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Good point. May be just a rest move .Mini vacation to work on some things.

And shortly after the Yanks LH rookie 1st baseman Ben Rice hits 3 HRs in a game ?

Sox are likes magnet for players who are always injured, can't sustain their best years into just good+ years or guys who fall off quickly and never find it again. The whole history of the franchise is like that. They need rabbits foots, horseshoes, 4 leaf clovers, crystals ,burning incense to rid themselves of the bad juju that's plagued this team. At this point I'd be bringing in anyone who claims they have a blessing and set them free to do their thing in the ballpark, ST complex ,the Front Office ,where ever that black cloud is hiding?

I don't know what JRs plan is for the franchise and what's he scheming for the 78 property and how one effects the other.

Of course they do but Getz is not the problem. And repeating it over and over won't fix it. There are things to see that things are progressing. Way better than expected seasons from Fedde and Crochet should make things better . But JR has different plans. Just not sure what he's doing besides what he always does which is controlling the purse strings in all aspects of the franchise.

The team was built to lose and convert players into prospects. Theyll trade their relief pitching all day every day during a rebuild. Can u just repeat over and over the Sox and Getz suck every day . I think we understand how you feel by now. Btw the BP is 8th worst in MLB by ERA so it's not really a huge reason why the team is worst in baseball.Might have something to do with ooh I dunno the owner .

Apparently getting position players who can hit and field is a problem

Sox got all 6 of their hits in the 1st 3 innings. Nothing since.

I've been saying that but perhaps he just likes the cutter more. He can have an off day. He human but now it creeps in your head if he's reaching his limit very soon

Robert looking to extend hitting streak to 9 games .I'm predicting Robert HR . My pick to click I miss @elrockinMT

I just smh when it comes to Maldonado. Especially that story about him needing glasses. I'm actually shocked when I see something like that. Your vision is perhaps a highly overlooked but essential component to catching and especially hitting a baseball and playing in the hot sun with glare and heat drying out you eyes. You'd think no matter what you age is you'd have your eyes checked at least once a year. Hell in ST I'd have an eye exam day if I was an owner . I wonder how many teams actually have an Optometrist on their medical staff . Bring 5 skilled eye specialists in over a week and check everyone out and make it mandatory. I'd have gallons of good eye wash products available and recommend using it every day. I'd still like to think Maldonado played some role in the mostly pretty good results from some guys but it's more likely Bannister and the pitching lab. Not sure if Maldy is part of that. You'd think a veteran catcher would have a voice in that. In the end probably wasn't worth his contract but neither can I ignore how Dusty Baker raved about him but all metrics offensively and we're not good. Maybe $2M would've got him or even a MiLB contract. Not really anything to get upset about. All teams take flyers on guys a lot more expensive.

I have to ask because you never answer it because it's easy to say he wasted money on crap when you're not the one working for JR and still have to spend something to fill positions while likely ordered to spend minimal amounts while payroll was being slashed to ribbons. Players aren't free. So the questions are what was he supposed to do and why do you keep hammering that point about wasteful spending ? Earlier in another post you said recently something about signing cheap guys who had a better chance of being flipped but those guys likely cost $10M or more per year and they're only slightly more likely to return any value. It's basically luck when youre signing guys to minor league or under $5M contracts or $10M If you're signing $10M guys you get less players You could spend $3-4 for 3 players and any of them could get you just as much at the deadline as your $10M signing. Spent $15M on Fedde for 2 years .When he traded the other team likely pays around$10M of that and he should bring back at least one very solid prospect and perhaps 2. That signing will return great value .If Flexen Soroka, Pham, DeJong,Lopez, Brebbia,Wilson get traded you're getting dividends on the Cease and Bummer trades plus teams eat money on the contracts and give us prospects back on any dumpster dives that end up traded. Thats more than we can say about Benintendi ,Moncada and Eloy who were much higher costing signings that the Sox will likely get nothing for.

I am ,always have been. But there are plenty here who are not. Time will tell so it doesn't really matter what anyone thinks. Trades always fluctuate in value after the fact. 5 more years we'll see how it looks.

Kind of surprising no one thinks Sheets or Vaughn will be moved. I think one of them goes but no idea which one. Yankees are kind of thin at 1st base. Lopez has been kind of hot lately. Rare to see him getting doubles . Saw 2 or 3 get over LF head down the line and another into the RF corner. I probably picked 10 or 11 to be traded but not Robert or Crochet. I think 1 or 2 from the minors could be moved too.

I just saw Romy Gonzalez playing 1st base for the red Sox.

Nicky Lopez

Ha pot calling the kettle black. You're sort of crazy during game threads broski.?

Thorpe been in the rotation 5 weeks now and is already 3rd among the pitchers with 3 wins.

Iriarte or Eder aren't even the top guys. You left out Cannon, Mason Adams and Ky Bush.

Maybe I need a refresher course. Can anyone besides Fathom tell me why Harold deserves such a place of honor besides that he "might" in some people's minds work for the Sox ? The guy is always super cryptic about anything he says usually only hinting at stuff. That style may give you all boners but it more likely means nothing except he likes to be thought of as an insider.

Honestly using common sense will make you more right . If the Sox aren't capable of carrying one bad contract during a rebuild when they're knocking $100+ off the payroll between last year's trade deadline and the coming off season dumping of Eloy and Moncada then Sox fans have lost it completely. I know I blame JR for everything so I kind of get it but that would be completely asinine.

Who Harold ? You all think he actually knows anything ?

How is this Benitendi packaged along with Crochet even a thing? It's like mass paranoia set in like during the off-season about getting Salvy Perez and that other ex Royal.

Colas too

You think there's a chance he's not ? No GM is given absolute freedom especially JR GMs. How is this not constantly remembered ?