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  1. notin
    Jordan was also Rule 5 eligible after last season (also 2024, when he went unselected), so unless the Sox planned to keep him on the 40 man roster, he was going to be exposed to the draft again…
  2. notin
    Bill Buckner? I mean, the Sox did give up a Hall of Famer to get him…
  3. notin
    Run differential is probably still a pretty accurate predictor most of the time. But the Sox have a better different than the Padres, who have the same good staff and impotent offense and a much better record…
  4. notin
    Worst? Probably not. Most disappointing? Easily…
  5. notin
    Non-tendering is not an option. At lest not a smart one. The options are: 1. Trade in July 2. Trade in Dec/Jan 3. Keep.
  6. notin
    The question now with Duran - is this the nadir? Do you keep him and hope he looks like a better target in December/January?
  7. notin
    The Tyler Thornburg trade is eerily reminiscent of Breslow’s recent trades. Send a guy to Milwaukee (Travis Shaw) and watch him excel while the player you got back contributes very little…
  8. notin
    True, but Dalbec also debuted with a .959 OPS in 2020 after only 92 PAs. It didn’t last, obviously…
  9. notin
    If he settles in hitting .275-.300 with 15-20 HRs and questionable defense, he probably winds up being a lesser player than Durbin…
  10. notin
    If Harrison was here, he’d probably be mediocre at best. Not like he showed this kind of potential in 3 years at Oracle. I do think Harrison falls back a little bit and that trade winds up being fairly equal. (I assumed the swap of middle infielders - Hamilton for Monasterio - was due to Romy’s injury coupled with Monasterio’s numbers vs LHP last year.) I do agree dumping all of Dobbins, Fitts and Harrison felt like a depth killer, especially since i didn’t have the faith in Tyler Uberstine the Sox apparently had. I still don’t have any, either…
  11. notin
    Well, if they’re messing with his swing, I would expect that to impact him negatively. It seems like the obvious solution is to let him use the swing that got him to be a Minor League Player of the Year and AL Rookie of the Month. And to not panic over the occasional slump…
  12. notin
    So after one good month followed by one bad month, they decided “enough is enough” and made the call to tear the whole thing down? Sadly, thats very believable…
  13. notin
    No idea. I assume they were probably doing their usual “one size fits all” approach and someone said “hey, Jackie Bradley got much much better when we got him to stop tapping his toe! We should do that with Campbell, too!”
  14. notin
    The National guys that rank prospects didn’t mention it as a hole per se. They said, yes, his mechanics are unorthodox and much like Hunter Pence, but his batspeed, etc. made up for it. If the internal Sox people didn't like his swing, why extend him?
  15. notin
    I think that’s fair. Every MLB team uses Driveline, but not every MLB team sees their prospects struggle in the majors like Boston has…
  16. notin
    All I’m saying is after a handful of of PA and IP, guys like Buttrey, Moncada, Kopech, Beeks all looked good, too. But over time a lot of luster wore off most of them. Maybe the same happens to Jordan…
  17. notin
    I’m assuming that any player who gets sent down to “work on something” usually gets put into some kind of regimen that actually works on it. Otherwise, why bother sending him down and just let him learn in MLB? Campbell was demoted pretty quickly and players on the team now have been allowed to play through much longer slumps without being demoted, so it’s not some automatic thing. The only one here assuming anything is you, and you clearly don’t know the answer I’m looking for and won’t stop answering anyway. Not the behavior of an intelligent man…
  18. notin
    Doubtful Breslow gets fired and if he does, the position likely stays internal with some Sam Kennedy underling, which is NOT better. Has Breslow really spent unwisely? The extension contracts to Campbell and Bello aren’t really that crazy. Not working out yet, but there’s time on both. Rafaela’s didn’t look great right away either. And the real worst contracts on the MLB roster (Story and Yoshida) were inherited. He did go too young with the lineup and ignored the bullpen…
  19. notin
    It might be time to change your name to Senile Red…
  20. notin
    Well, not really fair comp. Dave D traded quite a few players that would have been considered successful after only 32PA or a handful of IP. Remember when Ty Buttrey silted into the closer role for the Angels? It was like “damnit!!” Interestingly, DD did deal away an All Star (Santiago Espinal) in a deadline deal and no one blinked. But Breslow is being held to some insane scrutiny where players performing the same or worse as they did in Boston are considered to have gotten away. Plus DD might have gotten some help from Sale forcing his way out of Chicago. Crochet was less immature about the situation there.
  21. notin
    Yeah but it’s in Baltimore so it’s meaningless. Can’t measure atmosphere, effort, etc…
  22. notin
    I know his story. But Old Red calls all Sox prospects as suspects until, well, no idea. But prospects they trade away get no such designation. Matz is over and done, but the Sox were making a playoff push. If you want the Sox to add help on deadlines when the team is good, it helps to accept the Sox might occasionally deal away a good prospect. It happens.
  23. notin
    All I’m asking is what the Sox are doing with him, which is not excuses. It’s not even statements. Presumably it’s something. Sorry it offends you so. (Actually I’m not. I kind of hope it does.)
  24. notin
    You keep fighting this message as if you know the answer. So if we know what he’s doing - what’s his program? Is he just playing his game? Is he only supposed to swing at breaking pitches? If he faces 3 pitches, is he supposed to recognize them and tell the coach what he saw? These are all things coaches do actually do with young players. But are they doing anything like that with Campbell? And if any of them are happening, they will absolutely hurt his stats and make them meaningless…
  25. notin
    Also because that’s not a thing in baseball. Also do we know what they’re doing in Worcester? On one hand we have people saying the Sox are changing approaches, etc. and on the other people seem to think that AAA stats still matter. If Bello is working on secondary pitches and not throwing his fastball, does his ERA still matter? And what is Campbell doing? Working on recognizing /hitting breaking pitches? How does that happen? And do stats still matter at that point?
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