southsider2k5

Ok Boomer.

Oh ye of little faith.

There it is.

Jose Abreu

That is a lot of words that mean absolutely nothing. Again, let us know when people aren't allowed to respond to your posts and which ones.

The Sox have done a great job during the rebuild of adding high ceiling arms from just about every source possible. They traded some of their unusable international money for them, picked them up on waivers, brought them in on MiLB deals, and drafted many. Obviously not everyone turned out successful (before someone decides to list every unsuccessful player acquisition in this category), but they have put together a very young and potentially top notch collection of bullpen arms. Once you add back more of the starters , you might even see some of the guys who are "starters" now drop into that pen as well. Pens are inherently unstable from year to year, but the Sox have done a good job of having talented guys lined up in waves so that if/when guys fail, they have solid depth ready for replacing those problems.

Yeah the whole only trade from the pool thing just means that you would have to add the guy to the pool before trading him. Not really a big deal unless you filled up your pool with guys you can't take out of your pool.

Will you do us all a favor and let us know what posts we are allowed to respond to?

And now Ozzie has gone national.

Good for him. I know he would have rather not had 20 people in front of his catch a virus for it to happen, but at the same time, they can never take this away from him. Hopefully this is his door to the majors for a long time.

I never had any doubt that he was an "instinctive" kind of manager who managed by his gut. In this kind of a role, it is easy to say that I would have pitched so and so out of the pen, or I would have hit this guy 2nd instead of 7th, but I want to hear WHY from him. I want to hear HOW he arrived at that thought. Again, going back to someone like Hawk, if he was going to take a stand on something, he was going to give you a line of thinking to link to it, like this guy is hot, or this guy is someone who gives another guy fits because of his style,... or something to bring you into the world of how a manager thinks. Ozzie just tells you why something sucks, instead why he would have done something differently. You could have picked any Sox twitter trolls to tell you why RR was wrong. I want to learn something. That kind of rationale is boring.

Exactly.

Yeah, I thought this would be a good role for Ozzie with is gift for gab, but I think I have seen more of his weaknesses as a manager, versus some kind of insight he had as a manager. He primarily just throws other people under the bus. It might have made for some teambuilding to have a common enemy in the lockerroom, but it makes for a crappy post game show. From someone like that, I want to hear a perspective that the ordinary person doesn't have. I want to hear something that only a player/coach/manager is going to arrive at, and not someone who isn't intimately involved in the game. These are the kinds of things that both Stone and Hawk did really well. They could peel back the curtain just a little bit, and tease you with something you wouldn't have thought of as a regular fan at home. Ozzie just comes off as a twitter troll smacktalking the manager or someone else. I want in the moment insight, not in the moment pettiness.

oh that clears it up. WAT?