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I’ve thought about it mainly because they need playmakers wherever they can get ‘em. I think giants re-sign him though. trenches trenches trenches otherwise.

I thought the bears were guaranteed too 2 now

Oh sorry I saw your post and thought he was coming over at 24

I really just find it unforgivable that the mlb owners saw Ohtani clamoring to come over and said “let’s try and make it harder for the best players in the world to play on our league just in case we have to pay them full price!” Crazy player competitiveness of these guys keeps saying to go for it anyway.

The bengals roster was so built out when they drafted burrow. That they skyrocketed from 1st overall draft position to 5th the next year

Yeah all this. It is a true warts and all position now. I think outfield defense is more vulnerable currently than any offensive gains for a lot of these guys we are discussing. We had a good pitching staff last year because they Kd a lot of batters, but any contact went to the worst defense of my life. Benintendi is just a neutral outfielder, Robert had trended to slightly above average, and colas is reported as average albeit with a dynamite arm. adding our fourth outfielder as just a limited corner guy puts more PT to Leury and Romy. Puts a lot of pressure on Roberts health.

Yea, lesser guy would be kemp

Bryson Stott was handed a starting infield position on the world series phillies. Jeremy Pena handed a starting position on the world series astros. Steven Kwan, starting LF for the Cleveland Guardians. Julio Rodriguez, starting CFer for the Seattle Mariners Josh Lowe for Tampa Rays Andrew Vaughn 2021 White Sox Jake Cronenworth won a spot on the 2020 playoff padres as a 26 year old. Chas McCormick, starting in left field for the 2021 houston astros on opening day. Cristian Javier, starts in the rotation for the 2021 Houston Astros Not that novel. Romy and Sosa also were up last year. So they were given time to work into a role. That would make them similar to players like Sean Murphy, who was up for 20 games in 2019 before being handed the starting role on the 2020 contending As. Will Smith with the dodgers. Luis Garcia got a cup of coffee in 2020 before becoming a starter for the Astros in 2021 Then you have the teams that are relying on a player but holding him down to "let him work his way in" like Kris Bryant on the 2015 cubs.

Oh, it’s possible. Grissom was pretty dynamite last year though. What are Red Sox doing with SS? Is Story moving over?

I’d prefer we get a guy that can swing 2B and OF if we go after depth, or straight up outfield. RF concerns me much more, mainly because I could still see them putting sheets out there

Let me look up every contender of all time for you

Rookies are part of contention windows all the time. The braves season was saved by 3 rookies last year, and now they are turning SS over to one of them.

Boy sure would be nice to have Alex Call right now instead of yonder Alonso’s tenure in 2019

I don’t think dodgers are gonna make a CF splash, but honestly Trayce Thompson would be a great person to hand off to Colas and be our 4th OF.

Not to mention getting rid of the home run statue ?

I don’t even understand if they are rebuilding or competing. As soon as the ownership group decided they weren’t going to spend, they probably should sell this pitching because there is just nothing on the position player side that will prop them up.

I agree. Said before but I’m not big on fishing for offensive solutions from second base. If we stabilize it, I’d prefer it be for a plus defensive player (I’ve mentioned schoop as a cheap acquisition that can be moved on from easily) The good thing with Sosa is so don’t think there is anything bad about him playing AAA this year, but I am very excited for him.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-military-kharkiv-russia-war-landmines-11672326884?st=myssbfurlib43y8&reflink=article_copyURL_share gutting read from an embedded WSJ reporter

Sure would be nice if as part of fans spending on the shitty milb package they could get the trackman data for AAA games (not single game feeds, like the aggregate stats)

When he was making contact, he was in fact hitting the ball hard. Your first sentence is stupid, we aren’t comparing 4A players to the general population. Compared to other ball players in the big leagues, Romy hit the ball hard. If he truly can’t stop swinging at everything and has a 2% walk rate that he had for 100 at bats, then nothing matters. But I guess we’ll just have to add him to the list of Sox players who need an improved approach at the plate, which is a list that includes every player in the team. Or we could sign Josh Harrison, that’ll put us over the top.

He hits the ball very hard. If other orgs have a player that hits the ball very hard and plays 6 positions they should see what they have as well.

He should have really prevented the pandemic if he wanted to be taken seriously.

I think I’d rather go after a very very strong defensive 2B than chase after 100 wRC+ I don’t think trading for schoop is worst idea

Hmm what’s the outlier here

Or perhaps There is a reason he chosen to be a primary DH rather than use much of his versatility.