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THIS should be his breakout year. Last year he finally started pitching up near 100 pitches in games last year. Now should be the innings build.

OLE!

The IF is in

It's 15 extra days built into the schedule, so on day 16, they couldn't accrue a full year of service if they were on the MLB roster for the rest of the season.

Say hi to Ted Cruz for me!

Gordo all over it.

Hicks with 11 RBI already. The Sox have 16 runs all year.

All right, I will allow it.

Nope, it is definitely the game.

FIFY

Can you take a sizable chunk of the MLB roster with you? K tnx

Definitely. There were so many transient players who are essentially fungible on the bottom of our roster. High ceiling guys are who we should hording.

And less roster spots available overall because of the Teel and Baldwin injuries essentially taking up 2 roster spots each.

Exactly. Picking a guy with his pedigree, you HAVE to know you are not picking him for 2026, and that you were going to have to pick your places to hide him and deploy him. If you didn't you picked the wrong guy.

Yet the Sox just jettisoned their Rule 5 pick on a 5 day sample size.

I wonder if he is pressing a bit after this deal? Or he just isn't that good.

Honestly, what did you see a week ago, that you do not see now when we had the other roster options?

In case you were wondering, $2000 in 1975 is worth a shade over $12,150 today. The Sox keep the most fun traditions alive, don't they?

So much for them hiding his flaws at DH and taking advantage of his bat. Let's hope Shane Smith isn't pitching to contact today.

The Sox didn't like him. For whatever reason it was, they had the opportunity to test drive him last year, and refused to call him up, despite all of the roster churn.

Not surprising. He was not ready for a team that needs arms badly.

The need everything. Honestly, I think there is zero chance they take the Emerson kid, because they want to get another fast mover into the system. Even their trades seem to be valuing guys who are here, or almost here (see the whole post hype prospect thing, instead of young kids) I would be very surprised if the answer isn't Roch, but if it isn't, I think it is LeBron, and not Flora.

The problem is they cannot find offense on the open market. They can't tradefor it and are too cheap to sign it.

The CF is the leader out there. It's his job to take control.