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And this is exactly why people don't believe the EVERYTHING IS FIXED NOW propaganda boyz.

And here is notice me #2. Maybe you just need your own safe space so you can reassure yourself how right you actually are all of the time since you don't get enough from everyone else and it makes you so darned mad all the time. Keep defending the Empire, I will fight back.

I am not sure how 10 Josh Rojas's will get us to the playoffs.

Attendance isn't butts in the seats, it is full price tickets sold.

HIS average RC+ is an interesting measuring stick. Dude hasn't even put up an average RC+ or a positive oWAR since 2022.

Did this post pass muster with the Soxtalk Purity Committee?

Yep, right on cue. Too easy.

I will never understand the need to lecture people who are upset about the state of this franchise. It's still incredibly bad, and will be for the near future.

Water always finds its low point. If Black Sox doesn't happen, that manifests itself in another way.

2/7

I missed the game last night, who called it?

Of note, I agree. There is no need to trade Sosa right now. It isn't like he is getting you a decent OF anyway as a flawed IF himself.

Honestly, I don't see why one of them didn't pick up a 1B glove a day or two a week. Can't be worse than what we have been running out there.

They won't play them together every day without the 3rd catcher because if the catcher gets hurt, you would then lose the DH to move the other guy into the game.

Currently Teel and Quero are pretty much each playing 50% of the games. If Lee allows them both to EACH play more, this is a win. Think of it this way. In 10 games, this allow you to Teel: Catch 4, DH 4 Quero: Catch 4 DH 4 Lee Catch 2 Someone else DH 2 You now have these guys playing 80% of the time, instead of 50%.

In terms of skillsets to fit a team, I could be convinced that Medroth is the 3rd best 2B on the roster right now behind both Sosa and Baldwin pretty easily. Dude is a pretty limited ceiling guy. He's got one real tool, and lacks in others, much like the others. Sosa at least provides some much needed power to a line up sorely lacking it.

Rojas was a waste of a roster spot just by having no talent. We also have plenty of IFs and dude was barely playing. Lee at least allows us to utilize two of our best players on a daily basis instead of just one most days.

This actually allows them to play both Quero and Teel without worrying about an injury costing them the DH position. It leaves them an extra catcher to catch, even if the other guy is DHing.

DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!

I wouldn't call Wolkow disappointing at all. With the hole in his swing, he was always a high bust chance. We have been talking about that since literally day 1. The fact he is advancing through the system might even be a win.

Keep the politics out of this.

This right here. 100% this right here.

So I was under the impression that Bradens stock should be going UP. What's the reason for it dropping despite his performance. He's been one of the few really good hitters this season.

Dude turns in one of the absolute worst stretches in the 125 year history of baseball and when some criticizes him you come running like Commissioner Gordon turned on the Bat Signal. There might be someone here with a weird Chris Getz obsession, but me thinks there is some projection happening.

I think the greater point here is pretty clear, though the work to muddy the waters is definitely there. The Sox have completely failed in the development game for a long period of time now. While you can pull out the Kopech quotes that he didn't listen to the Sox (of course don't ask why that would happen), and leave out the ones where he quite literally states that the Dodgers changed some things too. While you can look at Andrew Vaughn and see that MIlwaukee made some pretty big changes there too It's leaving behind the bigger picture here. The Sox have a litany of players who their people have labeled as lazy, disinterested, and everything else, which is a perfect Venn overlay of the players who failed with some sort of expectations. The answer can't be that all of them were lazy and didn't listen. If you are a teacher, and your classes consistently don't perform and don't care, at some point you have ask how good you are as a teacher. Not every player comes to you understanding work ethic and what it takes to perform as a major leaguer. That is quite literally what coaches and Dev staffs are for. Many kids need to be taught work ethic, as their natural talent was enough to get by until their arrival at a level where everyone was that good. The Sox problems aren't all "make up" problems, as much as they would love us to believe that. Still to this date, we aren't really seeing changes in kids who saw both regimes, and our most successful players seem to be coming in from outside the organization. Those are red flags.