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Personally I think Kopech has too much self awareness for an athlete, certainly for a baseball player. That and I think his lower body injuries were pretty bad and affected his entire delivery. Give me the meat heads that don't think usually.

I think it's better now than it used to be honestly. First three weeks are basically just for the young guys and then the last two are basically just ok time to get semi serious. Prior to like 2018 or so you still had teams pretending vets needed spring as some sort of tune up, at least now they've realized you want to get the youth the majority of the action and the vets are just there to get conditioned and ready to play the marathon of 162. I like that MLB has moved the season up to start last week of March. With global warming you're going to have more and more warmish periods in late March anyways. Yea you'll have more cold snaps but overall it will favor earlier starts and the northern teams will have on average better crowds. Of course if I was emperor king I'd go to 152 games given the new playoff structure (which is fine) and end the season Oct 28th or so, but that's never going to happen. MLB is now a sport that will run into the meat of CFB season and NFL for better or worse.

From Mid Michigan. Don't see many MLB players coming out of there. Hope he can impress.

What's the deal here? Pretty much just a guy at this point? 5th starter / mop up?

Just one year I'd like someone considered a borderline prospect to impress.

2 weeks until opening day.

I doubt they hire anybody full time. Dying industry covering a terminally ill franchise.

It's more common now but still rare. Don't think Suarez was traded in spring. I'll soften my argument to in this case it doesn't make sense to trade him until he proves he is healthy and productive, regardless of prior spring deals.

Holy s%*# top hand vaughn! That was a nice swing. Keep it up bro.

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?