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Hopefully eloy will “make it so”.

Oh fuck no, Ozzie at the end was brutal. he had long worn out his welcome at that point and then quit on the fucking team. after 2008 he just started saying shit to say shit and his preference for guys that played like him was stronger than ever and was hurting the club. 2004-2007 Ozzie, sure, maybe.

HOF baseball person bro.

autopilot? you can't be serious. the plane has lost its left engine, the vertical stabilizer is hanging on by a thread and the gear is stuck up. If TLR manages to land this thing he is a master aviator.

this a huge blow. fuck.

to be fair John Sterling probably sees the ball better on the monitor. he's been awful for years and routinely miscalls balls. Susan isn't much better.

one thing about TLR is that he defies stereotypes. he's def willing to use more "sabermetric" or "new school" managing at times and then...there's the bunting.

Yea TBF I think since OOTP 19 it's actually been the other way around, where the computer is usually too stingy. They still will throw in random A ballers with high upside tho, Hahn style.

make that your sig I guess then i will be reminded. it's early in the morning here and I'm slamming coffee while dreading the start of the work day.

after looking more at his stats Gallo and underlying components I think I misjudged Gallo. The Sox would def be buying high, but he's also in his absolute prime as a player and looks to have made a true talent jump into a 4-5 WAR player where before he was maybe 3. I'm not sure how anything other than starting with Cease gets it done, and that would create a hole in the rotation while filling RF. Don't think you can rely on Kopech to just step in. He has the kid gloves on and it's for his own good.

JFC, that is a OOTP trade the computer accepts. Here's potentially 20 WAR at 2 million per over the next 5 years, here, take this one dimensional corner slugger that can't find consistency to take it to the next level and oh yea will be a FA soon.

I literally cannot name one "MLB ready pitcher" traded recently at the deadline. Are there some? Nobody is going to trade away MLB talent because that's why they are contending.

can't just be trading away these potential 4 WAR cost controlled pitchers. it's quite likely the Sox lose both Lynn and Rodon (~50% to bring one back) and Crochet has shown enough growth with his offspeed to warrant a starting spot next year in the back end of the rotation imo.

yea well I want a 8" pecker, a 300 yard drive down the fairway every time and 100 acres on the Big Island.

Shields is likely about -10 runs in RF, he looks like Palka out there. There is still imo a need for a OF although Goodwin is doing his best to fill in the hole.

Bold to post that reply this morning!

wow, he's progressed quickly. Could be back in Chicago by the end of July.

i'm fully palpated.

It's an interesting point of debate: his fiercest defenders love the same thing his fiercest critics loathe: his man management. Everyone know where I am on that. You don't get to be a HOF baseball person manager without being a helluva people person. Didn't work on the cop tho.

I don't think you were one of the posters but weren't there uh, certain people here that were uh, almost certain (if not certain) that when he was hired TLR was going to sink the entire season? Guess we should have been yelling at the training staff instead.

the reviled on Soxtalk Leury has a 92 wRC+ and can play 7 positions competently. For a decade the Sox couldn't find someone like this even if they overpaid in FA and would lose 2-3 games a year because of it, in addition to wasting money. Hahn basically got Leury for free and he's one of the most valuable super subs in baseball on a division contender. Cool.

Someone needs to deep fake a TLR dabbing gif, he is just dabbing all over Soxtalk as Leury Legend helps power a 6-1 win to put Chicago 8 games up with half the team walking wounded headed into the final games before the ASB.

Rickie loved the itchy trigger finger. Often times it felt like he was making a pitching change just to make a pitching change because that's like what the Book called for or something. I never really got the feeling he was able to get more outs of guys that had good stuff on that night. Welcome to the board.