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they look like shit. like beer league softball unis.

Same. That sounds like BS. They don't even have anybody that has a lot of trade value and they'd be trading low on pretty much everybody but Judge. That almost sounds like a desperate ploy by Cashman to motivate his club.

As I posted yesterday that fact that he's obviously made the tradeoff for more power at the expense of a little contact and is making it work is quite encouraging. Quite a few guys try that at the MLB level and it never works. Evan White is a good example.

WAR isn't a predictive stat and shouldn't be used that way anyways. I mean you can try, but there are better ways like using the component stats and projections.

@ron883 where the fuck is the game thread bro?

I still can't believe the Giants actually called Basabe up last year, might be the only MLB action the kid ever sees but hey at least he got his partial pension and health care.

I'd imagine they'd have tried to get another TOR starter for him. Who I have no idea. That said, I think Kelenic's value might have peaked this offseason. He's not a top 10 prospect in MLB as a mediocre corner OF, his hit tool has been exposed and the power was never more than 55 or so FV which just doesn't play as good in the corners.

The Sawx wanted to pawn off benitendi on the Sox and Hahn came back with Moncada and Kopech. There is some speculation he asked for Devers instead of Moncada but Sawx said no. Thank god they held out for Moncada instead of benitendi.

lol, such a sloppy article. How much of the Sox' 72 million guaranteed in 2024 is "FA money" and how much is arb buyout money? Isn't 3/4 of it arb buyout?

Sometimes I think the manager is too close to the game. Yea, sure that was the score at the time and you had some decent speed aboard but also Detroit couldn't get an out, their pitching staff was rattled (it was Holland right?) and there are quite a few other ways the runners get moved up that don't involve giving away an out. Just stop bunting so much, that's all we ask. It's almost never smart. Bottom of 9 in a tie game is pretty much the only time it's justified by the run expectancy.

Why aim so low? I think Pete Rose needs to look out.

It was probably the one time out of 100 it made sense to draft for need. sox needed a plug and play 2B for the contention window, nick fit the bill.

Never understood this genre of post and never will. As if predicting things on inference is easy and not something experts (highly paid as well) fail at time and time again. Better to be in the arena and have skin in the game then just mindlessly parrot a position. His xWOBA is 50 points lower than his actual wOBA, there is def some luck involved in his line so far. Doesn't mean he's not a good player, but it does mean that at some point he will regress and he will have to improve his true talent level. he's already improved his baserunning to basically average and his defense, while not good, isn't horrible anymore, so sure, give him credit, as I have, uh done, time and time again as more data points emerge.

It is but we'll see if he can keep it up. He has def traded some contact for power, which I didn't think he could do. A .119 ISO with his contact rate is very impressive. If he can start pulling the ball a bit more this summer he might be able to sustain that.

The guy taken right behind Nick -- Jonathan India -- looks like a good player as well. Sox did well with their pick as did Cinci. Jury is still out on Kelenic and I think his FV has already taken a bit hit because he's a mediocre corner OF at best. There's no way he's ever a CF and he has a long way to go to get to good in a corner as well. His routes are really bad.

it was a great idea from Hahn and he managed to get back a premium talent in Rutherford. Hasn't really worked out how we envisioned but now Rutherford is an asset the Sox can use to improve the MLB roster this year if they want. Sox sold high on both Kahnle and Soria, which was smart.

Sox regained #1 in the FG power rank. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-power-rankings-may-24-june-6/

He's having a nice season and it sucks to give up what looks like a potential very good 3rd starter or worst case solid 4th but Lynn is a legit TOR guy right now. I'm still 50/50 on the trade long term it all depends on if the Sox can get an extension done with Lance.

Hopefuly they appreciate him in Tacoma, as that's where he'll be for the foreseeable future after being optioned there this morning. What a complete disaster.

ironically Rutherford might be the guy going out this time.

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell he takes the QA if he finishes with around 180 IP and an ERA below 3. So yea, offer it to him.

Yea that's what I was thinking. His stock has fallen a bit, might be a good time to try and buy at a bit of a discount.

Offer Rodon the QA and take the draft pick and then do everything you can to lock up Lynn and Giolito. I wonder if Giolito will take a discount to stay in Chicago. He seems like the type that just might, but you never know and money almost always wins.

Totally. They need to extend Lynn somehow tho. Otherwise pitching looks mediocre.