poppysox

Jerry is 83 years old and his story of boyhood love of baseball has been retold often. After owning a major league club for 40 years I refuse to believe he doesn't care about winning. He knows that his era can end any day and the tomorrows are limited. I think he will go for it this off season. My gripe with JR is his extreme loyalty to those he perceives as loyal gets in the way of good people decisions.

Didn't have to hold my breath on a ball hit to center either. He seems to glide under the ball.

Then they haven't been paying attention.

Lopez with a great performance. This team looks very good tonight. Contributions from just about everyone.

Don't be mean when they post positive stuff.?

When the whole team is up and healthy they will have a boat load of speed and power to go with excellent starting pitching. Undoubtedly some growing pains as well. Not going to have a lot of boring games. Amen.

Maybe yes and maybe no but worth considering.

Can't help but think we will be watching a lot of these one side W's in the coming years.

You found one. I'm pretty happy with the contributions from Engel, Sanchez, Garcia and Jay in this game.

Just saying they are not bag of balls players. As an example...Tampa could use Sanchez. Might have value as part of a deal type thing. One or two might fit our long term championship team as roll players.

Guys like Sanchez, Engel, Jay and Garcia are not without value as role players on good teams.

Sanchez, Jay, Engel and Garcia are not without value as roll players.

I wonder if Tampa would be interested in Sanchez. Might be a match.

That requires a qualifying offer. I don't think the Sox are up for that. At least I hope not. I would like to extend him in the 12-15 bracket.

Speed plays.

In just two weeks we will see what actual worth Colome and Abreu have.

If baseball executives keep jerking around with the game we will probably see this soon.

He works best in a deep pockets organization. Jerry would have a seizure the way he goes through money.

Agreed.

You just don't take that chance. Someone can offer him a contract he can't refuse. If he wants to stay and that's what we want...find a compromise. Don't leave it to chance.

Better fielder & more natural power. Still have hope that one of them develop into someone useful.

Talking to Greg about Abreu. If we don't get an agreement on Abreu in two weeks we need to deal him. Don't lose Abreu for zip is all I'm saying.

Find an extension compromise and everybody wins.

It's interesting that coaches are often given credit for the performance of a top tier pitcher or hitter. When I compare that to a touring pro golfer and a run of the mill weekend golfer going to the club pro. Both the touring pro and the average Joe want to lower their respective average score by three shots per round. The club pro would have no trouble helping average Joe improve by three shots. On the other hand...he would probably fail at helping the touring pro improve much if any. Why doesn't the coach or coaches find it easy to help the Engel, Cordell, Tilson, Nova, Lopez, Fulmer and on and on type of player. That's where coaches would show me their worth. Improve the average Joes...the stars are already good. They already know more about hitting & pitching than the coaches ever did. On an up note...Boston has been working with Eloy on his fielding and you can see the improvement. Boston couldn't help Engel nearly as much because Engel is better at it than Boston ever was. I just don't see Cooper & Steverson helping their average Joe's improve very much if at all.

I always like the saying that defense & speed never slump.