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Now also up to 2nd in MLB in RBI

TA gets the day off, Mendick plays SS, Madrigal leading off.

So would everyone except Miami.

Early reports are that he is playing a decent 3B right now.

We will need to get something next year, as my 15 year old will probably be taking over my car at that point. Hopefully this has cooled down by then, and some sanity comes back to the market. We have a great lot in town that sells cars in the 2-3 years old range for usually pretty decent deals, but if I had to look today, I would buy brand new, and get all of the extras that go with it for the minimal price difference.

As small as the spread is anymore, you might as well buy new.

Its not. I think yours was a relatively well rationed take. But there seems to be a small group of posters gunning for Yermin ever since the TLR incident.

COVID really destroyed that, as not a lot of teams were willing to pick up cash, and the Cubs weren't in the situation where they could retain it either. That said, I would love Jerry to pick up that contract for a pretty small return.

It seems weird to see how many people are actively rooting for him to fail after his run in with TLR, but Yermin was never an 1.100 OPS guy even in the minors. That was never going to be him. But looking at his MiLB numbers there is no reason he can't eventually settle in as an .800 to .850 guy.

Never driven either, but the CRV was a great vehicle in that same family.

Injuries have always been his problem. It was noted when we signed him that bringing him in probably meant that whoever was backing him up would get significant playing time around those inevitable injuries. My feeling is that he is probably trying to power through his nagging injuries to keep the team from losing another starting OF. I wouldn't be shocked to either see him go to the DL when Engel gets back, or to go to the DL very soon after Engel can show that he is ready enough to play every day. Adam got off to a decent start, so there is a decent chance an OK hitter is in there somewhere, but you have to get him healthy again to find out.

If he had a truly "bad make up", he wouldn't have stuck this out until age 28 to finally get his window.

Breaking news: People can fail at things for reasons other than "not trying hard enough" or whatever lazy meme was being implied in the OP.

I am thrilled with the progress that Andrew has made this year. I was hoping he could give us an Eloy level of LF after literally having never played the OF before. It isn't hard to squint and see him being able to give you an average corner OF defense with a little more experience. That is a HUGE win, and it may also solve the whole 1B/DH jam by not having to force Vaughn into one of those spots.

He's now so mad that people aren't talking about Tony, that for no reason he dug out an old article to try to restart the arguments. Trolling 101.

Boooooooooooooooo

Honestly, I think after what we have seen, Vaughn ends up if RF while Abreu is still here.

If you really want to hedge it, TA is usually between +400 to +600 on a to hit a homer bet.

Yep, that is totally it.

Yeah, that's why you get suspended. You got off of suspension and intentionally hit the hornets nest, and then played dumb. Let them sting you then, its cool.

Any instant offense expectations for Adan Engel just coming off of the DL are just setting yourself up for disappointment.

Teams don't make deals for significant players in April and May. Go back through recent baseball history and you just won't find any. We did all of the bottom feeding we could with Hamilton and Goodwin, but past that, trades are really not going to happen until at least June, if not July.

So accountability for everyone but yourself. Stan on.

You JUST got off of a suspension, and this is how you want to come back? By all means, dig the hole.

If posts on Soxtalk bother you this much, you are in the wrong place, you probably need a place that has more protections against opinions that hurt your feelings enough to need to lash out at others like this. This bothers you WAY too much if you need to attack people over it. That is completely separate from your perpetual need to protect a man on a baseball message board who has been doing these same things since before you were even born.