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yoan completely baffled. jesus.

Adam Engel our lord and savior.

fuck this stadium.

fuck yea james. even if he only hits for a 730 OPS next year his catching is worth a starting gig.

nice defense, ffs.

lol how the fuck does a mlb hitter get jammed on a 83 mph changeup middle in?

season and summer really.

clean.that.shit.up. our guys are...not savages in the box tho.

hey caulfield I'll continue the discussion here what's yak taste like? Is it like goat? Not a big fan of goat. Everytime I got curried coat in Crown Heights I regretted it. Just too gamey for me.

@Heads22 I'd hope they evaluate him with clear eyes and encourage Jose and his agent to seek an opinion of his value throughout the league. @Balta1701 for a guy that is as negative as anybody (including myself) you really don't mind just wasting 5-12 million above his market value on him? Sox need all the pennies they can scrounge up imo. I'd rather put that money into scouting, astros style player development, an additional DSL team and on and on and on. Not to mention he's wasting a roster spot in 2021 if Vaughn "just" meets his 50th percentile outcome and is a 3 WAR 1B then Jose is functionally a backup that plays a shitty 1B. Not ideal.

After having my fill of fish tacos and carne asada tacos in SD this spring I can see why Manny went with SD. Mercy.

Moose Tacos, a much better player all around at this point in their careers and coming off a 2.4 fWAR (while two years younger as well) season, got 1 year 10 million. Jose isn't going to sniff 2 years 28 in his age 33,34 seasons. He'll be lucky to get offered 2/14 by Chicago or anybody else. I'd low ball the shit out of him with something like 2/12 and see how much he really wants to be a Sox. Jose abreu has been below replacement for about a month now. His ROS ZIPS projection should give everybody a wake up call: 273.323.474 for 107 wRC+ and .6 fWAR. ZIPS thinks he's toast. Chances are, so do most GMs.

absolutely zero updates from anybody on Eloy. That's just bad PR by the Sox. They should have released an update on him this morning.

The hitting coach at the MLB level is basically a positive affirmation coach, nothing more, nothing less. Todd is there to help guys with their approach not their swing, he doesn't have time for that and neither do the players in season. The real improvement comes in the offseason. I'm continuing to read "The MVP Machine" and the work it takes to change your swing at the pinnacle of your profession requires a lot more than a hitting coach. It requires countless hours in the cage and video room with an instructor or coach dedicated only to yourself and a couple other guys.

you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

You're probably right which is why I'd target Leake. According to that link interest is low. Leake is owed some money and the Sox won't have to give up much of anything to get him. I'd assume that one of Rutherford or Basabe + an A ball lotto ticket would get it done. That might even be too much depending on how much salary the Mariners want to eat. Leake would slot in nicely as the 3rd or 4th starter the next two years. Gio/Kopech/Leake/Cease/Rodon/Lopez/Dunning Sign a FA like Cole and that rotation can kick one of Rodon/Lopez/Dunning to the curb or bullpen and things really are looking up.

Sox should be looking to trade for Mike Leake or Matt Boyd IMO, even if it means giving up a few guys ranked 10-20 in the system and perhaps Leury.

He's started over 250 games in CF and fangraphs has him like +3 runs over that time above average. As I've noted the trope of "Adam Engel elite defense" should be put to bed. He's a slightly above average defensive CF that can't hit his weight most months. He's a 26th man. He sucks. On a club with ANY ORG DEPTH AT ALL he'd have been cast aside long, long ago. It speaks to how incredible fucking dismal our situation was circa 2015 that he was a top 30 guy in the org.

This is a major problem in Seattle. The main problem is that drivers here refuse to come up to speed using the zipper and impatient more aggressive (appropriately aggressive on a crowded freeway) drivers will merge behind them. The result is slowing merging for everybody but I can't blame the drivers that bypass the slower cars.

Sox fans seem to optimistically relay the story to indicate JR is willing to learn from mistakes. I'm not so sure that's the takeaway. The takeaway for me is that JR likes to work with people he personally likes, including Hawk. JR is a great businessman obviously but in business if you only work with people you like you're seriously limiting yourself.

Eloy was clearly calling for it and in position to probably make the catch when Tilson comes barrelling in late and didn't Tilson admit he called it late? Having Robert in CF is going to solve a lot of Eloy's problems in LF. Just pin him to the line, tell him to make every play in front of him when he sees the flash of Robert to his left GTFO of the way.

I always wanted Machado and still want him.

Well when you lose about 8 WAR in SP and then another 5-6 in the failed whaling front that's what happens. I mean you hate to see it but you could see it coming after the offseason and all the injuries to the rotation. You're smart enough to know (and I admit to getting sucked in at times) that with this rotation and that RD things were going to go south at some point. They got one more chance to get it right this offseason. Hope in one hand shit in the other we'll see what happens at least the kids are alright when they are healthy.

Jose Abreu on July 19: 271/306/492.

one of those three is not like the other. 3 are the 26th man and 1 is a legit stud utility guy.