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I would think at this point the Sox would be looking for a LH or SH OF but It's not really a necessity since any productive OF who can hit and field adequately will do. If you don't trade someone from the current roster who among Vaughn and Eaton loses playing time if the OF acquired can't play CF ? Do the Sox dare trade Mercedes so Vaughn can DH more ? Does Engel coming back just solve the problem? I think that's where the Sox are at. Engel will be given every chance now to play full time in CF and see if his bat is enough. So I doubt the Sox bother trying to acquire someone like LHH Raimel Tapia who is a fixture now in Colorado and perhaps coming into his prime as a hitter but mostly a LF who on occasion plays some CF and RF.

Let's remember Tauchman to an NL team probably cost less than if he was sent to the Sox. If sent to the Sox it probably costs more than to the Giants so not a large over payment but one nevertheless. Now if you could find a Tauchman version in the NL that might work but still since the Sox are experiencing depth problems in the OF that's a good reason to ask for more.

Thank you finally one person says the player's name who is hurt.

Very disappointing. Gets his big break and jeopardizes it. Hopefully a good reason.

You haven't noticed the excessive amount of K's the last few games and how he's been stumbling around the bases and the OF ?

No way! He should've been playing every day from the start of the season. WTF is LaRussa thinking ? He's better than any scrub the Sox have regardless of match ups !

You stand up to Jerry and the loyalty disappears. The bottom line is king. Hahn works within the framework of that bottom line . We have no idea what kind of GM he would be given a different set of parameters. I am neither for nor against Hahn, he is just a puppet as any GM under Reinsdorf would be.

Fact or guess ? If fact , link ?

Yea Scooter's thread to make.

Oh yea fun to dream about . Maybe if we get full attendance at some point this year, make the playoffs ,go deep in the playoffs, Rodon stays healthy and if Lynn and Rodon both decide they would like to stay with the Sox.

Won't even need close to that amount. There were a lot of years in that deal.Wouldn't likely need more than $75M combined to resign the both of them and that's covering at least 2 more years for each of them.

better get a good pitcher back cuz more than likely Rodon and Lynn both gone after 2020 so I think we still need Gio

Long long way to go to get to that but if we are going there kind of hard not to include Rodon in the discussion.

Also Leury making the haters look bad again. Always helps to get strong contributions from the bench. Lamb also with 2 walks and no official at bats and Grandal 4 walks and no official Ab'S.

Here's some good discussion from a Future Sox thread from August 2019. Was actually a good baseball discussion that had disagreements but no verbal assaults.

I probably wouldn't be able to do it mainly because it's easy to find the info on those 19 putouts on Vaughn because that's all he has. With Eloy unless you watch video of every game it's very hard to find a streak you asked for. You can't find defensive stats that only cover certain periods of time like a few weeks or a month and a half. If I'm being honest I'd say the same thing I already said which is indeterminable at this time because of lack of data. Vaughn has so few chances I can't remember seeing Robert taking Vaughn's catches away like we saw when Eloy was camped under routine fly balls and Robert called him off.

Nope only today counts but while I do agree with you I hope regulars get more rest in non division games but you would get the same complaints there too. But if McKenzie is truly terrible against lefties that does appear to be a good time to play the lefties. LaRussa is still experimenting with his guys and while some have the foresight to understand these things there's no justification for the instant gratification crowd for ever playing subs when the regular is better or a prized rookie.

I agree on that part of it. At first he couldn't locate it and when he did he was jogging and the runner on 2nd took advantage of it.

Looks like he got crossed up and Stroman missed his spot badly. The announcers seemed a little harsh on McCann.

This is what I have been saying about those who say he passes the eye test. As you said he just hasn't had a lot of tough plays to make so far and hardly any towards the line. Even mediocre OF'er should routinely catch the 3 star chances. It's those 4 and 5 star chances that determine if you are outstanding and his speed just won't get him to get to those high level chances. Eloy gets some of the worst jumps in the majors as an OFer but once he gets going he has decent speed.

DO you have cute video of this ?

When Buxton was sucking really bad I was saying I'd trade for him in a heartbeat. Physically gifted, great speed , outstanding CFer. Yeah I'll take my chances he'll mature as a hitter.

For sure.

He passes the eye test because he has a grand total of 19 putouts and no errors. Some people's eye tests are a little more extensive than that.

This is the optimal way to reply to arrogance in a situation where there is clearly no right or wrong.