southsider2k5

I can't wait to hear the meltdown about ex-players.

For those who are interested there was a blogger call with Chris Getz earlier in the day, and a ton of great info came out. Tweets can be found here. https://twitter.com/ksawilchik

Totally this.

Not only that but as few innings as many of our top minor league prospects if you add up both minor and major league innings. Fulmer has about as many pro innings as Michael Kopech. (353.2 IP for CF, 365 for MK, 334 for Jordan Stephens)

It will be interesting to see if Carson Fulmer can follow up that last start.

Wow, what a perfect player to manage Courtney Hawkins.

The Astros are the team that is the most dedicated to their internal valuation system in all of MLB. If their valuation system shows that Jose Abreu is worth X, they will NOT play more than X, period. Their propensity seems to be that they are more willing to spend and take on cash, then they are to send additional prospects.

Absolutely 100% fact here. He's really young and has missed a ton of time in his career already.

Not Sox related, but interesting.

Players are going harder than ever. Instead of throwing at 80% for 120 pitches, they go at 100% for 95 pitches. The latter is more prone to injury than the former.

I thought it was the Pirates that Cuban wanted to buy?

When a spot opens up at least. Even then, there is a fair chance that Kopech is called up first, especially if he starts to turn it around again.

Realistically, it won't be easy for the Sox to fall out of the top 5 or so. The bottom 3 teams have such a "lead" on the top picks, that even if the Sox play .500 ball for the rest of the season and finish 30 under, you won't get that many teams finishing with less than say 65 or 66 wins. These teams all have to play each other too, so there are wins out there. Last year the Sox finished 4th with 67 wins, with the Reds right behind them 5th at 68 wins. The 6th place team had 70 wins.