If you are going to trash the people on Soxtalk, why are you here? Go find somewhere that fits better for a gentleman with your obvious baseball IQ superiority.
SSS. If he really is this good, he will go back to Charlotte and dominate. In the meantime they need people who can pitch TODAY. Fulmer is not that guy. Ruiz is.
#1 They need the roster spot.
#2 The pen is fried.
#3 Fulmer threw 47 pitches yesterday and probably isn't throwing again for 3 days because of that.
#4 It was one outing.
#5 If this really is a new Fulmer, he will continue to pitch well in Charlotte, and will be up soon enough.
Rodon has major consistency problems. For whatever reason, he is not able to consistently keep his form and his release point. When it is right, he is as good as anyone, when its not, he struggles to find the plate.
It sounds good in theory, but if the Sox came to you with Rodon right now, knowing full well who his agent is, what would you give up for him?
He has no real value until he goes on a sustained run.
The funny thing is that I bought tickets for the wife the 1st time, and wasn't really interested in it myself. I had only heard the soundtrack on the way into Chicago for the show.
Then, I saw it. I have been obsessed ever since.