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Well you were normal for a few posts but now it's back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Ha probably back to Sheets level RF defense too. And 2 RH guys screw up the platoon Getz set up so early in the off season. But it is interesting.Both teams end up with a little egg on their faces for their off season weirdness .

Oops my bad forgot they'd have to trade for him so would make no sense to just release him . The cost ends up too high because now you have to find a way to rid yourself of someone with a guaranteed contract. Doubt Robert is traded in the next day or 2 but in the event that he is traded before the season starts you need Taylor for CF. That makes Slater the odd man out which would be a bad look for the Sox considering they signed him 1st because of Fuller and because he's a good weak side Platoon bat and fit Getz OBP philosophy. And also raved about him being the main guy they wanted. That all makes Carnario too expensive to acquire. Both Slater and Taylor have incentive clauses too. It does suck when you're so desperate for a young power bat that when one pops up you can't take a flyer on him.

Lol I just edited my post and changed it to White but he's on that list Quin gave the link to. Someone is missing because I'm counting 39.

I'm not sure that is even up to date .41 listed - Scholtens and Bush leaves 39. I thought we were full. Who's the last guy added to the 40 Owen White ?

Right but one thing at a time.1st on the 40 and if you can't find room you release him. The Yankees just had a guy for a week from the Reds the Sox just picked up didn't they ?

5'6". Look if you aren't fast or don't hit HRs and you can't go above 9 and 10 foot fences in the OF and rob a HR once in a while and you're 27 , had a -.8 WAR and couldn't hit at Charlotte either your basically blew your chance.Julks got released and he's back not on the 40 right ? Colas is the other riff raff .I need to see every pitcher we have before any more of them get DFA'd.

You said $1-3M. I didn't see you list every team who signed players to those amounts for any number of years during the off seasons. Basically it's a task you can't accomplish without quite a few hrs of research. Most in that pay range turn out to be as they were thought to be. Mostly it's luck or whenever a team has a shortage due to circumstances. Or just bad team doing it more often.

As I've said before, just because Hahn and Kenny talked up certain things that failed or never happened and the whole front office seemed contemptuous to one another does not mean Getz doesn't deserve his shot to do it better . The proof is always in the pudding but it'll take years to know especially with JR running interference with the budget. People here are just ashamed of themselves for trusting JR all these years when there always should have been a healthy amount of skepticism. Thinking someone is giving a good effort does not mean anyone should trust a successful outcome due to that effort. It's going to take a lot of different people making a lot of right decisions.

How often does any team do it ? You're the one who said others teams are better at picking shiny garbage than the Sox. The burden of proof is on the one making that claim.

And he's tiny.

I liked Colas when he torched A+ and AA in the same year and got off to a promising start in AAA but somehow he did that without being able to hit a curveball according to Keith Law. He fooled a few others since he made it into the top 100 briefly . He and Fletcher are not long on the 40.

They could DFA Fletcher to make room on the 40.

That last paragraph is pure opinion posing as fact. How do you plan on proving it? Rodon might have been the best $3M ever spent on a scrap heap purchase and the Sox did it. You torpedoed your own lie.

For some reason misinformed, ignorant fans who don't watch or read enough about the ongoing changes in many articles and podcasts now require that we prove it to them that these things have happened because they are having a hard time finding it on Google without us actually knowing how they are wording their search.Maybe it's just a difficult thing to word properly. You can find all the new hires pretty easily and probably find White Sox and Trajeckt Machine ( if I even spelled it right) in a few articles. Plenty of articles about the new academy in the DR. We did get one of the Dodgers Int'l.signings when the Dodgers spent on Sasaki instead. Saw some tweets in ultra slomo so I reckon we got at least one of them thar contraptions. I hope this helps those less fortunate.

I'm assuming I last a little longer than JR and a competitive budget is realized along with a stronger structure under a new owner. But you never know, JR could outlast me . 😂

Max it's never been easy to be a Sox fan.But if it ever turns out that the Sox can become a consistently good team on par with teams that do good work with big data and players development I'd be thrilled about it. It's not like there's been Sox lifers among the players recently. That era came and went along with the arrival of Free Agency many years ago. Most fans following the team now were born in the era of Free Agents. If with a new owner they operate more like Tampa Bay and less like the Sox typified by the Reinsdorf Disinformation Era , I ,for one , would be happy to root for anyone who plays hard on winning teams.

https://www.mlb.com/news/noah-schultz-brian-bannister-spring-training-advice Schultz calls Bannister magic. "Glad he's on our side."

Common sense prevails once again. Crochet admitted to being a 1 pitch pitcher last year headed into camp . You can do that sometimes as a reliever but not as a starter. It's amazing to me that any Sox fan who is always in here should know so little about a player he's taking a stance on. Players constantly are working to improve there game and the smart one take advantage of their coaches. Noah Schultz just said things about Bannister that were extremely complimentary yet that poster would have us believe he's being disingenuous or a liar.

When the player himself credits his coaches it is a crazy argument.There's a fine line between success and failure at the top level of any sport. Body and mind must blend perfectly and can only do so in the right atmosphere of coach and player cooperation. I don't see you being so understanding of Getz failures or the Sox inability to draft and develop so it would only follow that since they have a bad history that the present has to be equally ineffectual. More false equivalencies.

We're just going to have wait on the great Thorpe debate but I don't even know what you are postulating here. This is true of any pitcher who might pitching with a sore body part in his arm. It's hard enough to be consistently good to MLB hitters early in your career and then add injury. Why we act like he should be considered a finished product already is kind of strange.He was a phenomally good pitcher in the minors before the Sox got him and after and in his 1st 3 starts. We act like he was a mystery until there was a book on him .It's 2025 not 1945 there's plenty of video and scouting reports on pitch mix and location to lefties and righties that can be easily obtained and coaches to game plan with the hitters . Yes movement and velocity matter but movement, deception and command of a decent number of pitches matters just as much. No one who is injured can do anything as well in any field that requires motion. You cannot effectively fake your way through pain especially at the top of your chosen sport that requires accuracy .

I specially try not to read body language or level of commitment to excellence. Caring too much and not being as good as you want to be can lead to bad body language. Also let's not forget that hitting a baseball well is 70 % failure and there are a lot of good fielders catching a lot of your good contact . It's incredibly frustrating.

Don't you know Crochet getting good was 100 % all Crochet ? That's what I've been told. I've had this discussion many times.

I meant unfortunate in that it likely relegates Meidroth to the minors when he should most likely start the season with the Sox.

The Sox are so bad offensively I think you're just looking for anyone who can put up a .750 OPS . It doesn't mean they are there forever . It's just finding a place for a hitter who might not ever be a good defensive 2nd baseman ,SS or 3rd baseman to play just to get his bat in the lineup cheaper than Vaughn. At this point you're looking for whoever can hit. You're just putting him at 1st because there's no logjam there.