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What are Boomer antics ? Is this some kind of slight against over 70M people in the US aged 57-75 ? Is everything they do or say some kind of slight to people Tim's age ? It's one thing to speak out against an individual but to disrespect a whole generation is another. I have seen your comments in the past with your "OK Boomer" responses. It's starting to smell like the guy who speaks out against injustice has his own issues with being just.

Add Abreu and Anderson. That should be it. 1st, Short, 3rd, Catcher, 2 OF's ,2 starting pitchers and a reliever. ( of the top 100.) Not too shabby.

That's what happened when someone winds me up. I'll go back to being Clark Kent now.

I don't even like thinking about the ugly underbelly of being a Sox fan. There's just so much you can bring up. They finally got lucky with McCann and he's a pending free agent who you weren't going to re-sign and had value. They could have traded him. Why didn't they ? Are they paralyzed from the neck up because someone will say White Flag again ? Yolbert Sanchez and Yoelquis Cepedes signed. Sanchez was 22 when signed for $2.5M and is now 24 . Cespedes signed at 23 for $2M . 2 years later Sanchez hasn't even played in A ball yet. Oscar Colas will be 23 when the Sox sign him probably for upwards of $1M and people are thrilled about it thinking these guys will be in the lineup in a few years. Those aren't anything but hot takes. Let's not draft High School Players who have an extra 3 or 4 years to develop compared College Jr's. and Sr's. Where is all our young talented SS's and CF,s ? Oh yea I forgot the one we finally got our GM got fleeced for him because teams target those kinds of guys while the Sox still don't. There are reasons why certain teams always seem to have a good influx of young talent that doesn't apply to how the Sox operate. The rest of baseball signs 16yr olds. The Sox sign 22 and 23 yr. olds in the same market. Play Collins and Mercedes in 2019 maybe you have a good DH for 2020 or trade bait to the NL who had DH's in 2020. Now no DH in NL and Sox are stuck with 2 DH's who apparently they don't trust to be catchers or to DH. Go Sox. Let's hire a manager who didn't want to manage. Let's hire another Manager with pending drunk driving charges hanging over him who hasn't Managed in 10 years and completely undermines the process our GM spat out in a News Conference.

We are talking about when a team chooses to not spend and chooses to depend on luck then you better give the young guys a chance to prove they are worth something otherwise they are depreciating assets. When you depend on luck every move or non move you make can have consequences on a teams ultimate fate. Vaughn wasn't ready in 2019, Vaughn wasn't ready in 2020. Collins and Mercedes should've got more opportunities. McCann got an opportunity and he ran with it. Sox went with Castillo many time in the 2nd half in a year that didn't matter. They went with EE in a year that didn't matter though it could have if those guys were given an opportunity and EE not signed. Who the heck was even DHing the 2nd half of 2019 for the Sox . Go look at the 2019 roster and see what scrubs from that team are still on the roster. 2019 they tried to luck into signing Machado by signing his friends. In 2016 they tried to luck into a declining pitcher who was a disaster with the Padres but hey they got a team to eat a bunch of money and lost a future superstar. All the Sox keep doing is trying to save money by paying for terrible veteran free agents when they have guys in the system who could DH or catch or even show some hitting ability who they could keep for 6 years or improve their worth. Time after time it's more about the money than winning. It's more about spinning the roulette wheel. IF that's the strategy spin it on Collins and Mercedes when they could have. If they sucked fine you can finally say Collins is a bust or Mercedes is a AAAA player and move the fuck on. It's always the same road. Dangle that carrot for the fans and keep building the franchises worth and finishing 2nd. Under Reinsdorf they always choose the same path. They keep the fans involved by signing some Cubans who have worked out while hardly doing anything else with young players from the DR and trading away money. Yay the Sox now have a pitching coach everyone loves so let's not get any more pitching. Yay they have upgraded the analytics department from the damn Stone Age. Let's all be happy because we have a promising young team during Covid and labor strife. I can see where this is all leading . It's a disaster waiting to happen . The whole Mercedes /Collins thing is just a microcosm of bigger issues. All I wanted to do was celebrate Mercedes birthday in a positive way. Now I'm ranting because I chose to be positive and you kick over my sandcastle. And yes it's still possible for me to be happy watching White Sox baseball while dumping on ownership. Thank heaven I'm in So Cal where I won't be tempted to spend any money on them.

Of course you would draw that conclusion when I told you I'm not pretending he is something he isn't and when I also said 9 out of 10 times players are exactly what they appear to be. A quick 1 liner for yucks that completely ignores everything I said. That's how people usually respond when a well thought out argument calls what they say ridiculous only I was polite enough to state my case unlike you. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

I think it's a lot easier to give young players playing time in a rebuild then it would've been to extend McCann. There's no way to know if he would've been open to it. Probably one 1 yr. of McCann doing well wasn't enough to convince the Sox they should gamble on trying to resign him. They were also short on OBP and LH power. They needed a sure thing . Can't call it a knee jerk reaction. It was a sound decision based on the information at hand based on need and both player's careers up to that point. EE wasn't a sure thing hence why I never liked the idea of getting him .His stats showed he was declining over several years. Sox thought he was more of a sure thing than Collins and Mercedes apparently and gave Welington Castillo all kinds of PA's and catching duties in the 2nd half of 2019. That should tell anyone with eyeballs how they felt about Collins and Mercedes and 2020 just reinforced it if those eyeballs weren't sure in 2019. I will never complain about money on Grandal because they needed what he provided at a cost that wasn't prohibitive. You can say it was prohibitive all you like when you look at how the Sox spend and how well McCann has done but they only had the one year to appraise McCann and then the off season to try to extend him or go for a player they truly needed more. Very tough call and made tougher if McCann wants his one shot at Free Agency.

