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Fields will need to improve a great deal to complete that many passes. Below 60% completion rate won't do it.

The whole team isn't very good and they know it. They are not planning on being very good this year. Next year they will have a high 1st round pick for the WR and a ton of cap space. Worrying about what they did or didn't do for this year really isn't worth the time.

Agreed. Not. A. Fan. Of. Len. Kasper.

I did not think they needed hitting. They had 7 really good hitters in the lineup. Or so I thought.

I must apologize to everyone. I'm the one one who kept insisting that the lineup was fine and they needed to concentrate on acquiring pitching. I've put history's largest jinx on this lineup. These are not bad hitters but I have made them so. I must go sacrifice a live chicken.

You know they won't go over the tax so that number is the realistic number for how much they have left to work with.

Didn't someone post that with cap eligible benefits the actual cap number is 210?

With the way the team is playing right now they're lucky to win any game.

It will be interesting as this isn't a case where she didn't press charged. It us a case that the prosecutor said they didn't find enough evidence.

There is no way they finish 3rd. There aren't 2 teams better than them. They are currently 3rd and have 8 on the IL and have played as absolutely as bad as they possibly can. Now with this dead baseball the hitter are going to need to change their power first mentality at least for awhile. But they won't play this poorly all year.

Corner and OL.

Bit I thought players shouldn't run down the line on meaningless groundballs because they could hurt themselves. (Not directed at you specifically)

It was to finish the game I think. I dont remember how long. Crede got tossed because he got hit by a pitch but the ump wouldn't give him first base because he said crede didn't try hard enough to get out of the way. Everyone proceeded to get ejected for yelling at the ump and the Sox didn't have many infielders left.

Few will get that unless they are playing near the line.

He throws 2/3 fastball anyway.

Didn't he do it in a game last year? Or was he just practicing there?

No doubt.

He seems to be injured as well with as little as he has been playing. I think it was a back issue. But I do agree his defense there is the better choice

So you prefer to keep Garcia there and in the lineup?

Oh, lord. I understand sacrificing defense for offense, especially with the slump this team has been in, but........

Good to see him throwing in the bullpen. It means he is re-starting "spring training "

How about when they had Carlton Fisk in LF and John Cangelosi in CF?

I didn't mention Kopech as those are valid concerns. You stated Giolito and Cease are pre-injured in your post. Valid concerns for a 35 year old pitcher. However, with a good injury history would not be asmuch of a worry as someone with Rodon's injury history. Again I can't see how you have these concerns but insist Rodon would be good to add to the mix.

Playoffs do because of the intensity. Spring training not really. But if you want to count his spring training innings this this year and add those to his innings pitched this year. He had about 135 including the playoffs last year. You can use 150 but the people taking care of his health or lack thereof will not.

Good point. He used to play pitchers in RF, mostly Todd Worrell if memory serves correctly, when he wanted to bring a lefty in to face one batter and wanted him to face the next hitter.