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Not necessarily. Counsel for the player could easily argue its distinguishable from Bryant since the Bryant case still involved actual minor league games as opposed to just taxi squad practices. Actual games against a variety of different opponents and pitchers is much more specifically tailored for real, legitimate player development than not even playing actual games and doing just drills and BP against the same small set of guys, which wouldn't even involve scouting reports and the same type of film study and preparation as the real thing. Thats why the Sox need to wait a "decent interval" after the point when the extra year was obtained to try and proactively defang an argument like this, so that they can make it look like the demotion wasn't just a pretext for service time (even though it plainly is). I also would expect, if it got to an actual arbitration, for the Sox to point out that the Sox were struggling at 2-4 and in need of a major upgrade at 2nd, particularly defensively, given Garcia's errors, and yet still kept Madrigal down for another 3 games which would actually translate to almost 10 games in a normal season. That could also be persuasive evidence of a legitimate desire for player development.

They're trying to foreclose a service time grievance by saying "if it was really about service time, he would have been up at the first opportunity, especially since we were 2-4 at the time." Basically they have to wait a decent interval after the moment they get the additional year so as to have some cover. I assume same is true for Dunning so we will have to wait another series for him too.

Now give him some run support.

At this point move the kids up. The vets, Grandal and Encarnacion aren't cutting it at 4 and 5. There have to be consequences. Move Eloy up to 4 and Robert to 5.

We cannot "pay him fair" at this point. We already invested 73m into Grandal, we cant be allocating two significant salaries to the same spot. And no, its not a sunk cost either. If RH tells JR to reopen the wallet at C one year after doing a 4/73, RH knows it will be his job that is similarly sunk. They made a decision and thats that. Hopefully YG turns it around but they are tied to him either way. Giolito needs to learn to be comfortable with him. He'll be here for a long time no matter what.

Yep, McCann should be DH and EE at 1st.

Except that the bullpen has been used extensively already and really could use a day where the starter goes 8.

Its just not our year.

I like Collins but perhaps this is why Hostetler was "promoted"

Good job James.

On MLBN they showed Rodon in the dugout somewhat unhinged.

Well there's the meltdown in the dugout that someone predicted.

I'll be surprised if he makes it to the third inning.

Lmao. Thanks, Cooper.

As John Madden used to say, "Boom!"

"He's a damn good kid and my gut says he's due"

If they lose tonight, Ricky might have maybe another week to turn it around. I'd prefer someone like Jirschele to Ozzie though. I thought Hahn was supposed to be trying to transition the org to being more analytics oriented.

We should have won that game. Can't afford to go 1-4, the nightcap is a must win.

We have had so many wasted chances to win this game. Dammit

Not getting calls

Collins

Sigh. They are awful with RISP.

Come on make them pay for once. This is our chance to steal it.

Lmao way out of the zone.

We can easily steal this game. Its right there.