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Or in winterball, or something. I mean the whole argument for keeping Benny around is that his bat is still useful. Offensively they put up almost mirror image seasons in 2025, and you still don't know if he could play a defensive position in the OF well enough to help this team. For a team that loves playing guys all over the field, the are weirdly set on NOT doing that with Lenyn.

That's the entire point. You have no idea when you use him, versus when you use him later in the game, you have a MUCH better idea of situational awareness.

No, it is worse because you don't know which ones are garbage appearances when he starts, because you need everyone else after him to hold their weight, including the inferior relievers you are now putting into high leverage.

And maybe we lose the game anyway, and then the pitcher isn't available when we could have really used him most.

A teams best hitters are going to come up 4 times in a game. Do you want them to face your best pitcher with the score 0-0, winning 10-0, losing 10-0, or up 4-3 with the bases loaded in the 7th?

This is a big point. the KNOWLEDGE of what is already happened, and what the current situation is in a game should dictate usage.

Also, it would have been a great time to have played Lenyn Sosa in LF this spring to see if he could handle it so you could also still have his bat in the line up. Cant' wait to see Benny back out there every day.

If only world. It was pretty universally regarded as one of the worst (if not THE) OFs in baseball going into this season. Let's just say this isn't going to help. Good thing we weren't counting on this being a winning season.

Aliens man. Look we can spend all day back and forth on if what the Sox are doing NOW is going to work or not, but where the franchise is TODAY is obvious. The fan base is gone. It's a dead horse. We are literally 30 of 30 when it comes to revenue, which is the quickest measure of where the fan base is. And on top of it, we aren't even particularly close. This is a disaster of a franchise at this point in time.

NEXT VERSE SAME AS THE FIRST!

That's what so weird about it. Everything happened exactly the way that the NFL wanted it to happen, and then poof. It's like they pissed someone off. Either that or they are scared of being seen as DEI by you know who.

DUSTIN HARRIS COME ON DOWN!

Man this would have been a great draft with the two extra comp picks. Really sucks the NFL screwed the Bears over some BS definition of control.

If Hagen Smith has control, he is already the Sox (at least 2nd) best pitcher. If Shane Smith returns to form, #1 would be debatable.

It's a weird solution to none of his futures though. If you want him being a premier closer, you want him dealing with closing situations, complete with late game pressure. Walking into a game with full warm ups, ritual and routine does him no good if you want him available on a moments notice, or just in the 9th. It doesn't replicate the randomness of the game already happening, and the sense that you can't give up anything if you want to win If you want him as a high leverage reliever for the toughest spots in the 7th through the 9th innings, coming in clean with a zero to zero game, with 8 other innings to worry about also doesn't replicate the sense of immediacy to needing to get out of a situation to win a game. It goes back to some guys aren't built to close. There are Guys who are really, really good in the 7th and 8th, but can't handle the 9th. It goes to show that it isn't just WHO you face, it is also WHEN you face them that adds to a situation. This gets Taylor innings, and it gets him facing certain hitters. It does not get him the mental challenge of overcoming situations and being prepared at a moments notice. It doesn't prepare him for facing a guy with the bases loaded and 1 out needing to allow nothing to hold a game where it is, late in a game. Honestly, this is better if he want to make him a starter long term than anything else, because he is getting more of those types of advantages than anything else.

AND not only can you choose to deploy him against the best hitters, you can also do it in key leverage situations instead of potentially wasting him in a game that was never going to be won.

The Sox are last in MLB by 20 percentage points in MLB in revenue. They have one of the smaller fan bases in MLB. The numbers are right there in front of you. You might not LIKE it, but Sox fans are among the least "loyal" in baseball in terms of showing up and spending.

No one is taking loans to own the Forbes article.

They literally never led. They didn't score until 1 out before the end of the game. They wasted his outing tonight for a game They couldn't win. If he had been held on to until later, they would have KNOWN they were losing and held him out so he was available for the next game where he could make a difference. N9w they have an L, plus an inferior pitchers for the highest leverage situations in their next game. This could end up with 2 Ls instead of one.

Except the Sox just got sold because of operations debt, meaning there is some decent accuracy here.

Agreed. You NEED Taylor late way more.

I won't call this stupid, but if this flipped around: -Fedde starts normally, gets hit around, Taylor never gets used. -Same thing happens, just pitchers get moved up an inning, Taylor doesn't get used late losing 2-0. Either way, he is available tomorrow if needed. Now with 3 appearances in 4 days, he probably isn't and you are back to Leasure and Seranthony as you high leverage guys only.

And for the record, this is my problem with Taylor as an opener. We used him in a game where we didn't score until one out left in the bottom of the 9th and lost. We used him in a game we effectively had zero chance of winning in the end.

Not today Beavis, not today dumbass.

Don't confuse stats for the tools to succeed at the next level. It's easy to equate guys at lower levels, but you need the tools to succeed at the top level.