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It’s funny looking at the Charlotte lineup and mostly everyone has eye popping numbers but then there’s Engel with a 188 BA and 476 OPS even after collecting two hits tonight. ?

DFA Alonso, option Delmonico, call up Mendick, activate Eloy.

Robert is going to be a transformational star if he stays healthy. Eloy will win a batting title and regularly contend for batting titles. People don't appreciate just how good those two guys are. The beauty of Robert is he'll also be very valuable in the field. IF they are healthy I don't see anything getting in the way of either of those prognosis. Moncada will be a, at worse, well above average guy, and given his OBP capabilities, power and ability to field, he too could be Robert (albeit, I put better odds on Robert because I think he is more elite defensively). The fact that you also have Tim Anderson, in addition to those players, gives me a lot of hope because that is four guys who are very valuable. I won't comment on McCann and whether he can maintain, but he looks like a starting catcher. I am more optimistic on the Sox than most, but I actually think this year has gone way better than expectations, even though Rodon and some other prospects have struggled. I can't project out Collins and others because I could see them working out but I could also just see someone like Collin's bat speed not being enough and him just being a lousy player (who if he is stuck at 1B just doesn't play). Madrigal I see being a league average guy at worse, because I think he'll do enough little things that play and if the hit tool comes around (like it can) he becomes one of those sneaky good players (who is probably always underrated by metrics) but when you surround him with the other guys I mentioned, great. And than there is Tillson, Rutherford, Cordell, etc. The big wildcard to me is the rotation as I have no idea how that could go. While Rodon is injured, Lopez and Gio have flashed ability to be middle of the rotation guys (they could also be too inconsistent and end up not either). I doubt either is a top of the rotation guy, but it could happen, this year will tell us a lot more (imo). The key to me is how good Cease and Kopech are as they both could be aces, but that is a major questionmark and then you need to find depth around them (cause pitchers get hurt). I don't know if they'll end up having the elite pitching which might require them to trade for it and/or get it via free agency (and that is hard to do). But in this league, the most important part of making the playoffs is having a good lineup (which I think they are well on their way to doing) and a deep rotation filled with a number of quality guys (they don't have to be great, but depth is huge as it will enable you to win a lot of games surrounded by a good lineup). That same depth might not put you over the top in the playoffs, but the first step is getting into the post-season regularly. At that point you need to be hot and having front of the rotation aces who can win games on their own becomes key in increasing your chances at ultimate success.

Cease likely done at 98 pitches. 6 IP 9 H 3 R 3 ER 1 BB 8 SO

Come on, Jason. COME ON

I think most of the "anti-bunters" aren't completely against bunting...but bunting in the 2nd and 3rd inning is fucking ridiculous. Suicide in the 8th inning of a tie game?....bring it all day every day. But very early in a game?...with this staff? pfffft.... That's my 2¢ anyway.

BUZZKILL

A decision working out doesn't mean it was the most favorable strategy

955 OPS. A man amongst boys. He’s ready for the show. Let’s get him up along with Cease, Collins, sign Keuchel in two and a half weeks, and make at run at this thing.

Just want to point out I was right when I said Madrigal would have a homer before June.

Good contribution. Thanks.

Whenever you want, preferably in another thread so that the rest of us don't have to read it in one designed to talk about next month's draft.

For example, a runner on 3rd base with one out has a 64% chance of scoring while a runner on second with no outs has a 61% chance of scoring.

So you bunt the runners over, and now you’ve taken the bat out of the hands of your hottest hitter who will surely be walked to set up another double play situation

Just a suck game in suck weather (46 degrees in mid-May?). Nova's ERA is now about seven and a half, Alonso is hitting .175 (yet Rickey "the Genius" refuses to bench the guy or at least drop him down in the lineup). I can't see this happening and I know others have brought it up before but I'm starting to wonder if Rickey is being told, "keep playing him' because if he's DFA'd or dropped in the lineup it makes "us" (the front office) look like idiots (As if many Sox fans don't already feel that way...) And those clamoring for Palka. Sorry, the guy is useless unless he hits home runs, he's a butcher in the field and is a base clogger running-wise. No thanks.

Good for the Sox future, embarrassing for the past offseason.

Sox play like ?at home a lot and blowouts galore, especially when there is 30k plus.

He sucked playing for a good team last year. He's just bad and was a horrible addition with Manny not part of the package. He's going to be out of baseball in a year or so.

He’s 26 and can’t play a position?

Yonder has WTP. Also we better not see Castillo catching for Giolito tomorrow

My god... it's your fault as much as it's Rick's! Stop attending games!

I genuinely don't know if he could put up a .700 OPS in the Southern League this year.

OT, but that was a hell of a bat flip by Kinsler.

It is sort of hilarious that Ervin Santana was so bad that he couldn't make it more than a month in this dogshit rotation.

That's about right.

Call Dickman up ASAP!!

If Delmonico makes that catch, he would've been out of the inning.

Nova is awful. I hate watching him pitch

Good lord Mendick. RBI double. Now 3-3, HR, 3 RBIs, 2B, R

Seriously? He just fought Amir Khan like a month ago.

First chance to sit down and actually watch a Sox game in a long while - shitty stuff life throws your way sometimes gets in the way!

I wish we'd bring up Mendick to see what he's got. How's his D (lol)

I'm not odd. I'm even brilliant at times.

I agree. Vaughn's college numbers are right up there with the likes of the Big Hurt and Kris Bryant. His bat is elite.

I like the South Side Buntmen. Very creative reference to the South Side Hit men of 1977.

So Manny gets shelled and its because he's tipping pitches. Then he's getting shelled again and claims shoulder soreness. His MRI comes back clean....hmmm... I think we have an excuse maker on our hands ladies and gentlemen.

Even if not he’s got to be number one. Imagine if madrigal (polished as heck hitter, discerning, rarely strikes out, quick wheels) were four years younger, was much stronger, was a switch hitter, had more raw power, and could play SS. That’s wander franco. For Robert to pass him he’d have to do at double and triple-A what he did at Winston Salem.

Epically fast pitch softball

Just glancing through his stuff, he is pretty accurate on many things. Mechanics and training wise he does have good points. however, you can tell by just reading that the guy is a complete wackadoodle as a person and i can see why people don't take him seriously. Which is unfortunate because he does have good ideas even though he didn't come about them from a particularly scientific way. I would love to sit down and have a few cold ones wih him and discuss pitching. It would be an entertaining time.

Hmm. I'd take the guy with the better health history and the longer track record of destroying the minors. Rodgers has done this consistently for almost four seasons now. Robert has done it for 32 games. He should spend the rest of the season at Birmingham, stay healthy, and, assuming his trends hold true, start at Charlotte next year, with an eye toward an MLB debut in September 2020.

Who are you talking too?

Lambert 6 IP 7 H 2 R 1 ER 2 BB 11 SO.

Very cheap...446 ft

Send down Moncada NOW he is a gigantic bust

And it's all bubbling up right before the draft. The perfect time.

The Rutschman falling stuff makes me so happy.

I actually feel the exact opposite of this. There is no way in hell that this rebuild will succeed without significant help from outside the organization. This team needs to add a TOR arm, catcher, second baseman, Right Fielder, DH, and a couple more bullpen arms if it wants to compete next year.