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This may mean Burger is here a while. But a big recognition of Forbes, who to me is another sign of Sox PD working better. We acquired him as a raw, toolsy player from Texas for MiGo in 2017 as a 20 year old. While producing decent averages, he had no power to speak of, but slowly climbed up the ladder from W-S to Bham. In 2019 in Bham, something interesting happened, he started to walk a lot. He doubled his walks from year before and put up a nice .330 OBP despite a low average. But again, zero power. Them we miss him for a full year and he comes back to Bham as a 24 year old and starts off with a fantastic .299/.356/.456 slash line. He had more homers in 2 months this year than all of 2019, his .150+ iso his best yet. Congrats to Forbes! Go kick charlottes ass and don’t look back.

He’s 30 now, much better than last year in coots, and offense is down across league compared to 2019. Story likely has more homers playing in Chicago.

Would be a big fan of this as a transaction also A+ rumor. Definitely a front office you’d want to work with.

So I think my thought process in these trades is the cost of control makes it way too easy to come out underwater. You May as well look for an Arozerena type trade of a guy blocked you believe in if you prioritize control. Sox really shouldn’t.

Likely guy gone with player acquisition.

Landoooo

? Sosa with ANOTHER Homer

Who knows but he was signed out of Venezuela during years where teams were avoiding the areas so chance he’s more. He’s done well so far. Tatis seems to be a workout king but has been awful in games.

Wilber Sanchez 3/4 with a double for AZL, Abbott with a homer

How can you not love Billy. Man he’s the best

Yep, he’s stayed pretty stuck there. I would say Sox have position him really deep so I don’t know how that effects this but does feel like it concedes more hits.

Lol at you trying to turn this into bad news for Sox org.

Anytime you are fetishizing control it’s a bad idea

Can’t get over that Sheets homer

Nothing noticeable in game but announced a “leg injury” severity unknown

Haha he does but live the idea of saying the kid of a pretty well known major leaguer looks like a different major leaguer

On a delay but holy crap only a big dude like Gavin could crush a FB that high that far. What a start for him.

For the record Bush played in AZL today so hopefully he’s back soon

Sosa homer. Really starting to up his power.

Yermin one of the few board topics where everyone was right

Howdy Jake

1000%

The bull case for Sanchez is he’s offensively gotten better as he’s moved up. But him showing up fat and out of shape to ST really made me dislike him. But need to be open minded on how last year effected different people.

TiQuan Forbes man, hitting .300 with an .815 OPS after a homer. Not sure he has enough power for the corners, but this is impressive.