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Whatever Katz told him was good advice.

Can’t be sure but he I thought he went straight to clubhouse with a trainer looking guy plus velocity was way down

Wow he might be hurt

Grandpa is problem.

Luis is learning in real time.

Make that two hits on curves.

Let’s go!!!

If Eaton is healthy he will produce great signing!

Some of the best command Cease has had in his career.

Dylan looks pretty good.

NGL I miss Dane. Love the movement and command he has.

Luis Robert appears to be a baseball savant. If he didn't have those injuries the first couple years he came over he'd probably be even further along in his development. I think KW got a bit lucky, but he didn't miss on this one.

Yes it's unusual to have two off days in a row anytime after the first couple weeks but with the bad weather it happened in late April this year. Not gonna be much rest for us fans or the players from this point on so let's win tonight and get over .500!

Talk about apples to oranges. Moncada is averaging 4 WAR per 162 games before turning 26. Everything is relative. People expect Moncada to be a star, so far he sorta has, which is the beef, because he was the number one overall prospect. Nick was billed as a can't miss regular at 2B. So far he has played like a 1 WAR backup. The complaints about Nick and Yoan are coming from completely different places and of course the guy who has already put up a star full season will get more leeway.

It's hard to say "I don't know" but I don't think anybody really knows what Moncada will be going forward. I think you can project him somewhere between 2-6 WAR, but that's such a large range it's almost meaningless. He might be on of those guys that is just a 2 WAR player one year and a 5 WAR player the next. We had one of those at the tail end of his career, Alex Rios, although Rios wasn't as naturally talented as Moncada imo and Moncada has a higher ceiling.

Joe Crede? Come on. There is a decent chance Moncada passes Crede in career fWAR this season...in under half the games it took Joe to put up 13.1 for his career.

Could be worse, could be Gleyber Torres.

I thought the COVID thing was legit given he apparently had a pretty bad case and it hit just as conditioning was already abbreviated. Now I'm with you, getting a bit nervous. Luckily other guys are stepping up so if Yoan is "just" a 3 WAR player instead of 6 that might work out.

He destroyed almost all pitch types in 2019, including changeups. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/yoan-moncada/17232/stats?position=2B/3B#pitch-values I'm putting it down to COVID and a slow start to 2021. If he's still scuffling in June we'll have more data points that 2019 was a fluke. Luckily Yoan does not take his at bats into the field and he is a rock at 3B.

HAARP imo.

OPS has many positives: 1) easily calculated 2) is easily understood by most fans 3) Is fairly accurate to describe roughly 90% of MLB hitters' offensive contributions To paraphrase Tango, "OPS is a stool, but if you have a recliner around it's better". The recliner is clearly something like wRC+, but sometimes a stool will do just fine. There are extreme examples where OPS is quite bad, sure, that doesn't mean it's not useful in many situations.

wRC+ works great and OPS is useful as a quick and dirty calculation of offensive contribution. Madrigal has a 106 wRC+, which would be great if he was league average defensively at 2B, but he's not, he's bottom 1/4.

Well how can you be that confident after only 45 games! Maybe you should join the WS scouting crew! I'm just fucking with you dude; we all have a tendency to enjoy the smoke we blow up our own asses including myself. We should all be more humble in our predictions about the Sox and their players.

Ray I'm going to ask you again to never, ever respond to me. 99.9% of your posts in reply to me are ad hominem attacks in which you insert absurd cut outs of my post history and put words into my mouth. I have you on ignore but sometimes it glitches and shows when you respond to me. Just stop, just put me on ignore and we'll never have to cross paths. Thank you. And for the record, go through my posts and you will find the vast majority made since this season started, the vast majority, have no personal attacks and debate the substance of arguments about players and the Sox. I'm actively working on bettering myself, but when you respond to me with your absurdities it doesn't make it easy not to just rip the fuck out of you. So please, don't give me the temptation.

Worry about this if they make the playoffs. Until then order doesn't really matter. I don't think Kopech is going to be throwing 100 pitches (or even 90) anytime before August, that just seems like the program they have for him and that's fine given that the rotation looks like a solid unit even without him right now.