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There you go. This is the lip we know and love. Slam the team after a sweep of a double header.

You seem a tad bi-polar here.

It has been mentioned that AZL has been fun, it has been. AZL has often sucked while Great Falls was the fun one, where we sent older college prospects to face competition likely worse than what they just played against and laughed as they dominated. But the real progress we are seeing in AZL this year is about getting earlier production from Intl and HS prospects, though we just have not had a lot of HS prospects in general. A major caveat here is the rankings are based on qualified batters, so in some cases I fill in the gaps. I make a line in the sand in age to make a cohort 18 and younger for the rank columns, and total rank is for all players. What we see: Jose Rodriguez is producing really well! Will it matter? Well who knows. But the "suck in AZL and then be great" hasn't been a great route either. 2019 performers, wrc+, rank (total in class), rank (cohort) The noticeable thing? Jose Rodriguez and Gladney both top ten in their cohort. Ramos just after that. Lost in this is Diaz, who is only at 50 PAs, but would be basically our best by wrc+ (he's at like 195) 2018 Weaver and Comas were both respectable in being over 100, and both are doing fine in Great Falls. Mieses is performing way better this year. 2017 We were so pumped for Lenyn Sosa! He survived at 17 and dude keeps surviving. That's because this is a taste of what we looked at before 2016 Woof. And that was an improvement from 2015, when Nunez as a 17 year old had a .365 OPS, Alfaro had a .436 ops, Adolfo had a .636 ops and felix mercedes had a .625 ops. So, how does this fare against all players in AZL, from 2016-2019? Notice I included bush, who was so freakin good they moved him up right away. DJ Gladney, Ramos, Rodriguez all stick out, all top 6 in their literal ages, and top 15 in the 18 and under cohort. Bush would have led all of them had he stayed down at that same pace. So who are the league leaders 18 and under during this time? How did Tatis the Traded do? He had a 107 wrc+ as a 17 year old in AZL. Now, we know Abrams story, Ruiz is a top prospect for Royals, and the Giants have a bunch of high bonus latam players like Luciano who look awesome. Does this mean these guys will be top 10 prospects? No, but considering how few of the low production younger players we saw come through, and how Bush and Sosa who survived/thrived look like they can develop into top 20 guys, this means we may be really finding depth and improving latam scouting and drafting. And hopefully player dev. Let's see what happens next.

You sure seem gleeful over the failings of players on what I presume is your favorite baseball team. Odd flex but ok.

If the Sox win these last 3 games before the ASB, they will have a better record than the Cubs. With the current make-up of the respective 25 player rosters, that's stunning. It's also telling me based on the Sox players on the DL and/or yet to be brought up, targeting the Cubs Rebuild is setting the bar way too low. The target is the Astros

Over a 13 year period Paul Konerko put up an .866 OPS. Jose Abreu has put up an .865 OPS over 6 seasons. I kinda understand the vitriol for Abreu. It's people getting tired of statements like yours and constantly having to turn them around. He's a good but not great hitter. I have no problem keeping him around for another year or two. But that doesn't mean you have to oversell him, and it's not an insult to Abreu point out that you just ignored what Paul Konerko did over 13 years.

Actually baseball is full of superstitions. Don't step on the foul lines, step on the foul line, don't talk to a pitcher during a start especially a no hitter/perfect game, the rally cap, broadcasters avoid saying the word no hitter or perfect game,Larry Walker wore number 33 and was obsessed with the number ., then there are hundreds of other rituals that players go through/. Wade Boggs always ate chicken on game days, Nomar Garciaparra played with his batting gloves like after every pitch as if he was obsessive compulsive. Barry Bonds kissed his cross he wore around his neck after every HR. David Ortiz did the spit on batting gloves and hand clap. When Roger Clemens played with the Yankees he touched the Babe Ruth statue before every home start. Jason Giambi would wear a golden thong under his uniform to break a slump. ( I kid you not ! ) Stan Musial ate the same breakfast in the same way. He had an egg, then two pancakes, then finished the meal with another egg. The list goes on and on.

CORDELL! MONCADA! RUIZ!

DJ Gladney with his fourth homer. Dude is mashing the ball right now and still 17 for 10 days. Only thing is, his K rate is massive. At the least, he's an interesting prospect.

And then don’t teach them a cutter

Let’s be honest, the people melting down about Lopez are the same one who melt down about everything.

This place is weird. The Sox had a huge day yesterday and the game thread today actually has conversation about the Cubs.

As badly as I want them to win world series after world series, I yearn for the days of watching competitive meaningful baseball. Give me a good entertaining division race all season long. We haven't had that since what, 2012?

Sox were 7-7 against the Cubs, Twins, Indians, Yankees, and Red Sox in the month of June. It’s not like they’re only beating bad teams at this point, they’re playing toe to toe with likely playoff teams as well.

That was so fun. Dylan is so fuckin nasty, really pumped to watch him going forward.

How often does that happen? Getting traded is a deep insult to a player. They never immediately return. The commissioner in fact would probably nullify it via collusion. There's no wink, wink like "See you in a couple months, Jose. You'll be back with us next season for sure." It's a deep pain in that you've been traded. You peeps that want to trade Jose slay me. He turns 33 in January. Even if he suddenly hits .150 during his year 33 season, I hope he gets to count a lot of Jerry's money in the future. He's earned it. Sox fans that want to trade Abreu have no concern about clubhouse leaders and fan favorites and intangibles. If we ever make the postseason again, part of the dream of the team will be to get Abreu a ring. Trade him and have no veterans and no leaders and see how far you go. "Let's win Palka a ring, fellas! Let's win McCann a ring! That's the ticket."

