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Beckham with Schiff in ARL. Stone and Schriffen have been together for 1 of the last 6 series. Not sure about before those 6.

Those dudes also threw slow pitch softball speeds.

I am sure it is this. Again, none of these guys have gone through a full major league season. Burke has gone over 100 innings in a season once in his college/MiLB/MLB career until this year. He hit 108 innings in 2022, and it is over 117 this year. He made it through 71 2/3 last year, and 36 in 2023. Again, this is why we needed more pitchers.

That was like $3 million a year.

Two things here. #1, the debt service at Sox Park is a fraction of that number, and should be easily be retired before a new stadium is opened. #2, Sox Park only has debt because more money was spent in 2003 for major construction to redo the park and extend the lease.

How much defense do air fryers play?

And Getz still has not had that experience either.

It's 2025, not 1955. This is how things are done today.

So far I would give Venable a passing grade. I feel like most of the line up issues aren't in his hands

Where did 12 come from?

Most of this is just blue sky hopes and dreams, but this part... Stearns and Getz are nothing alike. Stearns made hay in a small market maximizing everything he touched in Milwaukee, and was stolen away by the Mets after an exhaustive search. Getz failed upwards, had terrible results in his previous role, and was the result of no search at all. They couldn't be more different.

He is in the running for literally the worst 2 seasons in MLB history

With the IF we have, an even meh level LF level for Vargas would help things along.

I am not punting on Taylor yet, but this is exactly why you can't just pencil guys in to star for you. MLB is hard. It can take time, if ever.

Sox now looking at 12 out of 14 Ls. That is a 23 win pace.

Taylor just melting down.

And it costs them the run.

Oofff

I didn't realize how slow he was.

Then how are you also simultaneously able to project the playoffs in two years? I mean it is easy to say "what if", what if Schultz and Smith are what they were this year? What if the high level relievers continue to struggle? What if we continue to not develop OFs? What if we continue to play in the shallow end of the FA pool. Guess what, my what ifs are already happening and are realistic.

I will also note that with the teams in front of us, most have farm systems rated as good as, or better than, what the Sox currently have. Kind of hard to make up ground if the teams you are chasing are developing young at cheap talent at the same-ish rate that you are. Going off of MLB which rated as of a few days ago 2. Twins 5. Cleveland 6. Detroit 17. Sox 25. KC

Between stadium, debt, and the awful state of this team, I don't see them spending beyond the C/D/F tiers of free agency for a while. The Sox are largely out of trade bullets unless Luis Robert defies the odds and #1, has his option exercised, #2 is healthy for another season, and #3, gives us his 2nd both healthy and productive season in 7 seasons. This vague "well [insert team here] did it" is basically ignoring the situation on the ground. Who and how?

If you actually line up the players we have now, and the players still in the farm system, and start to realistically project who arrives, and when they probably arrive, the Sox are still missing a lot of line up players and power in 2027. MAYBE what happened to Schultz, Smith, and Taylor all largely flopping as starters gets fixed next year, and you can start to project them a bit more dependablely, but outside of Braden, there are no OFs. There is no realistic 30 homer power. The pen MIGHT come together, if again, all the guys who fell back this year, suddenly all move forward again. The other highest ceiling hitters are all so young. Even if this bucket of kids get to the majors, they all won't hit at once, and they definitely won't stick at once. Some kids take years to figure it out, and the Sox aren't dripping with replacements. Realistically, 2027 is a good year to maybe hope toward push .500.

Sure, plenty more games to be played, but it hasn't been a great year overall.