WestEddy

Did they run this by his agency coaches?

Just assume that I'm constantly creaming in my pants. All day, every day.

Sosa's defense has actually improved to "middling". He ranks at the end of the middle third of 2B with 60+ PAs. I think his absolute ceiling is as a 2-WAR utility/DH. Of course, when better players come along, he should be pushed out. I think he would be a more productive 1B than Vaughn. A Meidroth/Sosa double play combo works for a rebuilding season. As he gets a few years older, he might have enough power numbers to cover LF adequately, again, until Wolkow or someone pushes him out.

Sosa's young, can hit at some level, and as he ages, he's going to add power. I don't ever see him as being above an average major leaguer, but he's certainly a guy who can play 1B, LF, or DH until they bring up somebody to knock him out of his spot. Baldwin's the only one who seems to be at or below replacement level. I don't know exactly how positional WAR works, but B-R might be dinging him for moving around and not building up a body of work at a single position so a miscue doesn't count against his time at that position as much.

Sure. Those are the guys who will be added to the ones listed. I don't see this core as world beaters, but it's a nice, home-grown bunch who can put up winning seasons while they either add in free agency, or start trading the guys in arbitration, a la the Tampa Bay Rays.

Looking at FanGraphs, Miguel Vargas is tied for 8th highest fWAR among qualified 3B. (tied with Manny Machado at 0.6 fWAR.) He's also ranked 9th best defense in the game right now. If you have a 2-3 fWAR 3B, really just based on his defense, so far, that's a win. If the hitting is real, you have a keeper that you maybe even start talking about an extension at some point soon. He could certainly be a place-holder for Colson or Caleb Bonemer. A 3+ WAR place-holder is nice.

Tim Elko was picked in the 10th round of the 2022 draft. His bonus was $35k. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Tim Elko knows what he is and isn't becoming "alienated" by waiting for Vaughn to fail out, get injured or be traded.

For Robert, yes. Vaughn has only settled into this slow ramp-up last year, and now it seems to be his norm, going forward.

Prove you wrong about what? You want "young" players starting, results be damned. You have 5 positional starters with less than 2 years' service time. You have 4 starting pitchers with less than 1 year's service time, and 5 relievers with years of cheap control. That's 14 players you could be watching for the next 4+ years that Getz has put together for you. You've gotten exactly what you've been screaming for. Prove yourself right.

I would also imagine they've sat him down, mapped out what they want to see from him, and have given him a rough timeline of what could possibly happen if he met his marks.

Quero, Sosa, Baldwin, Meidroth, Vargas, Burke, Martin, Cannon, S. Smith, Vasil, Ellard. That's starting to look like the team going forward. Nothing to get all that excited about, but sure a nice base to add top prospects to.

Didn't Oscar Colas try some version of that? That doesn't seem to have worked out as planned.

Who's making predictions? The Sox acquired a player making changes to produce. The defense looks real. The whole point of being a fan is to hope for production from players. If you are sure nobody here will be hall-of-famers who will make you feel better about yourself, why are you here mocking the people who are actually watching the games and assessing the players coming through the system?

It's weird how, when a player does well 2 years ago, it's not applicable, but when they do bad 2 years ago, it's recent, and must be spoken for.

Yeah, nobody's ever announced an unwillingness to ever spend over $5M again. It certainly looks like JR has cut the budget back while they work on the TV deals, a new stadium, and the transition to Ishbia/Reinsdorf sons/whomever. It's a good thing that the FO that signed all those bad FAs is gone.

Colson can cancel his own fall by listening to the Sox' coaches, and telling his agency coaches to stop meddling.

But the guy mocking Robert daily wanted to punt a draft pick so his kids could walk around in Santander jerseys and have piece of mind. You don't really need to explain every one of my posts to me, dude.

Elko will probably settle in and produce about the same as Vaughn. Sosa would probably be the most productive 1B until a true bat comes through the system without a position.

Heaven would be paying Anthony Santander $16M to put up a .175/.258/.316 line. Maybe he'll right the ship sometime in the next 6 years. LOL. "Hey, junior, where's your $150 Santander jersey?" he asks, knowing what that smoke in the back yard was last night. Weird how we're not getting regular Santander pokes.

Actually, his track record suggests that he can get better over time. You have a player who has gone into the offseason, and conditioned himself in accordance with team recommendations. He's worked on his fielding, and then when he started in a slump, made a setup change, and followed it through to payoff. Oh, and no "injuries". Everybody screams about how Yoan didn't want to play baseball, but you have a guy who seems to want to play the game, and is doing everything possible to succeed and stay on the field. No, Vargas isn't going to be a HOFer. He's not going to be promoted from AAA and dominate. But he does look like a guy, like another famous, recent 1B on the Sox, who had a couple of false starts before he got to the Sox and put it all together.

Only if it's a season marred by injury or fatigue. One good season will need a 2nd, and then a 3rd to confirm that Guantanamo shouldn't be expecting a GM and 3B.

Yeah. I've told you that previously.

Vinny Capra is not related to Nick Capra. Clean out your pants, now.

Or Venable's strained patience muscle.

Maybe Colas will get jealous of Robert having a new Cuban buddy, and will hit and field better to get to Chicago and vie for Robert's friendship.