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Filling out reports for both your asses. Enjoy the bans!

No it's not. They've already done PG National, MLB PDP, Area Code tryouts and they are now playing the WWBA. We've seen enough to know this class has a chance to be special.

The bottom two teams in the ALC have 56 wins. The bottom two teams in the AL East have 58. Would you say the same thing about the Yankees and Rays?

It not hard to move on; you choose to make it hard by letting your mind run your life. Letting things go, and moving on, is a learned skill..

I agree about the mental aspect of DHing and not sure everyone can do it. That being said, Jose has 500 career plate appearances and has put up a 128 wRC+, which is very similar to his production at 1B. He may not want to DH but he’s shown in a fairly large sample he can handle the role and moving him there is what’s best for the team.

100% agree and I think he ultimately will agree to DH. Otherwise there’s zero chance he’ll be here after the 2020 season because Vaughn will have the 1B role on lock-down by then.

And fairly sizable extensions for Buehrle & Danks before that.

Cole Hamels was virtually identical to Shields (former ace, 34 years old, 10+ ERA over the 5 starts before the trade, owed $20 mill a year for several years) after the trade he put up a 6 WAR over his next 30 starts. If Shields had done that in 2016 with the generational greatness of Sale, Quintana with a higher WAR than Sale that year, Rodon soaring through the second half with a 7-3 record and a three man bullpen putting up a 5+ WAR... a wild card and hot play off run could have led to a 2015esque World Series. All they gave up was a failed pitching prospect and a 17 year old who had never played a game for them and had not been ranked in the top 30 from that years International draft. All things become clear in retrospect and the retrospect of this trade has been particularly brutal. But it still seems to be a "eh...win some, lose some" issue.

Ruiz looked nasty AF last night.

It’s still all super silly, coming from someone who has never stepped on a foul line in his life

The 05 team, which went wire to wire and lost only one game in the postseason, and its World Series victory had nothing to do with a song. Superstition is for north siders.

Unless you can show me something that said he refuses to do it I'll just go with he prefers not to. Even Jose has to realize that age catches up with everyone and in order to stay there might have to be conditions.

It was a game in Oakland after the goofy Wendlestad umpire threw out a few of the Sox including Crede as I recall.

.897 OPS, 136 wRC+, 3.0 fWAR. Bust

I still can't get over that swing, that sound off the bat... just orgasmic.

Dude, it's fun... It's baseball. Try having fun sometime... it's.... fun. "No need for negativity"... Says the dude telling another poster to go get hit by a car and making an issue out of literally nothing. Now, despite knowing the fact of the matter... he still continues to drag this needless interaction on. Get the hell out and enjoy your holiday or something man. Christ alive.

This is just confusing behavior. lol I was vocal about my reverse jinx since freaking Detwiler dude. Good win. Try to relax next time. Have a happy 4th EDIT: Also, nice death wish

Dammit Wegner

Jesus dude. We’re not making a western here

It seems to basically be a combination of the endowment effect and loss aversion. Endowment effect states that people tend to value things they own more than an identical thing that they do not own. You will see this all the time when talking about prospects. You could propose a trade for two basically identical prospects and both fanbases would say the other team wasn't giving up enough. We always value our prospects more than if that same prospect were in a different organization. Loss aversion is the tendency for people to get more dissatisfaction out of losing some amount of value than satisfaction from gaining that identical value. If you lost $100 you would lose more happiness than you would gain if you were to gain $100. Because of this, losses seem to hurt more than gains. But one important way these two things compound is that loss aversion is not based on the true value you gained or lost, but on what your expectation was. So because the endowment effect shows that we tend to value our own players more than we should, our expectation is higher for them so any loss aversion has a higher starting point resulting in an even greater difference between the downside and upside. TL;DR: Behavioral economics says that we will gain much less happiness from winning a trade than we will lose happiness for losing a trade, which seems to check out.

He got engaged today, so there's that

A .583 winning percentage, 5 straight division titles and 2 pennants

10th of the year. Sheets had 10 total homers in his first 2 seasons in the Sox minors in 641 ABs. This season he has 10 in 282 ABs.

He then gets to 3rd on a throwing error by the pitcher on a pick off attempt.

We are playing with 2/3rds of the eventual lineup in place. Once Robert, Madrigal & our new right fielder join in...this lineup will make Moncada's numbers and everyone elses grow. Our future lineup will wear down the opposition with it's unusual amount of power & speed. Not long now.

Ha ha. The difference isn’t the sport or the responsibilities. The difference is that the MLBPA has decided in concert with MLB to absolutely screw over young players to give that money to 35 year old DHs. Now that the steroid era is over, that might be changing. Owners know how lucrative this arrangement is and it will take a strike to change it. For the life of me, I can’t understand why people would rather see JR get the money than Michael Kopech.

no. its 9-12. he will be healthy but why activate him for a few games.

Yes it will. The Yankees make twice as much as anyone and they still don't go over. Rich people don't give away money just....because.

They could buy whatever player they want now and won't

You have nothing better to do, huh? There's probably a lot of Cubs message boards that you can praise the Cubs and bash the Sox on, so why are you here? Get lost, turd.

You misspelled troll.

lol looks like we got a Cubs fan on the board.