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I think the prime of your career is determined by the years you do best, that place where your physical ability meshes with your understanding of the game and your health.

The Sox need to be more Hispanic in every way in the departments .Notice how our Relief pitcher acquisitions are all white. Hendriks, Graveman, Kelly, Kimbrel. Dispute this or add to it if you can. Look at the Astros good starting pitchers who have risen up.

Boring day trade -wise. I'm not sure Morosi is right. He's just guessing like anyone else about who pulls the trigger. Lots of talking doesn't always = lots of trades.

9th is where the Sox hitters have the best batting average in MLB for guys batting 9th for some strange reason. Want to fix a slumping player on the Sox ? Bat him 9th !

Profar HR give Pads 1-0 lead vs Twins.

Those are my close low scoring game stats I invented. Anyteam that wins scoring 5 or less runs they are 30-17 and going for 31-17

Going for the hockey score win today which would increase the Sox record in those games to 31-17

High fastball and low and away sliders are deaths to a lot of hitters

Ok magic 9 spot do your thing.

No idea. Seattle might trade him for someone big soon as part of a package.

Same with Kelenic. Terrible on curveballs. He would be a nice buy low guy although he still is crushing AAA . Maybe he gets over the hump some day on MLB breaking pitches.

WTP power to Rf . What new ?

oops he missed it too and so did I.

By the way Seby got that double in the magical 9 spot for the Sox where I said they should try Grandal.

Moncada missed the tag

I dont think any Sox catcher or even catchers in general are that good at it. Too many variables to judge something like that. It looks bad when u don't catch it but lots of reasons why they get by especially on very close plays.

That's what we can't get from Grandal so far !

Ok fine and that's what I told you . You only got the price part right and teams are going to start that high naturally and that's why he hasn't been moved yet. There are no guys in RF who are going to be moved to use all your system resources on when you consider Reynolds probably not going anywhere and there's a possibility Soto doesn't too. Name some real sluggers who can play defense in RF . Or anyone availble who is a slugger LH and just be passable in RF. Schwarber ? Haven't heard any rumors about him either.

LOL I didnt say it would was easy. But when you say zero reason to trade him. The reason is because Kim Ng said it was possible.

He can play RF or LF for that matter for a month until the Sox find out if Colas is a viable option for Sept. in RF. If he is Happ can go back to LF .He got more HR's than most of the Sox team and the lack of HR because of the ball or whatever has been offset by a career high in doubles. It's obvious he just decided to be a better overall hitter. That looks like the right call since he can play every day and hits RHP and LHP well. Pollock,SHeets, Leury, Eloy 4 guys who play the OF all with negative War. I have no idea how you can call him a terrible fit with real terrible fits like Pollock, Sheets, Eloy and Leury still getting OF starts and Happ with 2.3 fWar.Only the asking the world part actually fits your narrative.

But Kim Ng said everyone was open for discussion except their ace pitcher.

Eh I think 2nd base days are over for him. Besides you got a guy like Sosa who might be ready and some other guys too that they could give up for Joey Wendle who can play a decent 2nd base and has a mutual option for next year. He hits RH pitching pretty well for this year and next which would put Harrison against LH and whoever next year against LHP. Or the Sox can try to go after Jazz Chisholm while he's injured this year but might return in Sept. But again not enough pieces for him.

I know I wanted him, even during the rebuild because I figured he was one guy who they could get a quality minor leaguer for .They didn't do enough signing guys who they could trade for more minor league talent during the rebuild . That's one of the reason why the minors are a mess ,among many. Instead they did what they usally do spent around the margins with ALonso, John Jay a bunch of scrap heap guys instead of one decent free agent every year signing they could trade later.

Probably too much. Too much competition for pretty much any SP who's been decent this year. Pittsburgh hasnt let him face teams the 3rd time through the order and it's worked well. Thats why i figured he could be paired up with Kopech . Ideally you want the opposite handed guys pitching when you do that. Maybe Sosa plus another guy . I'm not good at figuring out who wants what. Have to be too much of an expert on too many things and there's no way to know what Pittsburgh is thinking.

Well you saw how much Haseley was used and AZ isn't trading their young LH Ofers. DOn't have the bullets for them any way. Hahn tried unsuccessfully thinking Pollock could play RF in the whole Kimbrel mess. It's so sad they couldn't find a team with even a AAA LH good D type OF talent for RF for Kimbrel . But they let one walk with Luis Gonzalez. Maybe data and analytics did something with him the Sox couldnt. That's what happened to Martin Perez when he went back to Tx. What a fucking mess this off season was.