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This is still an evolving and improving team filled with salvage prospects and projects. He can be good again. He just has to find what he had. He was trying to improve and it screwed him up. He can be good again .

When the Sox actually start having some prospects come from the International Latin America players. Maybe then but until then with the possibility of Mune leaving you can't go crazy chasing dreams. I want them to make the playoffs because its important but not stupid important.

It's pretty much a waste of time to show stats from such a small sample size. We've been spoiled because it seems like every major position player prospect that's come up has produced almost immediately. He's had his moments so far. He's been facing a lot of good pitching and the Yankees are throwing 2 LHP and Gerritt Cole who Bonemer lit up while Cole was rehabbing and then Cole hit him with a pitch likely on purpose. I hope we kick Cole's ass.

Just spitballing here throwing out names for trade and names to trade if you're adding Bonemer to the mix. I don't care what happens to Breslow. He's going to be a busy guy at the deadline.

If you are going to trade Bonemer I'd look at the Red Sox young MLB pitchers like Payton Tolle , Connelly Early Chapman will be their gun for hire. But 30 year old Garrett Whitlock could be had for relatively little. It would take a bit more to pry away Tolle or Early. Bonemer and.... ? Schultz ? McDougal ? Sandlin ? Hagen Smith ? If you're going to trade Bonemer it might as well be for immediate + future help. Just for immediate help Sonny Gray is also on the Red Sox and having a very good year and is a rental with a costly option. He's 36 and you worry that a good 1st half will not translate to a good 2nd half . He also has a strange contract where the cardinals are paying a lot and Boston then restructured the buyout to pay him less in 2026 but the buyout is $10M. It used to be $5M deferred for $1M per year for 5 years.

No you don't rip the heart out of a team who is running on a lot of talent yes ,but talent with heart. You have to be very careful when what they have right now is intangible and messing with it then becomes tangible and shows up as losses. The French call it "je ne c'est quoi" which literally translates to "I don't know what ". In English, it is used to describe a pleasing, special quality about someone or something that makes them attractive or distinct, but is impossible to easily define or put into words.

Here's another thing to keep in mind. The Crochet trade broke the Red Sox. Remember the big 3 who the Red Sox wouldn't give up Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer ? Campbell tanked almost as soon as they extended him with a modest 8 years /$60M. He can't play defense. Anthony showed some signs of life but so far isn't even on par with Meidroth. Mayer is also struggling to find consistency. To add injury to insult Crochet pitched poorly and has missed time this year and is still out with left (throwing arm) shoulder imflammation after his phenomenal 1st year with the Red Sox. Some of the prospects can recover but not looking good currently. Crochets comments while injured also stirred up controversy. It's almost like he never left the White Sox of old for those who liked to stir the hornest's nest about medical mismanagement.

Baldwin ? Not saying I'd replace Sam with Baldwin but that sounds like the kind of guy you're describing. I was hoping Baldwin could win a starting role in the OF this year but the injury screwed that up. At SoxFest if you remember Venable picked out Baldwin as a guy who could have a breakout year.

It feels like 1 day he was a prospect, then in the WBC and then on the Sox. He is the epitome of the new front office regime and as a 5th round draft choice a true talent that has defied odds to will himself to prominence quickly and efficiently.

I wouldn't give up prospects then resign him. Might as well just wait until he's a free agent. He might need a huge contract as big as Max Fried got. A pitcher getting 8 years $218M under Jerry ? Not likely. Especially if they make an attempt to keep Murakami. Ishbia isn't the owner yet. If the can Tigers put together a 5+ game win streak with Skubal back and Mize coming back Wednesday they probably hold onto both until the last minute to decide if they have a realistic shot at the playoffs. Even now being 6 back in the wild card isn't bad but they've been pitiful on the road (11-26). Mize will be a popular target if/when he's made available . Getz will probably be in stealth mode for a while. Not sure what your idea of crazy capital is . There will be multiple teams interested in both and in desperation mode too or just willing to pay a higher price. Dodgers always lingering.

Sure they do. I put you in the place of the professionals who deemed Murakami unworthy. You deemed Gonzalez unworthy. Things change or can change. Evolving is what player growth is all about. You fail to think he can evolve, you look at his past and say it can't be done. Yet here he is in the big leagues with more room to grow.

I didn't think so considering if he went as high as 15th that's still damn good money and would be hard to get more no matter how much the Sox saved . I just like his swing and he is a CF. Not sure he'll stay there as a pro.

