Chimpton

Maybe he is a defensive 'log jam' but he is one of the few Sox bats that has produced regularly (except in April), if he would DH next season I would definitely have him back. I would rather see him DH ing than some of the players TLR has trotted out at DH this season.

Yes but how many of those DH/1B players are performing anywhere near as good as Abreu? Getting rid of one of the few productive bats on the grounds that other lesser players play in his position strikes me as odd. Vaughn may well produce better in time but at the moment Abreu is worth another year, because Eloy may well never find it and Grandal is a worse hitter, appears to be fading and more injury prone.

That is just settling for failure 1 out of 3 just prolongs the mediocrity it wouldn't 'keep us in the race'

Those stats are incorrect. For starters he was on the IL from 18th-28th June and since he got back he has 4 hits from 18 AB which is .222 and his stats for the last 15 games have him batting .245. And those figures are inflated by his 5 hits in the blow out game against Detroit when at least 2 were against position players. I really do hope Yoan figures it out soon but he is not looking that good since coming back from injury but that is hardly surprising as he has had no real consistency because of persistent injuries this season.

He was on the IL from 18th-28th June and his last 15 games he has a BA of .245 so I am not sure where those stats you quote are from. But I do hope Yoan does figure it out because a healthy hitting player at 3B would be a massive help, if we could get a 2B who could hit as well then things might just be on the up!

Consistency is the key. This team can beat good teams, they took 2 from 3 off Toronto before losing 3 of 4 to Baltimore. That has been the big issue all season, failing to put together good winning runs because the players are streaky and injuries have disrupted the consistency. But they did look good against SF with even Garcia and Harrison contributing offensively and Zavala has been a pleasant surprise but Moncada is still struggling.

Either that or they are not ladies at all!

So that's why TLR has kept Leury around! Fair play he got the all important RBI and has raised his batting average to the heights of .200. ?

Because the current hitting coach is a joke so unless they get someone who improves players rather than making them worse, then fulfilling their potential will be unlikely.

If this is the sh*t he talks when he is supposedly sober I would hate to imagine the sh*t he talks when drunk.

Would you really get 'several' quality young players for Giolito or Hendricks? And equally would you trust the FO to actually get quality free agents to replace them or simply bargain basement options like they did with the 2b and RF this off season?

Hahn probably couldn't even if he wanted to, hiring TLR was JR's decision and sacking him or not will be JR's decision, because TLR won't step down because he is too arrogant.

The sad thing is only one of those is likely and it is not the one we all want!

TLR was hired with the excuse that he would lead the Sox to post season success due to his 'experience and ability'. Last season they were awful post season and were out after 1 series, so TLR FAILED. This season they are tanking the regular season and will most likely fail to qualify for post season, so again TLR FAILED. All this with the biggest budget the Sox have had for years.

Why just photoshop, just put his head on or under a tank.

The worse thing is we got of lightly as the Orioles only had 2-10 RISP, whereas the Sox only managed 1 RISP and of course failed to convert that.

Sign them up!

Their record against other teams below .500 is 17-12 so you are right about some grounds for optimism but as for getting players healthy this season just seems cursed.

I know 78 may be a 'worst case scenario' but with the current available players this team is a .500 team even with the remaining schedule looking favourable, after all they just lost 4-0 to the Orioles.

Option 3 is most likely

But seriously what would you get for most of those names? Some untried low end prospects would be all you would get for most of them, and if you lose Lynn and Giolito and Cueto then who would actually pitch in the rotation? I am all for change but the simple fact is that there are precious few trade chips left that would get a decent return other than names you would not want to trade.

You can't right a ship that is holed below the waterline. They will bumble along around the .500 mark and we will keep thinking what ifs. like what if they were all healthy, they aren't and the track record suggests they won't be on a regular basis. what if they go on a run like in 1983, how often does that happen and really this team doesn't look like they are capable. the 'easy' schedule is only easy if they can actually beat these teams, they just lost 4-0 to the Orioles! trade for a LH power bat, trade with what exactly? The only trade pieces worth anything you would want to keep and others like Eloy or Moncada have low value atm. All this suggests that an in season one trade would not be enough to right the wrongs.

That is the whole point why has Toronto got a better line up and deeper talent when the Sox are supposedly in their 'window' following a rebuild?

What sort of limit do you thing he should have? What sort of innings limit do you think the Sox will do?

At some point they need to look at managing the innings Kopech pitches and that will either put more strain with bullpen days or mean acquiring a starter of some sort to eat up those innings, as the Sox minor league starting options seem minimal.