Kyyle23

Great, you have made your statement and we all know where you stand. No need to repeat ad nauseam

In response to the original post, I would have to say I trust the sample size of the first 86 games over the last six. They arent great or even good, they are mediocre when healthy and can approach good. The starting pitching is a huge drag and relying on Giolito to be damn near perfect is really tough

I mean, all you keep repeating is pretty much everything will go wrong next year. It's tiring. they will be attempting to compete next season, not punting for a higher draft pick again. Whether they are successful will depend a large amount on their developed players like Anderson moncada Robert Kopech Cease Giolito etc. if their plan was to actually stretch this to 2023 like you keep saying, then the rebuild is a massive failure

Dude we aren't talking about the same players with the same deficiencies and the same circumstances, now are we? So while you always consider one size fits all, and BECAUSE THEY DID IT WITH ELOY IT MUST BE DONE THE SAME WAY WITH ROBERT, I look at it that Robert is a way more well rounded player that deserves more and will get more, but not 15 per year for 10 years without sniffing the majors. they aren't the same player, they don't present the same value. You admitted as much when you said "that's not worth talking about for a player like him"

Well when you present two polar opposite contracts, one that is way over the top and one that is borderline insulting, of course the team and the player wouldn't pick either. It's almost like the Gm could negotiate something that works for the both of them and gets the player to the majors earlier than the service time dictates

I would say 8-10 years of financial security that greatly exceeds his 26 million dollars is quite an incentive. There are no guarantees for himself that everything works out perfectly, if the Sox wave a big contract in his face it would be super dumb to say no only because he already made money

Maybe if you review this year instead of 2017 it will look a little deeper, just saying

And 40 stolen bases

Yea probably not even close but ok

Lol, two run game and you need a hold, you want to get the first win after the ASB, and Ricky decides Ruiz is the guy for that job. Wtf

Covey deserves those extra runs

Winner winner

Covey is gaaaaahbage

Greg loves no hauls because statniks

So if they trade these guys, what exactly are you asking Manfred to do, hypothetically?

With how Kyrie acted, I could see Boston being a powder keg if they tried to run it back again with AD. And it didn't seem like Stevens was up to the task of keeping it together

Probably a smart thing to do when the players agent says he isn't re-signing there

Honestly I think this is the creative way. I get what you are saying, I guess we will see what happens with him. Cuban players are always on different trajectories because of the leagues that they play at such young ages and the competition that they play against, hard to say what the right plan is from my perspective. It was probably a selling point for the Sox to offer this so the player can keep more of his bonus

This allows the player to keep more of the money, not the owner.

The braves said fuck it with Acuna and it seems to be working out just fine. I wouldn't be opposed to bringing him up if he keeps wrecking minor league pitching, and it looks like he just might do that

You very literally have been saying it for years. You jumped immediately into putting Reed into the lineup but you are like whoa pump the brakes on Robert everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You first!

GIVE HIM THE DAMN TROPHY BMAGS

Let's be honest, if he was lefty you would pencil him in at 4 in the lineup for the next 10 years. We can be excited, it's been a long time since we have had a season that isn't a fog of bullshit

Calm down??? Lmao, dude has been hitting like .370 across three levels, everyone can freak the fuck out because that is awesome. This isn't one game