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Remember when folks were up in arms about the Sox calling up Eloy or Kopech to give the fans a feel good moment this weekend? I think the Sox are in it for the long haul somehow...

That's a nice Sig.

Fuck that.

Yea no kidding. I kinda feel for Eaton even though I think he's kinda a jagoff. Based on what ptatc wrote it seems probable that he played on a lot of sprained ankles over the years. As a guy that short and driven he probably had a chip on his shoulder his entire career and played through countless small injuries when he perhaps shouldn't have. But, he's set for life and the Sox made a helluva trade on paper so far. I think if Gio and Eaton both end being nothing burgers for their new clubs Lopez and Dunning will give the Sox about 15-25 WAR over the next 5-7 seasons.

How does that even happen? Paging our resident trainer...

It's your turn! You gahn!

They just suck. In baseball being a bad player can sometimes manifest itself in not looking "ready", at least imo.

Read some interesting quotes from the Tiger team that almost broke the record for losses, I think they won like 4/5 in the end miss the record and for the most part it seemed like the club actually used it to bring them together. They knew they sucked and they just tried to go out and do the best they could knowing they sucked. I think the mindset in the pros is just different. You show up and do your job. In baseball at least what you do in your spot really doesn't affect anybody else, not like most other team sports.

Wonder if some of the initial problems with his shoulder were related to not following his offseason throwing program. If Don Cooper and the Sox training team tells a pitcher to do something you'd think they would take his advice.

I'm not even watching, just reading, and I'm getting upset.

The struggles of the rotation all around are a daily kick in the nuts. This is by far the worst rotation in baseball. Puke.

Thanks but it's paywalled, you can post their blurb on the Sox though, that meets fair use guidelines.

Huh, all the reports on this guy out of college was that he was a bulldog in the weight room and that he was a hard worker. It did seem that he came into camp a little pudgy last year but that's fine for a pitcher.

Lambert fug, was too high for that post last night!

Indeed they got a lot of guys swinging well. Really as bad as the big club is the farm has been that good. Other than the injuries (and knock on fucking wood) almost every single guy you'd like to see crush it has crushed it. Even the forgotten or overlooked guys like Scranton, Rose and hell even Covey have had moments where you could squint and see a useful 25 man piece. Awesome depth and a really high end top. Seems like they are in consideration for a #1 overall system now with Acuna graduated. Micker has moved into the top 100 (or should have), Rutherford is back in the top 100, Eloy has moved up a spot (at min) and Kopech is holding steady in the top 10. Hansen and Robert fall some, but not out of the top 50, or for Hansen top 75. Collins is solid top 75 again as well. Basabe is probably back into the 80-100 range, maybe higher on toolsy lists like Law's. I got excited typing all that just now. Hell yea.

I think he's probably the short side of a DH/Catcher platoon. Sorta like how the Indians had it with Santana. He can catch against lefties once or twice a week and DH the rest. Could also do a 1B/DH/C. Collins hitting like he is means you make room for his bat in the lineup. Good problem to have. Hope he keeps it up.

Maybe the changes that Hahn made to the minor league development team are working because if they can start tapping into the toolsy guys like Rutherford the sky is the limit.

"The Bess" is a great nickname because it originated organically and has a great fucking story behind it.

Injury update: Moncada took ground balls and warmed up before the game yesterday. He should be 100% when he's eligible to come off the DL. Believe that is Sunday. Nicky is day to day with a bruised quad.

Well in both cases it was the percentage play. Q because he's a pitcher (and like any pitcher subject to more variance) and Eaton because he was coming off a 6 fWAR season in which he managed to relatively healthy. He was both an injury concern and a regression concern and was traded at peak value. Some luck was involved but it was also just the percentage play.

His wRC+, thanks to his home park, is approaching 200. Think about that. He's nearly twice as good as the average AA hitter. There is entirely a chance that his development would be hurt staying in AA. The quicker he starts seeing better competition the quicker he will learn (or perhaps not learn) what adjustments he needs to make against better competition.

That article just proves that Walker had little if anything do to with his decline and backs up my theory that once pitchers knew that Beckham was up there guessing, they started pitching him backwards and then finishing him off with fastballs. If Walker introduced mechanical changes that Beckham struggled with then that's on Walker but it's also on Beckham. The preponderance of evidence after Beckham left Chicago suggests he's just a lousy hitter. It's not like he had any success after Chicago.

once the book got out on Beckham and he started tinkering it was all over for him as an effective MLB hitter. Total guess hitter that had a long swing for a middle infielder and that could not turn around even mediocre fastballs middle in. It's actually pretty amazing looking at his pitch values on fangraphs for his career. His rookie year he was +5 runs on 4 seamers and the rest of his career he is -38! Once pitches learned he couldn't hit fastballs it was all over. I'm guessing his rookie year they didn't have much respect for him and just tried to grab strikes early and often and he knew it. When they changed up that pattern he was toast. Anyways, back to Eloy fucking Jimenez.

Gordon Beckham, duh.

Thank god UM basketball did something this year. I wasn't quite mentally prepared for how tough year 2 was going to be.