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Ha, oh yeah. Hopefully it doesn’t buy Cordell 2 months of additional hitless playing time

Reminds me of that Jerry Sands homer vs blue jays in 2016

Most unexpected “in play (runs)” I’ve had this year

Lol

Announcer takes are the worst part about game threads and that's truly hard to do.

Ivan Ivan he's our man

If Duke Johnson is a June 1st cut I think Bears will be on that.

On the flip side I'd be sooo mad if I were the tribe and just flubbed that inning.

"We're gonna put Eloy in Center, we think the additional responsibility will jump start him, get him seeing the ball right"

NOVAAAAA

Rick Hahn: "So to keep our flexibility open while we wait for our critical mass to arrive, we may have to sacrifice some defense this year to make that happen. So with that in mind, what pitcher should we target for our 5th spot?" Staff: "Let's get the pitcher who has a below average strike rate but doesn't walk anyone so we get a ton of balls in play" Rick Hahn: "Will he come at a discount?" Staff: "No you'll have to pay him above market rate but we'll also have to give up a projectable minor leaguer" Rick Hahn: "Well we have to spend the money somewhere right? nyuk nyuk nyuk"

Thanks so it's not necessarily hitting in front of a good hitter, it's the profile of #2 hitters and challenging hitters who cannot punish you as much in the zone.

More worried about outfield keystone cop scenarios than Nova.

Can you point to where this is? I've never seen this proven. The only thing I remember is Jeff Sullivan looking at Miguel Cabrera's season post Prince Fielder and finding his FB% decline.

No no no. Because he is now in front of Abreu, it's a rule that you will now get fastballs. Despite the fact that you will more likely get him out on offspeed pitches, you should throw fastballs because you are scared of the batter behind him, and should throw him the pitches that make it more likely he will hit them and get on base.

The comp balance market is created by a different set of teams.

Not necessarily the same pick, I think the league just phrases it as "2nd best" or "3rd best". The question is if the market for comp balance picks is "correct yet", and whether the total cost of QO free agent + assets required in trade (money and/or prospects) is greater or less than how they value the free agent market without QOs attached. There is a possibility the comp balance picks are overvalued and it would not make sense. But if they are undervalued, and the cost of losing a draft pick causes the QO free agent to be undervalued in years and dollars, there is a combination there that makes it interesting. edit: the fantasy part of this is expecting the sox to create an accurate value system.

I just think he should be platooned vs. lefties and be spelled more in late innings.

Pushing Leury to RF is more beneficial than as a sub (or c/rf, whatever), competency will help our outfield.

Rondon's fan club has logged on.

Is it too early to put grass seed down?

Well this ain't good.

This new action puts a lot of effort on the legs, which is where he may struggle late in games. He was so efficient yesterday it didn't matter. Him commanding 4 pitches at once was worth it though (curve wasn't amazing but it wasn't spiked every time either). But, we will see. He clearly needed a big change.

Sox should really explore the prices of comp picks from the low revenue teams, there may be some value in acquiring those and getting the discount on the free agents with picks attached to them (without losing the draft flexibility).

First of 2019!