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That may be a bold prediction just for his Charlotte numbers.

No Colson Montgomery anyone?

6. I don't know which 6 but 6 is a good number.

It won't be 70 but more than 35. That should cover the full spectrum.

But it's never ALL about numbers when you're in the minors. It's about development and we tend to forget they are not finished products. Again being in the right place at the right time when you overcome injury , your body matures and you get the right guys teaching you can make a world of difference. It's difficult making changes and finding a new path. Very few pitchers master command in all 4 quadrants with different pitches from the same arm slot .The closer you get to it the better you become even without the best stuff.

It is kind of crazy but some see it as crazy in a good way . Obviously he doesn't have the body of work that 99.8 % of Opening Day starters in baseball history have because the team is so bad. The good thing is given the opportunity some players are in the right place at the right time like Crochet was last year. Can Burke step up and have a successful season ? All he really needs to do is pitch as well as Cannon did last year with stronger K numbers. He might not pitch as many innings as Cannon though. But if you can envision a future rotation of "stuff" pitchers Burke is capable of being in a rotation of Schultz, Hagen Smith, Grant Taylor, and Shane Smith in the not too distant future , health permitting of course for all of them . That has the potential to be a strong starting 5 if you don't like the potential of the guys who throw softer.

Optimists and pessimists were united for once in their belief that he' d either get injured again or wouldn't pitch over around 100 innings. When ptatc says what happened was borderline miraculous ,he 's right. No one could find anyone who did what Crochet did with a similar background . Anyone acting like Crochet being a sucessfull starting pitcher was just a matter of time because he had an arm that could throw 2 pitches hard and accurately with his injury history, not having started since his injury filled college career is just pretending to be smarter than everyone else and blaming the Sox for his injuries. It's highly likely without him being as physically mature and stronger now that he would have been injured starting or relieving back when he 1st started his professional career.

Exactly .There are levels to " breaking out". You can break out as a rookie just by pitching well enough to compile good enough stats to be considered as an MLB starting pitcher the next year such as Cannon did. Both Cannon and Crochet broke out, just in different ways . Cannon broke out from being a minor league pitcher to being an MLB who stayed in the rotation long enough and did well enough to be considered as part of the rotation this year.Granted it's on a terrible team but he held his own against non terrible teams last year. He wasn't pitching against any 121 loss teams.

Probably a smart call, majority being 3 of the 5.Not likely for Perez, Shane Smith ( as of yet not officially named a starter, but likely,) cannot be optioned to Charlotte. So of Martin, Burke and Cannon only 1 of them has to avoid Charlotte as a demotion . Rehab assignments obviously will not count as "ending up back in Charlotte" as it was implied as pitching badly enough to get demoted). If Bryce Wilson is named a SP over Smith that changes the dynamic but I don't expect that to happen .

If you want to maximize opportunities to win, bad teams do their rotation wrong. Instead of matching your 1 starter against a good teams top starter and 2 against 2, 3 against 3 etc., you should do it backwards. 5 starter against their #1, 4 against #2. That way your best starters are facing their worst starters and your worst are against their best. If you match 1 against 1 and 2 against 2, etc., you likely are always pitching against a better pitcher. It's a matchup contest. You don't put out a bunch of lefties to face Crochet. Maximize your chances to win matchups in starting pitching at least . Your lineup will always be worse.

Shows how little you know.My grudges are reserved for people who treat other people on the board like s%*# while pretending to be the protector of all things . How can anyone champion civil rights, women's rights etc yet make fun of other posters writing styles or lack of knowledge, or differences of opinion and encourage other posters to do the same thing by his behavior thus created a climate of disrespect. He insults people all the time. It is not playful banter nor boys will be boys behavior . It is primitive, childish, behavior think as I do or be ostracized,creating an "I'm a jock you're a nerd", or worse, a Lord of the Flies culture in here. You have quickly followed in his footsteps .You're like the little brother who idolizes his big bro because he's so cool and acts just like him. Autumn Dreaming one of our posters who posts great content mostly in Future Sox because she was made to feel unwelcome in Pale Hose Talk recently because she dared question the negative hostility in here and SS's gestapo tactics quickly put her in her place. Baseball wise we actually have very similar views . As an Admin Texsox is one of the best, he never belittles anyone. SS abuses what little power he has. I know there are quite a few other posters who feel the same way if he hasn't driven them away too.

Damn ,too bad that doesn't apply to posting on Soxtalk .

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Nice game except for the Adams injury.

Steven Wilson in. Hopefully his unblemished spring ERA does better than Leasure's did. I don't actually know if Pleasure hadnt given up any runs this spring or not before today but I know he had been pitching well. Wilson fairly quick inning.

I thought u were serious . That could happen in a spring training game.

Great Leasure getting a start but gets the added burden of extra innings rule. Gave up 2 double and HR . Sox coming to bat finally. Lol guess u were joking about that extra innings rule since he gave up doubles and the Sox aren't starting with anyone on 2nd base. I'm late to the broadcast. Game is on the MLB app on your smart TV. Scroll down to the Sox highlights section.you won't get any thing if u click on the game because there's officially no broadcast available.

Garrett Schonele and Adisyn Coffey . .The pitching coach who left in AA spoke very highly of them and the Sox do promote pitching from AA and they're both already 26. They should've at least got invited to camp . They had great seasons in 2024 along with Pallette and McGough. Coffey actually pitched most of his innings in AAA .Schonele got 3 innings in AAA no earned runs.

Deloach-K on 3-2 pitch Jacob Gonzalez-double to RCF gap. Bryan Ramos -PH for Drury-GO to SS . Quero - WP Gonzalez to 3rd Walk Pitching change- Najer Victor in Quero steals 2nd Brooks Baldwin lines out to LF Game ends in a tie. Sox stranded 16 runners.

Pallette 1 2 3 9th. Sox get final AB in a 1 -1 game.

Need a few breaks along the way but Schultz, Hagen and Shane Smith Sean Burke and Grant Taylor could be one hell of a rotation. The Smiths and Colson & Braden Montgomery could be fun eventually .

Getz doesn't seem like he had any interest in giving some of the bullpen minor leaguers a fair shake at making the team opening day ,which is a shame since some of the better ones from last year are already 26. But he stockpiled so many older tradable arms he's giving them priority to pitch until they get traded then perhaps add in the younger guys depending on their minor league numbers. So sometimes the make them earn it stuff doesn't really fly. Pallette did nothing but impress and he's back down. After that no else else was given much of a chance. McGough got some innings but got roughed up. Leasure still with a shot but he's on the 40 already.

Catchers rarely do that but you never know he could be our LF .He's a pretty good defensive catcher though. I'm intrigued how it all works out with so many young guys.