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You keep saying Altuve is on roids and no one says anything. So what makes you say that ? I know you don't have any proof so why hasn't he been busted ? Is the MLB drug policy a sham ? Do they overlook superstars and just bust guys like Castillo . How does Cano get busted then? Are other drugs easier to catch than steriods ? Are the people who produce the steroids better at masking them than MLB is at finding the abusers ?

They also got some luck with Aguilar (waiver claim ) and Thames. Or is that just good scouting ? Sox in a rebuild can't seem to find hidden gems as well as other teams. I haven't done a deep dive on this subject but guys like Muncy and Taylor with the Dodgers and Mikolas with the Cards and has to be some Oakland A's in there. They reamed the Brewers in the Khris Davis trade a few years ago. Scooter Gennett was a another waiver claim for the Reds also from the Brewers. Joey Wendle and Mallex Smith are parts of the revolving door of players that came to Tampa Bay in trades.

Yelich knocks in 1st run of the game and steals second,

Brewers have been great their last 30 games and Yelich has been unreal for those 30 and the 2nd half putting up huge numbers. Right now he's a legend in Milwaukee. How Yelich does this game may determine their fate.

Is this the real life ? Is this just fantasy ?

So are we assuming every one of those followers on twitter are all from the Chicago area ?

Teams don't offer them. Players negotiate for them. Player options if they have a few spectacular years and baseball inflation goes up and voila you're a FA free again if you want to be for even more money. . 2nd year seems unlikely but 3rd and 4th year seems pretty likely in a young superstar's contract. If you want me then give me the option of making more money elsewhere in a few years.

This x100000. One day I was writing about the death of the tank and now I feel like its the death of the rebuild. At the time I was writing about the death of the tank Kopech came up. Rodon , Giolito and Lopez were coming around and the Sox were playing .500 ball for a long stretch.all with a lineup that wasn't very good offensively and defensively. Now Kopech is out for a year Rodon and Giolito have sucked lately and the whole team looks tired and as uninspired we we all do here.

So it's Trout of bust in 2021 because that FA class isn't exactly brimming with superstars. It's this winter or next looking at it realistic. If you do nothing this year you better make damn sure you get what you want in 2020 and that just make the odds even worse. I have been saying that forever. Like Hahn said you have no control over when these guys become available . You wait too long and you miss the boat. The Sox have 2 years to get rid of a high K, low OBP bad defense ,bad starting and relief pitching team and everyone wonders why there's so many pessimistic posts. When either Tim Anderson or Palka is your team MVP you have a shit ton of work to do. Then you see posts like we need better defensive pitchers. Yea we do but lets put that like 20th on the list of what we need like way behind pitchers who can actually pitch. Some times I wonder how smart our fans really are.

I'd be shocked if Robert is here in 2020. The Sox have had him for 2 years now and he can't stay healthy and is getting hardly any AB's. He'll need at least 2 years of no injuries years just to make it to AAA and that's if he performs well and doesn't have to repeat a level. He'd have to put up some Eloy like stats just to be called up in Sept of 2020.

Should I make a thread for the 2nd game or is this one good for both games ?

Machado if he goes back to 3rd base , otherwise Harper.

That should be it for Lopez. Lost command again issuing 3 straight walks to load the bases with no outs. Only gave up 1 run however and Sox down 2 -1.

Through 5 tied at 1.

Kind of surprised I saw no mention of Adolfo in the looking forward to 2019 part of the article. A little less surprised at no mention of Robert since he actually will probably spend the 1st half of the year at Winston-Salem but if he plays very well could be moved up in the 2nd half.

A little problem with command and his own fielding in the 1st but good outing so far through 4 .

Some amazing tributes to Hawk in this thread, Thank you Hawk and thank all of you who have posted here so eloquently.

Game under way already. Free game of the day on MLB. Berrios vs Lopez .

Fair enough.

These are highly competitive young men and the whole point of playing besides the money is winning. I think you are sorely mistaken. If they do sign Machado i expect other moves. Maybe not WS winning moves but moves to be above .500

If that's truly the case wouldn't you think the Sox also make moves to get better and fill some holes around Machado ? I'd have to think if they are trying to sell him there has to be a better reason than Wellington Castillo and a massive payday.

I felt way better about them before the Kopech injury. I'm still skeptical of the Sox minor league talent. The majority of it hasn't reached AA yet which most experts would agree is the big test. I do think Jimenez and Cease will probably be good but the guys at fangraphs think Cease is an RP. After that who really knows. Our system might be a tad over rated . I think San Diego , Braves , Twins, Reds, Toronto maybe even the Yankees , Houston and Dodgers could all be rated higher than the Sox once Jimenez comes up and with Kopech on the sidelines. No doubt all the injuries not just to Kopech but to Dunning and Hansen, Burger, Adolfo and Roberts hurt a lot. Need a mostly injury free year and good performance next year to restore faith in them.

I didn't think any of them were mine. I know what my stance has been. I highly doubt we have much of a shot this coming year on Machado or Harper nor Kershaw should he opt out and he has back problems. Looking at the 2020 list I can only see a few names that might get that amount. Arenado, Perhaps Bogaerts or Gerrit Cole. Maybe JD Martinez if he opts out and he will be 32 then. Sale will be 31 and he has to stay healthy . Boston is sure to exercise their team option on him after this year and keep him for 2019. Trout might be the only one in 2021. Right now I'd put it at 50/50 the Sox sign anyone for the amount you said and I'm being generous with those odds.Depends on baseball inflation .

That probably doesn't happen in the next 2 years. When/if we are in contention yes like the Cubs did when they gave us Eloy/Cease for Q.

Was David Dahl a favorite of Soxtalk when he was in the minors ? I seem to remember hearing his name a lot. He's been tearing the cover off the ball lately. I heard something on the Rockies broadcast today I really liked hearing about him. He was choking up a little on 2 strike counts and doing so well he decided to always choke up slightly and has really taken off since then.