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The coaching staff talked about this last week.

Why in the world would he publicly shit on a player like this? It isn't like he is playing lazy or halfassing it out there, the kid is in the first slump of his career at the major league level. He wants to show confidence in the kid. RR knows he needs him in like a week for the playoffs.

The timing is the biggest surprise

They wanted 25 bucks for it, and $40 for the one with the post season logo on the side of a regular Sox cap. Nah.

Not as long as Go Cubs Go exists.

They also cost eight figures a year and multiple year contracts.

Loophole

Why quote that guy? He was hoping for this moment so he could be miserable again.

Done

Really shocked it wasn't Ruiz.

I mean I obviously don't have the insider information of NotCishek or anything, but just trying connect what is in front of us. Hopefully I am wrong, because we can use them all. EDIT: OK everyone laugh at the moron!

Combined with Crochet getting more and more outings, I get the feeling we are not going to see Aaron or Carlos.

He threw the other day and didn't get activated. The most likely reason is that he wasn't 100% after throwing. That seems obvious.

7.5 for Gio, 9.5 for the Beibs

took the overs in strikeouts for each start today. Easy money.

No way in hell.

Seems obvious to me.

Apparently not happening today.

For the record #1 people need to stop taking Rick Hahn statements literally. He has flat out said that isn't going to tell the general public the in depth details of his plans, and in fact he would be more than willing to mislead them if it served the teams purposes. Being upset that they Sox said one thing and did another over roster filler type players is a gigantic waste of time. Every GM signs these players. #2, If the team is signing veterans that block younger players, it should be an INCREDIBLY clear signal that the team doesn't think that player is either ready for the big time, will ever be ready for the big time, or that they at least have enough doubts about a particular young player that they want a back up plan for them. In the case of Edwin, you are talking about a guy with LONG track record. You will also notice that even with the many injuries and roster shuffling, that guys like Collins and Mercedes were WAY down the list of guys they were willing to use. This should be a big red flag that the Sox do not believe they are ready today, or just aren't ever going to be good enough that they are willing to let them play and learn. I know back up QB syndrome is a thing among fans, but it is should be crystal clear that the Sox do not believe in Zach Collins and Yermin Mercedes as of now.

I think your expectations here are out of line. No one is going to hit on the "vast majority" of these types of signings. Guys who are signing 1 year deals are signing them because they weren't good enough for long term deals. So why the surprise when they don't put up big numbers? This is the lottery ticket section of free agency. This is where you finish filling and balancing your roster out for a particular year. Expecting Miguel Gonzalez types of signings to put up big WAR seasons is totally misunderstanding what these signings are for.

Who out there is hitting on the "vast majority" of 1 year deals?

And for most of those years, they haven't been looking to do anything but fill the roster up around a rebuilding team. It also goes without saying that guys who are signing 1 to 2 years typically aren't very good. If they were good, they were going to be signing longer term deals. This seems obvious, but guys who are signing these deals aren't prime free agents.

Right. Disqualify anything good, reframe the argument for only the bad.

This would be my guess as well. With CoVID considerations, we probably had to submit something like a 40 man roster, that covered all of the possible players in the playoffs will be, and then we would pick the 28 man roster from this list, and 99% for sure that Vaughn won't be on it.