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A good franchise would seek a lot of LHH players instead of trying to make their RHH hitters hit the ball to where LHH's hit it. Of course with the hitting coach he'd be having the LHH hitting it to LF.

Guaranteed Rate field is only good for singles and HR's. Small gaps make doubles and triples harder. That's why the Sox have to take walks and hit HR's to be successful there. Even with by far the most singles of any team without the walks or HR's the offense won't work. Without pulling the ball even doubles are harder. Zavala and sometimes Robert and Abreu have had some success pulling the ball down the LF line but by going oppo Robert , Vaughn , Eloy and Abreu have increased batting averages but not extra base hits .

The signs were there in the 2nd half of 2021 and the trade deadline 2021 made it even worse and the off season made it way worse. Then throw in the massive amount of injuries and unproductive players and way too many fans overestimated the actual talent on the team who were good baseball players.

Almost the same situation as last year except last year the team got good production from a lot more players but plenty of injuries too. This year has been injuries and way worse production. The Sox may have seen career bests from Grandal , Moncada, Lynn, Giolito, Abreu, Anderson,Cueto , Leury, Rodon, Hendriks ,Keuchel. The problem is they were spread throughout 2019-2022. How likely are any of those key player to reproduce at or near their best years with the Sox ? Even Cease will be hard pressed to ever have a better year than this year. Who does that leave to have a career type year or near career best among players who matter ? Vaughn, Kopech, Jimenez, Robert , Anderson, Cease, Hendriks. Only Abreu, Hendriks and Tim can be classified as star players given the amount of production over time. The rest of them are either too young or have been too injured/inconsistent to qualify as consistently good MLB players. That's a very small amount of guys when compared to most legitimate contenders. Abreu can't continue to have quality season. His power has vanished . Grandal is a shell of his former self , as is Moncada and Giolito. Anderson may have started a career decline because of personal issues. Look at the top teams and see how many consistently good players they have and get back to me. I'm not ruling out a fluke season that will have the Sox in the playoffs in 2023 if Hahn or whoever make some changes that actually work for once, which would have to include firing the whole coaching staff and making trades that can improve the play on the field. With the amount of money already on the books and trade value of our players depressed it's a long shot.

Such a naive post . You actually think firing 2 people will propel the Sox to an A.L. Central crown ? Most of their talent is aging , always hurt or unproductive. They've paid way too much for relievers, they have big strong guys who don't hit HR's and clog the bases. They have too many guys who don't take walks and swing too much out of the zone. They have too many players playing out of their natural positions. They are terrible defensively and fundamentally. Too many 1st base/DH types. Ownership doesn't give a shit about infrastructure which is the only way to build sustained success. Ownership cares more about avoiding franchise crippling moves like avoiding huge contracts. JR is extremely risk adverse and only cares about appreciation of his asset for his ownership group. The damage is far too severe to be undone in one season unless somehow you get unprecedented health and the unproductive guys bounce back while the younger guys continue to get better and a minor league guy like Colas can contribute immediately. This franchise as usual, under Reinsdorf, is in dire straits , not for the ownership group of course , just the on field product.

JR is a good owner for the investors in his corporation but a lousy owner for a sports team in a big market. He's never cared or understood the big picture and fans are just pawns to maneuver. The big picture is to run a quality franchise from top to bottom you have to hire people from winning organizations who held positions of power and helped mold those franchises into winners. Every level of the franchise must be given near equal importance. The Sox are top heavy, built on a weak foundation always capable of collapse even when you don't think it's possible.

That's about as much negative as you're going to get from TV talking heads who work for MLB. They can criticize the group collectively but they won't get into individualizing aspects of the team. Too many people's feelings get hurt, gets too personal, owners get angry , your reporting access gets pulled or you just get fired and replaced by those who will stick to not being overly critical. As fans, we can individualize or put the blame on certain people but that's a big no-no when you're doing TV on the MLB Network because it's too speculative . Plus the elephant in the room is that the MLB Network is run by MLB Advanced Media and it's basically all 30 league owners in charge of it.

Sox are going to be in the same spot next season. Maybe without LaRussa though if that's any consolation . They'd need an incredible run of good health and a starting pitcher good enough to replace Cueto and a way to figure out how toreduce salary while getting better players. If Hahn is still here good luck with that. Even if Hahn gets fired a new GM inherits a big headache and an uncertain direction.

I give it 50/50 no matter what happens the rest of the way.Sox aren't making the playoffs .

For that to be true we'd have to be better than them. We are not, at least without Anderson, Robert and Jimenez in the lineup .

You're a good fan . No need for deep sadness . Every season but 2005 in the last 100+ years ends in sadness. There may be happier moments along the way but ultimately unless you win it all that's what you have to look forward to every year. Be happy with other things in your life. Keep sadness and stress at a minimum. You'll live longer .

When you pinch hit the object usually is to bat a better hitter than the one scheduled . Anything else is hogwash. Seby's OBP his last 11 games was .474. TLR doesn't even know who's hot on his own team. Sheets and Jimenez were basically the only 2 better hitters than Seby in the last 2 weeks. That's sad to say but true.

I keep thinking Mieses may end up the best hitter in the organization.

Maybe it was sealed anyway or maybe it wasn't . You have hope the guys who got the Sox into the mess will get them out of it. That hope has the same chance as hoping the Sox make the playoffs. All I keep hearing from half of you that Menechino will be the fall guy but I hope your hope is rewarded.

What greater good ?All you can do is hope that the Sox make moves and that the moves they make will help. Those are 2 things they have a chance of screwing up. If they wanted to do a rebuild right they would've made those moves before the rebuild started.

Good for you. Make your point fact !

I thought you wanted to lose. Cheer Tony and Leury .

I'm having a hrd time reconciling the fans here wanting to lose and the comments about the TLR moves. Shouldn't you want Leury to pinch hit ? You should be cheering that move. right ?

LOL wow that popup was an adventure too

Good for Carlos Perez.

Nope none whatsoever. High chop.

Perez looked crossed up the way he put his bare hand up there too

Doesn't help when 2 strikes are called balls

14 for his last 24.

I was just thinking SHeets hadn't hit a HR in a while but didn't think I could get my thought into a post before he hit a fair ball. But he extended the AB longer than I thought.