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I just can't stress enough how little I value Leury's left handedness when the productivity of it is so awful.

It's a beautiful thing hearing Nancy Faust at the organ.

Haven't seen him hustle like that since he died and went to heaven.

Just saw the 3 following Sox jerseys walk down the aisle....one of these things does not belong.... Crede Konerko Swisher

Is it vague leg season already?

He's a career 73 wRC+ against RHP. It's just not an advantage. And with 2 LH outfielders, switch handed 3b/C, I feel like we are mostly covered. Leury offers slightly below average defense and below average hitting from 7 different positions. That is an improvement over needing to play a fan from the stands or Gavin Sheets in the outfield, but marisnick in OF is plus D. Leury in the infield sucks, he's older, and was one of the worst players in baseball last year. Onto the next.

I honestly have no idea what my initial reaction would be. Joy? Anger? Elation? Confusion? I'd immediately log onto Soxtalk, that's for sure.

Put him at catcher you fucking cowards.

Guest organist night

I still love Timmy despite all the recent vitriol thrown his way on this board. He's my guy.

Bad couple days for the Diaz family. Go Lance Lynn.

My son has been going to camps at Stanford and they have a big poster of Quentin (and other players that made MLB from there) outside the clubhouse. Man crush still strong on that one.

Solid day for Sox pitching. 13 Ks, 1 BB (which probably should have been a K), and just 4 hits. Unfortunate that 3 of those hits left the park, but that's less concerning to me than if they were getting consistently slapped around.

Buy it Now you fool ?

Had a tough game....Billy Billy coming in now in CF.

On the bright side, now I can be against him for baseball reasons.

Not really enjoying the "live" Mike Clevinger experience

Ump missed a strike call for Clev in the first which was terrible

Live at Glendale enjoying a cold beer and Nancy Faust on the organ....I'll try to bring home a Cactus win against the Cubbies.

In my lifetime, 13 Sox players have played 10+ seasons with the Sox. Leury is one of them. But so is Karkovice, Squires, and Hairston. These things happen.

Leury had more MLB games last year with a 39 WRC+ than Romy has MLB games in his career. I've liked Leury over the years, but man cratered as hard as you possibly can last year and he's still looked rough this spring. If he didn't have a contract, there'd be no question that you drop him. Take defense / speed in the OF. Stop making the pitchers suffer.

I thought that’s only for when he’s struggling

When your wRC+ numbers get that low, I don't think 73 or 54 or 33 really matter. Even though it's not the side that the Sox would prefer, Alberto is at least an above average hitter from one side. To put it another way, at 2B I'd take Alberto's 109 vs LHP and Andrus' 83 vs RHP over Andrus' 94 vs LHP and Leury's 71 vs RHP. Same for TA at SS

He's the guy that plays when there are no better options. Like if TA or Andrus need a day off against a RHP. You can't say those guys are only allowed to take a day off when there's a LHP on the mound - especially since neither is particularly good against RHP, and Alberto is borderline unusable against RHP. Btw, about 2/3 of major league at bats come against RHP, so not being able to hit RHP at all is kind of a big flaw in one's game. My suggestion was to have both Leury and Alberto on the roster, and mix and match based on the situation. I don't see the need for a defense-first OF like Marisnick when the starters are all pretty good defenders. It's not like you're going to have to sub them out in the 7th inning any time you have a lead like Sheets/Vaughn have needed over the past 2 years.

For the sake of argument, let's consider that a lot of Leury's awfulness in 2022 was due to overuse/resulting injuries/having to play through resulting injuries because of the corpse making decisions in the dugout. If that's true, and Leury is closer to the guy who slashed .261/.342/.375 against RHP in 2021, that's probably better than we should expect from any other option for the backup infielder spot. Not a great situation, but I don't see any alternatives?

One door closes, another opens?

Alberto only played outfield like 3 times in his life but that's enouhg for me ALBERTO OVER LEURY

No, just what I'm sure is a China-pirated collection of wordwide networks/feeds that I only pay $10-15 USD per month or so for... in addition to the MLBTV.com package. For example, I have CBS TNT TBS but no Tru for NCAA Tourney games. All the big four (NFL NBA MLB NHL) sports channels. ESPN1/2. All the premium movie channels, etc.

Last Comiskey Part III:

Jacob Gonzalez is a good player but I'm not a big believer in the bat. I don't think his ceiling is very high.