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I am going to say it outloud. I am more excited for Brooks than I am about Chase. Feels like both more upside potential and positional flexibility once he settles in.

They don't have enough hitting. Not even close. Don't fall for SSS.

Should we have been playing the kids, instead of playing shitty, washed up, old utility players? No, it's Hahns fault.

My guess is the second half leads to the first half, especially based on how many players get trashed by the Sox minions for work ethic, at the same time that Ex-Sox players are amazed at how much better it seems away from the Sox. It is valid to wonder how connected the two things are when they seem to keep happening over and over again, meanwhile survey after survey puts the Sox at the bottom of the league as a place to play. If true, have we ever stopped to ask why so many seemingly "lazy" players end up here?

I think we have already started to see that in the last few years. I also think the slow walk from distinct leagues to intraleague, to making rules match between leagues has been a purposeful attempt to eventually radically change the teams in the leagues around to achieve more of a geographic balance while minimizing the "league history" factor as they do it.

His stuff rebounding with some time off is a really good sign for him going forward. Season long conditioning is obviously a huge thing for him going forward, so as long as we can keep him going without hurting himself is important.

I am just going to say it outloud, none of these guys are ever going to be that great of pitchers. Outside of maybe Shane Smith, this rotation is loaded with guys who could top out in the middle of a rotation, but are probably back end guys at best. I know Keith Law had a Burke crush, but he's never looked like a front end guy. The bullpen is full of garbage and Grant Taylor. Taylor is learning on the job, and everyone else is doing what they do. Look at career numbers for these guys and tell me who is really out of line for that span.

And Harris with the diving catch, because of course.

It feels like something that the Sox are the ones usually doing.

If they are going to use kids like this, start playing them like this in the minors to get used to it

Calling people names because they disagreed with you opinion is the definition of being offended. In general I am not sure when discussion boards turned into somewhere that people take it personally when their opinions aren't parrotted back at them, but apparently that's where Soxtalk is now too. Honestly it's depressing because the give and take here was always the best, but it seems like these days people take disagreements personally.

It was Beckham, wasn't it.

And for the record, this is Barlolo Colon's career line. He averaged 1.2 hits per season. Yes, I am OK with giving up his one HR, so that a DH could have hit 15 to 20 HRs over that same period of ABs.

And pitcher ABs end in failure at MUCH higher rate than a DH does. And yes, when you talk about pitchers hitting, that is quite literally the job of the DH. If pitchers hit, there is no DH.

See, my definition of boring would be knowing that something was going to end in failure almost every single time, yet still pretending to be exited about it because once years ago, someone did something positive. It would be like having an audience for people buying lottery tickets as a spectator sport.

f*** Frank Thomas, I need to see my starting pitcher pull a hamstring running to first on a dribbler!

Knowing someone is going to fail 90% of the time isn't "strategy". It's masochistic. Did you like the excitement of Martin Maldonado get his monthly hit too?

Repeat after me... You can never have too much pitching.

Per Connor

Colson out.

Beckham with Schiff in ARL. Stone and Schriffen have been together for 1 of the last 6 series. Not sure about before those 6.

Those dudes also threw slow pitch softball speeds.

I am sure it is this. Again, none of these guys have gone through a full major league season. Burke has gone over 100 innings in a season once in his college/MiLB/MLB career until this year. He hit 108 innings in 2022, and it is over 117 this year. He made it through 71 2/3 last year, and 36 in 2023. Again, this is why we needed more pitchers.

That was like $3 million a year.

Two things here. #1, the debt service at Sox Park is a fraction of that number, and should be easily be retired before a new stadium is opened. #2, Sox Park only has debt because more money was spent in 2003 for major construction to redo the park and extend the lease.