WestEddy

What does any of this mean? Who will be making that argument?

And then there's this:

Relative to the league, Lance was always around league average, within 10% in either direction. He only really started to hit when he got to the Mets.

Good ole' Brian Anderson.

I'm not going to start a new thread for this, but this is kind of interesting. Tristan Peters is worming his way into being a viable, temporary platoon option.

I would prefer Kelenic starts over Hill or Peters. It would be ...a choice... to start Hays, Peters and Hill, and to bench Kelenic. If old Jarred can really hit, again, they need his bat in the lineup.

I didn't congratulate Hahn for letting Rodon walk without a QO, so it's nothing like it. Kimbrel for Pollock wasn't a bad deal. Pollock ended up sucking. Bad luck. And I don't understand your logic. If they kept Rodon, they still would have needed an OF. COUNTERPOINT: The talent on the roster did not decrease when removing Robert. Peters has put up more WAR, so far. Hicks, et. al. has created the value of being 2 games out of 1st place. Eye on the prize, Holden. Those "3rd best value for free agency dollars amortized over a decade" banners are just a joke. They don't really hang those.

"Shouldn't multiple mlb teams now be offering to poach him from the Sox with almost three years of unassailable track record?" You don't know they aren't.

Here, I'll post this again, since you seem to glazed over it the first time: A 6-WAR CF sure would help this team. Too bad Robert didn't hold up his end, plummeted his own value, and Getz had to get what he could. Getz got rotten lemons, and he crafted a lemonade-cider invention that is going to redefine the industry. It's actually quite the accomplishment, turning JR into a sooth-sayer, and getting what he could for a failed Robert. Certainly worthy of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Take him where? A movie? I thought somebody here was arguing that baseball players are supposed to learn everything they need in the minors, and that's supplemented by the coaching staff. It's a complete failure if a player needs to be "mentored", or veterans are needed to "set the example". But hey, ESPN wrote a listicle content article, so that means MLB will have to adjust win totals tonight to match the significance of that declaration.

Nobody has ever criticized you here for not loving the Sox unconditionally. Maybe you can tell us what that means, since you just made that up out of whole cloth. Why the hypotheticals? Sure, if they were 0-31, half of the opening day roster was out of baseball, we'd all be reacting in a way that you could do victory laps over. I guess reality is too hard for you to deal with, so you have to make up smug reactions to things that didn't happen.

One has to go over the top to offset your under the belt grumblings.

1-yes he is. They're 2 games out of 1st place. 2-then stop posting needlessly negative stuff that makes them sad 3-actually, they have. They had the largest attendance in years for Schultz's last home start 4-Boyer doesn't work for the city. 5- who cares? They're working on them. Tell me, what's the timeline? when Did your beloved twins have a full marketing play set up in Japan for whomever their last Japanese star was?

Not only did Getz run the front office as Director of Development, but he's now responsible for ALL 30 TEAMS!!! You guys sure give him a lot of credit. LOL. You are predisposed to not agreeing with me. You mocked me, saying the Sox would never be in on any Japanese players. But they were. "Yeah, but, yeah, but" is a weird way of admitting you were wrong. Let me know when they start giving out World Series trophies for signing random Japanese players.

Here's another Passan listicle gem: (Good thing Getz didn't trade for this guy based on his prospect listicle ranking) Early MLB takeaways: Bad big-money teams, ABS lessons, more - ESPN Disappointment: Roman Anthony, Boston Red Sox Was the hype too much, too soon? Perhaps, but all the indicators pointed to a superstar hitter in the making. I still think he'll get there, but the back issue that caused him to miss three games last week is a concern.

2 - if he actually "believed the hype", he wasn't wrong. They're within 2 games of 1st place on May 1. A 6-WAR CF sure would help this team. Too bad Robert didn't hold up his end, plummeted his own value, and Getz had to get what he could. Getz got rotten lemons, and he crafted a lemonade-cider invention that is going to redefine the industry. It's actually quite the accomplishment, turning JR into a sooth-sayer, and getting what he could for a failed Robert. Certainly worthy of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Since we know the Director of Development makes all the decisions for the organization, he would have shown mad skills to have traded Robert before COVID hit in 2019. 2023 is reactionary.

You called this a 63 win team last week.

Baseball players generally don't "hit" the ball while they're playing in the field. Facts. Look it up.

Getz was right to move on from Robert. There were some here who didn't really see how the White Sox could field a team without Robert anchoring CF. They've had a better April record than the last 5 years Robert has been a part of this club. Sox players on the IL are traveling with the team, doing their part to keep spirits up by acting like magicians, or cheering everyone on. When Robert was here, the entire dugout had to make sure Robert was happy while he nursed an owie. Probably took the focus away from the field.

Colorado has the same record as the White Sox.

Even though he was only GM for two of them.

Listening to this today. RIP to a real one.

It's the gloomers taking a victory lap over an injury.