Look at Ray Ray Run

The Sox are good because their starting pitching is great. If the bullpen turns it around the loss of robert on the win column shouldn't be that substantial. The problem here is the manager is a moron and now can be even worse. Maybe engel puts up a 750 ops full time. This sucks, luis is a ton of fun and I hope it's just a fixable injury, but the sox still have no excuse not to win the division with this rotation.

He's walking and a half year of a position player who's been a bit inconsistent usually doesn't equal star prospects.

If you could get bryant for some mid level prospects, I'd give it a try that's for sure

Never know if anyone is worth trusting but that appears to be the news. Maybe they're citing the upper echelon of the projection. Who knows. He'd be back for the final month of the season.

Supposedly out 4 months

I'll leave this here as well.

This is as concerning as the Robert injury: The clubhouse is tired of Tony already, and it's May 3rd. The above is from Passan.

agreed with you here; I think that could mean be ready in case, since it's your side job. If you have news that they haven't released why not release it? Haven't even heard a press conference being called

Ned Yost was the worst manager in baseball and he won a World Series. All I was pointing out was that the success of a manager isn't judged solely by W/L of his team. LaRussa was given a race care and is driving against some CIVICS. Winning isn't as much of an accomplishment as some seem to think - for a manager. So far the teams identity is a collection of SP's who all can absolutely SHOVE.

Yeah, that's how I see it as well. It's a problem too because now they might have been able to bank a couple extra wins earlier in the year that they lost out on, and now they're short handed. I still think sitting Mercedes in a divisional game because he was "late" to "teach him a lesson" hurt the team today as well. Lamb came up in biggest spot of the game offensively and k'ed, and the offense never got anything going. I just don't get how you send your player a message by sitting him. I'm not sure what that accomplishes outside of hurting your teams chances.

Tony is playing bench guys to keep the starters fresh for the playoffs, I heard. No?!? I thought that meant the playoffs this year were guaranteed!

Giolito given up 5 hits in 5 innings and 1 earned run and 7ks and you read soxtalk again and he's been terrible lolol

Yes, and they should fine them. I agree with that. It's not complicated. Most guys are fined.

I think everyone agrees it was Tim's ball, the problem is Tim wasn't calling for it at all. He should have been calling Yoan off.

I'm not moving any goal posts. This is again a basic understanding of statistics. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2708637-matt-harvey-reportedly-was-partying-until-4-am-before-suspension-for-missed-game Here is a prime example. It was later reported Harvey had been late MANY times before this incident where he flat out missed a game. He was never skipped or sat for his previous episodes of being late. Coaches don't sit guys every time they're late. This isn't little league. People are late to their jobs sometimes. The fact that you think that athletes are immune to the tardiness that plagues every other industry in the world is just hilarious. Regardless, this is taking up too much time to continue arguing so I'm going to drop it.

Tim wasn't calling for that ball at all. It was his, but he wasn't saying a thing.

How would you know if they were ever late? The only way you find out is if a coach says so. I know in Puig's case, he was chronically late and eventually sat for it.

LOL so you think in the last 7 years of baseball there have been three guys who were late to their job? ?

You hear about maybe 5-10% of players who are late to a ballpark or arena in any sport.

What lesson are you teaching a professional athlete by benching him for being late? I'm serious. What message are you sending the team? Being on time is more important than producing and winning baseball games? That's just dumb.

This is just not true at all.

So fine him and put him in the damn lineup because his job is to win games, not be Yermins dad.

So glad we taught Mercedes, the 28 year old grown man, a lesson about timeliness today! Hopefully that's a valuable lesson that Yermin will take with him to his future office jobs. After all, professional sports are about life lessons and not winning... amirite or amirite?!