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It's all about how a batter perceives pitches. As Kopech shows you can throw 100 and MLB can kill you.

That was a great bunt

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That last change was it. He overthrew the 1st 2. That one almost knuckled.

I wish they would at least workout Lee at 1B to give them some line up flexibility and put Vaughn at DH. It just means you cannot remove Moldy during a game without losing the DH which is horrifying.

Which is why continued waves of talent are so important.

UNlike the churn you are seeing at the major league level, I am all for giving guys some predictability and stability as the work through the minors. Give them clear and concise timelines and goals so that they will be on the same page. 1st half/2nd half is always solid timing for these kinds of changes as well.

I think the deal is about there, I just don't Baltimore has the stones to do it unless they really think a lot less of Holliday after his debut.

Of course no one would probably notice.

I kind of wonder if the initial failure of Holliday so spectacularly on his first crack at the majors damages his standing kind of like it did with the Red Sox and Moncada so as to rethink shipping him out. I would be really curious if there was a scouting red flag on him during his time here, or if this was just standard fare baseball is tough kind of a thing.

That is immaterial to who is manager though. But even if you had a couple of stable (not even great) relievers at the back of this pen, a game like last night, and the two Wrigley games the Sox most likely win. The last week or so Leasure and Kopech have traded off blowing late leads, and when they were too tired to do it, other guys like Tanner Banks stepped up their game to do it for them. But again, I have yet to hear a thing about how Pedro manages a game that Ozzie wasn't just as bad at. We all know he started horrible vets over rookies for way too long. He managed his bullpen awfully. He ran sub-optimal line ups out there so often, they got a nickname. I guess maybe the clown show could have distracted some of the negatives swirling around this team, but don't forget when things got really bad, Ozzie didn't hesitate to push someone else under the bus to save his own ass. And then when things got really bad, he left.

Plus if most of these clowns "love" him, maybe we need to find someone who they hate because there are plenty of guys who have been so far under their potential this year.

What is the exact time period this needs to be repeated within to meet those standards?

They are. And yet the ones who say it are being ignored here.

It isn't just the list. It is the list of reasons given with the list. Even their lack of communication is sited in that list. I feel the making things up part comes by ignore the actual evidence in front of us that there are actual problems.

Look if we are going to pretend that a "lack of evidence" is somehow evidence, and then handwave away anything that actually serves as evidence, by those standards there is no evidence that the Sox lockeroom isn't a toxic mess either. But I think the player survey's, coupled with actual player statements are telling.

Middleton is another who trashed the team on his way out last year, as did Lance Lynn. It isn't like this is coming out of no where.

Everything I read about Baldwin sounds like the kind of guy that Getz/JR will love. I think the downside is that while he keeps adjusting to the minors, that no one seems to think he has a carrying tool, nor a set position. Maybe he is the kind of guy that makes a living bouncing around the diamond as a vital bench player who plays 5 positions defensively well.

You seem to assume that Jerry cares what the people think. If he did, I think he would actually be having the organization spending at least sometime giving respectfully comments that give at least some honest evaluation of the team and it's future. I don't expect gory details, but even to acknowledge that this is a rebuild and it will be a LOOOOOONG time before they are good again would go a long way towards build back even a minimal trust in what the org has to say.

So I am supposed to believe you know more than these guys do? Let's hear your credentials.

There was just an entire section of an Athletic article about how bad the Sox are to play for right now.

Guessing it will be Perralta. Again.