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Of the group I can see jumping into legit prospect status (bush already mentioned): - Mieses - Delgado - Stiever Best middle reliever trade bait when we are good: - Forbes Missing from even this list but I still think could have a leap: - Anderson Comas

Come on, they aren't trying to bait sox into doing something stupid. They were just as up in arms over Bryant at the time.

In caulfield's epic there is a part about how baez is referred to as magic and I think that's an extension of that nickname because he thinks madrigal will be good, too, and has a similar nickname of magical i think.

Seriously. This has been Levine's m.o. for a while now. Hard to know if this is a report or just his pure opinion based on circumstances.

It seems almost impossible that the browns could draft this bad when factoring in that they were doing the "right thing" in accumulating more picks as well.

Arizona fall league sounds perfect

I’d like to see him go to AFL.

So the league has been moving more toward managers that adhere toward front office info and mindset, focus on keeping a good clubhouse while accepting strategy from above, but all this board talks about is the celebrity micro managers that are paid a premium. No thanks.

That’s fine, But I don’t think lineup protection is any more valid.

I may be confusing some but it seems like Nunez has played Dh and 1b in sporadic games before. They could get away with that infield all together and it wouldn’t be as bad as the W-S outfield this year

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They could hold back Nunes for a month in instructionals, let Curbelo start in Kanny and then promote him or start using DH rotation for ABs

Has to be the worst inning between a battery I’ve ever seen

this doesn't sound like it's going away soon.

Fridays seem to be big offensive days so I'm hoping for same.

Read the next post. I'm not saying he forgets how to hit as soon as he stops focusing on it. I'm saying the work he's putting in to improve on defense is taxing, he's learning what it takes to be a professional catcher, and it's affecting his offense.

Really awesome of you to write this up.

From what it sounded like in the article, the latter. Working more on footwork, throwing, managing the game is both time intensive and physically demanding. Part of it was scaling back those drills, while also letting him work more on his swing and approach.

I just can't get over how predictable this was. Eloy was doing very well in AA but not the screaming "promote now" stats that he has in AAA. Sox could have easily avoided this by just waiting to promote him to AAA until aug 1. Then fans would only be waiting 2-3 weeks in april rather than 8 months for the inevitable.

A 24 year old destroying Great Falls and AZL is not impressive of surprising when he's let go. If the team thought he was good he would have moved.

And rather than assuming more liability and improving benefits for player health, they've fought liability, obfuscated research, and acted like hits on the margin are the issue rather than the constant hits.

Those weren't predictions.

but two of those three are still really bad in season.

I wish the NFL before hamfisting this in would have experimented with something like giving each players a grade after each week. "A" for all clean hits, "B", "C", etc. Let teams know which players are best at this, provide data that the better tackling players are better for their own health on the field. Do financial incentives, allow highly graded players to get an additional amount that doesn't count toward salary cap. I would argue that these would be just as effective, or at least more effective than now, as the suspensions/penalties and would not impact the on field product.

Here's my interpretation of Collins year. He was focusing a lot on defense and didn't care about offense, but it got so bad early that he was allowed to focus on offense more for a bit (this was in an article). I think once he proved to himself he could hit he went back to focusing on improving defense.