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Right plus it also puts more money in JR's coffers so a complete tear down money saving direction may not be as necessary. The real tricky part is how do u make the playoff as bad as the Sox are right now while still trading away the 1 year assets ? No depth to starting pitching so who take Gio's place in the rotation who isn't way worse ? The offense is bad and removing Grandal takes away another LH bat and OBP guy, although not much for walks this year but higher batting average than usual. Middleton has helped solidify the BP but BP arms will be in demand and Sox might gut the pen also. Anyway they aren't making the playoffs but as usual the Sox will delay the inevitable as long as possible and inevitably make poor decisions. Th right decisions isn't that clear but whichever road they choose will be the wrong one. Hahn has the magic touch for mediocrity and less.

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I can't believe they got that call unless there was another look we didn't see.

Big Baby !

just another normal day for the Sox

Burger missed 2 years of development with injuries. Anybody who says that doesn't matter is out of their mind. The fact that he's up here playing better than most of the "core" that was supposed to lead the parades is actually amazing. 3/4 of the roster would be in the Mexican League before Burger yet the same guy clamors for Billy Hamilton every chance he gets.

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It's sad when a guy on his computer watching the game and paying attention to Gameday can see more clearly than Grifol he had to be taken out before that triple.

Told ya Grifol !

Take him out lost his release point or something.

He throwing 98 99 on the 4 seamer

This is why you don't just DFA guys who suck for a period of time. Long season, veteran who's behind the scene numbers weren't bad. Heard the same stuff about Giolito last year. DFA DFA DFA DFA

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Lynn does have nasty stuff today.

Unless Miller dominates which is always a possibility

That would be a waste . Hamilton has no future as likable as he is accept as a coach. Frazier probably doesnt either but better than Hamilton's in all likelihood.

I like this post a lot. However I reread the whole thread. Moral of the story, well read our exchanges assessing the Sox at that moment in time.

I look at it this way. Jake is a breathe of fresh air when there's like a million things Sox related to fret about. He's in a lineup of guys who still should be in the prime of their careers like TA and Moncada who have already peaked .A guy like Eloy we may never know how good of a hitter he could be. Was hoping Vaughn could take the next step in his evolution but not so far . Robert ,we're just hoping he doesn't turn into Moncada and just stay relatively healthy for once. With so much to b**** about you have to find the silver lining and those breathes of fresh air. I'm not going to fret over what he could be. I'm going to enjoy him while he's mashing however long or short lived it might be. I don't call that a personal bias. It's just finding something blossoming amongst the weeds.

Because he's just considered minor league filler. Never great stats or anything down there. Tonight might be the highlight of his career.

And if you missed it Remillard was the 1st White Soxrookie to reach base in his 1st 4 MLB AB since Johnny Callison in 1958.

Not to be lost, 6 no hit innings by the bull pen .

Remillard holy moly !

Great day by 10D !

Dodged one

I'll take everyone on the team making the same type of bad decisions if they produced like Burger. Oh wait they all do make the same bad decisions as Burger and don't produce like him. The guy has 375 MLB AB's and 25 HR . Give him a chance. The way people were talking about him before he even was in the lineup on a permanent basis you'd think he wouldn't be able to produce positive WAR at all like Vaughn has struggled with.