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Yolmer's been on a little hot streak lately. Hit one out Yolmer .

Verlander pitched a no hitter today if anyone didn't know.

Freddie Freeman is a great ballplayer.

Ump already puts ABreu in 0-2 hole with real bad strike 2 call . ABreu proceeds to K.

Go Go Giolito !

That would suck with no M and M Boys (Mercedes and Mendick)

Really nice AB by Engel .

Sox getting beat and Abreo getting beat up. Is this going to get interesting ?

The good news is the Braves missed the extra point attempt.

No idea why they didn't just keep pounding Flowers up and in with the fastball.

You can spin it any way you want to. "Increased spending on analytics ." Is that supposed to impress anyone ? Do you how much they spent ? Do you know how far behind the rest of the league they are ? "Increased modernization" ? Where ? Show me . Did they add another minor league team . They have 7 minor league teams which is as little as there is in baseball when other teams have 8 or 9. If they are supposed to have wave after wave of talent from the minors how do you develop it using minimum resources . Minimum teams , minimum staff , and trading their surplus intl. FA money every season for the last 2 or 3 seasons. Sorry if I don't remember .May have been in the penalty 3 season ago but still could ve signed guys to $300,000 contracts Is that how you add talent to sustain winning ? "Willingness to spend a lot of money, something they hadn't shown in franchise history." Actually the Albert Belle contract was the biggest at the time. They supposedly came in second for Tanaka. Yet the Machado contract put in stipulations that safeguarded the Sox against player injury while KW whined "All he had to do is stay on the field" for an aging player which isn't that easy. That's a serious offer ? They did the same thing to Frank Thomas basically with the diminished skills clause. He has to keep repeating himself because guys like you and others are apologists for the teams failures. But rest assured he is not alone in the way he feels and if I had to guess I'd say the board is split pretty evenly on believing that this rebuild will result in multiple championships or sustained success. So now the issue is extensions which everyone thinks is a great thing which Yoan said. But what did the extensions for Eaton, Sale and Quintana lead to besides a good start to the rebuild ? Did it lead to any winning season ? Playoffs ? Sustained success ? Keep blowing smoke up everyone's ass and there will be those who have every right to tell you that you are full of it. I get it you don't want to hear his negative responses but his posts are a lot more truthful than yours and your belief in the current Front office and ownership. Excuse the rest of us who are in "prove it" mode.

This is how I feel as do others judging on the likes on your post. Hahn has locked up guys in the past and it led to nothing but a bunch of stiffs free agents, Same old methods same old results. Nothing new nothing unique.

Sounds like what I've been saying about Gennett for about a month ,OF and/or supersub , and often repeating myself. Welcome aboard.

Then we agree on that regardless of our differing opinions on Anderson. I'm just not ruling out Moncada back to 2nd base because of Madrigal like you are. Positional versatilty is a good thing. Whatever helps the team maximize the finite payroll I am in favor . Gregorious probably a better fit payroll wise than Rendon but the Sox can afford Rendon if they chose to go after him and still afford starting pitchers too. Rendon is also the much better player.

Agree to disagree.

Finite meaning limited or having boundary so yes the Sox have finite resources. Did I miss something ? Or are you just nitpicking again to avoid focusing on the bigger picture like is your way of doing? Even with finite resources they can sign a Rendon and 2 $20M a year starting pitchers.That would equal about a payroll increase of $70M for 2020 . That's doable.

Lol well I followed your post by saying it was a great idea and that good teams like TB ,who possibly have the most limited payroll in baseball, have used positional versatility to their advantage along with a great analytical department. Those are 2 areas that the Sox are not great at and I knew there would be plenty of opposition to it. It might be crazy to some but those are areas that need to be explored fully. I don't care if it's your superstar to has that positional versatile or the 2nd best player or 3rd best etc but the Cubs had a high quality player like Zobrist when they won the WS and the Astros had a high quality guy like Marwin Gonzalez when they won the WS also.

Yeah I don't like using a Boras shill as some great source of information on what actually happened.

Oh so the Nats moved Rendon what a novel concept and he just happened to become one of the best 3rd basemen in the majors . But yet Moncada shouldn't be moved to the OF or back to 2nd base because it might just so happen that it would improve the team greatly. But sure lets keep talking about the finite resources and for a team with a ton of payroll space. After all it's not about winning . I too like Madrigal but let's not pretend he is a sure thing and if Moncada becomes an OF or Rendon plays 3rd and Moncada OF that still leaves room for Madrigal at 2nd base. Plus they could still upgrade the pitching if Rendon was the only expensive position player they go after .

I think he was asking for the word straight from Moncada's mouth not your opinion.

So talking about inane you are all for moving Anderson the established star at SS to the OF ( and for the record I would be too because it MIGHT be for the betterment of the team) but you want Moncada who is clearly the best player on the Sox to stay at 3rd because he played well there 1 year and crappy at 2nd base for 1 year. A year that his hitting was so bad it couldve affected his fielding for Madrigal a guy who hasn't proven anything yet. I am not saying my ideas are the best course of action. My thinking is the Sox have to be flexible if they want to create ways to make the most of their payroll when we all know payroll concerns are among the things that will hurt the completion of the rebuild. You know its a big picture kind of view not tunnel vision

Winning matters more.

No need for an infielder when he just happens to be the best position player available and would make the team much better ? I know pitching is a huge need and I really don't think RF and C or DH are positions we have to throw much money at if you can get some versatile guys like a Gennett to provide depth at 2nd base OF DH,1st base . So yes pitching should be a priority but to say there's no room for Rendon is crazy talk.

Maybe you 're not moving him again but I would . And you didn't answer one of my questions .All you did was call Maddon an idiot and give a mysterious answer for why Baez was moved.

That's also an option if changing positions is something he'd agree to which is the biggest consideration when signing him. If he won't but would sign as a 3rd baseman then you move Yoan.