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Great job Jose.

Good pitch to hit fouls it off.

50 degrees in Chicago today? Brutal.

How the fuck do I watch this game?

Yea it's bad. He makes Rutherford's physical profile look like late career Barry Bonds.

You don't draft #4 overall and expect a utility infielder. I don't GAF about his strikeout rate in high A as a 22 year old repeater given his other batted ball data is downright bad. His quality of contact is garbage as evidenced by his pull rate and BABIP and ISO. And he'd have to be an elite defensive 2B (top 5 in MLB) to carry 2 WAR with a 280/330/350 line. It's sad that's already what his median case scenario looks like. I liked the pick but right now it looks bad. As I said the other day it's going "to get late early" for Madrigal next year if he's a 23 year old struggling in AA. We really have to hope he makes a big jump sometime in the next year to get back on a prospect track. He's got work to do.

you gotta be fucking kidding me.

lopez sucks.

blah. at least he got out of it.

moncada's head is in the clouds baserunning.

how the fuck do you not score on that?

lol wut.

took a database and the data. that was the late 80s at least publically.

wow nice play!

finally effectively wild.

and the IF in, JFC.

fucking DO SOMETHING RICK HAHN. YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR MANAGER BUNTING WITH MONCADA IN THE 1ST FUCKING INNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

god damn man. why are the sox still in the dark ages?

WTF IS THAT SHIT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

wow, what is the game time temp?

let's win!

True, I'd still rather wait but if there is one thing we can give Hahn the benefit of the doubt on it's extensions.

lol at this photo.

There's almost no chance James would agree to an extension given that he's a FA with zero strings attached come 2021. Sox can only buy out one arb year and he's not going to give much of a long term discount for that. Would 4 years 50 million get it done? Probably, but that's way too much to commit to a guy that until now looked like nothing more than a decent backup. Better to pay him 8 million or whatever he'll get in arb next year and continue to get more data on if his true talent level has changed enough to make a long term deal sensible.

Both are true and it's a vicious cycle. His mind and his body were not in sync. You could see his melt downs mentally manifest in his delivery issues. You could tell he was over thinking it and when that happens with any swing/motion in athletics it's not going to go well.