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That's is right there. When you have starters going 7, you need two innings, meaning only a couple of guys need to do their jobs. When your starters goes 5 or less, you need 4 to 5 guys do all be on in one night, which is much harder to find.

Its almost like you have been here before...

In any normal political climate, this would end his Presidency. All that remains now is for the cult to explain this one away.

You believe that Vaughn is next years starting RF? I don't.

Because we aren't blocking Andrew Vaughn to keep James McCann.

This is where people could use some sense. First off that is ONLY for Medicare patients. No other insurance is paying more for COVID specifically. The only reason medicare is paying more for COVID is because it costs more to treat a COVID patient. I promise you that even with the extra money, hospitals are losing more money on these patients, as medicare WAY underpays market rates for treatments.

What team has a hole at 1B big enough that they would be willing to give up that kind of a deal?

If we can get a scandal/COVID discount on Springer, I'd be interested. If we get near the full price of what he did last year, pass.

I mean there are a few guys out there that it was due for. Even Matt Foster is living on borrowed time. I like Matt Foster going forward, but as a 300 ERA plus guy? Uh, no. The loss of Bummer and failure of Herrera/Cishek are big losses for this pen. There are a LOT of young guys out there who are trying to fill rolls a bit higher than they are probably ready for, such as Cordero being the stopper of the set up guys.

QFT. Fans have zero perspective on this season, or what it means to the future of the franchise.

Even funnier is that people think we are going to fire the ENTIRE MANAGEMENT TEAM when we are literally fulfilling the promise of the rebuild, and are in first place with a bullet and the young kids performing out of their minds right now. Its meatball theater at its finest. Unless there is a COMPLETE collapse in the next three weeks, there isn't a damned person getting fired in this organization. There isn't an organization in baseball that would fire its entire management team after having a transition season like this.

Madrigal is looking like a guy who is trying WAY to hard to make an impression. He looks like he is trying to win a job he already has, and is trying to do too much. He needs to relax and let the game come to him instead of trying to force it to impress people/coaches/staff.

I am probably going to say this 100 more times this off season, but we are not going to resign McCann. Grandal is our catcher for the next three years. The sooner people grasp that, the more relaxed they will be. Take these points to heart: -McCann isn't going to resign here to be a back up. -The Sox aren't going to block Vaughn by filling up the DH/1B position by giving McCann half of a season's worth of ABs playing the position of DH/1B to try to keep him in the line up when he wasn't theoretically catching with this imaginary extension. -Forget about trading Grandal and resigning McCann. Besides this being a pretty complex dance that would involve trying to quickly put together a deal, meanwhile somehow convincing McCann that he should risk sitting around waiting while the Sox try to get a deal done, it also ignores that the Sox signed Grandal to a top of the market deal in 2019 very early in the free agency process. It would also have to include complex negotiations around how much money the Sox would retain on this deal, as the market will not look the same in 2020 as it did in 2019, especially if the market gets wind that the Sox are trying to pull this off. Grandal is still owed $18.25 million per year for, the next three years, for a total of $54.75 million. How much money would the Sox have to keep? How much would they have to pay Grandal, and how would that effect their needs to spend in RF and SP -Where is catching spending at this point versus what they will look to spend on a starting pitcher (or maybe even 2 potenitally)? Would you be happy if the Sox kept McCann, traded Grandal, and went cheap in SP? Because even if we spend in the 2020 off season, it will not look like what we did in 2020, just because of the results of COVID so far on revenues, and the fact that 2021 could also be a big revenue dud. The Sox are not going to do a crazy amount of spending and resources with catching, and going cheap on pitching, not after this year. -Do you see the Sox retaining Nomar Mazara for another year and seeing if his problems this year were health related, and not performance related? Do you see anyone in the Sox organization who is a starting RF on a playoff team in 2021? If you answered no to those questions, like 99% of Soxtalk will, then that means the Sox need to utilize resources in RF. Those resources will come with a MUCH bigger potential gain that screwing around with some McCann/Grandal dance to keep McCann and move Grandal. Again, do you really see the Sox leaving RF as a hole, while spending more money behind the plate when they already have Grandal?

You have to throw strike one and two before you get mlb hitters chasing off speed.

Yoan almost bungled that on the transition from glove to hand.

Cease out of the stretch isn't nearly as crisp so far.

13 pitches. That is a great 1st inning.