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I don't know if this is the right guy or not (other than that this org. doesn't have a lot of room for players who can't defend), but the Sox certainly should have the leverage in trade negotiations. I pray that they use it for a change; there are a lot of good young players, and if one team won't meet the price, look to another.

Nice. Give 'em hell, Jose! Edit: I had assumed he had performed well in AA: Almost everyone in this org. is a free-swinger, but yeesh.

Bump. It's been over 30 hours.

The Sox are going to waddle and waffle. Cleveland is going to sell. The Twins will try but get nowhere and lose to... Detroit's going to win the division, aren't they?.

Banks has 4 pitches and doesn't walk many. They could stretch him out.

For Crochet, this the Sox are probably the worst possible org. that could have drafted him. They rushed him at every turn. I read a quote of his recently that he hoped to start at some point. Well, nothing that the Sox have done has suggested any interest at all in having him start, including both before and after his injury. As for the Sox, they wanted a middle reliever, and by golly, it appears they got exactly what they wanted.

He really needs to figure that out. He skipped most of the minors, but most Sox prospects come out of the minors lacking in plate discipline anyway.

Several walks, though. Hopefully they get that addressed early.

I assume in return for cash considerations.

I don't want him moving the team. I don't care if he sells. What I want I want is a new Front Office.

Elvis; Moncada at 2nd and Burger a 3rd. Some shakeup wake them up and spark some interest. Or Anderson at 2nd. I get that moving Anderson to OF is kind of a big deal, but never giving Moncada a game or 2 at his original position of 2nd seems like excess coddling.

If the FO does the work. They are unreliable in that regard in the July training season, including during the rebuild when that should have been an absolute focus.

How about letting Anderson play some OF. Do something to freshen this operation up. Banks' numbers have been consistently decent wherever he's pitched. But he's consistently the Sox begrudging choice.

Sox have treated Crochet basically like a fungible middle reliever. I don't get it.

As win again; lot of energy in their ballpark.

Or the Sox just didn't know what they had, first-rate talent evaluators that they are.

Of course Hahn wouldn't interview Bochy. Hahn wants someone who won't show him up. Grifol, Renteria and especially Hinch ( a winner, but a winner who also kowtowed to the GM Luhnow) Lord I hope he's right about breaking this org. up.

4 years $66 million for a hitter with no power. Who would want that?

If they for a player and do an under-slot deal, that would have to be something that had been thoroughly planned and then worked out with the player before the draft, right? Now I doubt that do that, because they never have (as far as I know). Anyway, no corner infielders, free swingers nor over-used pitchers.

Sox like free-swingers. I'm sure the coaches in the org. try to tamp it down some but, in the end, you live or die with it. And when it goes bad, it gets ugly.

I can understand Detroit ahead of the Sox. Tigers are in the midst of a 9 game losing streak, and the best Sox streak of the season just ended. And despite that disparity, the Sox are only 1 game ahead of the Tigers.

Lafayette. The Sox were on a small station that we never listened to in the car, so I didn't knew existed until I got my radio. Most of my friends were Astros or Cardinals fans (Cardinals were the "southern team" for the WWII generation). I think they were broadcast through 1970, so i never got to hear the fresh-air of the Roland Hemond quick rebuild. Sox have a roster that could really use a shakeup like Hemond did after the 1970 season.

Born at U of Chicago Hospital, moved shortly thereafter, but we had this Sox pennant in our bedroom when I was a little kid, so they sort of became my team. But then I got a radio for my 9th birthday in the summer of '67, and low and behold, the Sox were broadcast into a south Louisiana town (complements of "Friendly Bob Adams"). I was hooked. Later that winter, when I heard that Tommy Agee had been traded. I was devastated. I had opinions on Sox trades even at the age of 9!

Well ostracizing him is not the best way to get maximum value in return.

Well if you're looking at it that way, Graveman and Middleton sucked, so it wasn't a great overall market-value day. But Hahn won't get anyone of consequence for Giolito anyway.