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Quite an ambiguous statement. Please identify what qualifies as a stud and how you know who is one and who isn't.Then please also tell me the guaranteed studs you already know of in the minors. The Sox could use your expertise.

What's it telling you ? It's 2 different guys.How one is treated has nothing to do with the other one. Crochet and his agent I would assume aren't boobs. Do you think Crochet feels like he's being run into the ground or abused or handled wrong in any way ? It's pretty easy for Crochet to say in any game "take me out ,my arm doesn't feel right" or " I'm tired." Do you believe Nightingale when he said the Sox plan to curtail him severely in the 2nd half if he isn't traded ? Is him throwing less sliders a part of an over all plan ? Maybe Thorpe is feeling a bit of fatigue and Crochet isn't. You could view both pitchers as key pieces in the future of the franchise. Thorpe for his abilities on future Sox teams and Crochet for the talent he brings in that contributes to future Sox teams. I think we're all better off not saying something is " telling" if we're not going to say why it's so telling.

Unfortunately I think it won't be noteworthy except probably neither Robert or Crochet get traded at the deadline. Crochet is truly a unicorn. Like Ptatc said practicing medicine isn't an exact science. You will run across guys who are unique. Crochet is much bigger and stronger than when he was in college. Maybe he had the Tommy John surgery at some exact moment in time that coincided with him physically maturing that just uniquely made his arm God like so to speak. Or he'll just crash and burn his next start or next year. It's that hard to know what's going to happen Robert is hitting a HR like every 12 ABs . He oozes talent that he hasn't fully mastered yet. That could be from all the injuries or things I hesitate to mention like complacency due to already being a very rich young man. It's why you hate to think he's just not sure how to approach being so physically gifted with being so physically fragile. It's why that throw he didn't make yesterday bothers so many people, not just fans .but a guy like Ozzie Guillen and probably some of his team mates. I know he wouldn't have got runner but it's good to show that you know how to approach and execute that kind of play. That ball was plenty high enough for Robert to back up then come in on it and get some momentum behind that throw. Grifol was blowing smoke up out asses that Robert didn't have time to position himself because the OF was playing shallow. Go watch that game winning sac fly . You likely have a stop watch on your phone. Start the stop watch when bat contacted the ball and stop it when it enters Robert's glove. It is easily 6 seconds. That's plenty of time to back up and time that very high fly enough to catch it coming in. Yes it was another meaningless game but if some of us question the effort or optics, and plenty are, then there is something wrong. If that was a playoff game or World Series game on the line there would have been a ton of national blowback on that play. It's a symptom of the type of play you don't like to see. It's not winning baseball. Anyway that's off topic. Without the 2 major pieces moving there still might be 1 major piece coming back for Fedde but nothing all that exciting for the rest of whoever gets traded. But we have seen from last year's deadline that you can get some fairly good pieces from guys you don't expect to command it. The Grossman trade was a good example. The Sox got a pretty good AA reliever. Still the Sox need to have all hands on deck coordinating talent evaluators and sending out scouts to evaluate many players from many organizations. This is when you start to worry if they have the infrastruture necessary to evaluate massive amounts of players and execute what could be 8 or more players moved, then other moves to get the players received into the levels they belong and releasing the right players. If Robert and Crochet are both moved this trade deadline can be a defining moment to evaluate Getz and the people he has surrounded himself with.

You just have to click/touch on the writers name and you can see all his articles.

Pedro agreed with you.

And he did. Told the reporter who asked he was making something out of nothing.

Not much you can do when you catch a cleat but why does that even happen ? Either way the runner goes to 3rd. You don't throw it and its a balk. At that point maybe you could try to not throw a wild pitch by lobbing it but that would take some pretty fast thinking.

Imagine the heat he'd be catching doing that in a playoff or World Series game.

I know that run probably scores but Robert just didn't even try to set up behind the ball and get some momentum on his throw by coming in on it.

There it is

Kopech should ve got a called 3rd strike on Bo Naylor. Then trops on the mound throws a wild pitch and runner on 3rd. Game just about over

Sox havent won a series opening game on the road all year.

We get to see Maldonado bat 3rd this inning

Cleveland station showed it and thought it was a bad call.

Brebbia only 2 runs allowed in his last 16 games assuming he's not pitching another inning.

SHeets boned on 3rd strike call.

Nice of Grifol to get ejected on K by Pham who pinch hit for Lee to bring Maldonado into the game. But Robert comes through with 2 out single to tie it .

Sosa shoots one to RF for RBI double. His 2nd double of the game. He was almost gunned down at 2nd.

DeJong deked by Kwan can't get to 3rd on a ball that one hopped the LF wall by Lopez. DeJong almost picked off 2nd.

Sox 0-40 when trailing after 6 innings.

Leaving Flexen in for 3rd time through the order not a good idea, especially afyer an off day.

Dejong

Hey it worked . Soxtalk might not survive without bad things happening it would be too ?

Crickets round here after a Robert HR ? Need more negative stuff to happen to generate posts.

Thank you Mr. Robert, Jr. ! Rawrrr, Rawrrrrr