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I think Christian Oppor would beg to differ

Bieber coming off one of the wildest starts in baseball history

Colson has been instructed to always get his “A” swing off and your recommendation is the solution… but ONLY during situational spots that have been weighing us down offensively. RISP with less than two outs. We need the entire team to really focus on situational swings from here on out for that scenario. Games in August and September leading into the playoffs really mean a ton for our Sox. If they start to shine in a stat that has been a black eye so far, we’ll be much more likely to squeak out more close games. It also will be good practice for post season play and help them all take the next step up maturity wise. Hope we see Colson moved down to the 5 hole while he works on this because his strikeouts really have been too much of a boon at the cleanup spot. Ok, that’s enough redundant trade deadline wasting time talk from me.

That's my thing. He's been a pro catcher for all of about 4 months. He's caught about 82 college games, and 4 summer league games. I'm loathe to trade him, also. But he's just barely a catcher. LF/DH? Sure.

They got swept by the Rays earlier this year and I don't think that was fair so we will probably win this series.

What the f*** is this… Arsenal Talk? 😆

One problem for Wolkow is an emerging industry view that the skills he is weakest at — contact and swing decisions — are the ones that are hardest to teach. The flip side is that teams increasingly believe that they can squeeze more power out of most players, especially if they have a strong foundation of making good swing decisions. Then you look at Wolkow who has god-tier power but he can't get to it in games because he has to sacrifice everything in order to keep his K rate below 40%. He's a fun target for a team trying to get something for a player who isn't going to have much value. But I just don't see how he could be a major part of a deal for anything besides a depressed-value rental or low-end reliever type. Some important context for interpreting Winston-Salem statistics this year, by the way: there is an offensive explosion in that league this year. Has to be juiced baseballs or something. League average OPS has jumped from .663 to .767. The league hit 1049 homers last season; this season, there have been 1426 already with over a month to go. This happened to a lesser extent in Kannapolis's low-A league and Birmingham's AA league as well, more like 60 to 80 points of OPS for them. So the table stakes are the back-of-the-baseball-card stats should be up for everybody year over year (note: no change in offense in AAA, which happens to use MLB baseballs).

Arsenal landing Vini Jr and the white Sox landing Mason Miller on the same day would go down as one of the greatest sporting days of my life.

I am including his health issues in the short time he played this season.

I see Colson is back in the clean up spot tonight, a mistake in my book.

I mean I get the prospect hugging that happens during a deadline, but can we not act like he is the next coming of a sure thing? Even if his bat is for real, we have no idea if he can be a catcher or not.

Some of the crowds down through the years at Sox park have been embarrassingly small in April and May mainly because of some of the frigid days. I’m sort of anti dome but if I knew attendance would increase dramatically in April and May because of a dome I would be all for it, I’m sure Ishbia could afford the extra bucks.

I would rather try Grichuk

If that's your impression of Boston Smith hitting 1.200 OPS, you should watch more baseball. Pipeline ranks Mathias LaCombe as a better prospect than Smith but he obviously isn't. Maybe we can trick the Mets into taking LaCombe and Lodise instead because the number next to their names is lower. Or pick up Marco Gonzales for nothing. That's what I would do. A rental with a 5 ERA is closer to a salary dump if you ask me.

I don't think you can do qualifying offers to midseason acquisitions anymore.

I wonder if the Sox can go 0 for the series in check swings again. Hmm, I just checked the opponent, and it’s not the Yankees, so I suppose there’s a chance of one of our hitters being able to hold up.

Packaging him for who though? There's got to be a specific player in mind that is actually available. Do you swap Colson 1 for 1 for Hunter Goodman or Detmers? I wouldn't. And I'd like to see Goodman on the team. Do you trade him for a couple months of Skubal? According to some general principle, every player on the team should be 'available', but trading a stud player just for the sake of it strike me as shortsighted, especially if the rationale is "we just drafted a shortstop".

Lip why you gotta poop in every punch bowl man. We get it, you are cynical

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Just don't get swept.

Every time I see Romo’s name in the lineup I die a little

And I am willing to put him in this deal.

Move him down or move him out. Check out his last 50 games stat line. He is a talented but flawed player. Don't know if it's a fatal flaw yet. He really is a roll of the dice.