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I’ve been following soxprospects for a while, and while again I can’t speak for them I’d be very surprised if they jumped Drohan ahead of him. They don’t move guys up and down a lot month to month the higher up the list you go when there’s less fluidity. They also go by their scouting reports and not necessarily the stats. I think they even talked about this on either their last or second to last podcast.

Wong with a .955 OPS the last 7 games. If this kid can hit, with his defense he completely changes the Betts trade. Kind of ironic, it felt like he was the throw in prospect to Downs.

Paxton and Klubers money comes off as well. Along with Mondesi, Tapia, Braiser and Duvall, I think that’s about another 30. More money comes off the following year, and I really think the Sox go above the cap next year.

Wong was part of the Betts trade. With Verdugo

I can’t speak for Soxprospects.com but I’d be surprised if a month of baseball from a 20 year old in A ball is going to change their projection over a 24 year old who has performed well In AA. The massive jump Perales took was due to a testament to the ceiling they think he may posses. I really don’t think he gets passed by Drohan.

Walter, maybe. Perales and Mata no way.

It would be interesting if that was the case. I know it was in one of his starts, but I have no ideal about his last. If it was! It’s just another example of why you shouldn’t just scout the box score.

Verdugo/Wong + however you want to allocate $30 million.

Correct. Different Logan Allen. Sox drafted a kid named Logan Allen who ended up being part of the Craig Kimbrell trade. Oddly enough Allen (the other Logan Allen) also pitched for the Guardians last year. So you see…it’s cofusing.

Today? Through 4 innings? Absolutely. Could be a game decided by one swing

Paxton 5.1 innings pitched. 2 hits, 1 BB, 0 runs, 8 K’s

Wait…I thought Sale was cooked. How is he doing this? Are the Guardians tipping their swings?

Imagine if this team won just two more games. We’d be in the playoffs. Now imagine we did that against bad teams…..how many would be saying “yeah but it’s against bad teams”. I’ve heard others make that argument in the past. Look, there’s two types of people in this world, cup half full people, and cup half empty. I prefer to not be a negative Nancy. I suppose the natural rebuttal to that is “but we’re just being realistic” no. No. No one is saying this team is great and is going to win 100 games, no one is being unrealistic on the other side. Literally no one is saying that. Assuming the worse, and throwing in the towel on a .500 team when you’re 1/6 of the way through the season is the definition pessimism. There’s nothing wrong with this. We need those types of people to go away and drive revenue down so management can’t realize there are real consequences to inept actions. Apply this concept to any walk of life. Not criticizing anyone just pointing out the facts. People have a right to root in their own way, it’s a free country and all opinions matter. In my opinion, I don’t like being a Donny downer, except when I am but we are not pointing out my own hypocrisy here. Nope. Not doing it.

Paxton looking good thru two. Wonder if they gave him his whole arsenal back or if it’s something else. Maybe a s*** lineup.?

I get what you’re saying, but still, you have to give guys days off, so at some point you have to pitch the 12th 13th man in your pen.

No, they’re about .500 against them playing 1/6 of the season. So what does that really say? Plenty of baseball left to play. Buckle up buckaroo

That very well may be a stupid excuse BUT to date they have, and have BY FAR had the toughest schedule in the AL East.

I think you have said before you don’t like people putting words in your mouth. Who is saying .500 is good enough? And I’ll revert back to B. Who is satisfied with this team?

Lol

The Logan Allen we drafted? Who did we trade him for again? But yeah, todays start is big. If Sale looks like he did two starts ago then we can still be hopeful he’s back and just has to work on being more consistent. If he has a horrible start then it will look like we should have very low expectations

A. If many expectations were a losing team, would t .500 be an improvement and bright spot for the future. Playing devils advocate here. In a big market like Boston 3/4 years in last place should be unacceptable. B. Who is satisfied here?

Can’t pitch Wink and Jansen everyday. This is why working the bottom of the roster matters. Moves that are often highly criticized. We also see these guys in these roles be very volatile. Ort may be good one season and we will be here saying “how come we can’t get guys like that” Well, I don’t see that happening, or at least not here. Time to trim the fat.

94 from the left side is fine. If his command is on and he’s not tipping his pitches I expect much better results from Sale today

I forget the exact number, and it isn’t an exact science, but there’s a milestone the player development department wants a guy to reach before advancing to the next level. With pitchers, they generally want them to get a certain number of IP before they think of promoting him. He probably gets around 100 IP in AA, which means we are looking at an early July promotion. I highly doubt we see him in Boston, heck I 100% doubt it. I mean, in 2023, if he keeps this up we will see him in 2024 for sure.

I was one of the biggest hopefuls on Yoshida when everyone else gave up on him. The reason why was because despite the stat line you could see the advance approach. K and BB rates are some of the earliest predictors of success and stabilize after a smaller sample size than most other stats. For the SAME reasons I’m sticking with Casas. The kid has an advanced approach. The stats aren’t there yet, but he passes the EYE TEST big time. Mark my words. Casas will be fine.