southsider2k5

We should know something really soon.

I think you overestimate the amount of players who don't just flat out suck on this team.

Inconceivable!

For my two cents, Pallette has a higher ceiling and floor than almost all of those guys. Find a spot for him. Hell there is a real chance by the time we break spring training, a spot will have opened up anyway. Injuries happen, as do trades and failures. He should spent the winter ramping up as if he is starting, and then get to spring and figure it out.

The Sox are only mostly dead? Interesting.

See, there are more Sox fans than people realized...

Thankfully the Sox pen has been fine without him...

It's hard to argue with the lack of results this season. The huge regressions by almost every top hitting prospect alone should be a red flag.

Spank your monkey as often as necessary

He's a free agent in a month. We can sign him next year just like anyone else can.

Yeah you used to be able to execute certain trades in August, but the waivers are still wide open. Now it is either claim them, or don't. You can't claim and work out a non-40 man roster deal or pick up some cash like you used to. You either get the whole deal, or nothing.

Someone needs to set him up for betting on baseball

Which is why we didn't hear about it. Every single awful contract was put on waviers with the prayer that someone would bite, no matter how small. But there was no chance anyone would claim them, hence the no news.

I promise you they did.

I am not even sure what rule you could change to prevent what happened this year. They had a middle of the road payroll, signed some free agents, and actually seemed to think they could not be the worst team in baseball.

In terms of nothing else but raw value, you should always want your best pitchers to go through the system as starters until they absolutely prove they cannot do so. I don't care about how many starters we think we have, I promise you we don't. If he fails again, cool, move him back to the pen. But they absolutely should be trying to do everything they can for his value by starting him.