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I don't get why they're playing guys who both won't be on roster and aren't prospects so late in ST

I had to look at this post for close to five minutes before I realized pcq misspelled Getz

How do you figure that?

Iriarte, Nastrini, Schuster, Eder, White and Wikelman are the other starters on 40 man at the moment

I seriously doubt there was ever a time a team could force a player into a surgery. That sounds downright barbaric. If there was we would have heard of some Curt Flood of forced surgeries

What's a more positive possible prognosis? Could it be something like just working through some scar tissue

That in itself is an absolute, so you are basically saying you are a sith. I don't believe you though

Yes I know that. The Sox could carry Sosa, Vargas, Rojas, Baldwin, Drury and Meidroth to cover 2b/3b/SS and backup the OF rather than waste a 40 man spot on Slater and Taylor is all I'm saying.

Sure he can. The Sox aren"t winning much more than 50 games either way and Tauchman is solid defensively

Someone will need to dfa'd each time someone is added like Clevinger, Drury, Meidroth, Montgomery, Teel, Quero along with anytime a reliever goes down, unless you want to start throwing starting pitching prospects in the bullpen due to injury. The 14 extra spots on the 40 man have to cover both guys you are protecting and guys you need as AAAA substitutes. It's not a lot of spots when you consider the number of pitchers we're likely to go through. It would be better to use 40 man on someone like Maton who could both cover in event of injury and potentially have use beyond this year

Baldwin and Rojas can cover backing up the corner OF when the starters are off, with Tauchman backing up Robert. The issue of carrying guys like Slater and Taylor have more to do with 40 man roster management issues than active roster. Suppose you have dfa'd Colas and a couple OFers are on IL so you need to add someone like Maton. There's another 40 man cut that needs to be made.

That's what Tauchman and Rojas are for

So we have to keep Benintendi, Robert, Tauchman, Taylor AND Slater on the roster to teach the subsequently nonexistent young outfielders how to win, meanwhile dfa-ing young players the Sox have under control for 5+ years when someone like Teel or Montgomery gets called up. Makes no sense for a team hoping to win 50 games

That doesn't even make sense. If one guy hypotheticaly puts up a slightly above average OPS, then the rebuild is dead in the water? Do you actually consider that a rational statement

I honestly think it was depression. Imagine the natural high he was feeling stepping onto a field wearing a dodger uniform and the subsequent crash of having that rug pulled out from under you. Just making that roster would be a major accomplishment. Next thing you know you might as well be on the '62 Mets. '62 Mets experience was so depressing it caused Richie Ashburn to retire despite being healthy, coming off a .300+ BA/.420 OBP season, and still having 3000 hits within realm of possibility

You think he's too stupid to see why a guy who put up OBPs around .440 at upper levels would get a crack at it before him?

Guys like Slater and Taylor do us no good long term, that's the point. Whether there's a possibility he returns to being a decent hitter against lefties is irrelevant. Considering prospects most likely to be called up later aren"t on 40 man, Sox are going to have to sacrifice young players to keep them on the roster at some point, which is counter productive. We obviously need some vets but to me Tauchman, Drury, Rojas and Thaiss are more valuable at present time. Colas may be a bone head but he also has a 99th percentile arm. Slater has never been a good OFer so not sure there's even an advantage there. If Colas bounces a couple balls off his head it would be evened out by the number of bases that would be advanced by having Slater in the OF. Carrying a defensive specialist like Taylor and a guy whose only value is maybe being able to hit lefties makes no sense for a rebuilding team

With Berroa opening a spot, I think I'd cut Owen White and one of Eisart, Ellard or Gilbert

Sox have 23 pitchers on 40 man though. No 3rd catcher either. Seems like they need to cut pitchers but with all these mediocre vets evidently making the active roster looks like that leaves the B- prospects left to DFA. Is Berroa going on 60 day list? Don't see how carrying guys like Taylor and Justin Anderson helps this team long run while cutting Colas and someone like Carela or whoever they are going to have to sacrifice. Immediate OF depth is crap so don't see how they can cut Fletcher or Colas, or any position player on 40 man really. Couple OFers and catcher go on the 10 day IL then what? Going to have to start thinking about cutting guys like Nastrini

Seemed like Taylor was signed just as insurance in event of Robert trade, but if he's still here seems to me Tauchman is sufficient to back up Robert. Colas still hasn't been reassigned unlike Fletcher. Any chance he makes roster instead of Taylor?

.337 OBP would more than decent these days. League obp was .312 last year, compared to .337 twenty years ago

I would easily rather have had Nick Senzel than Austin Riley at one point, didn't mean reality subsequently followed suit. I would trade Vargas for Mayo too if I could, but that doesn't mean it's a slam dunk he outperforms him in the future

Speaking of opening day, how is it Kikuchi gets a 21m per year contract but Quintana gets only 4.5 guaranteed. I think I'd just as soon have Perez as Kikuchi. No wonder Angels never get over the hump

I'd rather have Teel, Montgomery and Meidroth than a Mayo centered package with secondary pieces like Beavers that were being discussed anyway. Braden looks like he could develop into an absolute 5 tool beast while Teel looks close to can't miss. I don't think I'd trade either one of them straight up for Mayo. If they would have taken Fedde for him he'd probably be preferable to Vargas but that still remains to be seen in actuality.

If he wins this one, he may have to be considered the bold prediction GOAT. Can't soar with eagles if you're hanging with turkeys