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Another "cheap" narrative is dead.

I think they all know Bryant is gone after this year.,

Hahn stated last week that he wasn't ready in terms of rehab and conditioning to join the team as a starter, but was expecting it to happen at some point during this season.

17 cases is a problem. Man I wish our country took things this seriously. We are getting more cases in a single school and still trying to force them back into school.

I have seen the word "carry:" posted more times today than in the entire history of Soxtalk.

I am a believer in that if we spent big it will be in RF, SP, and maybe another pen arm, but most of that depends on how the season goes. But realistically SP and RF are 1 and 2 on the list, and might be interchangeable based on this season.

Rodon I could see, but Lopez isn't going to be a non-tender in Arb1.

I think this also allows us to skip the missing rotation slot, no?

I think people WAY underestimate the humanity of athletes. They are subject to all of the same peeves, tics, and oddities that regular people are, but some how we think that changing little things don't have a ripple effect on the mentality of the athlete. You will never convince me that where a guy hits in a line up doesn't get into the heads of some hitters. Whether it is pressure, anger, resentment, pride or whatever there are guys who are going to internalize that into their mental state, and carry it with them on to the field. Athletes are human.

For a guy that is going to play 100-110 games a season? That seems kinda nuts

Are you going to pay McCann $10 million a season?

https://twitter.com/SportsInfo_SIS/status/1293905761526075392?s=20

A guy like Bundy is why teams take chances on failed prospects. It usually doesn't work, but you are also betting on a guy who was highly thought of for a reason.

Off-day update: 74.9%, still 7th in the AL https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds

He's not though. The Sox have Grandal. Other teams have trash at catcher.

Only if you don't bring back EE and block Vaughn.

But he did. And so that isn't something you can hand wave away.

Why would James McCann sign a deal to be a back up for the next two seasons?