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Waiting for Slater, Tauchman and Lee to come off IL.

I agree. I think the big question, is this version of Robert with 20 million especially with the injury history.

Even with Montgomery leaving they are one of the more fun teams to watch.

Exactly, its only below average not god awful.

Official word is load management. As long as he gets around 80 innings, he can still be on a track to start in the future. Maybe they are seeing his arm isn't recovering well after the 3 inning appearances, yet.

Trades for Meidroth and Vargas sure helped, otherwise, ewww. Still not great but better.

Less employees means less resources needed. Even if they pay the current people more to cover it won't be the salary of adding another person. This is before the savings on benefits. Will the coverage be as good, no. Will it save money, yes.

No reason to spend the money on a dedicated person now. The team is bad this year. The media goes where the story is and this year its the Cubs.

That's just it. They counted on one group and didn't develop/acquire anyone behind them. They had a pretty good run bit when they got injured/worse there was no one behind them. To have sustained success, they need to develop/draft others. With the limited resources available from JR, they need to focus on this. This takes time. I know everyone wants to win this second and will not allow any time. That's just not realistic.

While this may be true, i still think they should continue to try him as a starter until he cant. UCL reconstruction and lat injuries are not uncommon for any pitcher.

With the beating that catchers take there is nothing wrong with having 2 good ones rotating between catching, DH and days off.

I know their aren't many of us but I agree with you.

I believe someone said raised his hands as he couldn't get to the high fastball.

Palacios and Amaya?

That's only with a repair. A menisectomy is 3-6 weeks.

Reynolds was fired but he sued ESPN for wrongful termination because the charges were bogus. ESPN settled out of court and gave him a substantial amount of money. By all reports he's a good guy. Phillips on the other hand, not so much.

Probably true.

I agree. Some themes are constantly repeated.

I guess we'll see if it works. That will be the end game.

True. They've taken it to another level. But I also think that no organization was as far behind in facilities, technology and analytics as the Sox were. They've spent a good amount of resources on upgrading these. JR has his budget and they've worked within it. Whether it works or not who knows but that's what they are doing. To get all up in arms and offended that they have bad players on the MLB level is just ignoring the fact that they are tanking and rebuilding.

Night games in Decmeber and January suck.

Where did anyone say they were perfect? I never even said they were right. I said thos all could the case. It's not a dichotomy where everything is all wrong or everythingis always correct. There is evaluation and decision making. It's a constant process.

That's fine. You can dislike the plan but they do have a plan.

Then decided he wasn't what they wanted after working with him. Should we stay on the merry go round?

Sure does. As soon as they find ones they like, they'll give them a chance.