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These ab's are night and day from last season.

That's a really reasonable deal.

Agreed. Vargas deserves a lot of blame there. Super wild and first pitch hacking.

But we're not supposed to worry about colson....

Teel is gonna make it hard for them to get that extra year of service time.

Teel very much proving his point.

Don't......not even joking

Everyone saying this team is worse on paper needs to remember the manager is on paper too. We don't know how Wil will be yet, but I think he will be heads and shoulders above Grifol. It's quite impossible to be worse.

The lowest attended home opener i remember was 1999 and I think they drew 25k. I think it'll be more than that. I'll be there. It's pretty much a holiday for me. It's been a while since I've been to a game where they had a .500 record.

Just got back from the weekend in Glendale. Not like we didn't know but directly from Wil Venable closer by committee seems to be the route. Worked horribly the last 2 years might as well do it again.

I know its still earlyish in his run as gm, and we won't see players fully develop for a bit yet.....so just going off of tangible results, abject failure.

I feel ya man. Drury had me hoping maybe they win a few games early and have a little fun. It's dismal now. They're trying to force Meidroth when he's clearly not ready.

Yes. Ely seemed kind of baffled they didn't bring him up and give him a look last. Sometimes players just deserve the opportunity when they put in the work and have success. Sox seem to have trouble with that among the thousand other things they're shitty at.

Genuine curiosity....why hasn't Adisyn Coffey gotten a serious look? I don't know much about him but seems he had a great year in the minors last year and in brief looks in spring. Yet he just doesn't seem to be in talks for the roster. I know he's 25. I'm just curious if anyone has anything else has info. Again, don't know much about him.

I think this team was being crushed under the weight of the "worst team ever" last season in the 2nd half. I think there might be an early season bounce in performance just not playing with that weight. I think they flirt with .500 here and there in the first half before ultimately plunging mid season. And a second half bump from Schultz, Quero, Colson callups might provide some fun. It's probable to see wins in the 60s but if a lot goes right they could approach 70. If all goes wrong mid 50s. I'm choosing optimism at 70 W's. Commence throwing trash at me.

He downplayed it right away. Said he could make a fist the day after. Hopefully he's not rushing it.

Per Garfien Benintendi and Slater taking bp today....they hope to play Wednesday.

Agreed. Very natural, not forced at all.

I love Edgar's adjustments late in at bats and his willingness to go with pitches rather than force anything. He's gonna be special offensively.

Really smooth, nice play from Colson.

I realize it's not realistic but I'd at least consider it. Teel, Quero and Lee with them rotating through Catcher and DH. They've been very high on Teel this spring and he and Venable seemed to have forged a bond. It'd be much h for fun to watch for what it's worth.

Bring Teel and Quero north.

Well we did that the last two seasons and it worked out great! God forbid we establish roles and allow our bullpen to find a semblance of a routine.....more dumb s%*#.

Grant Taylor looks and acts like he's ready now.

Whomever said Meidroth isn't there yet I agree. I very much wanted him at 2nd opening the season. His eye is great but his hard contact isn't there. I'd very much like our opening day catching tandem to be Teel/Lee. When we talk about vets taking young at bats to me that is Thaiss. Id like to see more Quero too. If Quero/Teel don't break with the club I feel they'll be there by June at the latest.