chitownsportsfan

Yes and I think the correct decision to this point his been to wait. If he stays healthy and goes like 270/330/500 for a couple months you're going to get 30-40% more on the dollar in a trade then at any point in the last year. The downside risk of another injury is worth the squeeze.

I mean it's March 12th. You can probably go back 100 years and find 3-4 examples of a player like Robert being traded in March. It's just not a time when teams are motivated to make deals for various reasons.

Dodgers are an example of a team that seeks every advantage possible including by spending more than other teams. They aren't going to sit on their laurels because they are already projected for 95 wins. No, they will always seek to get better. Hopefully they are involved in Robert as their involvement will draw out more offers.

wait Omar Narvaez is on the spring roster? Wut?

Would have made all the difference. In a time when not many owners realized winning meant innovating and finding the best people the DeBartolo family did, regardless of anything else.

well i agree but even a broken clock is right twice a day. the sox should be looking to find an untapped market of value in pitching.

No news is good news here anyways. Dude is rehabbing an elbow issue, if he's throwing that's good.

I saw Thorpe in person in his debut and then watched most of his innings after. The problem isn't his velocity the problem is his command and control and lack of a 3rd pitch coupled with his velocity. . When he's got his command of his changeup he can pitch at 90-92. When he doesn't, he's going to get lit up. He's got a couple paths to being a very solid 4th starter: gain velocity or gain command and control. He does all of those maybe he even turns into a 3rd starter type. If he only does one of those things he'll be a solid 4/5. He was always a low ceiling but decent floor guy, which whatever. Trade is done and dusted.

As a former radio guy you don't get paid to come on as a guest. You're "paid" in exposure. Nelson seems to be in about the same spot he was career was as 5 years ago. I dunno, maybe he does alright for himself but it doesn't offer value to the fan to listen to a strident blow hard.

Could Cannon throw a meatball so perfectly down the middle that even Gallo could make contact?

I'd say he's a perfectly cromulent #2 starter. We should have gotten more.

75/25. Hard to make deals in Spring. Be better to get a bidding war going in mid summer anyways. Worth the downside risk as I've said keep him in bubble wrap until then. 2 starts a week at DH, one day a week on the bench. No stealing. No sliding.

How the hell could you be upset about Colson going to cook in AAA? The last thing you want is to put that MLB pressure on a guy coming back from a spring training setback. Good lord. This is the smart decision and one frankly I'm shocked they made. Hold up he's also complaining that the Sox should have signed a "vet stopgap"? Bro, just stop. Yea, spend 5 million on a zero WAR or .5 WAR SS so you can what, waste 5 million in a year we project for 50 wins? WTF kind of sense would that make?

Fegan is amazing. Jim is a wondering lost soul of a prior era of writing that no longer resonates with anybody except fellow Gen X travelers. You nailed Josh.

You put it a little more harshly than I would, but yea.

Pretty clear what's happened here the last 10 years or so.

The middle of that crap sandwich is exactly as you noted. Not only did we not spend big on excellent players, we spent too much on crap players including for some strange reason a bunch of relievers.

There is an alt universe where we sign one of Machado or Bryce, add a big SP and make a WS and become a fun, destination type club. Instead we got...this s%*#.

One thing my surgeon said about my tendons that ripped is that "micro stress" and "micro tears" are often an indicator of eventual full rupture. My own research in my rehab indicated that middle aged active in sport men with a history of patella tendonitis were one of the most extreme outliers for patella tendon ruptures. I say this only to wonder if eventually they will have some sort of tool or solution to ID'ing the initial stages leading to a TJS beyond just "soreness" or "inflammation". Maybe we can ID the problem so early that eventually you just get a little fix before it even happens.

To put a positive post out I like the situation with our young C and SP. There are some green shoots there. Problem is almost literally everything else but watching good young catching and SP is fun and maybe something we can hang our hat on as the season progresses.

He almost had it last year. Human elbow just isn't meant to throw baseballs 95 mph+ without wear and tear eventually requiring surgery. It's become a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy as well as @ptatc says in the rehab and prevention field it's almost just assumed you might as well get it out of the way sooner or later so you've got guys going max effort at all times and just wondering when their name will be called. I'm not sure it's a problem for the league, but it's certainly a problem for individual players and their careers. I believe someone will eventually create a training plan that reduces the risk, as there is too much money at stake not to, but I don't think it will ever be completely mitigated.

agree, make that the 5th now that you mention it.

you can't play out a classic. especially one right in the heart of your demographics. Sox should have 4 jersey's imo. The all blacks, SS, pin whites, 83s. So many teams even in MLB have ruined their iconic jerseys by introducing too many. Keep it simple, play the hits.

Comparing Sox park to TB or Oakland makes no sense. Citing Arlington makes no sense. Most of Passans article is a stretch get on back there. MLB has decided that gate revenue is only a fraction of revenue and teams are fine with it. The Sox will be in Chicago for the foreseeable future one way or another. When something changes I am sure we will all see it but this Nashville talk and this article are not it.