the Sox paid the bulk of the fare. And Sale did injure his shoulder shortly after that game. Again, with Sale it was never a question of ability. But there were questions of durability and availability…
  7. notin
    And if Sale had been able to throw even one outing like that since 2019, he’d probably still be here…
  8. notin
    Ever heard him doing it before? Or pretending you know Duran? I think the missed story here is this happened so soon after Billy Bean died…
  9. notin
    His ability in this case was the ability to not use homophobic slurs at random fans…
  10. notin
    Roberts’ stolen base seems overrated to me. The Sox ended that inning with the bases loaded. It’s very possible he would have been forced home one way or another. But what no one mentions ever is Millar working the walk off Rivera in the first place. Without that walk, there’s no one for Roberts to pinch run for…
  11. notin
    Every player public apology in history has sounded rehearsed, orchestrated, and/or insincere…
  12. notin
    I feel complimented that I think like someone nicknamed “The Brain”…
  13. notin
    There are rules regarding position players pitching. A team has to be trailing by at least 8 runs. The leading team can only use a non-pitcher in the ninth inning of a game and must be up by 10 runs. Also, as using a non-pitcher is a white flag on the game, opposing hitters have a brother-in-law code. They don’t take pitches or work walks. They just swing at anything close. There’s some fun footage of Max Scherzer (then with the Mets) yelling at Pete Alonso for taking pitches in a game like this, calling him out for worrying about his stats. Anthony Rendon famously turned around and made his first ever PA as a left-handed hitter against a non-pitcher (and homered, giving him a career 5.000 OPS from the left side). Put Smith in a regular game and he would get pummeled, assuming he found the strike zone at all…
  14. notin
    I think they should sue the Wirld Wildlife Fund to get their old acronym back. Or merge with them by staging matches between professional wrestlers and wild carnivores to raise money for conservation purposes…
  15. notin
    Yes but it’s run by Thom Brenneman and Jimmy the Greek…
  16. notin
    The Beckett trade has a solid case, but it was widely panned by the Boston media and fans after the 2006 season in which Beckett’s ERA was over 5.00, Hanley won ROY, and Anibal Sanchez had a good season that included a no-hitter…
  17. notin
    And Dom Smith could lead the bullpen in IP!!
  18. notin
    Shot without trial…
  19. notin
    Whitlock did go down late, but it was hardly unprecedented and hopefully not unanticipated. The Sox moved Sale because he was injury-prone and unreliable, but then ignored that same issue with Whitlock, and once again forced him into a role he has repeatedly shown he cannot handle…
  20. notin
    The Royals guessed right ok, but not as well as it initially appears. Lugo has a 2.72 ERA. 0.79 against the White Sox, 3.06 vs everyone else. Wacha has a 3.50ERA. 1.33 vs the White Sox, 4.11 vs everyone else. Lugo has pitched well, but the White Sox have elevated him to an elite pitcher worthy of Cy Young discussion. Wacha looks closer to league average when not facing one of the most incompetent teams in MLB history. Wacha’s ERA+ is 126 overall, but against non- CWS opponents, it’s closer to 105…
  21. notin
    That’s been the issue. They made a few waiver claims - Keller, Horn, Alvarez, Speas - and traded for Wingenter, but these guys didn’t do much, pitching about 35 largely ineffective innings. Horn has shown some ability, and Keller has been tolerable (at best), but the others all faded fast…
  22. notin
    We could see every reliever every game!! Until September when all their arms fall off!
  23. notin
    Houston does more than their share of analytic algorithms. They hired Alex Cora to put them at the forefront of that strategy in the first place. And whatever those algorithms do, they probably at least contribute to the star power of those players to some extent. Alvarez in particular, as he was just a rookie ball hitter in the Dodger system when they acquired him for a mediocre reliever and came up through the Astros system while this entire process was being developed. Or we could just assume the Dodgers misidentified Alvarez as the potential elite hitter he was becoming, and discarded him for 120 IP over 3 years…
  24. notin
    The Royals and the Twins are both basically .500 teams when not playing the White Sox. It wouldn’t surprise me if either or both of them struggled down the stretch and missed the playoffs. The Rays are only 5.5 games out and are one hot streak away from passing Boston and both Central posers….
  25. notin
    And a two game suspension to follow?
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