kitekrazy1

Japanese baseball

Next year will be the development year. It was put on hold this year. We still need to see what the younger pitchers are capable of.

Playing the OF at Camelback and Peoria is brutal during the daytime. The sun is always in the wrong place. Many players make mistakes at those stadiums.

farm systems - it's like a canyon between the 2. Let's see how it pans out in 5 years

Don't quit your day job. We seem to undervalue the economics of pitching. The development year was put on hold. I think they will do the usual low risk signings, probably another Fedde type. I still don't trust Getz when it comes to trading.

Few people are good at pinch hitting. It's one small scenario. The best one are those who can lay a bunt down so good even if the defense is playing against.

At least they now have opportunities to work on stuff like other organizations. At least Getz got Jerry to move the organization up to the 21st century. Yet we think Roch is the real thing but if you do the usual short sample size............nothing yet, Making the least predictable sport predictable. Trace that during the Reinsdorf era.

now there's a word losing organization and fans never believe in is depth. So if Colson can't hit major league pitching he can still be a backup at SS/3B. So instead our mindset is trading a problem which just means you inherit new ones. Rarely does that work ever for the Sox. But there are plenty of Castillos out there to appease the fan's dislike of Colson. I still don't trust Getz in trades. Any GM can get pretty good value out of trading a future CY pitcher. Trading from a strength is just as much as trading from weakness.

We seem to forget that being a bench coach for a great manager means nothing when they are now a manager and for a different organization. It's like they forget anything they learned.

a very broad term - much different for Royals fans and Yankees fans. You always want more games in Oct. It's a game of streaks. It's more about timing than being the better team.

it could be a mutual feeling not everyone can do baseball

we will have kneejerk responses with guys who have barely played a full season. Trading problems for a new set of problems rarely works for the Sox. For those guys who may not work as starting players you need a bench.

If they had the Dodgers, Rays, or Brewers farm system. They don't not even close. Look how much of this team but built by other farrm systems.

nope - kneejerk we must it's not like the farm system is full of guys ready to take their place.

It's just inheriting a new set of problems. Meanwhile those players go elsewhere and become better. But repeat the process and hope it's different. This season has created a large group of kneejerk wannabe scouts. This is probably the least predictable sport. Our hope is in a guy who didn't make it through a full season of A ball and cant play in the Fall League. I could be wrong but his numbers in A didn't spell out rakin it. I get it if is a player going into 4th year to give up on. People seem to have a short memory with the responses when Vargas came here.