Bunt Ritual

I don't think it's remotely fair to compare Sheets/Engle/Vaughn to one of the best hitters in history (who also had their defensive ability hidden by The Green Monster)

Bellinger would be interesting. I wonder if the Dodger's believe in those mechanical tweaks he made at the end of the season/playoffs.

Matt OIson has 2 years left of control and doesn't fit a positional need, so no. Not like Matt Olson.

But if we want to lay a foundation for a team that competes annually why are we trading Vaughn? Unless it's for a bona fide superstar with years of control left, I don't see the point.

or.....here me out......we can just keep Vaughn and sign Castellanos/Conforto or Shwarber? Seriously, what is the obsession with trading Vaughn around here?

I don't really see the point of this trade when we can keep Vaughn and just sign someone like Conforto for money. Not to mention that Kath has literally just started his career and hasn't been able to really build any value.

Who the hell does he think he's fooling with that "Phone works two ways" comment?

Can't wait for Manfred's "We tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas" speech tomorrow.

Bring back the reserve clause while we're at it.

I think people need to start to realize that we're going to miss games.

1: god no 2: no 3:no

God, he so much potential. Jim Margalus' post every offseason speculating whether Beckham finally figured it out was a Soxmachine tradition while he was on the team..

Yeah, maybe. I'd probably also care if Conforto's 2021 is his new norm.

The quality of Castellano's bat is so good, I don't know if I care that much that he isn't a good RF. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are we sure Vaughn's value dropped? He held his own (and more for a chunk of it) for a full MLB season after not playing above High-A and played all over the field. Yeah, he wasn't Juan Soto, but he also wasn't 2006 Brian Anderson out there.

I'm not convinced 2019 wasn't an outlier for Marte. He's still a good player, but there's no way I would send that package to get him.

I'd be more than happy with like Jose Iglesias or Andrelton Simmons playing 2B and hitting 9th.

We'll need that $1.2 mil so we can send it to some team along with Keuchel.

Yeah, I think he's doing this more on his own initiative than the team's. He realizes he's basically blocked from the team otherwise. No harm in trying to increase your value.

I think it's funny that Lester and Andy Pettite have the same number of strike outs, because that's who he reminds me of the most.

I laughed when I saw it. For all his faults, TLR does seem to have a pretty good sense of humor.

Is there any empirical data to support the assertion that most employees ( i.e. blue collar/service industry/public sector) are doing fine without a union? I'd really like to see it.

FWIW, the Met's writer for the Athletic thinks it more likely that J.D. Davis gets move than McNeil. Mainly because he thinks Escobar is going to be used as a 3B instead of a 2B.

and regardless of how often that loophole is exercised, it needs to be closed if only for the reason that it robs the fans who spend money on this god forsaken league of watching this sport at its best.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a moot point. They regained a year of control because of his TJS.