caulfield12

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I listened or watch almost all of Moncada's AAA/Charlotte starts the first couple of months in 2017. After that white hot April, the strikeouts and disparity in his splits was already quite an obvious concern.

Moncada should be the 900+ OPS hitter he was around April 23rd last year in the "optimistic" thread...right?

Since Abreu's already on a one year deal, there's absolutely no reason not to keep doing that...year to year, assuming we trade him this mid-season to a playoff contender. Then again, if you were Abreu, at his age now, wouldn't you prefer to play for a playoff-contending team, even if it meant you were platooned? NOTE: All those who argued that Bregman and Jimenez should get what are essentially now similar deals officially are off their rockers. No wonder the Astros are so much better than the Sox.

It is what it is. At this point, we all know exactly what Hahn's going to say and how it's going to sound, and it would just piss off the majority of fans anyway. Frankly, it would be more fun speculating about Hoiberg going to Nebraska to replace Miles (Creighton would be interesting, too, although that definitely won't happen this year).

https://www.mlb.com/standings/spring-training Tied with the Reds for the worst spring training record in baseball...that means we'll be in first come May 15th, right?

Rutschman is so good that the Royals aren't going to pass on him, even with Sal Perez coming off TJS. They'd logically trade Perez to a playoff contending team when he proves that he's back 100%, because he can't play 1B/DH...his offense just isn't good enough for those positions (see Mauer, Joe.)

Is it really that indisputed between Abrams and Witt? Abrams has the advantage on speed, but of the five tools, which other one is he comparable with Witt on, defense/arm?

Getz, Hahn and him are going to be quite chummy I'm sure. Maybe they can have "Harbaugh Can't Beat tOSU Appreciation Night" at GRF for Ohioan and Eastern Indiana Sox fans. Poor Vaughn's going to eventually need to borrow some hair from Bryce, Kopech or Wil Myers. Or hair transplants like Rooney the British footballer.

I thought the purpose of having two veteran catchers was to help curtail the running game?

Early 4-0 lead, errors, blown bullpen save....sounds quite familiar.

Seems like Lodolo from TCU is the closest and that's around #8-12 territory...

Abreu having a nice game. OPS over 1000 on the spring now. Trade him while you still can??? (Just joking, I think.) Moncada at least managed not to strike out and advanced Leury over to 3rd there.

Good god, like that bullpen needs any help. Hope they get him, screw the Cubs and Epstein/Maddon Finally, more proof that the Padres and Brewers (small market teams) can make "big market" moves.

Because it's "already baked in" that he has to be an absolute stud in order this rebuild to have any semblance of a chance of working out successfully.