hankchifan

Burger already proved that he is not a good defensive 3rd baseman. I would stick with Yoan next season and hope for an offensive improvement.

There has been a lot of noise lately about Ron Washington being the next Sox manager. I hope not. He is 70 and Carries a lot of baggage. We don’t need possibly another TLR. Would like a younger manager.

We need to sign a slugger or two. As we are seeing in the playoffs, the teams hitting the homers are the ones winning. Our power outage is why we had a losing record at homer friendly GRF.

At least, the proposal is to hit Yas 8 th. I remember in the old days a lot of catchers hit 8 th. Unless, Yas recovers his old form, he should not be hitting higher than 8 th. IMO.

The only certainty next season is that we will never see Leury again hitting third or an intentional walk on a 1-2 count.

Vaughn is very slow, and hits too many ground balls. His defense in general is poor. This is holding him back.

Could have used Schwerber. Hit 46 homers with Phillies and is a lefty. OF defense is not that good but no worse than Vaughn or Sheets. Joc Pederson is also a power lefty OF that signed With SF for $7M.

Is Carlos Perez ready to catch in the majors as a backup?

Agree wholeheartedly. Will need to sign the MLB package to not watch the Sox feed with Kasper and Gordo.

Not many Sox fans are watching in this photo.

I don’t think I can take a full season of Gordo in the booth.

I would like to know whether there was talk about removing TLR during the season. It was a most logical move. The Jays and Phillies were scuffling and replaced their managers and now are in the playoffs. We stood pat and basically threw the towel with TLR at the helm.

Surprised that ex Sox pitcher Jose Quintana started the Cardinals first playoff game and went thru 5+ innings without giving up a run.

NBA regular season is starting next week. NHL Hockey is starting as well. There is Netflix also. You never run out of choices if you like movies or series. Good luck.

81-81 is quintessential mediocrity.

The Guardians game when we were up 3-1 in the 7 th and Cairo brought the rookie Jimmy Lambert to protect that lead, and proceeded to walk the first two batters who both eventually scored. All thatwhileThe more experienced and better ReyLo was grabbing some bench in the bullpen.

Letting TLR manage this season with his heart and drinking problems and advanced age, was one of the biggest unforced errors in Sox history IMO.

Thanks to you and the Soxtalk team for allowing us to vent our frustrations this awful season. Keeping this frustration inside would have been more stressful. Now I move to confront the frustration with the Bears and the Hawks, not sure about the Bulls. Have a nice off season. Looking forward to next Sox season without TLR to kick around.

Maybe we should have had a bullpen game with all our scrubs like Ruiz, Diekman, VV instead.

Visitors out homered us and out slugged us ( helped by our terrible OF defense). We gave away our home field advantage with our power outage.

Cairo mailed it in with the lineup and leaving Martin in too long. Cairo should not be our next manager. We don’t need any more punters after TLR led MLB in punts already.

Started with the AAA lineup and leaving Martin in too long when our bullpen has 6 months to recover.

Martin got hurt by hanging breaking balls, like most Sox pitchers lately, particularly on home runs.

Quintessential mediocrity from top down.

Seby Zavala has also pretty much disappeared.