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They also aren’t just your average white collar employees. They sign contracts with clauses regarding engaging in activities that most employers don’t enforce with their employees. Activities that could impact their ability to play baseball. And they apply to the offseason as well. https://www.thebestbaseballblog.com/mlb-player-contracts-forbid-just-about-everything.html

The pitching definitely went to 💩.

Of course, just look at Sox positional prospects over the years. 🤣 Of course, Vaughn for example never put up numbers like PCA. None of them really have until Colson so far.

He was also awful to start the season before April, with 4 good months in between. At 23, he’s only going to get better.

He is only 23 and has an .809 OPS, 27 HR, and 30 SB with a quarter of the season left to play. He’s been worth 6 bWAR. I don’t think he’s the 7th best player in baseball right now but he sure looks to be on a star trajectory.

You just gave the Sox credit for preventing injuries to Schultz and Smith. My question is, why couldn’t they identify potential injury situations for numerous other pitchers in their organization? Are you saying that all of their pitchers that eventually had to have TJ surgery injured their arms only during the offseason? Here’s a specific example — the Sox were sure that Drew Thorpe would just need a bone spur taken care of and he would be ready for Spring Training. Next, he needs TJ surgery, so what happened there?

Why didn’t they catch this for the other ridiculous number of their other pitchers that ended up requiring TJ surgery this year? I’m not so sure they caught anything, and if surgery isn’t already inevitable for them. Afterall, their track record looks pretty bad regarding pitcher injuries.

Well, Colson is skewing the results a bit. His minor league performance kept declining and now he looks like he could be a very good major league player.

Imagine how high the Sox lack of confidence in their ability to draft position players must be if they would seemingly rather take raw arms that are much more injury-prone pretty much at all times throughout their career than position players?

It could also be that the Sox have no confidence in drafting a bat with such a high pick after so many previous failures, while they have actually had some success with selecting the type of pitcher you mentioned. Having to draft a SS because the SS you took two years earlier already looked like a bust almost immediately is pretty damn sad.

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Maybe Bernstein will be kind enough to give his old friend Shane Riordan a job? That bum has been milking unemployment for 4 months now.

They take their fishing much more seriously in Minnesota. Probably why they were willing to excuse Bernstein’s fish-fueled rage.

Luis Robert is coming back!

No prospect within the top 30 in the MLB and not too many exciting prospects after their first 12. Seems reasonable.

It would be interesting to know the truth behind both the Vargas and Mead trades to see if Getz had an option of younger prospects that may not have been highly ranked yet over players like Vargas and Mead that were already aging out of prospect status. See @GreenSox’s comments…

Vargas has mediocre power as well. Sosa has more.

Minor league numbers, just like Vargas.

I liked the trade but if he’s just a 1B with no power, meh…

Cue the Beavis and Butthead shutout image…

The Sox are playing 200 games this season.

I guess at least he can eat innings. Rojas just wastes plate appearances.

That’s really the only way the trade made sense for the Sox — if Getz dealt Civale.

Benny’s Benis is what makes him worth that contract. 🤣

Old aches and pains. He’s bringing back “General Soreness”.