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At least he'll be back for the playoffs.

I mean yes, this to. Dude exacerbated the injury by running in a straight line. Alright anyway I can't help it, meathead mode: football players: get hit by 260 lb men going 20 mph, get ankle ripped off, back in 2 weeks. Basketball players: sharp cuts, sudden acceleration, constant jumping and contact with 200-260lb giants. Baseball players: have to run in a straight line 4 times a day. Body falls apart and die.

No. Jerry and Rick owe Ricky Renteria an apology

Feel sorry for Yoan. I know there is this idea that he doesn't work hard - but you don't become that good and smooth of a defender in baseball without putting in a lot of work. This stinks.

If you told me in Spring Training 3 Sox players would be injured in the first 10 games, I would have guessed Eloy, Robert, and Moncada.

I'd take Kwan ANYDAY over the goobers we keep running out in LF/RF.

Grifol's comments before the game are even more idiotic now. You had the guy playing through an injury, and it cost him the season.

A complete tear. So he def felt a rip and it was possibly even heard by the others around him. f*** people saying he is weak or soft. You ever rip a muscle off a bone? Whatever, he got 100 million for his troubles so I ain't gonna feel sorry for him, but he ain't soft whatever else. I'm shocked he walked off with a grade 3 tear. It sucks losing a possible asset but for this season means little if anything. I will miss watching him play well tho.

Only if new ownership arrives there is a massive change over in the front office and millions and millions of dollars are spent on quality players will this happen.

Not even joking here. Soxtalk RIPPED Tony to shreds for telling players not to hustle all the time. Look at what has happened to our team for hustling to first. Yoan went down with a terrible looking injury. Eloy went down running to first, AGAIN. Robert tore his hip flexor running to first, then pulled it again recently while rounding first. Tony knew his personnel. He knew that he had a bunch of players made of glass. He got demolished for it, but he was right. You can't have any of the "big 3" hustling at this point. They are getting destroyed from it. I know Soxtalk's MO is "blame Tony and Pedro for everything", but Tony was correct here.

Why hasn't the stupid ghost runner rule gone away? Is this permanent? It should start after 12 imo.

Sheets is a fine 1B. Who the f*** thought he was a RF tho?

Gavin

This is going on 4 years of this message board debating whether it's the players faults, trainers faults, coaches fault, whether guys are too muscular, etc. etc. etc. I'm just ready to start with a whole new group of dudes.

Here's the way I see it: - One player has repeated soft tissue, no contact injuries: It's a them problem. - Multiple players: The training staff is s%*#

Yes, converting Crochet to starting and Kopech to closing are abject failures. Iriarte and Thorpe are very good pitching prospects. And Steven Wilson might the 2nd best arm in our bullpen, right now. Yeah, all failures. Abject failures. LOL.

Stop it with your meatball takes, meatball!

This one is squarely on Grifol. A. Should have squeezed with Benintendi, B. Should never had taken out Wilson, and C. Should never have pitched to Naylor in the 10th.

That my friends was one horrifically managed baseball game.

I'm not going to miss it one bit. And I'm an older millenial prone to nostalgia. f*** these bums. They created this situation.

To be fair they are only allowed 1 DH at a time.

Link the tweet you thief!

I'd love for him to make Soxtalk look like asshats. (Myself included) Not that it's very difficult.

Welcome to the internet, I see you are new here.

Which was just about everyone on this site.

Our 3 IL Superstars return to the IL, team starts hitting and scoring. Peculiar.

Gotta kinda root for Gavin. Seems to be a good dude and seems like he works hard

Start Colas you coward

Couldn't help but laugh out loud when he went down yesterday. Not at him, just the situation of this team. It also looked like he got taken out by a sniper lol

This is how grifol talks, imo. He tries to say a sentence, rhetorically defines it, and then we're off to the races. I'll continue to work it, I appreciate the feedback.

i'm struggling to not be a meathead about this.

