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Analytics says Castillo is bad, but Ricky's gut says otherwise.

Home slash line: .350//408/.997 Away: slash line: .261/.312/.741 Hard pass.

Wow, I get that the man had a bad year and they've got some risky pitching contracts on the books, but you don't even give him a shot after he brings you a title that fast?

It's kind of like an inverted Streisand effect, but you're not wrong. It was almost anti-censoring. It was literally amplifying his message to promote discussion past the two word thread we had. But, let's actually move on to the thread: how would the Sox convince Girardi to sign with them over other teams like the Cubs if they have an opening? Or the Nats?

Did you guys really not start a DICK-MAN! DICK-MAN! chant in this thread?

So it was intentionally spam. Got it. I'll change it back because this is clearly so important to you, but just know that for hours no one replied to your thread before I changed the title because no one knew the contents.

Your original post indicated you wanted people to know that the thread was about your idea, so your name got slapped in the title. Girardi got put in so people could see the thread subject before posting in it. Don't do clickbait thread titles.

The Ross Detwiler fanclub is furious. They will not stand for this

Sox basically had the only good players weekend look, would be better with white/gray pants. That being said, the Sox logo is classic. Maybe do this as an alternate away jersey, but I'd leave the home alternate alone.

Gruden's tenure in Oakland is amazing.

Yah.

Most important thing for me was the strikeout/walk rate, as the rest (power being the primary thing), could be attributed to being tired from college. So I'd call the first year a success.

I mean, flip side: - The Sox did find (but not develop) Tatis. - 26-year-old Rusney Castillo was supposed to be superior to Abreu and was signed for $72M, was "polished", and the Red Sox have been burned hard.

This did not age well.

Maybe Burger before his injuries. He had the college pedigree. It's just people don't think that because he's big and labeled him a DH.