CentralChamps21
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5 hours ago, Bob Sacamano said:
When (if?) Stassi comes back, who do you get rid of? Can't imagine they brought in Maldonado for either his defense or hitting (brought him in for some other "intangible" reason) so not sure they would cut him early in the season. Korey Lee earned a spot with a good spring and has been good in his limited time so far (already more hits than last season with the Sox in 1/3 the games). Maybe Stassi is the guy launched.
If they're ready to make Lee the starting catcher then DFA Maldonado. If not, then let Lee start every day at Charlotte.
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5 hours ago, tray said:
Yes he is. Just saw it on Twitter(X). Perhaps Montgomery will be called up if Moncada will be out for an extended period. Just do it.
Is the "super two" arb eligibility still a thing? If so, there's no way they call him up before that cutoff date.
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3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
- 2025 club option includes a $500,000 buyout
- So Stassi just that buyout for next year. Pretty much no way that's exercised.
Thanks. I don't know why I had Stassi down as signed through 26.
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Previous 45 innings = 5 runs
This inning = 5 runs
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I saw the score alerts on my phone. Thought either the app or my phone was broken.
What the hell is this?
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4 hours ago, pcq said:
Oakland is not a major league city and is too inept to entice the A's. They have done little to help them out.
I don't know what, if anything, the city of Oakland could have done to capture some of the corporate $$$ that moved to San Jose/Santa Clara, but that's what killed Oakland as a major sports city.
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Not gonna judge Getz on this year's on-the-field product.
JR was never going to give Getz the money to put a competitive team on the field in 2024. I'm judging Getz on what talent he's brought back in trades and how much money he has committed (wasted) beyond 2024.
On the trades: some were better than others, but on the whole a decent return for the talent/salary he unloaded.
On the future salary, the only money he obligated beyond 2024 is: $1.5M buyout to Brebbia, $250k buyout to Maldonado, $7.5M to Fedde for 2025,
$14.25M to Stassi for 25-26+buyout$500K for 2025 buyout.If his strategy is to avoid future salary commitments until there is an owner that will approve a budget that can field a winning team, then I'm on board with that, no matter how bad this team is.
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On 4/7/2024 at 9:52 AM, baseball_gal_aly said:
They don't like him. I don't think there's anything he can do to get called up. I'm shocked that he hasn't been DFA yet.
Would not surprise me if they would rather have Pham out there.
If they're not willing to call him up, then yes they need to go ahead and trade/DFA him and free up the roster spot.
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14 hours ago, hankchifan said:
Should have kept Burger rather than Vaughn. But that would have been too smart for our inept FO.
Vaughn is still making a relatively low salary. Should have kept Burger rather than Eloy.
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21 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:
I would bet money the Hobson deal includes an option to buy the majority share in the future. The Sox had always refused new minority partners until now. Putting 2 and 2 together, I bet this is already done for either Jerry's death, so some point in the near future, possibly contingent on the new stadium.
If there's already a done deal that won't be finalized until JR dies (for tax reasons), then let the new people take over now.
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8 minutes ago, baseball_gal_aly said:
Colas is now 25 and has had almost 800 MiLB plate appearances. Time to find out whether or not he can be a major league outfielder. Stick him out in CF every day, with the occasional day off vs LHP, and keep sending him out there the rest of the season no matter how bad he does. Giving more playing time to PIllar or Grossman does nothing for this team's future.
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1 minute ago, Polar Bear said:
A 34 year old OF who is trash is meaningless. Get him off the team
I would think either Grossman or PIllar gets DFA once Robert is back.
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11 minutes ago, WestEddy said:
I believe that MLB teams have to roster 13 pitchers and 13 position players.
Leone's given up 3 earned runs in 2.1 innings over 4 appearances. He does seem to have a problem with HRs, early on. All 3 earned runs were homers. Popeye has regressed his last 2 seasons at AA. His chase rates have gotten worse. It was he they brought up to pinch run in one game. My believe is that by the time he was major league ready, he'd be out of options, so they would have to roster and keep him in the majors all season, or he's gone, anyway.
You can have at most 13 pitchers, though I doubt anybody has fewer than 13.
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5 minutes ago, Polar Bear said:
Just why. Starting CF goes down, bring up an infielder lmao
They brought up an OF when the DH went down, so it sort of evens out.
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With the women gaining so much in TV viewership and ticket sales, I wonder if there will be any discussion about merging the two Final Fours into a single event.
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Looking forward to the onscreen graphics when the Orioles play the A's next year.
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7 minutes ago, bmags said:
I don't think it was one thing. If it was where it starts, it was the 2016 draft.
It started when JR bought the team. Every hire was based on personal reasons and not based on competence. Some of them, like Kenny Williams and Ozzie Guillen, did turn out to be good at their jobs, at least for a while, but that was coincidental. It resulted in lightning in a bottle in 2005.
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7 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
Saves a call up. You can only be sent down 3 times in a year before you hit waivers.
Isn't there an exception for being called up/sent down due to someone on the IL? I was thinking there was.
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This team will not be competitive again until someone other than JR owns the team. It's in our best interest that they have as little committed to long term contracts and as much stock in the farm system as possible when that moment arrives.
As catastrophic as the TLR hiring was, it might end up leaving more of a blank slate for the new ownership to take over.
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9 hours ago, BigHurt3515 said:
Still pissed we traded him. Loved his story, that he was from the STL area, and he was an easy guy to root for that smashes baseballs. Will never forgive Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams for this!
I need to go back and verify, but I'm pretty sure I was against trading him when it happened. He should be the DH and Eloy should have been traded for salary relief.
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4.7 magnitude earthquake centered just west of Manhattan in New Jersey. No significant damage reported. Precautionary ground stops at the NY area airports.
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3 hours ago, A-Train to 35th said:
I say we let Jerry move the team to Nashville and let the Mc Caskey's build the Arlington Bears a new home in Arlington Heights on the condition that the we get the Royals and the Chiefs to relocate to Chicago.
Here's the Chiefs redesign that lost out to the voters who don't want any new taxes.
Time for Northwest Indiana to land its football team.
4/10 Sox @ Guardians 5:10PM CT
in 2024 Season in Review
Posted · Edited by CentralChamps21
This is the lineup I'd be sending out there vs RHP:
Fletcher 8, Lee 2, Sheets DH, Vaughn 3, Colas 9, Sosa 5, Benintendi 7, Shewmake 6, Lopez 4
vs LHP: Lee DH, Sosa 5, Fletcher 8, Vaughn 3, PIllar 9, Benintendi 7, Dejong 6, Shewmake 4, Maldonado 2