Doubtful. They have some things in common like the animals and Hendriks liking LaRussa's use of relief pitchers. Plus Hendriks seems like the kind of guy with a positive mental attitude on just about everything. I'm neutral on it considering some players need different things than others. Some need TLC and others need a kick in the ass and everything in between. If you play hard you will gain a manager's respect , results get you playing time although a lot of managers do defer to veterans. We see that time after time.

That's the whole point . What was he before that breakout season ? Before that season he had 245 ML PA's . After it he had a little over 800 AB's so don't use your words to make it seem like he had close to 1000 PA's before that breakout season. He did well in 3 partial season while Seattle couldn't find him much playing time. He was set back to the minors . Yes he played 3rd base in the early part of his career. For 3 years playing 3rd he put up great seasons but the next 2 years he had some injuries . By 1995 he was a full time DH at the age of 32. Anyway it's not ridiculous to think that the Sox missed an opportunity to see what they had. 9 out of 10 time you find you have nothing. I'm not here to pretend Yermin is something he isn't. Practically everyone here didn't see 2020 as a contention year. The young pitchers were still injured and not developing. With a little foresight you give Yermin some PT in 2019 and maybe you find out he can hit ML pitching. Then in 2020 maybe there's no need to get Encarnacion. There really wasn't a need to get him anyway. I was against that signing. The Sox weren't winning anything with him doing well or lousy. I'm pretty sure you didn't see 2020 as a contention year. Look beyond what's right in front of your face for a moment. Maybe the Sox spend money on more pitching instead of EE . Maybe Yermin hits good as the DH. Maybe then the Sox are playing so well , they actually do pick up someone at the trade deadline and go a lot farther in the playoffs. And now they have a good DH more pitching to enter the off season. Sometimes what a team doesn't do can change things as much as what they do. I don't need a dose of your "he is what he is". I heard that often enough with McCann and also with Mazara. Mostly "he is what he is" is true but when it isn't it can start a chain of events that could change a team's fortune. Just like the Tatis trade probably has.

It's easy to say what someone is . What they can be is a whole other book to be read. I wonder what they were saying about Edgar Martinez before his age 27 season. I like rooting for the underdog who seems to love being a baseball player and hasn't let anything stop him.

I think the whole LaRussa/Narron/Lucroy thing plus Merkin being somewhat of an insider is why they think he will make the opening day roster. James (our Sox insider) seems to think so too.

Some teams aren't sticking to the Collusion/Covid script/payroll.

Everyone associated with the Sox in the media like Merkin expects him to be on the team unless he sustains another injury. Probably start the year with Collins too.

You have to include Welington Castillo in there . There was really no reason to play Beef at the end of the year but there he was starting a bunch of games from the middle of July to the end of September. He wasn't going to be back with the Sox. If you can't play your kids over a 32 yr old catcher during a rebuild it's idiotic, especially in Mercedes case because you don't really give a damn about service time.

Sure every team has but once he got to Birmingham I think this guy could smell the big leagues and hasn't had a bad stretch hitting since then even in small sample sizes like ST. Besides it's his Birthday today so rather than start a thread to celebrate it, I'll just do it here.

Nice little comeback win last night. The OT winner was fun to see in slo mo. Good paws from the Cat. Beaudin with his 1st 2 goals in the last 2 games. Kurashev, Suter , Mitchell all doing well.Lankinen , enough can't be said about him . Played well without Murph.

The hyberbole part is right but that's ok . Yermin has got a cult following and I almost feel as if I have been the leader of it since I've been curious about him and asking about him since he was with Winston-Salem. The little the actual public has seen on him has been the last spring training where he hit as well as anyone in Az.

Eh he can squat and put on a glove and call pitches and catch them. I think the narratives on how bad he is gets overblown. Winston-Salem, Birmingham and Charlotte pitching staffs didn't blow up when he caught them. Just saying he wouldn't be a disaster . 2/14 Happy 28th Birthday Yermin ! Article from yesterday about Yermin .https://fromthe108.com/2021/02/13/the-case-for-yermin-mercedes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-case-for-yermin-mercedes

No one is discussing anyone atm because I'm pretty sure most of us believe there will be no more signings unless you can get them on a minor league deal.

Thanks, I was unsure whether a player can only get one in his career and so would I be very surprised.

The Sox probably have one of the least expensive pitching staffs in baseball among the contenders. That's just a guess even after the signing of Hendriks unless you count the Marlins as a contender. They are rolling the dice on the youngsters and Katz. Lynn is highly unlikely to be extended and Keuchel still has 2 or 3 years on his contract. Keuchel and Lynn are just around to have good pitchers to still contend and allow Cease, Kopech etc. to develop. The plan has a higher degree of failure than success built into it which is why so many want Lynn extended . Sox won't do it. QO possible if Keuchel regresses too much and Lynn has a good year. But it seems to me the Sox will be searching for more starting pitching year after year unless Cease and Kopech really step it up to a high degree very soon. It's pretty doubtful the Sox raise payroll much next year with attendance still a factor and "lost revenue of $100M per team" for 2020 and perhaps, if lucky ,a loss of half that this year.

Neither one is true or totally true. You don't trade a Dunning for just anyone. He could turn out to be something but he was the oldest of the group of pitching prospects . With Lynn it had nothing to do with scouting. The Rangers got what they could for him due to pending Free Agency. They wait and maybe he regresses and isn't worth Dunning. No need to take that chance.

Anything yet ? It's been a week since you posted that.

I listened to a lot of old timers when Hank Aaron passed away and some interviews with him about advice he got as a hitter. They told him ,knock in runs and scoring runs were the most important. You knock them in you're doing great , you score them and you're getting on base.