Look at Ray Ray Run

Jack sees butterflies and rainbows when he looks at other rosters and sees doom and gloom when he looks at sox roster. Pretty amazing honestly.

yes, which is where beede's velocity has been since he came back from TJ surgery which I've said 100 times. You literally made up a story about Beede velocity in a fake fall instructional league that he wasn't playing in, and throwing 99 MPH there. He was throwing 97-98 in relief LAST YEAR when he came back from TJ surgery before he was demoted. he was sitting 94-96 as a starter in AAA where he got lit up. He will not sit 97-98 as a starter, and never has. He has been bad with velocity. I think he has some talent, I said as much, but I think I found someone more irrational and delusional about beede than me.... making up random stories of velocity growth in fake leagues to boot. "Beede sat at 97 mph with his fastball while striking out three in three hitless innings against the A's." that quote is from an article I posted from 2019. Nothing is new about Beede velocity.

there hasn't been a season. there's nothing showing his spring velocity. here's an article from 2019 talking about him sitting 97 in spring: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-tyler-beede-continues-open-eyes-during-impressive-spring nothing has changed about Beede's velocity this spring. fall instructs... lol, going to assume you're joking, beede isn't pitching in fall instructional. please stop dude. have a good one.

i can't believe i'm having this many back and forth posts about tyler beede, but not it wasn't. Where are you seeing this made up velocity add for Beede this off-season? It's no where. HIs velocity hasn't changed. He was throwing hard in AAA last year. His velocity was up once he came back in 2021 from his rehab. He hasn't added any since then. He's been bad with the velocity.

sign me up caufield. My wife is less than enthused at the bald and fat goal, but we all gotta make sacrifices to achieve our life goals.

Moncada is signed through 2025. If he doesn't get any better and settles at 4.5 WAR average over 4 years, Moncada would have accumulated: 32.8 WAR in his time with the Sox. Chris Sale accumulated 27.1 WAR in his tenure with the Sox. If anyone expected more than 32.8 fWAR at the time of that trade they should have their head examined.

tyler beede isn't working on anything pal; he's literally fighting to keep a job in major league baseball. you chose to just oddly ignore that beede was awful in AAA last year.

Jack, you were one of the most vocally negative guys about him all last year as well. Everyone isn't making it up. I just don't get how you can call yourself a "huge fan" of the guy. A big fan of a guy is me with Crede; name my dog crede. Research absurd statistical accomplishments regarding things like clutch hitting so that I can brag and make Joe better than his actual production may have ever been. Talk up Crede to this day as an all-time great with his 13 career WAR. Get fat, sit poorly in my work chair in hopes of having a bad back and wish i could be bald so I can be like Joe as an adult.

Here's a little blurb from Eno Sarris recently about Brubaker: "J.T. Brubaker (106/107/105) Always noted for his excellent command of a wide variety of pitches, J.T. Brubaker is doing something he did in only three of his 24 appearances last season — showing above-average stuff. Of course, that’s a note of caution, he’s flashed this before, but it’s also worth remembering that he didn’t have this high a Stuff+ number in any two consecutive starts last season. A pitching coach once told me that pitchers like Brubaker — with a few pitches and good command who are just getting to the big leagues — are their favorites because one little tweak can change everything." Eno stealing my calls and guys but I'll cut him some slack.

You don't care that he doesn't get anyone out? he had an ERA near 7 at AAA last year in 16 starts. I like the theory of Beede, but no way should someone like the Sox throw him out there every 5 days for any period of time. Plus, the velocity "spike" you're citing was Beede's first inning back from an injury which had kept him out since 2019. It was hardly some consistent velocity increase; he was hyped, got shredded that inning, and overthrew. He then went down and was awful.

Too bad this guy is FOS, because Brubaker is one of my break out arms in 2022. I like him to take a nice step forward, his stuff has really been playing up and he added a little this off-season. Don't think he's going to be a super star but he'd be more than a nice fill in guy IMO.

as the most irrational tyler beede fan alive - have owned him in my dynasty league for years, drafted him again this year in the last round of the rookie/non-kept draft - what? He's been horrendous this spring; I think the Giants might keep him because they're as irrational about him as me, but still... he hasn't looked good at all.

Jack always running around telling everyone he's the defender of Moncada; his biggest original fan but..... no one on this entire forum is more irrationally critical of Moncada than Jack.

Jack, at times you're the king of someone who completely misuses almost any statistic they find.

Kevin Newman hit 606 last spring with a 1429 OPS in 33 at bats. Kevin Newman had a .574 OPS in 517 at bats in the regular season for the Pirates last year.

and Devers and Moncada value on a rate basis was nearly identical last year... lol know it's not. that's literally exactly what it is, "a bad spring."

correlation =/= causation. it could be some guys who perform really poorly in spring are hurt, but the guys that aren't hurt have no barring. jack, watching spring training and caring about results is just a terrible thing to do given how many years you've been following this closely.

eloy's gonna mess around and hit 50 homers this year, isn't he?

The Sox not knowing how fast he was when they drafted him makes no sense. You're clocking kids home to first, home to second, and first to third when scouting them since they're 15 years old. It's not as if he lost speed. You're also clocking them 1st to 2nd, both jump and time. This narrative that somehow a team could be getting a player who actually isn't as fast as they assumed just doesn't make sense. You want to argue the glove had some challenges with the speed of the game they didn't expect, I could buy that. The speed though, no chance they were shocked by a guy running the same times he has been running for years.

I think the Sox try to push Kopech closer to 150 innings, but it'll be interesting to monitor. That said, if he replaced Rodon's production I would be floored, and he still wouldn't be better than Gio in my opinion.

Hate to be a negative nancy, but I don't think Lincoln Henzman is good.

Let's just get through a season with around 130 IP, no injury, and consistency before we start annointing Kopech as better than someone who ranks as the 6th best starter in baseball, among those qualified, since 2019 in Giolito.

He's 36, and before last year he was looking at FIP's over 4.7 for three years in a row. Big fan of Cueto's, and he'd just be a stop gap, but he's got an injury history now at his age and he's a big time fly ball pitcher who does not strike people out. Going from San Fran to Chicago as a big fly ball pitcher is no bueno. The best to one of the worst parks to give up fly balls in as a pitcher, and with all those balls in play, big chance chances for some fireworks.

Yeah, I said it before but Paddack just hasn't been able to develop an off-speed pitch that isn't his change up. I was a huge fan, but he's better suited for the bullpen at this point; unless he finds a third pitch which he hasn't shown an ability to do. His shine has worn off. He wouldn't even make up for a year of that shit Hosmer contract. Padres better hope Caufield gets a GM job quick if they wanna dump Hos.