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Please please please don't come back in February having completely lost it all again.

And yet these are competitive people that want to win games, and getting a W is still important to them. Just because a win doesn't have much value in evaluating the talent of a pitcher does not mean it doesn't have value in the psychology of playing the game for players. It clearly does, and maybe it provides a little extra focus late in games knowing that they can get the win.

One of the main reasons I did not want to trade Avilan.

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I think it's more like when you develop an incredibly valuable skill that has a finite amount of time before it diminishes and you cannot use it for a career anymore, and an organization that hires people with that skill and also prevents competition for others to hire that skill to delays your entry into the league at a cost of tens of millions to yourself strictly to prevent the organization from paying you market rate. We all can relate right?

Weird!

It was reported topping out at 96 when he got to Charlotte. Just lost some juice.

so just watched again, amazing that was a ball, but Sox should place a shock collar on their catchers whenever they turn over their wrist. Always goes for a ball.

His fastball doesn’t even move that much, hard to miss that.

That ... has to be the worst ball call of year

Very surprised he didn’t sit a day or two.

I’m not against trading for reliever. My point is people cheering for depleting our bullpen then being shocked it’s bad. Burr was also not acquired with another bullpen piece, we could have *gasp* just had a deeper bullpen of people wanted to win so badly in August/September.

It’s not about getting away with it, one is about development one is about maximizing wins this year. But this is a development year.

Obviously this is an indication of Heymans deep and knowledgeable sources and not that he repeats whatever some agent shoots shit with him on late at night for his columns.

When it’s the playoffs or meaningful games yeah I want to see that. i don’t know, I guess I still believe that crap that Ozzie in 04 taught our pitchers how to get out of trouble by keeping them in when Manuel pulled and it paid off later when we needed them to go deep in long seasons and playoffs.

Our best reliever is in charlotte with our best hitter right now and it’s not Ricky’s fault.

Cooper has always said he goes more by when mechanics start breaking down the pitch count. Not a fan of the let them go until they fail stuff but in a rebuilding year I do want our young starters to learn how to go deep and maintain their stuff.

*sox trade away competent middle reliever for 40 year old single A pitcher* soxalk: Hooray! We saved our owner money and maximized our sweet sweet asset *trash bullpen gives up lead* soxtalk: why is our bullpen trash? Must be the manager putting the wrong trash reliever in!

It’s almost like when you purposely make your bullpen bad this happens.

Shocker

Clearly it’s doing great

I like my luises.

Stop acting like watching video tapes can’t lead to back to back to back national championships.

Palka moves away from plate, is promptly pitched outside, is. doesnt seem like the foolproof trick it’s made out to be.

Shame he may not be able to go more than six.