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He was more like Justin than Shane. Sorry.

Did you ever have any kind of injury ? Did you blame everyone but yourself ?

Among many of the hot takes, yeesh, this place is becoming a cesspool.

You mean as opposed to the person you quoted who just says crap to get a reaction without any knowledge of Herm, his staff or no medical knowledge whatsoever.

Shouldn't that say out for the remainder of 2019 ?

Sure they have . Halfways to S, Patricks Day, Star Wars. Dog Days, , I'm sure there are more

Don't worry about it. He's Ku-batman

I do like this very much. I love the 80's. Good early 80's song.

We are not talking about finished products here. Actually not even talking about a guy who has been a professional very long.

Gio y Ritual De Lo Habitual !

Gio ERA now 3.65 on the season.

Nope he was released and Preston Tucker went to Japan i think.

Joel Booker ? Paulo Orlando ?

Yea I know but you never know about the others. Why have 3 when even 5 is better ? Hahn and Sox brain trust unlimited friends and family plan.

Maybe. WIth some FA's resigning with current teams it limits options and one option should be to get a great 3rd baseman like Rendon and increasing Moncada's value by putting him back at 2nd base. I'd like to think Moncada changed his approach and will continue to hit if he is put back at 2nd base. But we still have to see if he ends up the year significantly better offensively. That puts a better defender at third , you get a great hitter and you fill the black hole at 2nd base.

Might have to put Colome and Nova in the family and friends plan too since they played on the DR WBC team with Manny even if no one knows for sure if they are friends. No such thing as coincidence perhaps ?

Rendon is actually very very good and very close to as talented. Of course he's not as young but that just means he won't cost as much either. So the NO ONE is just not true.

I bumped the thread on the Sox signing of McCann. Many takes had him as a bad defensive catcher but no one mentioned how he calls a game. Of course that's something you can't find in defensive metrics.

We still could if the Sox sign Rendon next year.

Bumped and re-read, I know everyone is very pleased by how well he is hitting. Many of the arguments in the thread said he was poor defensively and a bad framer. What does everyone think of his defense ? I know I could say lessons learned not to rely so heavily on defensive metrics or even pitch framing but I know a lot of the board is so into metrics that they refuse to believe that those metrics are flawed. Seems to me he's been good behind the plate and framing as I always argue is more reliant on having good pitchers to frame . I have no idea if anyone has ever studied it but maybe the worst framers are catching some pretty bad pitchers. You can't say its the framing that makes the pitchers bad but you could make an argument that pitchers who just don't throw with enough control/command can certainly make their catchers framing stats look bad . Way too much love in the thread for Narvaez, Smith and Zavala.

Nova pitched to Vlad Sr. and jr. now. Pretty sure he gave up a Vlad. Sr. HR

Avi got quite a few hits like that in 2017.

James McCann Can , Ivan Nova Can ,Tilson 2-4 2 RBI a SB. Some times this team looks decent. SS2K5 come back . Winner's threads aren't the same without you.

McChine

Vindication