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More like another one of 'those" years. This team is gonna be 15 games under 500 come Memorial Day.

Snell today, Morton tomorrow, and Glasnow on Wednesday. What's the over/under on runs scored by the Sox in the entire series? 4 and a half?

Time to pull a Rip Van Winkle and go to sleep until 2021. This is garbage baseball.

Did Flores get hurt? Only pitched two innings today.

Yep. Soft tossing lefties like him and Bruce Chen have been thorns in the Sox side for a long time now.

Time to score some freaking runs. Wade Leblanc is hot garbage and a career AAAA guy.

So they are pretty much exactly like the Sox but with an actual mlb offense?

This Seattle team sure can hit. What is their plan this year? It seemed like they were planning to tank in the offseason by trading guys away like Cano and Paxton. They got a nice mix of veterans and young guys and look primed to make some noise this year.

This what tanking looks like. How many games under 500 will this team be come Memorial Day? I'll say 15.

Alonso is only on the Sox because of who his brother in law is. Let's hope the Sox can flip him to a contender for a lotto ticket sooner rather than later.

The Sox are not in a position to start trading away any prospects. They will go after guys like Wacha, Kuechel, and Wheeler this offseason in FA.

Why? Because he is hurt or because something went down during the Machado sweepstakes that pissed Hahn and company off?

2019 is a tank year and Giolito's last stand. Let the dude make 25 to 30 starts this year. If him and Lopez continue to bomb out then the Sox will have to spend some $ in the offseason on starting pitching.

Yep. Should have sold high on him last year ala Tommy Kahnle. Fry is gonna be out of baseball once the the 3 batter minimum reliever rule takes effect.

Jace Fry is an absolute gas can.

Cause 2019 is a developmental year for the young guys and wins and losses don't matter.

This exactly. Now it is gas can Fry's turn to walk people and look like crap.

He looks absolutely gassed out there right now.

Get Lopez out of there now!

Depends on who you ask I suppose. Keith Law doesn't even have them in the top 10 right now with Eloy included. The Sox really really need Kopech, Cease, Robert, and Madrigal to all hit.

I liked Yolmer better when he was Carlos. Dude is just a placeholder for Madrigal at this point. Yolmer isn't in the Sox long-term plans.

Great games from Moncada, Rodon, Garcia, and Jose! Only negative is that Nate Jones looks like burnt toast.

The Sox will sign a veteran like Michael Wacha or Zach Wheeler next offseason to help stabilize the rotation. It's highly unlikely that Kopech will be ready to go by opening day next year and 2020 will be Cease's first full year in the bigs. I expect both pitchers will have a limit cap on innings next year.

Fangraphs write up was very sobering. The Sox system clearly lacks depth and will no longer be a top 10 system once Jimenez is off the list in a couple months. Also, where are all of our international guys? A legit farm system should have a good amount of high upside young international players coming through the pipeline.

Winning does not appear to be on the horizon anytime soon. Embrace the tank!