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Some minimal amount to help offset paying to pick the guy in the 1st place.Maybe $25K

Did someone forget the starter has to go 5 innings for the win ? Maybe you were making a joke . 😁

Lol damn you guys are hard on Schiff. I'm sure when he gets some experience he'll make better choices on how he phrases things like using pouring it on it that instance. He's got a great job that most of us dont have the right voice ,or vocal inflections or the right attitude needed to be a PBP guy.

You backed up my claim about power and batting average and the overall hitting. 👍

Bottom line is you have to give the kid a shot because statically he's raking and he's a good fielder and that might be because he's taking walks this year and that might actually have helped him be a better hitter unlike Robert. Vaughn can't field, hit, walk or run. Send him down. Maybe he'll be worth more if he can light up Charlotte . He's got all his options. Statistically he's the worst player in baseball. There's nothing to lose here. It's the hitting that is making the Sox truly terrible. They'd be around 95-100 loss team with even a little bit more hitting, both power and batting average.

You know or you should know if you bothered to look it up, that the Sox pitching staff as a whole is 21st in ERA but like 5 teams are decimal points apart of being tied at 4.2 . The bullpen is worse than 4.2 but again nowhere near worst in baseball. Have you seen the Nats and Phillies BP ? Atrocious. Sox are around 24th in ERA and better than that in WHIP. Nothing to brag about of course, but not bad for the amount of money they spent on it . And even though you continually associate Getz with that he doesn't control how much money he gets to spend .He only controls what he does with the amount he is allowed. We have no idea if there is a separate amount for payroll for players and coaches or a lump sum he has to figure out how much goes to players / coaches on the field every day and how much he's spending behind the scenes on research and analysis, modern equipment like the $800K Trajekt Machine and tablets that players use to access game plan and statisical info. My guess is early in his tenure ,meaning his 1st 2 or 3 years that he'll be spending more than he will later on modernizing because there's a lot to catch up on. Whether or not that affects player payroll I have no idea. I think you're a smart guy but your posting style is lazy and you post meatball style because everything is just so terrible you can get away with making blanket statements that indict everything the Sox do. Considering the devastating amount of pitching injuries, with many considered vital to depth for the club this year and the future, they've weathered the storm pretty well. But they can't take too many more hits. They're already playing around with openers which they haven't done much in the past. Who knows maybe that'll be helpful for the future.Some teams have made it work strategically. Be better.

Really like Elko's oppo HR stroke. He's definitely not a pull only HR hitter.

I think he ticked up a notch or 2.⁶

Guys who can blow one by you cost more than a couple mill.

It think it would've made it over that short wall. Butler kind of staggered under it.

Ok guess he was on his way out. My feed is one batter behind.

Surprised Burke still in.

Still in this game.

He doesn't get cheated up there.

Yes multi run inning !

There you go Vargas, a hit with RISP !

Team BA .203

Nice quick inning for Burke. Stuff looks sharp.

Sox 1 for last 31 with RISP.

BB double !

Oh ye of little faith.Game's barely started and it's on page 3 and now that I'm here we'll double that . 😂

No Quero no bueno 😐

Ok, I said he is hitting better than Robert and you just agreed with me so maybe you should tell me why my point is lousy ? Robert developed enough to have a superstar type year in 2023. I'm just asking questions about why he can't find that level any more . Give me some answers. Give me inside info from a source. We all can make wild guesses based on little more than the current ugly state of the franchise because well, Idk, umm, cuz Getz sucks ? Is your point that Robert is better because he has higher than a -.3 fWAR ? Actually I just looked up Baldwins fWAR and it's -.1.So far ,they're about equal in value to the team this year. Robert plays a great CF and is very fast , steals bases , has a nice walk rate so far yet his fWAR is a -.2. I have no doubt that when Robert remembers how to do the things he did in 2023 he'll be a better player than Baldwin. But right now no team will give up much value for him so he's not just worth roughly the same amount as Baldwin but he's also costing the Sox future value because he's got his head up his ass and it's all because of what exactly ? He wasn't developed properly after his Grade 2 right hip flexor strain that caused him to miss 62 games ? I'm just confused on why he's been so bad for his last nearly 500 AB since he came back from that injury ? So far this year he's making last year's performance look great in comparison. What have the Sox invested in him from the start ? $100M ? I just want a couple of decent prospects back for him. Theres still time for him to rediscover himself but he'll have to turn on the after burners for May , June and part of July to convince any team he's got his head on straight.

That's more of a guess than a point isn't it ? I mean do they suddenly get healthier ? Do coaches and trainers drill it into the poor dumb players heads to train the right way and injuries stop being so plentiful ? Did Robert forget everything that happened in 2023 ? Is he mentally defeated ? Physically defeated ? A combination platter ? Why is a 12th rounder like Baldwin hitting better than our 5 tool superstar for 1 year ? Why are a bunch of AAAA players just as good as Robert right now ? Maybe picking players who develop enough to make it to the majors is just mostly a crap shoot . Some organizations draft better some develop position players better.Some develop pitchers better. Most well run organizations spend a lot of money, more scouts, more coaches, more data miners, more trainers, more computers , more equipment , more sales people , more public relations people . A well run organizations like the Dodgers says screw it let's just buy the best players a lot more than they develop stars. A well run organization like Tampa Bay crushes it. They draft ,develop, trade compete but ultimately success is short lived.No championships to show for it. Baltimore crushed it with huge amounts of talented position players and they're trending down. Answers are hard to come by unless you're a fan , then you know exactly what's wrong with no real knowledge lots of crystal ball gazing. Really what you just said is that drafting was just fine domestically and internationally if only the development people were better we would have crushed it !

You're not going to get slightly better caring about how another Sox fan decides to defend his favorite team are you ? That has about the same chance as writing JR a letter. We all expect slightly better. We may actually get it too even with the massive amounts of injuries throughout the system. Just remember you expect slightly better so anything above 41 wins your expectations will have been met. I doubt anyone will be apologizing to anyone .