Look at Ray Ray Run

Teams make mistakes. Do you watch any other baseball?

Agreed. He somehow has been real good in general to start his career. I think it was an aberration. I just dont think he's very good.

Mckenzie >> plesac Plesac is just a guy imo

Why do umpires hate Yoan

I'd say 140 is the bench mark. I agree he's gotta stay healthy and that is also my biggest concern for his chances. I think his defense takes a huge step forward which really helps his WAR and I think this will be his best offensive season to date with more power and likely leads baseball in runs scored.

Won't be hard when you're the best player in the game, but it'll be a battle for sure. People who talk regression with Tim Anderson legitimately have not watched him play. Statistics and analysis bucket players to analyze them and project them. You can't bucket 7, he just does it in a way we haven't seen and it's what is so fun about baseball and what makes it so unique.

Guy is winning one this year. 1000%

IDK about your second point. He's in great pitching shape even though he's a fatty. I do have issues with trading Dunning for Lynn - I had issues at the time because I am a fan of Dunning and thought he was one of those arms that is incredibly underrated in the modern game - command first, pure stuff second. Bieber is obviously amazing and I'm not claiming Dunning will be Bieber, but Bieber was another overlooked command first arm that exploded onto the scene in the big leagues. I think Lynn is really good and was wrong about him being able to sustain it, but I just didn't like moving one of our more proven - if not the most proven - young arm with years of control for a rental. It's one of those moves that can really bite you in the ass when you're a, sadly, cost conscious organization. Given that you could have acquired an arm of Lynn's caliber with money and kept Dunning for depth, I was never going to agree with the decision because you can never have too much pitching. I agree 10000% with your last paragraph.

This is such an odd post coming from the guy who was hyper critical about Kopech sitting out last year, questioning his drive, and analyzing his divorce... I honestly think we look at athletes from this personal angle far too often. This is their job and it is often unrelated to who they are as a person. Kopech seemed to be suffering, and likely still does, from some mental health problems that at times can hamper development personally and in the workplace. The year off appeared to give him some time to re-calibrate, become more comfortable with himself, and refocus on things he felt were important to him. I'm sure having a kid can do that to you. At the end of the day though, pedastaling athletes tends to just lead to disappointment and is always unwarranted. Enjoy what they accomplish on the field, the entertainment they provide, but analyzing them further typically leads to misinformed thoughts on people who are coached on how to speak to the media and say the right things. As I've gotten older I've evolved to stop doing this. "Seems like a decent guy" is something I'm much more likely to say now than "he's such a good dude." We honestly just have no idea, and there's been enough heinous actions by athletes that there's no reason for us to propel them to some level of grandiose based on how good they are at a game. Enjoy the greatness on the field, and accept that off the field we're all human and prone to errors in judgement and mistakes - both big and small. Saying that athletes have more drive and determination than regular people is honestly comical. People that wake up everyday and go grind a job that they don't like to put food on their table requires much greater drive and determination than someone who is naturally gifted and plays a game for a living. Just my two cents.

Sounds good, champ.

These guys throw year round. Kopech isnt coming back from not throwing. I think modern pitcher management has been a complete disaster with no real evidence supporting its effectiveness. Kopech has arm strength. If you want to keep inning escalation down, fine, but thinking you need 5 days to recover from 41 pitches because like you haven't been throwing daily for 16 months is nonsense to me. You build arm strength and durability by pitching, not resting. Don't throw through fatigue and soreness too much and you'll be fine. Inning load management has just increased injury.

But it doesn't, and yes it absolutely hurts the others it's one thing to not be able to go back to back days - that's hard on the rest already - but needing a week off after 41 pitches means you're an arm short all week.

We'll agree to disagree on this one.

Which is great and he should be but his usage makes things hard on others if he needs 5 days like a starter would. He didn't even throw 45 pitches today

I post he's not available until Friday and you felt the need to use semantics and say they said he likely wasn't available until Friday like that is different when the manager is trying not to show his hand (even today didn't name him starter until late). If I'm going to miss out on your brilliant responses like that if you don't unblock me I think I'll be OK buddy.

Because how can a bullpen arm, even when used for 3+, need 5 days off? I understand the plan, I just think it sets back the bullpen. He looks amazing, but I'm not sure how treating a rp as a sp is managing his workload. Let's say he threw an inning Wednesday, does that really hurt his usage?

It's literally what the tweet says lol.

Just said Kopech not available again until Friday. That's crazy to me.

I loved hawk when the sox were competitive. I couldn't stand him when the team was bad. Benetti can be a bit annoying honestly, just no need to go on and on about it. He's not "terrible" by any measure

I think your opinion of Jason is well known by everyone at this point. Really no need to keep repeating it over and over. And being critical of things he clearly understands just shows you're disdain for him is simply irrational.

Robert has been raking for a while. Not sure what people have been watching all year with him but approach has been really good.

Hes literally explained what It means on-air many times while you were yelling at him and telling him to only talk about the game. Your obsession with benetti is absurd. And a 92 wRC+ is significantly better than his batting average looks which was his entire point.

As long as all the right players play i dont care what the order is.

To the person bumping this post after the no-no, no where does it say Rodon is bad. It clearly says Rodon will be fine if he stays healthy, but the big question with Carlos is health. It's April 15th. I'm rooting for Carlos as much as anyone to stay healthy, but let's not celebrate the guys season in the middle of April. The problem with trusting Rodon is trusting his arm to hold up over 160+ innings (as I clearly wrote here). I hope more than anything he stays healthy, and consistent. This type of performance has ALWAYS been something Carlos was capable of when healthy, I say that right in the post. I'm happy for the guy after all he's gone through, but I'm not ready to celebrate his season on April 15th.

Took that last sentence to mean it's a bummer but I wasn't trying to get hit. If you don't recognize the pitch you're probably not gonna move your back foot. Seems hard to believe he didn't know it was a perfect game lol but you never know