baseball_gal_aly

I want to know why pitchers at every level of the organization are losing velocity. Pallette was mid-90s last time he pitched in college. (yes I know TJS but pitchers don't usually lose velo after that) If Crochet comes back throwing 96 mph or something, then I will be at a loss on this one.

Unpopular opinion: Burger should be the everyday 1B. They need his power.

For what? A salary dump? There are so many guys on this team that are just salary dumps at this point. They're going to have to trade Cease and Robert if they want anything back and Cease's velocity drop this year is concerning.

They were all very good prospects but they're below average major leaguers.

Who wants a no power 1B?

SSS

Colas got himself out on that AB. 5 balls and he couldn't lay off cutters in.

If Eloy has WTP, I give up.

You can't make this up

Things are already going very off the rails. They're 5 GB 2 weeks into the season with a brutal schedule coming up.

They should trade those guys too. It's time to dismantle this team. The fact that you don't want the Sox to trade Cease and Robert is exactly why they should trade them. It's the Sale/Quintana argument redux.

It's the 2016 conundrum all over again. Cease would have 2.5 years of control to Sale's 3, and Robert is signed to a cheap deal as well. It's time to tear it down and start over. Hahn should get fired, but he won't so we just have to hope he learned from his mis-evaluations from 2016-17

Been thinking about what the Sox can get for Cease and Robert at the TDL.

I know. Just frustration. I hate that it's 2 weeks into the season and I'm already resigned to their fate.

I hate this team. Trade everyone. Fire everyone. 2016 part deux about as unlikeable as a group.

Just IL him.

Nobody is taking that contract without the Sox eating half. He gets healthy and has a good year and you might be able to get someone to take him for 1/15 in '24 which would be eating $14M, which includes his $5M buyout at the end of the season. Moncada is a good player when healthy, he's just not worth $24-29M per year. This year at $17M is probably fair for him.

If Yoan's back is really bothering him they should just IL him. As he's proven the last season plus he's useless with the bat when playing injured.

I'd be more ok with the Crochet pick if they wouldn't have rushed him to the pen and actually let him start in the minors, but Burger/Madrigal/Vaughn during the tank years were terrible picks.

This season has 2007-like disaster written all over it. Hopefully it's enough to get Hahn fired finally.

^^^ You can't win if you don't score.

That was not a strike

Why are they bunting?