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I don’t even respect TLR’s career. He was a forerunner in steroid addled teams with steroid addled stars

Outman and Cespedes aren’t mutually exclusive. We now have two actual major league outfielders plus Colas and Cespedes. That’s not enough upper level system depth

If you acquire a left handed hitting 2b then the right handed bat could fill in for him, Colas and Benintendi against lefties while also backing up third, first and dh with something of a power bat. I don’t know about Drury necessarily but the Sox should be looking for a right handed bat for fourth OFer at any rate

I seriously doubt Drury would start over Colas in RF unless Colas bombs. He could probably get 120 starts just as the 10th guy anyway without taking anyone’s normal playing time. We’d be lucky to get 130 starts out of most of the guys at the numerous positions he could fill in at

Between 5 and 20

Leury had a .500 ops last year. That’s the kind of production that pays to get off the roster. 200k may be entry pay for an aeronautical engineer but that doesn’t mean they’ve got to pay me that, seeing as I don’t qualify and all

“Evidently.”

Leury Garcia had a .500 OPS last year

Good move. Most likely he has his one or two best years of his career in this span

I guess if I was completely lacking in principles

The issue is you have a guaranteed contract for a role and production that is easily turned over, locking him into the roster, rather than having the option of cheaply replacing him with a potentially better player. He was literally the worst player in baseball last year. If they had signed him for one year 5.5 million, it wouldn’t have been that big of deal. Now we’re stuck with him

If a guy is projected to play in 2023, he should have been called up during roster expansion to get a few at bats in, I believe is the argument here

Sox probably could have signed him for 100/5 when he was still with the team

Who is popeye? Rodriguez?

Well, by definition, replacement level is exactly what those guys could reasonably expected to be. Hence the term replacement level

You literally said that, though

Spending a high first round pick, then all that time, effort and resources into developing, rehabbing and redeveloping him into the pitcher he had the potential to become, only to let him walk after the fruit ripened on the vine without offering even a QO is about the dumbest thing this org has done. Doesn’t matter how you rationalize it. Bursa surgery has a virtual 100% recovery rate and obviously pitchers often come back stronger than ever after TJS. After successful rehabilitation, which clearly occurred, a guy like Rodon is no riskier than any other pitcher. Dude is a horse. I bet he pitches until he’s forty

He’s the love child of Ben Kenobi and R2D2

But who would they be perfectly fine backups for, in that case, if you haven’t acquired one? I don’t think Grandal has very many games behind the plate in a sox uniform behind the plate. Presumably if they acquire a catcher, it would be a long term solution and the 50 games Grandal starts behind the plate won’t mean much in the grand scheme. Almost any catcher is going to have his backup play a substantial amount of games anyway

I think that is quite right. You have a vivid imagination indeed

What cancelling?

And? I guess i just don’t see your point

I’m not sure what you mean. Flood signed with Washington and then retired a month into the season

Seems like you are talking about today rather than forty years ago. Ending people’s careers has become something of a national pastime

As bad as the Sox outfield defense was last year, I’d honestly be happy with some no hit gold glove defense at this point. I don’t believe it can be overstated, it had to be the worst outfield defense I have ever seen from a major league team.