LittleHurtCG

LMAO. I'm sure your plan of pulling every single Sox starter after two innings and starting Dylan Cease in game 2 would have made all the difference.

It's a conspiracy theory that doesn't make much sense.

Problem is that it was only a 5 game series so you really can't just remove the McCullers starts. Also, didn't McCullers get shut down like immediately after the ALDS for close to a year? I'm sorry but a World Series caliber team has a killer instinct and should have pounded McCullers into the ground.

Comparing the Sox development of young guys to the Astros is like comparing a steak from the Outback to Gibson's.

The Astros destroyed the Sox in the 2021 playoffs so yeah I would say they were the better team. A severly injured Lance McCullers completely dominated the Sox hitters that series. Hard to blame the manager for that. The 2021 Braves would have destroyed the Sox as well. Put Terry Francona, Connie Mack, or Joe Torre as the manager in that series and it wouldn't have mattered. Sox didn't have the horses to win anything significant.

You nailed it. The emperor was exposed during the Harper/Machado offseason. The Sox showed then and there that they would never ever go all in on a top tier free agent. TLR was a bad hire, but the dude did win us a Central Division Championship. No manager in the history of the game was getting the Sox past Houston the last two years.

Who is the Sox closer if they trade Hendricks?

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have the numbers for Abrue from last year on this or Eloy from the last couple years?

Where is anyone saying that the Sox shouldn't look at stats? Playing unatheltic first basemen in the outfield is a terrible idea and something most T-ball coaches recognize as something you shouldn't do. A general manager shouldn't need a Dropbox full of excel spreadsheets to know that Sheets and Vaughn are poor outfiedlers.

Say what now? I must have missed the news that MLB is requiring all MLB stadiums to have 450 outfields. Can you please provide a link?

What does this even mean? Benintendi has only hit 20 homers once in his career and that was in 2017. You do realize that baseball is not played on paper or spreadsheets, right?

Waiting for Moncada to have a monster season seems like a fools errand at this point. Dude has played close to 650 mlb games already. He is what he is at this point in his career.

Where on the roster is there room for Billy Hamilton? Also, is there so little depth in the Sox minors that Hamilton is going to play every day at Charlotte?

How in the world is this organization ever going to accomplish this? I thought that was the purpose of trading away Sale, Q, and Eaton and tanking for 3 plus seasons? What is the definition of insanity again? No more tanking and rebuilding. It will never work on the South Side as long as JR and Hahn/KW are around.

Injuries are defintely a concern for TA. He's going to need to improve on that as well as his obp if he expects to get paid like Turner, Boegarts, and Correa just did.

Bat flips are fun. Baseball needs more excitement. I agree with you about TA flipping off the fans in Cleveland though. That was uncalled for and unprofessional. You are getting paid millions of dollars to play a kids game. Just tune the fans out and be a professional.

Maybe Cubs are saving their bullets for Ohtani next offseason? That dude is gonna get straight up paid by someone.

The outfield defense was so so bad last year. I'm not exactly sure what the front office was thinking there. Maybe they were thinking that Eloy and Vaughn and Sheets would have monster offense seasons to offset their dreadful defense?

Agree 100%. Removing Hendricks from the bullpen makes it extremely weaker. Also, if closers are so fungible now and anyone can be one, then I'm not sure that Hendricks has that much value on the trade market anyways.

Everyone should be extremely skeptical of whatever this organization thinks is good enough. These same clowns thought it was good enough to sign Manny Machado's best buddy and brother in law over 50 million guaranteed. They also thought it was good enough to run Vaughn and Sheets in the outfield the last couple years. Simply stated they are morons. Also, I would be very very skeptical of Conforto's medicals. Are even certain the guy can swing a baseball bat and generate loud contact?

Lmao. I'll take the under for 5 million please and thank you.

What kind of numbers are we expecting from this kid next year? He has less than 250 at bats above A ball.

Agree 100%. Hubris and good old fashioned incompetence played a big role on why the Kimbrel option was picked up last offseason. The Sox traded a top 5 pick for Kimbrel. There wa no way they weren't going to pick up the option and admit thier massive blunder.

Oakland's return isn't that light. Way way too early to judge this trade. Too many people around here seem fixated on prospect rankings and treat them like gospel. Muller and Salinas are two dudes with live arms with massive upside.

That's not good. Especially since both guys are considered major depth pieces for the Sox in case of serious injury.