poppysox

He has pitched with more attitude of late. Maybe he wants a job in our rotation of the future.

The Sox do turn a lot of double plays. Probably because we give up lead off hits. ?

Good job. Someone had to do it.

Sign the first two then wait in line for your shot at Cole.

If we target players like Grandal, Wood and Bumgarner they should be well within our easy to live with price range. We have a lot of star type guys within the current organization and I like filling in around them with nice complimentary pieces. Certainly it would be nice to get Cole but don't get shut out on the others while we hope in vain for a "Star".

I think this mentoring kind of things often times works out better than coaching.

Might see a lot of that next year.

No matter how you set it up...looks pretty good. Lots of nice problems to have working with a loaded lineup.

Anderson Madrigal Robert Moncada Eloy

Next year with Robert, Madrigal, and Moncada in the lineup... and some outside help from people like Yasmani Grandal and Joc Pederson...we will look a little more stellar offensively.

Especially when most rebuilds don't start with trading chips like Sale, Q & Eaton.

Congratulations to those of you are still here. I don't agree with all of the opinions you express...but it takes a good fan to watch a complete game like this.

Fry is a shadow of his former self.

He got through 24 batters...even better than I expected. Really kept us in the game. Go Sox.

I agree. We should always be trying to improve our roster no matter how good it is. Five TOR starters would be great but sometimes you need to improvise until that goal is achieved.

I was referring to you using the 2 homers he gave up today as some form of meaningful proof of Detwiler being bad. I simply pointed out that your point of view was wrong. Even good pitchers have bad innings or for that matter bad games. So in the end...I think Detwiler is better than you do...I can live with that.

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I've seen Sale give up 2 homers in one inning. These small window observations don't mean a thing to me. He's not walking the bases full nor loading the bases every inning.

Who would you suggest? Next year when we have a lineup that can produce runs...you only need these 5th starter situations to keep you in the game. Not necessarily throw shutouts. I like our pitching for next year but some creativity will still be necessary. One way to us a starter who is lefty is pair him with a righty starter.

This forum has talked many times of the need to limit innings next year for Kopech, Cease and Rodon. Seems pretty reasonable to use openers in those situations.

If his role was to get one time through the order he would be serviceable. Possibly an opener for Cease.

Speak of the devil.

Detwiler doesn't bother me like he does some of you. If we used an opener he would be pretty good I believe. Lefty who throws strikes works for me in a limited role.

I agree that the top 5 have a higher degree of consensus. There is usually consensus for 20 or so guys going in the 1st round but the order is not as clear as for the first few.

The last few draft years we have pretty much taken the consensus pick for our slot and that has worked out OK in my opinion. When KW was general manager we took swings for the fences on athletes who failed miserably because they were football players in baseball uniforms. Kenney always thought he was smarter than the entire universe of baseball talent scouts. He wasn't!