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Because he tried to throw out players instead of hitting the cut off man leading to dozens of extra bases taken against us

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Not much on his stuff but definitely improves after acclimating. Striking out a ton this year.

He was acquired for cash and our AAA starting pitchers have neither stuff nor control so this is fine.

Yeah haven’t seen it yet either

eh, this guy is really in the touki category right now. But OTOH, I laughed at Touki, and he's been great. Sometimes the best organizations in the world can't fix a guy, and then father time does the trick.

good, need 100 more of these. Completely turnover that trash AAA rotation.

yes. But if he doesn't, he'll be in chris carter limbo as soon as he is in decent arb money. And if Eder, who is really exciting and seems to just be tapping the surface, succeeds than the sox win.

I do wonder if Jake can find more walks with better tools. Maybe marlins are that now not sure. But if he can, then he's a right handed schwarber. Just absolutely torches balls.

Eder is also the #2 prospect in the latest updated team rankings from BA (and much props to them for targeting their update BEFORE the deadline. Love that group)

OTOH he was the one guy who could justify his positions with power and was not a base clogger. But yes, we need more real players and if we have pitchers who ever throw a groundball - an infield that can field it.

pretty pleased with this.

Why not both!

Texas signed those guys in a way that was similar to if the sox had signed machado in 2019. That is still likely a bad team as the pitching was still a year or two away from arriving. Bochy is a great manager, but circumstances matter. Last year Buck looked like a genius too, this year a goat. I thought Pedro would just be a replacement level manager, and I think he was. This team being like this wasn't unheard of - PECOTA mapped it. Doesn't mean Tony last year was incredible to get 81 wins - one of our best runs was after he left. Last year featured a Cy Young caliber season from cease, much better offensive seasons from TA/Eloy when they were healthy, and a heater from Elvis Andrus and a better bullpen. I think managers can sometimes match the mindset, and come in with a "no more fuckin around lets do this" type role and catch lightning in a bottle. But that won't happen when your big offseason move is a slappy mcgree LFer and signing Elvis Andrus. "All-in" baby.

I think baseball is probably the least bad of this just because it's hard to say these guys who go thru minor league systems in small towns with very little infrastructure were being coddled. But what is important is finding players who cannot stop trying to improve their craft, and were not just players with insane talent that could get by and just let it work itself out. Baseball adjusts too much, and pairing players who desire to grow with strong development programs is a super power for places like the Rays/Astros/Dodgers. The sox could still feasibly get a bunch of players that want to grow but have nothing to offer them, so we'd just need those players to pay for private help in the offseason (Giolito) and hope it works out.

Much bigger power in this group than I remember from previous ones. Jose Rodriguez stuck out years ago with just a handful of home runs, that’s most of these guys

Gotcha, yeah probably was since he didn't have that rest day. Good find.

3pm tomorrow I believe

well Cease and Robert are pretty close there, Robert certainly better than Magglio esp in 2023 offense. But the rotation is going to be a disaster.

Stiven Flores has been DH ing a lot recently, I wonder if he got hurt.

power is always the most interesting thing in DSL.

was there anyone who listened to Fegan?

I mentioned KW/Jerry viewing this as a 2002 type reset where they dumped some money and went back into it and eventually found the promise land and I can see them thinking the same thing. I think they hope Grandal goes and Middleton but probably nothing else.

nice game for D'angelo Tejada