JoeC

…that’s either: a) a positive thing Or b) a REALLY bad thing.

JR will probably trade Crochet for him.

Hearing the Schriffen call on the Fletcher home run grab, he is clearly an outstanding player.

To be fair, earlier in the year you / Whitesox2023 / ss2k5 were about 75% of the forum’s posts. As an amused spectator, kind of hard to forget.

What are his stats with and without Moldy in the lineup?

Burnout or tuneout

So you're saying that starting pitchers in the future will be indistinguishable from one another, and that no pitchers will be judged as being outstanding compared to his peers of his era? And why do closers get to go in the Hall? Saves didn't really become a valued stat until the 80's. Until then, you only got save opportunities because you weren't considered good enough to start. We should probably stick to that metric for safe measure.

Whelp.

It's this statement that's just flat out false. The HoF has always been a comparison to peers, and it has always evolved, sometimes slowly, to accommodate the evolution in the game. Otherwise DHs and Closers would forever be excluded.

Not sure that would offset the local broadcast revenues

Hahn knew how to hold a fire sale.

Given the alternative, yes.

Keeps this year’s salary. Will be lucky to have a team pick him up in the offseason to try to rehab under their care on their dime.

Our old friend Liam starting a rehab assignment: https://www.overthemonster.com/2024/8/16/24221883/red-sox-news-links-liam-hendriks-to-begin-rehab Best of luck to Liam

Tough break for him.

Soccer limits the number of substitutions. Hockey prohibits substitutions in certain situations (icing).

I meant it more in the sense of giving JR and the current regime a chance to avoid accountability for current decisions.

It gives “us” (not sure who that is) a reason to blame the next 5 years on Hahn.

Yeah - shifts in the NHL used to last for several minutes at a time back before the ‘80’s. Back before the ‘70’s, you had to serve your full 2 minutes for penalties, regardless of whether the other team scored on the PP. The NBA didn’t used to have a shot clock. You couldn’t play zone defense (note: I’m not sure if you can now, because I don’t follow the NBA whatsoever) MLB didn’t have a DH, and pitchers pitched complete games, every 4 days. Hitters didn’t wear helmets. Times change. I think this rule is dumb and unnecessary, but we’ll all move on after some pointless bellyaching.

The way the rules are set up, that’ll basically be… (checks notes) never, then, since the Sox can’t draft in the top 10 frequently enough to be able to stack up prospects.

That’s flattering to have that guy called a “hitter,” just like they would on other teams.

$I’m $not $sure, $but $something $tells $me $that $not $all $teams ($especially $the “$cut $the $season $short” $teams) $would $be $on $board.

Do I think it’s stupid? Yes. You can hopefully gather that by looking at my sarcastic offshoot rules in the rest of the thread. Do I think it’ll ruin the game irreversibly? No. The game will adjust. It’s stupid, but we’ll all move on after some bellyaching in the first year. I’d actually be interested to see the number of “early” hooks (fewer than 6IP) that don’t meet one of the three exceptions (injury resulting in IL stint, 4ER, or 100 pitches). I’d guess that it’s not going to be a huge impact, and I would even predict that the player’s union would talk ‘em down to 5 innings as a minimum, rather than 6.

Didn’t they give tickets away for like $1 toward the end of last year?

Maybe this is the start of the standard 6-man rotation.