Luckily the scouts and others found the red flags in Murakami too much to overcome too. No rush on Gonzalez to jump to conclusions.

Right now he does have somewhere to play since Mune isn't back for maybe 2-4 weeks. Just keep giving him AB's and worry about sending him back down when Mune does come back. Things will be changing in 2-4 weeks if both Teel and Mune are back. Nothing wrong with him continuing to flourish in AAA. He still needs reps with the changes he made and his time in the bigs might guide him and Fuller continue to adapt. He wasn't called up the way the Sox normally like to do it. He fit the bill as far as being hot ,which they like ,but they prefer a more natural way besides an injury like an actual position to play full time.

Any chance Derek Curiel could fall to the Sox in the 2nd round if they save money with a Lackey pick considering he suggested staying out of the draft to go back to LSU ?

Batting average or just being average ? He's only played in 32 of the Brewers 69 games this year and still can't field or run. He has compiled a 1.0 fWAR. For him that's amazing considering he's been unable to play over half the games.

No I doubt it. There are reasons for a promotion. Maybe he's not motivated to get better as much as the Sox want. You put him in AA and see if he's sufficiently motivated by a certain amount of failure. Of course you don't want him to fail necessarily but there are varying degrees of failure. It's like with Braden Montgomery and hitting the pitches on the outside edge. Too many K's and not enough contact on those pitches. He worked on it started hitting great and that's when they like to call guys up.

I'd be surprised. I'd consider Gonzalez a top guy now and you don't throw away that on a rental. I understand selling high but not on a breakout season on a guy who just turned 24. He fits the Sox profile of LH power and a discerning eye. If Mune leaves Gonzalez becomes even more important.

There's a reason why Getz said Acuna was a switch hitter. He was dizzy from doing cartwheels after he got a taker (sucker ) to take the money and give up 2 players. The players were secondary as long as they got the money. Getting an athletic , fast SS with bloodlines wasn't a terrible idea. There's enough there to work with but not having options kind of sucked. He really should be in the minors undergoing treatment from Dr. Fuller.

This team hits way more HR's and takes more walks and is way more left-handed however they both generated excitement. Big time power always brings in the Southsiders. We've had far too few teams like that. The 1977 team was like that. Oscar Gamble led the team in HR. The South Side Hit Men Oscar Gamble 31 3.6 WAR Richie Zisk 30 2.7 WAR Eric Soderholm 25 4.4 WAR Chet Lemon 19 5.9 WAR Jim Spencer 18 Lamar Johnson 18 Jorge Orta 11 Jim Essian 10 3.4 WAR Brian Downing 1.5 WAR so catching was great. Ralph Garr 10 Also had Lerrin LaGrow at closer had 7 wins and 25 saves and 4.2 WAR Finished 90-72 which was 3rd in the AL West. So no playoffs. Gamble and Zisk were impending free agent traded for by Veeck for 1 year each so next year they were gone and the wins and losses .reversed. Rich Gossage and Terry Forster were traded to the Pirates. So some of the 1st rental players. Bucky Dent and the young Lamar Hoyt were traded to the Yankees. Hoyt never pitched for the Yankees and the Sox reacquired him for the 1979 season when he was 24 years old. The Sox hit a then franchise record for HR with 192.

Have you used an internet browser on your smart TV ? I can get you the game or any game if you want to message me. It's probably the easiest way if you have a fairly new 4K smart TV.

Sure did ! He crushed that one 415 ft. Montgomery's HR landed in almost the same spot.

Beauty and the Beat will be celebrating it's 45th anniversary of its release date in a month. It was released 7/15/1981. Just about every song from that album I'd hear on the radio. Of course that was a time when New Wave was following on the heels of punk and the success of albums was not rooted in top 40 hits anymore since music was divided up into genres and played on the corresponding stations on FM. Here in California it was the very popular KROQ (rock of the 80's). By 1982 FM had around 70% of the general audience and 84% in the 12-24 demographic (where I fit in ) at that time. To me it's funny to always see the blue background on that album. It wasn't released that way. It originally had a pink/peach colored background but the girls didn't like it so it was changed. Not sure when. But if you're looking for an early pressing look for the pink/peach vinyl or CD pressing. Also at various times it's been in Rolling Stones Top 500 albums of all time or however they re-titled that category over the years.

Can't forget that 4 guys are starting rehab assignments tomorrow. Reinforcements coming...Teel, Schultz, Shane Smith and McDougal. Good luck gentlemen !

I just came here to see if anyone mentioned this too. I knew I had also heard that.