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Yep Cooper just stepped in it. Jeez

He's just trollin bro

Collins will definitely make it. If they are gonna squeeze 60 games into like 61 days that's rough, they will need a third catcher who can work a 1B/DH rotation with Abreu and Encarnacion esp since the division is filled with righties.

If him sitting out has something to do with what "his role" was going to be this year as Fegan suggested, its debatable as to whether they handled it well or not.

Why? If he clears the protocol he should be back practicing around July 17th which should give him a week to get ready. He can do more drills and extra BP after practice to get back in the groove.

Lol....they got the 2019 year of service time back of course they were going to show tons of empathy.

Right before the July one was gonna start I read it.

I dont think there are any elbow issues. Right before camp started Coop said he was ready to go.

fegan made a reference also to what his role would be....maybe service time or maybe bullpen (or both) were a factor in addition to other stuff.

I can totally understand the players anger there if they said he'd be taxi squad for awhile and I don't blame him if he chose to skip 2020 in retaliation. No one is entitled to anything. The team doesn't have to give up a strategic benefit and he doesn't have to give up retaliation which could harm the team in 2020. The team isn't entitled to avoiding that. Ultimately the team has to weigh the service time benefit against any long term harm with the player. How good do u think he will be? If you project him as a star its a problem cause he will remember and sign elsewhere because many people will be rushing to pay him but if he's just ok then the benefit might outweigh the harm. Its a cold analysis but it is what it is. As I said tho I have zero problem with the idea of the player retaliating. I would totally do that too. If this is what occurred (and I have no clue if it was or if it was something else) the Sox gambled and he called their bluff.

If Rodon is 100% we will be OK. 1 Giolito R 2 Rodon L 3 Cease/Lopez R 4 Keuchel L 5 Cease/Lopez R Swingman- Gonzalez

Good luck to him. Let him get everything in order. We got that extra year of service time back. So 6 years of team control still, right?

Even if he came back two weeks from now it sounds like he'd need at least a couple weeks practicing with the taxi squad to be ready for MLB hitters...

Didn't Kopech play about a month in 2018? So we could get that year back if he isn't on the 30 man roster for like the first 10 games?

Well....at least we would get last year back that way.