Snopek

There’s a lot more wrong with this team than injuries, though. The little league defense, the inability to take a walk, the extreme ability to issue a walk, the roster flaws and redundancy, the manager decision making. While I definitely don’t think they’re as bad a team as they’ve shown, and I still think they can recover from this, I’m not going to expect things to suddenly turn around once they’re healthy. And for that matter, I’m not actually expecting them to ever “be healthy” at this point, whatever that may even mean.

So, Pollock, how are you enjoying the trade so far?

Welcome to apathy. The true rock bottom.

We’re totally misunderstanding each other. It’s fine. I’d rather bond over the shared misery that is being a fan of this team right now.

Yeah, I have no interest in helping you better articulate your shitty hot takes. Carry on with your baseless judgmental nonsense.

I think the division still mostly sucks and the Sox are clearly the superior team (even with this recent atrocious stretch), but judging the improvement of any team based on 15 games feels premature.

Well then you probably should have led off with the fact that you were basing this off of a random rumor from an internet message board, you know, rather than saying:

Allegedly 30 pounds overweight? Have you heard Eloy/the training staff say that or are you deciding what the right weight is for him? Serious question btw.

This is really your belief?

The amount of shitty comments in here making fun of Eloy is embarrassing.

This is way too easy to say in hindsight. Sure, they ended up looking lethargic the whole time, but we’ve all seen many games where teams look like crap for a few innings and then put up a 4 spot.

Yeah, the playoffs being somewhat of a crapshoot is not breaking news. I’d rather see the team that spent years losing on purpose in order to have a window of contention put themselves in the best possible position to succeed, rather than cross their fingers and hope for the best like some fringe contender. But I guess that’s just me!

Pathetic game all around. Regroup for some road series wins this week.

Oh for sure, they feel very middle of the pack to me offensively. It’s just seems like an odd thing to keep going on about.

Your constant comments about the Rays offense are a little odd. They have more hits than the Sox this series.

What a terrible game by both teams so far.

True. But this is a team with championship aspirations, not some feel good story underdog. It’s a waaaaaay too passive philosophy for my liking ?‍♂️

That’s a pretty low bar, no?

Close!

By this logic, anyone that doesn’t make it in the big leagues just didn’t care enough? Otherwise they would have been more coachable? And thus made adjustments? What?

Thanks, didn't know about that.

I feel like they brought him in because they need another arm to depend on <gulp>. If they were bringing him in originally for depth, wouldn't they have done that earlier?

This one right here.

Yeah, I think there's something to being more critical of the teams you follow/love. I also think that ties into the difference in opinion between fans and national writes. Many of us here watch most, if not all of the Sox games, so we are all too familiar with the roster and its strengths and flaws. Then you have someone like Jim Bowden's write up from the Athletic, as quoted above, and there's not a single mention of starting pitching. Nothing about losing Rodon, nothing about hoping Kopech can provide a significant increase in innings from his 69.1 IP from last year, nothing about the lack of depth. It's just a really high-level, borderline lazy view of the offseason IMO.

Really curious to see how Lynn does this year. I keep having this annoying gut feeling that we see some pretty significant regression from him. Wouldn't exactly be a shock to see age catch up to him a bit. That said, I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he continues to be a workhorse and a really good SP. I guess I see him as having the widest range of outcomes among the SPs. And no, I haven't forgotten that Cease exists.