chitownsportsfan

god i fucking hate the astros.

what a fucking joke.

come on danny you have to pick that.

Beckham on fire.

I can't complain about anything they are doing with Crochett or the pitching staff this year. I love that they are slowly working in Garrett and developing his three pitch arsenal with a little less top end velocity. Keep him healthy and keep him on a path to being a starter at some point next year and in the mean time he's a deadly weapon out of the pen. Oh, and he was like in college 18 months ago.

He should be jumping around like a one legged whore on check day then.

Hopefully that three days refreshed Yoan.

I mean you nailed it in the previous post. Now that Vaughn is a competent LF that changes Eloy's role. Eloy can just focus on keeping healthy and hitting. We don't need him out there turning doubles into "inside the park HR" and hurting himself -- let him just hit.

And then back to a 1 or 2 in the morning.

the training staff.

bro, what?

Well he did say the other week that him and TLR are together all the time. Maybe they should start leaving the bar after a couple instead of a couple dozen.

He made a nice running play the other day. That said, he still looked fairly stiff to me on it. Have no idea how in the world he's a 2B, at AAA or any other level. Maybe he'll prove me wrong again. I'm shocked he's actually returning to a bit of prospect status.

Yes. And pitching favors the Sox. 4 game series tho. Let's take 3/4.

I guess it also gives them an opportunity to look at some other guys like Burr. I'm just greedy, I love watching him pitch.

No reason to slow play it either. I think it's pretty clear they are, for whatever reason.

Easily. Eloy is impressively -16 runs in about 160 games in LF. Vaughn is on pace for about -7 over 160 games. It's position adjusted so you get a ding for starting in LF but Eloy is a very bad LF. Vaughn is probably about average relative to other LF.

Never thought I'd say this but I hope Billy is back soon. A super defensive OF of Leury, Engel, Hamilton would be nice to throw out once and awhile.

It's almost like nobody watched the Sox struggle to find cheap 1-2 WAR players for a decade. You know why the Sox have a .632 win percentage? Because they have a lot of Danny Mendicks, finally.

Why the fuck would you take a guy barely above league average as a hitter, who will be in his age 33 season, and give him a contract to move to the OF? Also I'm sure he'd be great with the "you're now a backup" plan. None of that makes any sense from player or org standpoint.

Brutal. You're trading a cost controlled totally cromulent 1.5-2.5 WAR SS/2B for a rental. That would be such a shitty trade. That's the sort of dumbass trade that got the sox into a rebuild or signing the Emilio Bonifacios of the world.

Does AAA hold a derby?

I really don't want to trade the next Bassitt for some rental 2B that will produce .5 more WAR than Mendick and mean jack squat in the playoffs. One of Kelley, Steiver, Lampert and so forth will probably be a decent 4th starter cost controlled for 6+ years at the MLB level. Why make a trade like that? The Sox' window is wide open not just this year but potentially the next 4+. Don't trade a guy that can contribute to another playoff team in 2025 in some misguided attempt to go "all in" needlessly.

He needs to start pitching again imo. At this point rust and development outweigh any potential innings limit. I know they are slow playing this but it's probably time to get him back out there here in a few days.

Because you are talking about like a .5 WAR difference. That isn’t going to help much if at all in the playoffs. And for what, trading away prospects that could help sustain playoff appearances?