Autumn Dreamin

Ozzie's boys don't quit? Congrats to him. Wonder if he'll manage the Venezuela WBC team next go around?

The most relevant bit:

Some more detail/imagery in this thread.

So this was an interesting read: https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2022/9/14/prefecting-berroa Basically, a prospect/pitching nerd breaking down how he thinks the key to making Berroa the best version of himself (including potentially keeping him as a SP instead of a RP) might lie in changing his slider grip. The change he recommends and the comps for it? Well... Now it could just be some guy looking at pitch data and dreaming on a prospect he likes....but this particular guy, Tieran Alexander, has since left the prospect-blogging business to join the staff of "an unnamed MLB team" as a consultant, so at least one front office out there is convinced he knows his stuff. Not trying to imply that he's in Chicago of course, but just that he has some decent credibility on the subject and it wouldn't surprise me if the Sox line of thinking on Berroa might be similar given the Cease/Rodon comps (and that he seems to share Katz' belief in the importance of pitch tunneling, since he worked on a SABR Award nominated analysis on the subject).

Also, Santos has been traded away from three Bannister orgs now. Red Sox > Giants > White Sox > Mariners. So I guess if Bannister gets poached by the Mariners in a few years, look out for Santos to be moved again.

Seems worth noting that both Berroa and Santos were with Bannister's Giants... Make a similar set of tweaks to help his stuff play consistently at the MLB level, and you get an extra year of control, an OF, and a draft pick for the trouble? I guess. Lane Ramsey DFA'd to make room, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him claimed.

Montgomery cracks the top 10 ?

Let him play, man...

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Let Banny cook.

Carlos Perez slashing .311/.395/.463 in winter ball, walking twice as much as he strikes out, leading the league in RBIs, taking out his frustration with the Maldy signing on baseballs...

Quero playing in an upcoming international series.

Can you imagine? ? You start warming both a RHP and LHP to potentially relieve your starter depending on how the inning goes, and now they both have to come in. The first guy in HAS to face three batters because he's NOT allowed to get the third out. Do inning ending outs just get waved off because the inning can't end until the second RP comes in? Intentional walks to meet the minimum, and then you just hope the second guy in can wiggle out of it?

Yerado Ciofani, LHP: https://www.milb.com/player/yerardo-ciofani-820864 No real details yet, but it is official.

Seems unnecessary to make a rule change for something that happened 24 times across 2430 games to potentially save 3 minutes per instance.

Carlos Perez today in winter ball: 2-4 with 2 HR, 6 RBI, and a BB. Still more walks than Ks, OPS hovering around .800 after slowing down for a bit. He seems to slug more when starting at C maybe? 3 HR in the last 10 days or so, all when starting at C. He also presumably called a decent game today, as his pitchers gave up 0 runs on 1 walk and 6 hits (all singles).

This is pretty fun: The Sox' prospect team will face off against the Cubs' on March 15.

Lance Brozdowski on Drohan's changeup: Full tweet: https://twitter.com/LanceBroz/status/1732496773032108329

I remember Red Sox Twitter being a little surprised he wasn't protected.

Finally, the signing we've all been waiting for:

My lord I despise Cleveland