poppysox

I am sure RH will be moved to action do to your generous offer.😀

I would prefer to focus on baseball rather than beat this 30+ year old dead horse. This is Houston's problem....let's not make it ours.

If we are building a team capable of winning Division, League and WS titles we need to be good enough to win against good teams. When we win the Central this year...we don't need to listen about how we didn't have to beat anyone. The season just got more interesting. Go Sox.

And a very good bench it would be.

We don't "have" to anoint anyone. Just making a prediction.

Yep...Jirschele is our manager of the future.

Looks like I have some company in the optimism department.😊

I would have agreed with you until we signed Grandal. Now framing gives us an edge.

Hawk would say todays players are bigger, stronger & faster. In your fathers and my day there were only 16 teams and you didn't get to the major leagues without knowing which base to throw to, etc. Fewer jobs meant you better show up and do your job or you wouldn't have one. Very hard to judge players across generational lines since equipment, rules, travel, money, training facilities and the Union have changed the game dramatically. I'll tell you one thing for sure...I would love to have Koufax pitching for the Sox in 2020. I have no doubt he could still get them out today.

I agree with the above grades and would give Mazara a C+.

Anderson Moncada Abreu Eloy Grandal Encarcion Mazara Robert Madrigal

Agreed...I would rather have Engel.

Practically a baby.😀

Leyland was the guy I wish we had in the organization for 30 years.

Just an observation...when we got rid of Larussa I was delighted. I hated his slow micro managing ways. Apparently he got better with time.