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Oh please it's garbage. No one is saying bring him up besides WBwhatever We're saying get him up to the next level.

Eloy Jimenez Age 20 between A+ and AA .312 .379 .568 .947 369 PA Eloy Jimenez extracted from above in AA Birmingham .353 .397 .559 .956 Eloy Jimenez Age 20 in the Dominican Winter League who some say is like AA+ .368 .443 .676 1.120 79 PA This year Eloy Jimenez Age 21 in AA Birmingham .346 .375 .704 1.079 88 PA Just sayin' he's right, AA isn't a challenge for him. He needs/wants to be challenged. Time for AAA. And if he falters there( which he won't) then those wanting to wait til 2019 might have some ammo. Just remember Charlotte is a hitters park, Birmingham isn't.

There's just so much to respond about in this thread. There's just no way the Sox can wait til 2019 to call up JImenez. Many keep saying if he gets really hot and forces the issue but he's been playing like a man possessed for a long time now. Just as with Big Frank he could come up now and probably be the best or nearly the best hitter on the Sox. Sure send him to AAA for a month and when he wrecks some pitching careers there bring him up right after the All Star game . I sure wouldn't want to piss him off. He has the desire and has been forcing the issue with his bat and his words. Yea we all know it makes no sense in a shitty season but once he's up it rewards the current players with a few more wins, a glimpse of the future and hope for 2019. It also makes Eloy very happy,If you had Mike Trout would you want to make him angry or happy ? I choose happy.

So getting back on topic I can easily see the reasons for keeping Kopech down but anyone expecting the Sox to wait til next year on JImenez are going to be disappointed. He wants to be here and he is forcing the issue right now with his hitting, He's been going wild in AA . He should be promoted like right now to AAA to start a chain reaction of some of the better prospects promotions also, Yes it's early in the minor league season but guys like Zavala , Collins, Basabe, Dunning, Adolfo and a few others already could be easily promoted. Talent forces the issue, The Braves have/had the 3 youngest guys in the majors in Albies, Acuna and Sorotka. Some times the talent just forces the issue and Eloy is at that point . He should be in Charlotte like right now and a month later when he also destroys AAA pitching he should be here.

Maybe he's looking for some kind of sign that Sox management has a clue on how to pick talent and how to develop it. Burdi, Burger, Fulmer, Rodon and Collins recent revelation that he pretty much fixed himself to get out of his slump still has most of us wondering about the Sox talent evaluators. I know injuries happen and some of those guys were just unlucky but it's got me half expecting some kind of Hansen implode once he gets back.

Interesting you brought up India as an underslot pick. He has helium because of the great year he is having in a very good conference,In 48 games he's hitting .382, OBP .524 , Slg. .771 44BB/36K so he definitely fits the Sox recent draft profile. All that being said the Sox might not mess around with an underslot pick since Jake Burger might not ever work out due to his body betraying him. Tough though since the draft probably ends up producing later picks that end up better than earlier picks with so many of the top 10 picks not considered elite. Will be interesting to see if India makes it into the top 10 players picked.

88 years comment pretty unfair since you really have no idea how they did things and no free agents or divisions or wildcards most of those years. Sox have never had an ownership group that could be called free spending and many years of tightwad or just lack of money ownership. The 3 times in 23 years was much better.

I had a problem with Renteria sticking with Avi in the 2 hole. He was sucking there and for an important piece like Avi it is essential he show last year wasn't a fluke. Renteria just refused to move him from that spot until he was injured when Sanchez seemed the an obvious choice to bat 2nd.

It's just really sad when moves are made just for the sake of making moves. No real intent to improve the team one iota. If and when they strike out on big name free agents it will be disgusting. I just hope the off season moves were intended to keep us bad and spend their revenue sharing provisions and not made because they thought anyone they signed besides Castillo was any good. All they basically did was sign a bunch of bodies hoping some float . It just would be nice if the Sox showed they could pick out veterans that can actually provide talent before they actually really need to. I think that was driving my requests for Moustakas more than anything.Well that and the fact LH power. youngish .cheapish and filled a need.

Hellickson will take a perfect game into the bottom of the 7th for the Nats against the Padres.

Beef !

Patience..,Eloy's comin' hide your hearts girls.

Greg is that you ?

I voted yes because the Sox have needed a replacement for Andy the Clown for over 25 years now.

Get a knock Leury

Thank you all for participating in the mixed metaphorathon brought to you by the ghost of Yogi Berra who once said " I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. "

Now they are going to collapse like a house of cheap suits

Yea its time he stepped up to the plate and lays his cards on the table

I just hope Gio gets his curve straightened out.

I thought it was Is a bear Catholic ?

Really ? Clearly this is the right one then, ?

Cooler Heads prevail.

Not touching that with a dead horse.

I chuckled

If the Sox think he should start he should start. Easy. Not enough starting pitching depth now to send him to the minors. Well I suppose there's always Covey again or that other older guy they got in Charlotte,