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No Who is on first?

Right. Someone has pointed out we dont know what landing a big fish even looks like, but I know what it doesn't look like and it's a lot like this: - Suddenly not being mentioned as the bidding for the free agent heats up - Team moving starting 2b to 3rd and announcing its full time *for no reason* - Other teams being labeled as "aggressive" in their pursuits.

I don't understand why this is a line of thought. Whether or not Machado signs does not mean you need to move your very important part of the rebuild to 3rd and *downgrade* him to accommodate a guy that may *may* be a supersub on a contending team.

He has a great arm.

I really thought "naw you guys are overreacting, sox aren't going to prematurely move their potentially plus plus 2b for a guy they just drafted that may not be there for 2 years if ever" but nope, yeah that's what they are doing.

...but Moncada is a second baseman. A very rangy athletic speedy second baseman.

This org does not particularly seem like they have any idea what they are doing.

nvm fathom was right.

He also started falling down as soon as it was clear he was a 1b, which Vaughn already is.

Said it before but if this year is the polar opposite of last year for development we would be world series champions next year. It was brutal, and we just have to hope we get positive regression.

One thing this has made me realize is if manny signs we will actually have a good lineup vs. RHP esp. if we sit Timmy some times.

I am not the biggest believer in this organizations competency, but I find it likely the sox indicated in the offseason to Moncada they wanted him to start flexing at 3rd in games, and created a plan for spring training. If manny signed? Then you can split out the squads and get them both reps at 3rd. I assume there are multiple fields to work. If we signed Manny would they just not led rondon/madrigal practice? They were there today too.

If they really want him to be more versatile though, they are going to want to give him reps at it before putting him in a game.

Thank you. Ideally sox end up a team with more than one good player at positions, and depending on the pitching matchup may need to play multiple of those players on one game, and can because they utilize them around the diamond and they are prepared for that. In soxtalk minds if that happened, you trade your backup shortstop and 2b for catcher. Screw that, you want to win the division every year? Have overwhelming depth. You may not win a world series but you'll get through 162 a lot easier.

How about this, our CF bat is terrible. Behind a few runs late in the game they move tim to CF and allows us to bring in rondon in for an extra bat while keeping tims bat in lineup. That's the kind of versatility you see top teams seeking, moving players around to create optimal lineups for pitchers. Knowing that Tim could play some center does not mean he is always a center fielder.

Why?

charles the cat 2m ago They have no "money" to spend, but my sources are telling me the cubs are about to launch an ico called "cubbiecoin" and they are prepared to offer harper 6trillion cubbie coins which could be worth way more than money.

I am not very optimistic right now, but Machado working only at 3rd base for one practice on February 18th is not that sign dudes.

Luis Gonzalez had a minor groin injury in september.

hey, I said he "could be", could be could be not! - Jim Bowden probably

Really gets down to if the owner felt comfortable being cash flow negative for the team.

The board is weird with him because 1) I agree there is way too much assumption that he's gonna make it and moving a player in anticipation of him is nonsense but also 2) the board is way too certain on his ceiling and what type of player he'll be based on two months of baseball.

To me that's a good thing because it was all padres.

One thing for doubters to keep an eye on is how willians astudillo performs this year for twins. Guy had basically one skill which was he didn't k and also didn't walk much. Not much else, little power, no speed. He finally made it up to the twins and performed pretty well. Like Narvaez, he seems to be developing decent power later in his 20s. Madrigal has a much better tool package.

He had more issues than sale with endurance and keeping his stuff late in starts. If he wanted to be a starter it needed to change, but if he isn't then he should go back to what worked, though still needs better command.