"The Kids Can Play"

Cool, No worries and I agree with you. The bottom line we both agree Madrigal is solid.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't assume Jerry is lucid at age 85 for one second. I think he is completely senile and losing it. This is a horrific dangerous combination when on top if it, Jerry is an inept and pompous owner. No owner in baseball today would have made this type of hire, other than a egotistical and clueless Reinsdorf. This was a absurd decision for Jerry for his own selfish reasons to placate his injured ego, from his move he screwed up 35 years ago when he let Hawk Harrelson fire TLR.

So what, we had a well rested bullpen and who said Bummer couldn't have closed the inning out.

Ok fine! I get sarcasm but it didn't come over that way.

Totally valid! First of all, Nick didn't hit home runs in college. Secondly, Rick Hahn didn't draft him Nick to hit HR's. Hahn drafted him to be a solid .300 hitter and play a great 2B. You need look at college numbers since he was one of the top hitters in college baseball and then you will understand why Hahn drafted him. He didn't hit home runs. Thirdly, since when is the requirement to hit home runs from the 2B position? When we have our entire team healthy, we will have plenty of HR production from Abreu, Eloy and Robert and what should have been Grandal and hopefully Vaughn in the future. Nicks college numbers over 3 years: Year Team POS AVG OBP SLG OPS GP AB R H 2B 3b HR RBI HP BB SO SB CS 2016 .333 .380 .456 .836 49 195 38 65 11 5 1 29 1 15 14 8 2 2017 .380 .449 .532 .981 60 237 53 90 20 2 4 40 6 27 16 16 4 2018 INF .367 .428 .511 .939 42 180 41 66 9 4 3 34 4 16 7 15 1

If he ends up eventually hitting 2nd in the lineup daily, who cares how many HR's he hits. We just need him to be consistently over .300 with a good OBP and plays great defense...which he has been lately, then we'll be fine. I think eventually he will learn to take more walks and that will make him even more dangerous. Or would you rather play Leury Garcia at 2B?

Also, in two seasons thus far, 54 games and 192 AB's: BA .328, OBP .374 and only 11 K's. IDK, but if we you told the day Hahn drafted Nick with the #4 overall pick in 2018, I find it hard to believe you wouldn't be ecstatic to have a player with these numbers in his second season.

I pray for that every day! ?

Totally agree! The only people here going forward who still want to defend and rationalize TLR for his horrific managing decisions are simply Contrarians and Trolls. This hiring was a colossal mistake. Only loyal die hard Sox fans like us could be cursed with such an inept and senile owner that is pompous enough to make this type of absurd hiring.?

Amen! Well said!

So far in 18 games started he has caught 32 flyballs for zero errors and a 1.000 FP. I don't believe anybody here expects him to be a glove glover. However he has Robert in CF who can cover more ground than most CF's in baseball to make up for his limited OF coverage. As far as only lasting if he hits 30 plus HR's and drives in plenty of runs, that is the whole reason we want him in left. If he doesn't do that, then we have a bigger problem, because Hahn picked him with the #3 overall pick in 2019.

I know, it was sarcasm!

Of course, it makes perfect sense for Tony! He believes "You can catch lighting in a bottle with these over the hill ex great players"! Maybe add Frank Thomas to come out of retirement too!

Yes you're so right again! I guess they didn't want Hinch and there wasn't anyone else out there better than LaRussa. ? Btw, what level of thinking are you at with that wild theory? ?

No wonder the consulting work Tony did didn't go so well! 2014, LaRussa accepted a position as Chief Baseball Officer for the Arizona Diamondbacks to oversee the entire baseball operations department. 2016 - Arizona Diamondbacks finish 69-93. 3rd worst record in NL and 6th worst in MLB. 2017 - LaRussa was demoted to Chief Baseball Analyst/Advisor with the Diamondbacks following a disappointing 93-loss season in 2016, which also resulted in the firing of General Manager Dave Stewart and manager Chip Hale. Following the 2017 season, LaRussa resigned. Translation = Probably asked to resign or he would be fired! Thank you Jerry, may we have another! ☹️

Thinking LaRussa will improve as a manager this season and he'll quit making so many dumb mistakes, seems to be Albert Einstein's definition of Insanity....which is: Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. ?

I agree because he obviously knows how much people hate him, or think he is a total loser from the ESPN special "The Last Dance" The sad thing is the Sox players and fans don't deserve a pompous and incompetent owner like Jerry!

So true and yet so sad!

I thought we already know how stupid and senile Tony is....LOL! Oh yeah, silly me, there just might be another level of Jerry insanity here!

Quit teasing us with this awesome hypothetical. This would be too good of a dream scenario. LOL!

Oh ok, yeah you're right...Hahn didn't want Hinch or any other manager candidate out there and chose TLR as his first choice as a bridge. This was all Hahn and Jerry had no input on this! I wont even debate this any longer,...its so outlandishly illogical and absurd!

We don't need him. We have enough DH hitters and he isn't going to play 1B over Abreu. It's one horrible and dumb decision for Jerry to override Hahn and hire TLR. However, I cant see any possible way in hell, Jerry would have the audacity to override Hahn a second consecutive time and force Hahn to sign Pujols. I can't imagine Hahn even wants him. If that happens, then Jerry officially takes over as the dumbest owner in all four sports even over George and Virginia McCaskey.

Most sources out there were predicting and hearing it was Hinch in the lead for the Sox job. Plus after the job got filled by TLR, I don't believe there were any other openings available. It's quite simple if Hahn had his way, Hinch would be our manager.

Please keep Tony away from running our Sox team any longer!

You can't seriously believe that AJ Hinch would pass up the Sox job for one of the worst teams in baseball (Detroit) going through a total rebuild again? Hinch only took the Tigers job after TLR was mistakenly hired. In fact, Oct 29, the Sox hire TLR and on Oct 30, the Tigers hire AJ Hinch! Everyone knows Hinch was destined to be the Sox manger until our senile and inept owner did something no owner ever does...which is make the decision for the manager hire and not the let the GM do it. Furthermore, even if Hinch didn't want the job, which obviously isn't true...are you naïve enough to think Hahn would choose TLR over tons of other manager candidates out there for a bridge hire? I think your theory my friend is level 2 out of 10 thinking!