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Depends on how hard Eloy does the elliptical.

A really interesting string of tweets from Carcillo. Read them all if you can.

Not enough evidence to prosecute doesn't mean he was innocent. It still feels dirty.

This is coming from the guy who crabbed about Ricky benching guys for not hustling to first base because they could get hurt.

I would absolutely own it and celebrate being wrong.

Dream away brother.

The Red Sox were already a 90 win team though. We are a 100 loss team.

Honestly, I really am. Even trying to paint a scenario that "works" has so many major holes in it, it really feels close enough to impossible to have no reason to entertain as a possible reality.

Honestly, even if the Sox went nuts in FA, it always seems like that the team that wins the winter gets off to a slow start. I don't know if it is the need to get different and unfamiliar players comfortable with each other or what, but it never seems to work out.

You mean besides an elliptical being equal to playing in the majors? Come on man. It obviously isn't nearly as easy as you are making it out to be or position players wouldn't be on the DL on a regular basis.

Harper didn't make sense for them after Stanton.

Realistically if the Sox spent $500 or $600 million this off season, and added $75 to $100 million to the payroll this year in an effort to compete would they still be deadline shopping?

Well they have the entire winter to talk about it.

You'd need... -Incredible health from players who haven't remained healthy on the average, and those who have. -The Sox to hit the free agency market extremely hard AND for those players all to have historical or better than historical seasons -Huge growth from all of the core players such as Moncada, Giolito, Lopez, Anderson, etc -Big years out of the kids in the pen from at least 4 or 5 of them, including being able to slot a 90% conversion closer and key set up men. -Instant contributions from Eloy and any other rookies called up. -The Indians do not sell off, or do not sell very many core pieces at all -No one else emerges from the pack with a miracle year. We are talking about a 3rd standard deviation scenario here, maybe more. Again, I am pretty comfortable of saying 0 chance that the White Sox are a playoff team in 2019.

I think if every single thing went right this season, we probably top out around 85 wins.