Fielder Jones

the sports gods are fixing up my karma of 2 yrs all in one day

i'm glad to have a manager that can teach some of the fanbase: closer is not a Position

colas is gone because of the 40-man roster and because he was Hahns guy. once Hahn was fired he had no rabbi

What are chances Drury returns? Will another team tell him no-doubt hey you're our DH a month or two into the season? Will they give up on the guys they have, to do that? We meanwhile are Playing Time R' Us

i liked him. rough around the edges but lets not pretend he's the first on air sports personality to be that way

also the Rate is not in Bridgeport, if we want exactness. or like..all but one lot..

cmon we all know this is happening

we'll remember these as the days of our innocence before nicky lopez was signed and simultaneously named our opening day shortstop

Sammy Zavala adventure in RF, a bad adventure. he may be drinking from the Oscar Colas cup

Second straight year we are going with the pitch data over all else. Martin Perez has the experience but nothing on the page.

will Chase be the opening day SS he Meid

i love Sosa's style of offense (launch angle) but he is barely 2b. the writeups we saw about his defense have not held up over the years

right before being grabbed the elbow suggested he pay his child support

It's Meidroth. Once Garfien devotes a podcast episode entirely to you, that means you either are about to get a full time job here, or you are about to be acquired somewhere else because we were used as leverage (Hamels) and it's not gonna be the latter

I think what it is with him and Nastrini is: you trade with the Dodgers, they have the top data on when a pitcher is about to backslide. and they will give you that player lol

i think though with Meidroth they like his quality of atbats. i think they want to motivate Colson with getting back to the reduced Ks and show him what they value

seems like they will give it to meidroth. theyre playing baldwin in a few different positions trying to find ways he can contribute

The Odor and The Fear. great steinbeck novel

is there an actual Robert/Dodgers rumor or is this speculation?

Good thing we listened to the fans tweeting immediately after his first outing that they were done with him. Ready to send him back

The Sox Way is this: Drury has a great spring, makes the team, we cut someone who's out of options and younger.. then Drury proceeds to have a terrible May, June, July and is DFAd

The Guardians were sold but the new guy has a deal where he wont be taking over control for five years. That could be what we do here. The reverse situation is happening elsewhere, actually, too-- the Orioles' Rubenstein took decision-making control from Angelos in like Apr 2024 but he didnt fully finalize the sale until Aug 2024 there are i guess many ways to structure it

the thing i think all can agree on: The Sox said something to ishbias to make them turn around and drop Minnesota, and it has to have been interesting. Because Minn was going to be full total control around opening day. and because this is not fantasy land you can bet that thing that was said is down on paper. it's probably that theyve worked something out where jerry can operate the team a few more years and then steps aside

probably just assured Ishbia a right of first refusal. estimated transition period thus could be totally unclear rn

Bob did his classic thing where he didnt say definitive stuff ('oh hur dee dur He's just buying up minority shares'), but shaded things in a way that allowed grey area. If you want to corner Bob and follow up and say "did the Sox go to him" i wonder what he'd say. but it's not an interrogation.