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The league keeps making concessions because they can tell the vote will not go their way. Union is doing a good job here of extracting more and more and it makes sense for them to reject it as is. The expanded playoffs generally benefit the owners. Why would you trade that plus your grievance rights just for 8-12 more games. The owners are clearly concerned about the potential for the grievance to succeed so if you have a billion in potential damages and say even just a 30 percent chance to win, that is worth 300 million. So if the owners trying to run out the clock to ensure its only a 60 game season tops, then the players should get something worth the difference between 300 million (or whatever they peg as the rough chance of success times max damages) and what will be imposed vs what's offered. The players are doing the right thing. That's why Manfred keeps sweetening it, it's cause he has to.

Vaughn will probably play in the expanded AFL to save his service time and to get him ready for 2021. My understanding is that under the March agreement Kopech will accrue service time no matter what now so theres no benefit keeping him off the team. So I expect him to be in the rotation. Madrigal is an interesting issue. I'm assuming in the upcoming agreement if he is used for any part of the season he will accrue a full year so they are gonna have to bite the bullet there since we are trying to win with the whole expanded playoffs.

It's either that or age finally caught up with him.

Collins should catch 1-2 games a week vs RHP and DH 1-2 vs RHP also

Colome's statcast data was terrible last year and his FIP suggested regression too...not sure why we are surprised.

Bummer is the closer now... lol

.280/.350./.560 year comin! Savage!

Now that the contract is out of the way he can relax and just play

I'm really encouraged by Robert taking his walks. If he can get a decent OBP he can be the 1. 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Vaughn 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Anderson 7 who cares 8 who cares 9 Madrigal

Moncada leading off.....knock it off already Ricky.

It might also be that they wanted to see how Collins looked this spring also as compared to last year.

If there was an injury, I would assume that catcher we got from the Royals system who was said to be defensively advanced would be brought up to pair with Collins.

Any idea as to velocity?

Wow I didn't even know he was in big league camp. He is prolly overwhelmed at the plate.

It's actually quite cheap....15 AAV...that's a 2 WAR player. Moncada just had a 5 win season. Even with regression to 4 or even 3.5 there's alot of surplus value there

6/90 is beyond awesome.......15 AAV...that's a steal. Great job Rick. The FO made some great long term investments this off-season.

The world isn't gonna end if we have a 2 war 2B batting ninth. That's perfectly fine. Not everyone is an all star. He's having a rough spring, I suspect he might be trying too hard to prove he should be up on opening day which wasn't gonna happen regardless. He will find himself and even if he's just an average regular that's OK.

Vaughn is gonna put up clownish numbers at High A to start the season (and yes he will start there so they can use the "3 levels" excuse at the end of the year for the service time issue). Like .350/.500/.700.

The .625 would be very unlikely in Birmingham.

Couple walks for Collins

Flores pitching very efficiently.

The Sox future 1-6 is very impressive and hellish to deal with. Nowhere to breathe in that lineup 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Vaughn 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Anderson

Heuer impressive as expected.

Unless we get a really good offer for something we really need in ST, it may be better to wait till the deadline to move McCann, as there are many factors we have to see play out, including how good, bad or average the Sox look, how healthy Grandal is, how much further progress Collins has made as an actual catcher in AAA, and whether catcher demand looks like it may be stronger then than now.