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My opinion is most baseball players years are a vascillation between feast and famine and Yermin is likely to just be in famine right now and not a DFA candidate but that's just me.

Don't know where to put this but Baseball America has been doing some great work lately.

For those who worried about Eloy injuring others in the outfield...meet moncada

imagine how much better he would be if steve stone liked him.

yeah, that is sorta how they used cervelli last year, and you are right, it very well could have been cheap insurance for a DH should it have happened.

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article249320890.html So yeah I guess catcher.

A few weeks back Heyman or someone had a tweet on the Marlins for some reason bragging about how they tried to trade for Mercedes in this past offseason, so perhaps they believe he can survive as a position player...somewhere.

One thing I totally believe but I'm sure will never have any hard proof is that if the sox would have been in this situation in 2018 and thought "well we have Abreu long term at 1b, let's see if he can be an OF" it would have been a way slower turnaround. I think part of it is sox have been better about developing, but there is something about having a winning team that seems to help bring out the best of everyone, helping them focus and succeed on being a baseball player rather than individual goals - and somehow making it easier to hit individual goals. Maybe there is another aspect. TA comes up in 2016 as its falling apart and needs to be a savior. Moncada, Jimenez, both are seen as saviors. Vaughn as a prospect was nearly highly as touted, but he just gets to come up and be a piece in the wheel. Anyway, Considering how poorly the league is hitting and how hard a jump he had to do, him mashing LHP and struggling vs. RHP is a win, but him being a competent outfielder is unreal.

If we are talking playoffs ... I'm platooning Andrew as a bat vs. LHP and putting him in RF. To start the year, Eaton's splits vs lhp have been unbelievably bad. They will certainly improve, but I'll take the chances especially being so happy with Andrew's arm so far.

I was wondering after last night if the quality of mlb defense was specifically awful this year as its offense is. https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/stat/errors-per-game Turns out no. Errors per game are at .58, which puts it at the lowest of last three years and middle of the pack the last 6. It just happens that the Sox have been horrible with errors while also playing a schedule mostly consisting of teams in the back half of errors per game.

Would rather cubs be good to avoid KB being sent to an AL team in the hunt.

Vaughn is 25th out of 37 outfielders in left field for OAA (which I think is a win) at -2. Tied with him are Justin Upton, David Dahl and Tommy Pham. Worse than him: Joc Pederson, Andrew McCutcheon, Kyle Schwarber, Clint Frazier If prior to this experiment, you'd say after two months he'd be better defensively than the players mentioned above I think we'd all take that as a huge win.

This team is really crushing it at home.

Nice 3 hit game for Ramos, and this was Bilous AA debut right? Nice start for him. Dirty Dedes with another 2 hits, ho hum.

That section does not see a lotta balls it’s way. What a shot.

This has been a dumb dumb game

Bomb

@Kalapse won’t see this but didn’t he guess a 4-0 start?

I’m telling y’all if you want the Sox to reverse a trend, bet on the trend! Best $10 I ever lost, you are all welcome

yeah this is kinda accurate but there were no prop bets that really aligned to betting against early sox offense that well.

To ensure the sox will have a TA leadoff homer, I will put $10 on the cards to be the first to score tonight.

Does anyone remember - was that adam eaton bubble gum walk-off vs. the cards?

that 2003 bleachers era was ridiculous, and seemed to feed on itself. That there were fights in the bleachers lent itself to people going to fight in the bleachers. I don't want to go back there.

ugh, I hope that doesn't become routine again.

Him showing that he can dominate an higher level of competition at a younger age is more praiseworthy than dominating a lower-level of competition at an older age I agree.