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When asked for comment, Robert said he was at 91.67% recovery.

After this season, assuming he is rostered for at least 90 active days.,

Once he clears his rehab (which I believe can last up to a month) yes.

I mean The Score is just basically The View for dudes. They take wacky and outrageous takes to get people riled up and engaged. Talking calm sense doesn't get attention. Whailing at the top of your lungs does. Look at modern politics even.

I mean yeah, but also it's hard to not take something personal that sure appears to be personal and regular. He's got people chasing him around about it, and asking him about it, so it isn't like it has gone away.

I smell a ?️bet.

This is kind of my feeling. The guy has been targeted since day 1 by this group, and when he fires back, he is then supposed to give time to them thus rewarding them for targeting him? Eh, I don't see it. Honestly this whole thing is stupid anyway, and reeks of people who aren't very important trying to make themselves self-important at other people's expense. It would be nice if he just left it alone, but I also get why having bitter people nipping at your heels constantly gets annoying.

Even if you divide the Chicago market into 2/3 Cubs, and 1/3 for the Sox, that 1/3 of Chicagoland is bigger than pretty much anywhere left as a viable baseball expansion candidate. If someone is going to pay a couple of billion dollars for an expansion team, they could do a LOT worse than the Chicago market, even as a secondary team. In this made up scenario where the Sox leave Chicago, MLB could force JR to leave behind the name and history, which also leaves them a ready made audience for that expansion team instead of building from scratch.

Actually you made the case for why they are panicking quite clearly right there. As for the "not convinced", only you have said that, but I suppose I should thank you for making it clear I shouldn't waste time on you then.

https://twitter.com/FutureSox/status/1792952003850645952

You haven't presented anything that isn't moving goal posts, which goes right along with what I have been saying. I keep back this up with stats and facts as you switch between broad and general concepts which don't allow for any burden of proof. Whether it has been numbers of moves, plate appearances, defensive stats or anything, I keep bringing it to you in stats that disprove what you are saying. Naming a lot of names isn't the same thing, especially when the lists keep being deconstructed for inconsistencies and falsehoods. Even in your Holiday example, they gave him how long on the roster? How many games did he play? How many ABs did he get? Notice how many guys we have blown through without anywhere near that level of exposure? Notice how he started every game he played, right? You are also conveniently ignoring that Baltimore is actually trying to win something this year, so their wins and losses actually matter. Also they have been relatively stable, making almost 50% less moves than the White Sox have. They have 17 recalls to the Sox 44.

None of this is actually happening though. There are blowing through everyone so quickly, you have no idea if a guy is catching on or not. This is fantasy.

I can't walk away from this. Even taking the guy who is pretty universally accepted as having one of the best seasons for the team in DeJong, if you go to the fangraphs WAR calculation, he is ranking 18th of 28 SS with at least 120 PAs. Danny Mendick is a zero WAR player. That isn't average, it is replacement. Pham has a 0.6 WAR so far, in his limited ABs, so far I can give you that one. Nicky Lopez has been flat out awful. Remilard has been cut twice this past year, he's so good that no one has claimed him twice.

At this point Vaughn hasn't even shown the flashes that Rodon showed all along. When he was healthy (which hasn't been often, he could be otherworldly. I have yet to see Vaughn has some streak or tear that you step back from and say yeah, that was why he was a top of the draft guy.

Yeah, I can't get past this line. It is so not true.

Andrew Vaughn has 3 full years of service time and is now an arb player. Sheets is two years into his career and has shown a ceiling of a below average DH. Why would you apply this policy to guys you know won't be around the next time the Sox are good (heck we aren't too far from being non-tendered in these cases), but not the guys who could be here? Because it is about how it looks to the outside, and not what is best for the franchise long term, because they are scared of the results so far.

So it's about defense, until it isn't. It is about development and learning at the major league level, until the make a mistake, and it isn't. It is about the "plan" until it isn't. It is about ABs to get comfortable, except for the guys who need them the most, and it isn't. There is no plan. This is running from fire to fire trying to cover up the last problem and creating the next problem, instead of realizing there is no difference between winning 50 or 60 games this season and getting what you can for the future of this franchise, they panic when something looks bad. It's all they have done this year. At this point if you don't want to see it, it is because you don't want to see it. Everyone else can see it.

Like this is a perfect example of what I am talking about here. We cut Ortega to get Fletcher on the roster, and now we aren't playing him. That isn't good for his development, his confidence, and it sure doesn't help this franchise at all for the future. He needs to be playing daily, somewhere. If he isn't ready for Chicago, why is he here? And before someone states that the manager is the problem, the GM is his boss. Either the GM tells the manager to get Fletcher into the line up, or he is OK with him not being there. Why the hell does Andrew Benitendi need to be in the line up every day with his .500 OPS and terrible glove? Gavin Sheets has hit for a .582 over the last two weeks anyway, and it still one of the worst defenders in baseball. Fletcher's season OPS is actually higher than 10D, and not much less than what Sheets has put up the last couple of weeks at .548. Remember when we were fixing the defense for the pitchers so they would want to come here? Yeah, what happened to that plan?

Even if the Sox picked up his entire salary, who is going to be willing to roster 10D right now?

And when he refuses the assignment?