As it turns out, signing Betts would have benefitted the Sox MORE than signing/extending Xander, Devers, Yoshida and Story.
I would have preferred building the team around Betts.
That's why it was critical to extend Crochet. I also believe Bello will get to #2/#3 type. Rafaela is very affordable even if we miss, we have enough young pieces to cover for him we made a mistake.
Refsnyder just needs to be in the line up.
Mr. Cora....sometimes you have to screw the righty - lefty thing.
Right handed batters are used to facing right handed pitchers. Lot more than lefty facing lefty pitchers.
Don't we already have extra year's control? He needs 172 days.......12+31+30+31+31+30=165 days left in the season at most.......what do you know that I don't
Rafaela extension was a good, calculated move. Really not much downside. He will always be an elite center fielder. I believe something will click offensively at some point.
I am good with Dever's contract. He will always hit and now we don't have to worry about his defense.
We have 4 years of team control left for Casas. Way, way too early to give up on the guy. He has enormous upside.
I'm happy with Breslow.
Substitute Anthony for Rafaela and this should be our strongest offensive lineup.
Casas has to work his way out of his slow start. Same goes for Duran.
Laugh all you want. This team needs to be engaged at all times. Win today and tomorrow means as much as ones in September.
We have a seven game home stand and it's time we exert some control over weaker teams, which we have a four game set with.
It would be helpful to update the bullpen use for off days.......I'm more interested in pitches thrown and the number of days the guy is not pitching.
It appears as though Chapman has thrown 5 pitches in 3 days. In reality he has thrown 5 pitches in 4 days. (Thursday was an off day)
That I would agree on.
We have a kid that would lead all 2B with OPS of .900. He needs to stick there and get better and more comfortable defensively.
We complain about needing stability at 2B now for many years and then what do we do?