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He will struggle with strikeouts and contact early on in the MLB.

True. However I think most people will agree that signing mid level veterans to fill in around a mediocre core is a recipe for mediocrity where they get no top flight draft picks and no high end FA. Do you think that this was the plan the FO thought would take them to the World Series?

If they start to pay players, it will escalate to how much the "stars" get paid and how much normal recruits get paid The argument will be the same as it is now, who brings in the money. It's easier to just keep the kids out of school who don't want to be there. They don't need to go to college.

True but personally I would give them the chance.

Especially the younger fans.

I disagree. They were never allowed to do a true rebuild. I will give them this chance.

And the gift of Jake Arrieta discovering microdosing. I didn't say that and I'll deny it.

If they dont have a winning record in year 5 everyone should go. There should be enough of the acquired talent alone to win if they traded and drafted adequately.

I think it is because over the next 2 years as the prospects arrive and the team is competitive, he can refer to it and go, see I'm the smartest man in the room, which he likes to be.

I would say they have been impatient during the 3rd year (this year) of the rebuild. The Sox played way over their heads with this rotation in the first half. This caused this losing streak to really hurt.

Sox fans have not been ridiculously patient with the rebuild. The Atros who many people use an example had 3 or 4 100 loss seasons during the rebuild. The Sox have had one. People can be pessimistic but let's not go overboard.

The solution isn't to pay the players. The solution is to be like baseball. If you enroll in college you are not eligible to be drafted for 3 years. This will stop all of the big scandals. There will always be small money under the tables from alumni organizations and such but to will stop all of the major money deals and get the kids out of college who dont want to be there.

Dont be bringing up players the Sox didn't draft into the safe zone. You are back handedly being negative here.

Put it on the board.....YES! I agree.

They need to see what each prospect has and if they can be part of the future, even as a 4th OF.

Hopefully all of this will lead to a change in the one and done rule the NBA has. However, since all of this has no effect on the NBA maybe it won't.

That's the first thing I think of when someone gets injured too. What an incompetent FO.

Waiting for service time considerations.

My apologizes, I was teaching a class this afternoon. This looks to be minor but he must have really whacked it for it to be bad enough to miss games. That really doesnt happen too often but nerves heal very slowly. The other more serious possiblity is that you do stretching and "contuse" your ulnar nerve when you stretch the UCL. Hopefully it is a true contusion and not an injury to the UCL.

Yes, that is correct as well. I was just referring to the fact that so many of my patients who are runners, only run. They need to get in the miles to do marathons, ultras and such. So even if all the do is run, they should change the stresses as well.

Its a legitimate point. The theory is that with always doing the same activity, there is the same forces and stress on the same structures so they break down faster. Being a biomechanical researchers, I'm a little biased but I agree with the theory. Tissue can only take so much stress before the start to break down. No one should ever do the same thing time and again. Runners are a prime example and I work with them quite a bit. Always running the same speed and cadence leads to stress always being the same. Every runner should change speeds and cadence throughout every workout. This changes the stress and we know it leads to fewer injuries.

Not necessarily. If it's enough of an issue that he was going on the IL and not play, they would want their own doctors to look at it and do the MRI here. It could very well just be a muscle strain, most likely biceps, and the MRI is to grade the strain.

If it's more than a grade 3 injury, they have to do the surgery. Mickey's issue was the abundance of scar tissue after the surgery not a problem with the UCL. It was an arthroscopic procedure to clean up the tissue. That doesnt happen often but with the nerve and arteries in the area, it needs to be cleaned up.

It's his throwing arm so it will depend on the extent of the injury. If it completely torn, the could brace him, DH him for awhile. However, he would probably need surgery by the end of August to be ready for next season.

I agree. This wasnt a case of him going for the ball awkwardly or trying to put his foot on the wall. This was him making a good aggressive play for the ball. If Tilson wasnt there it wouldnt have been an issue. This was a communication issue not a bad outfield play issue like the ankle injury.