Good thing the idiots in charge tried to make him play thru injury. I can’t overstate how bad the training staff is.

He doesn't have to be a star to have big value. There are 21 catchers in MLB who have put up 400 ABs since the start of the 2023 season. The median OPS of that group is .728. 6 of those are above .800, while 6 also have one under .700.

Oh s%*#, you're right. He sure does get hurt a lot. How come no one talks about this? Thanks for noticing.

I’m not worried about four million for Maldonado when the Sox are operating way below their maximum payroll levels and only have something like 40-45 million committed next year. I honestly don’t get why anyone is concerned about that

Why throw anything else when they aren't touching him? He was insane, especially that first inning. That was the Michael Kopech that was hyped before he ever made the major leagues. In an era of max effort, a lot of guys throwing 100, he was saying here it is, and they had no chance.

Not just spending on players, but more so spending on player development. The Sox have had no discernible strategy when it comes to player development. Smart organizations like the Guardians, Dodgers, Braves, and Orioles consistently develop players because a) they create development plans for their players; b) they tend to acquire guys whose characteristics fall into these strategies; and c) follow through on these development plans. JR sees the farm as just a warehouse, when it should be seen as a factory.

Get Luis healthy and playing at a high level again and then TRADE him for the best package you can get. I love Luis as a player but he will never be healthy. Last year was an outlier.

Back on topic of Colas - It would be really great for the LT of the franchise if he has learned something from his time in the majors and applied it over the off-season and into spring training and we see him actually develop into a solid and productive major leaguer. He has tools - and we always knew he was raw - so he absolutely is the type of guy who in his 2nd go round could really look different.

just put him on Ignore, it's a much better SoxTalk experience.

Again.... what was the correct move? Those guys are comically injury prone. No one disagrees. Would you have cut them? That wasn't happening. This team was never going to be good this year. You are acting like they were on the verge of being good if only Getz made different decisions. This was always going to be a lost year.... whether that meant 57 wins or 72 wins. It doesn't matter. Blame Getz for actual stuff he had control over.

Reinsdorf refuses to acknowledge that there are people on a major league payroll that don't wear a jersey number who are worth paying millions of dollars. Just because they don't throw, catch, or hit baseballs doesn't make them unimportant to the success of a team. This is the biggest issue with Jerry Reinsdorf: He refuses to pay competitive salaries to the people behind the scenes that have built successful teams/minor league systems. He'd rather promote from within, promote from a cast of existing failures who wouldn't have a job on 29 other teams. When was the last time the Sox have hired an ex Rays/Dodgers/Cardinals/O's scout or exec. Now name the last time he saved money by hiring ex Royal's castoffs

It's not the acquired vets that are getting hurt. It's the same old guys who always get hurt . Please try harder to put 2 plus 2 to get the right answer next time. Also Colas and Sosa are not at the points in their careers that they can be labeled as being rushed. Maybe Colas wasn't ready last year but it's not like he was too young. He just didn't have a lot of upper level experience. Maybe they both can do better with this chance.

Except it was the holdover guys he was saddled with that are injured

So far everything in the Getz era has been an abject failure. We'll see if the one guy in the Cease deal becomes a star. But right now it is truly sickening that the team's three best hitters (on paper) are already hurt and it's not mid April. Not sure how this bunch won today. I expect a loss every day.

Lol. These guys clearly aren't even trying anymore. I can't post the screenshot, but thegame story headline says "Snake-bitten Sox lose Moncada to injury before rallying past Guards." The picture shows Robert (wrong player) in a home jersey (it was an away game) to summarize a game in which the picture player was not participating.

SOUTH SIDE STAND UP!!! Not too quickly though, don't want to pull an adductor.

90s and 2000s were a different era. the game has passed Jerry by, but he refuses to change. He has to do it “his” way, which may have accidentally worked in the 2000s, but not today.

It starts at the top with the worst owner in MLB.