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Yep and now Poles job should be in question.

Caleb has missed guys and a few checkdowns, but for the most part he has had NOWHERE to go all game. His receivers don't get open on the handful of plays he isn't immediately having guys in the backfield.

It's already been decided he is a bum who will never work again. Sorry.

Hoping Roki to the Dodgers makes a team like the Phillies/Mets panic and really overpay.

Yes. A chosen screengrab of a 15 minute press conference can tell you that.

Only one that is kind of surprising to me is Thames. I figured Katz and Sizemore for sure would stick around.

Seems like Sizemore, Thames, and Katz are sticking around. I didn't hear anything about anyone else.

Red Sox trying to get it done before Winter Meetings?

Yeah I think you keep him in left and hope you can move him at the deadline, or worst case next offseason. He was an actual guy the last few months.

Ohtani’s contract makes that look way less lopsided than it actually is, though.

The idea just doesn't work outside of a vacuum. They desperately need to infuse some position players into this system/team.

Execs say s%*# like that all of the time.

Yeah I was on board for trading him but now you hold him and hope the new staff can fix him. There is no way they get the right value.

Only took until page 5 for people to be mad about hypothetical situations. Hell yes.

Also the game/data was much different then. Once everything became about analytics is when the Sox have been horrible, which it SEEMS like Getz is trying to drag JR into to.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong - but weren't there work ethic issues around him from pretty early on?

Give me Anthony and Campbell as a start.

I agree with this. Cease was coming off a pretty lackluster year and overall doesn't have as much of a "wow" factor as Crochet.

There can be positives and negatives happening at the same time.

So do they have a plan to sign ANYTHING this offseason or will it literally just be subtractions?

You don’t think a pitching or hitting director should look at tape on a guy they might trade for and give input?

We have no idea if someone else could convince Reinsdorf to do something. Past history would say no.

Probably not, but I don't know if that is now a hold up. I was under the assumption that was for last year to pitch in the playoffs. If that does matter, then I would guess there is no way it's the Brewers. Probably the Mets.

I'm thinking it will be the Brewers.

He seems to be putting processes and departments in place that did not previously exist. Seems like he is at least trying to pull Jerry into how other teams are ran. Don’t know if it’ll work but it’s something.