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At least .280 +, at least and with the 25 to 35 homers. Any talk of trading Vaughn is insane. With all the great bats in the Sox line up, I think Vaughn will quickly become THE bat in the line up, more than Eloy, more than Robert, beyond Anderson, anyone.

Is Stone saying what, at least, 90% of the people on this board are saying: That whether he likes it or not, Eloy has to accept that he's going to be a DH and maybe some 1st base so that he doesn't get hurt anymore. Stone is being honest. Is that "lay(ing) in to Eloy"? I don't think so.

Great, so for tomorrow's game, that's at least one total non-bat in the line up.

Remember what Eaton did for Washington in the World Series? I do. I think we definitely want him around and healthy for the playoffs.

Well, for God’s sake, quit going. Or least for Yoelqui’s sake. But really, that’s a drag. You go to see a prospect, twice even, and he stinks up twice. And even worse is that he was awesome the last few games before the one you went to.

We never used the word “panic”, you did. Don’t put words in our mouths to cover up that you were wrong. There was nothing in the tone of posts/ questions that implied we were even slightly worried. We assumed CORRECTLY that there must be a reason why he wasn’t playing in the outfield, and we were correct. Come on, stop the semantics BS and admit we were right.

Ha !!!! So I and "The Kids Can Play" were correct: there was a actual reason why Yoelqui wasn't in the outfield. We both expressed questions about why he was not playing in the outfield and only DHing. We were told to not "piss ourselves" and to "slow the roll on the panic". According to southsider2k5 there was no specific reason he wasn't in the outfield; he just needed to "settle in", or we just needed to "Give the kid a few days before pissing (ourselves)", or he was "walking into guys established in their spots". So southsider2k5, admit it; we were right. Yoelqui not being in the outfield was for a very specific reason: a sore shoulder, not just to get him acclimated or whatever BS reasons you gave. Come on, admit it: we were right, and more importantly, you were wrong.

For the discussion about bringing Burger up and playing him at 3rd. Would it really be that difficult for him to be, at least, as good at Moncada at D on 3rd. And I'm not just talking about this 1st inning. How many errors or should have be called errors does Moncada have this month alone. Seems like more than three or four.

Is this game on regular TV, one of the ESPNs or something?

Especially for a guy, who for some reason, can’t play in the outfield for a single A team.

Yes, he did !!

Agree with this guy 100%. He has been killing us. IL him or whatever, but you can't put him in games we're trying to win. Let Burr or Fry or both replace him. If we're really trying to win the division and hang on until we get our outfielders back, you can't put him out there in a tight game. He's had more than enough chances to show he's coming around to his old form, and it obvious he's NOT coming around. So go with someone else, anyone else.

Does anyone have video of the Yoelqui homer tonight?

Thank you for agreeing with me. Eloy and Robert get hurt and we throw Vaughn into LF with almost no minor league experience anywhere on defense or batting and zero outfield experience and expect him to perform there and also bat at the major league level, (Hell, we've thrown Mendick into the outfield too) but somehow we HAVE to let Yoelqui get, at least, a week of at bats a DH before this 5-tool player can handle actually playing the outfield AND batting. OH MY GOD !!! We're putting too much pressure on this 5-tool (according to MLB pipeline # 1 prospect) to expect him to hit and catch some fly balls, you know play a position he's played his entire life, a position Marco Paddy said he was major league ready to play. Oh wait!? He's only been with the Sox organization since spring training, I guess he hasn't seen a fly ball hit to him or drilled any on outfield defense in the last few months. That must be the case why it's so ridiculous to expect him to ACTUALLY bat and field at the Single A level. My point is, removing all the sarcasm, is that it's a legit question to wonder why he still hasn't played the outfield yet with WS, and I was trying to have actual conversation on the the MILB forum of my favorite team. To ask the question is not pissing my pants, it was an attempt to get answers and start a conversation on a forum board. So don't act like I'm the one overreacting.

It seems like every box score I’ve checked, Yoelqui has been the DH. Is that correct? Why is he only DHing? I thought he was this 5-tool player? In fact, wasn’t the concern that he was very good defensively and was only so-so with the bat? Why isn’t he in the outfield for WS? Does anyone have any insight or understanding on this?

Yes, put Lamb behind Abreu. I think that some real protection would help Abreu more than anything right now. If he believed he could take a walk, maybe he'd quit swinging at those terrible pitches low and away. I know Lamb isn't great, but against a rightie, he's way better (or less bad) than Yermin.

Sox have to be getting to the point where they realize that Rutherford just ain’t worth a damn. He was below average in AA, not sure what Sox expected to see when they moved him to Charlotte.

Also gonna be there. As a teacher off for the summer, love during the work week day games. Gooooo Sox.

Reality has caught up with Yermin. It has nothing to do with LaRussa calling him out. To blame his decline on TLR is just silly.

Eloy is not gonna happy if he’s not playing LF. He has stated that more than once. Sox might be able to get him to DH while he “rehabs” for a week or so, but he’s gonna want to get back to LF and I would bet the Sox will do that, if for no other reason, just to keep him happy. I might be wrong, but I would bet, if he’s back in early August, he’ll spend most of his games in left field by September. And, I would agree with that decision.

The way Lamb continues to kill Righties, it seems to me Sox should absolutely get him in the lineup any time they can. In only 58 at bats, vs 196 of Yermin, Lamb has 4 home runs versus Yermin's 7. Plus Lamb's OPS is .877 and Yermin's is .793. There should be no question of whether Lamb should be in versus a Rightie.

Yes and no. This isn't some couple in Berwyn trying to bring Grandma up from Mexico; I could see that taking months and months. This is a prospect of an organization worth 100's of millions of dollars, a million dollar prospect with his own agent who has to have a lawyer or two. Somebody has to have someone, somewhere in all of this hundred of millions of dollars of agents, lawyers, and organization who has dealt with this before and who has the knowledge and experience; who can somehow expedite this Visa situation in, it seems to me, at most a couple weeks. But nothing after five weeks, at least??? Again, it makes no sense. Yoelqui is here? In America, in Arizona if I read it correctly on this site? Why can't this be fixed? Why is no one from the Sox organization talking about this? Again, it seems like something else is going on. I wonder if the Sox want it fixed. I am starting to think that maybe where ever in Arizona, is now Schaumburg West. That the Sox have no intention of Yoelqui playing minor league ball. I think there's a possibility that the Sox plan to Vaughn and Crochet him, bring him right to the majors with no minor league experience. It's worked out pretty well twice.

Has Hahn or anyone come out and discussed or explained what's happening with Yoelqui Cespedes? From continually checking this forum, I have read over and over it's Visa issues. But others have stated that he's in Arizona doing workouts, but his Visa won't let him travel or something like that. I could see a Visa issue taking five days to clear up, maybe even two weeks. But it's now five weeks into the minor league season and still no Yoelqui playing minor league ball. This is a huge prospect. How is this still going on? Again, he's now missed five weeks of minor league ball. This is the guy who was rated the # 1 international prospect by many services (I know other disagree). What is happening with this guy. I want to get excited about him, and I keep checking here expecting to see that he's playing, but it never happens. Can Hahn or someone in the Sox media come out and clarify what is happening with such a highly valued prospect? Are the Sox going to piss away an entire season of minor league ball on "Visa issues"? It makes no sense to me, and makes me think something else is going on.

Another game where Abreu gets zero protection, and he'll have to flail at pitches near the strike zone to try and make something happen. I don't understand why Lamb isn't batting 5th.

Did Abreu go a entire week, a week that included two double headers without a hit?