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Eh I don't find it all that troubling. The Sox weren't expected to contend and they had a rash of injuries to pitchers in Kopech and Dunning and Cease wasn't ready. They brought him in to stay healthy and eat innings for all of 1 year. I know pitching badly doesn't eat many innings but he has stayed healthy and given the Rodon injury it became even more important. Would I have liked a better pitcher ? Sure maybe along with Nova. I was angling for Mike Fiers and/ or at least one of the injury prone guys who were on the market as a fifth starter but certainly not as a 4th starter. Remember I am the guy who has been wanting guys like Moustakas and JD Martinez during the rebuild so I was never against adding more talent during the rebuild because of the potential of flipping higher end talent brings back more talent and given the Sox drafting I wasn't entirely comfortable with not adding talent because of that. But the tanking more and drafting more /higher won out over getting talent and flipping it except in the case of relievers. The Sox went cheap with Banuelos , Covey Santana . It mean its still kind of burns me the Sox weren't getting FA's while the market was really down on a lot of them or didn't try harder for guys like Avi, Schoop, Fiers, Dj Lemahieu Wade Miley, Brantley and a few others. All the focus was on Machado and his friends instead of plugging a few other holes. Imagine if the Sox had signed Brantley instead of trading for the brother in law and Jay.Or if the Sox had Lemahieu at 2nd base with Fiers and Miley instead of Baneulos and Santana.

The problem with the broadcast is too many talking heads and they think the viewers are more interested in Thome and Griffey than they are on the prospects. I mean hey it's great that Thome thinks everything is great and that Harold and Griffey can joke around together but come on now talk about the game and the prospects . That last Robert AB you barely knew he was up.

Maybe Harold liked the band Heart.

Being politically correct wan't a thing when Van Buren was President , Now it is.

on the other side of it look what happen to Kimbrel and Keuchel. They refused QO's and had to wait til mid season to play and get decent offers.

Let's say Jose isn't traded at the trade deadline because the Sox decide he's a great leader , a great mentor to Moncada and expect him to mentor Robert in much the same way next year as well as a good enough hitter. That would be a perfectly reasonable scenario. The Sox then have to decide if they want to extend him a Qualifying Offer which will be in the $18M range. SO the question is does Jose accept the QO if the Sox offer one or test free agency with a draft pick attached to him which would be the kiss of death. They can also offer him a longer deal that doesn't average $18M a year. Or they can trade him and resign him . If traded he won't have a draft pick attached to him and would likely get better offers but probably nothing very long and God only knows what offers he gets.

Very good !

Woot Sox win. Great game . See how I did that Moan4yoan !

Well admittedly I am not watching the game on TV. I have the MLB network on from a Roku channel called Gade TV which kind of specializes in foreign station like the Caribbean Islands and Canada but it also carries some US channels like MTV, VH1,MLB Network, Weather Channel and CNN and some more. . When it goes to commercials i get an MLB logo saying commercial break instead of the commercials but once in a while the screen will flash soething else and this time it was a Sox game . No idea which game ,just saw a score and Moncada not the opponent or the inning. Must have been something from the MLB network but I dont know if they werewatching some old tape or what. Maybe I got something from the broadcast truck . lol Eird anyway.

Just remember as a catcher some times you might just want to look at some pitches to see what the guy is throwing and giving your team mates a chance to see it too. Many AB's aren't just swing at the great pitches kind of AB's.

Josh it's ok man , Moan is my pet project. Seems like a decent guy except for time spent on griping. Thats just a bad male characteristic , Just needs to learn more about being a nice person. I am mentoring him lol.

I'm sure it was but compare the amount out time spent saying something is terrible awful bad worst to the time spent saying that was great good awesome the best.

Ok i mean i have it on gameday so I knew the score but I also saw what I saw on my TV if somehow the score changes to 4-3 Sox ahead I will be worried.

Ha have you noticed a trend with yourself ? Almost everything is bad or terrible or the worst. I really hope you laugh a lot and not the kind of laughter where you laugh at someone.

So its 3-1 Sox ? I swear I just saw something flash on my screen that said 4-3 Sox were ahead but too quick to see the inning . All I saw was Moncada and the score but not who the opponent was then it was gone.

It didn't repeat itself. He didn't give up the homer this time

Bullet dodging at its best !

1 down 1 to go.

Jose hot !!!!

Still a lot of hitters had HR's against the Sox . They don't all go 500 ft like that one Mazara hit off Lopez. He can mash for sure.

Was watching highlights on games yesterday and these things happen in outfields all across baseball probably 3 times a day. Might be the sun or miscommunication or not seeing the ball off the bat but it happens quite a bit. SHit happens especially with guys who don't play a lot together

Eloy actually has the 2nd highest HR average distance in MLB behind Nomar Mazara.

Good observation. They are both right handed and close to the same age. Cordell is probably picking his brain about what he did to be able to hit to all fields consistently that he wasn't doing before.

Ha don't you start now. He needs to be thought of as just another ballplayer/prospect who is doing pretty well . No little and especially not midget or mouse (Minnie , Mini ,Mickey). Not even Mighty or any other thing about his height . Leave it to his team mates on what to call him maybe its Mad or Nicky, hope its not Madge .

Oh 1st time i think anyone ever put me in a tag. Thanks .