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Honestly sox should just contract themselves.

Lol yeah I meant doesn’t hit the ball in the ground. He only has a 36% gb rate and I think Sox were like 55% as a team.

That is a good bench mark.

It's a pretty good idea, doesn't solve the RHH stuff but checks everything else. K's more than you'd like as he gets older but walks 10+%, plays everywhere, and doesn't hit the ball on the ground.

There are definitely Bars on 100 level that serve cocktails, there is like a crown royal club I remember. No idea if they'd serve you shots though, kinda doubt they'd have cups for it.

How would you know that.

Yeah so he mentioned probably just average defensively but has good speed and a good arm...when we are talking about GRF that plays really well. I really hope they kick the tires on this guy. Seattle is full of Outfielders. SD could go after him. I don't think sox do but like I said, the good thing about our poor process is if he does a showcase with Kenny in audience, we have good a shot as any.

I understand. I am focused on a few areas where I'd like to see the sox go from good to great by improving these qualities (crucially while not subtracting in other areas) 1. On offense - balance the aggressiveness of our hitters with additional High OBP/lower K batters 2. On offense - Improve on bad groundball rate through coaching + additions 3. On offense - improve balance of RHH with poor RHP splits 4. Pitching - diversify pitching options with more offspeed heavy pitchers. Velo advantage did not pay off while still so wild 5. Defense - limited ability to improve We have 2 areas where we can reasonably improve 1, 2, 3, 5 in RF and 2b where we do not have established regulars. In free agency, there are plenty of decent 2b options, but very, very few 2b options that actually accomplish 1 or 3. Amazingly, Cesar is one of the better options there, especially if he can be better on defense as he was. In RF, however, there are more options to improve 1, 2 and 3 and at least not get worse on 5. Conforto may block Vaughn from an easy defensive position, but he does offer this lineup vs. RHP. Anderson R Robert R Grandal L Abreu R Conforto L Eloy R Moncada L Sheets L Cesar H./Leury L The emergence of sheets already added a lot, but just adding one more LH hitter like Conforto, along with keeping a switch hitting 2b really does help here. Vs LHP, we also can introduce Romy, who I believe should help with more power. I think "balancing" is tricky in a trade, and just continuing to add is probably better just for one more year then dealing with it.

I don’t understand why he can’t just be a DH? I think everyone is fine with Gavin the DH.

I think you could have stayed with Bulls considering. Colliton seems like his Boylen...except Boylen only lasted 120 games not 3 years.

In addition bWAR for some reason 2017 4.1 bWAR in 109 games 2018 3.4 bWAR in 153 games 2019 3.9 bWAR in 151 games 2020 2.1 bWAR in 54 games fWAR 2017 4.4 fWAR in 109 games 2018 2.9 fWAR in 153 games 2019 3.9 fWAR in 151 games 2020 2.1 fWAR in 54 games So...he "barely touched it" in his 2017 season where he hit 4 war in 2/3rds of a season, but when he was at 3.9 in 2019, that's not 4...that's 2 "and change" I guess. And in 2020, where he had 2.1 WAR in ONE THIRD OF A SEASON that is somehow held against him as a 2 WAR season.

He strikes out >30% of the time, his OBP is .280. If his power goes down an inch his value goes down a mile. And he's an older guy hitting way more homers than doubles, I've seen that story before. I'd say Conforto is a hell of a lot more like Jermaine Dye at signing than Duvall.

minimum attempts set to 10 huh ?

Now last year it felt like sox FA plans got severely screwed by QOs being more popular, and if offered, I wouldn't be shocked if Conforto would rather go into next offseason with hopefully a bounce back year and the certainty of the new CBA.

Yeah, I resisted going to offseason stuff until recently, but if you want to diversify this offense with LH hitting and better OBP that doesn't chase and isn't a butcher in RF you pretty much circle Conforto because outside of putting Seager at 2b it ain't at that position. Now, Marte as a RHH gets you great ABs vs RHP so it's an option there too and I wouldn't complain.

Damn, I really wanted Joe Kelly added in the offseason.

Well it appears the dubs are back.

100% we know

ok caulfield

Not really what I was expecting last night, but glad they bagged a W. Was kinda fun seeing Ayo get all those minutes, but boy did Alize/Green not translate their success in game 1. Get better Coby.

No

Also if Kyle Seager could play 2b, if you want someone that doesn't hit ground balls jeeze what a weird year from him.

huh I thought he was 6'5...seeing 6'4 is less appealing.

So, since this is a safe space. You know...say I win one of these big billion dollar power balls and am charitable and am like "Jerry Reinsdorf, you deserve this money" and all that. Like the dude's defense has dropped off since his tommy john surgery...a bit bizarrely. He realistically is either pushed to 3b now, or make 2b work. He is left handed. He doesn't strike out. He is an on base machine. So like, well actually corey seager is the perfect addition, and maybe his health the past few years (2018...this year) and his defensive decline...JK but seriously if I an elderly billionaire with a sports team I'd say "buy me the tall boy"

lol