southsider2k5

It's been obvious for a while that he is tipping something.

It failed, obviously, though not because of HFA. Neither rest, nor HFA were beating Tony vs the Astros. Now, back to the benching of the #1 starter.

I am still curious when it has happened. Who benched their #1 starter in a series because of match ups?

And if you watched the actual baseball season, he was well on his way to becoming a starter, before he got hurt, again.

You'll have to find him again, because in 2021, it wasn't James McCann. Unless you wanted to pay $10 million for 0.5 WAR and -5 DRS.

If there was only some explanation in the change in his expectations this year... such as an injury which caused a revision of his usage.

And I STILL would rather have him than Tony.

NO one is throwing out runners if pitchers allow them to run freely.

Sounds like the Sox have a LOT of their Jan22 allocation spent between Colas and the 16 year old we have supposedly agreed with, along with the rest of the younger LA class. It could very well be that we need to offer Jan23 money to have a chance here. I have zero idea who has 22 money left.

That's one of those questions you have to ask yourself in life. Is my situation bad enough that I want to give up something to get something else. Been there, done that personally.

That's sure how I read, but again, I have no information the topic to speak with authority on the topic, nor will I pretend to.

Dead.

Like I said, I don't know anything, but if any of the rumblings of last year were taken personally, it would be an easy way out.

It would be really rough to have an owner willing to write huge checks for players.

Lance Lynn, obviously.

Theo wants to get into ownership.

They feel it is more toxic here with a 77 year manager making the decisions for the organization and not the EVP or GM, in theory.

Honestly? I think it would be B

So no?

In the back of my mind, if there really is any truth the to the idea that Kenny/Rick had one plan last off season, and then Jerry intervened with TLR, this could be the chance for either of them to leave for a "Promotion" and not arouse a higher than normal level of questions about why they left now. I have ZERO idea how either man felt about Tony being put into the mix by Jerry, or if either/both might be interested in the Mets job, but it is a footnote worth taking at this stage of the off season.

I am curious, who was the last team to bench a TOR starter against a team in the playoffs because they didn't match up well during the regular season?

One really interesting thing to note is that the Mets are looking for a President of baseball ops, and we have at least one guy who has applied for those jobs in the past in Kenny Williams, and another one who interviewed for their GM job back in 2010 when he was still Ast GM of the Sox in Rick Hahn.

I hated the idea of bringing Ozzie back, but if the choice is Tony or Ozzie, I am #TeamOzzie all day.

The Sox weren't the only team interested. Tampa was really hot on his heels too.

He also would be the much rarer guy who isn't exactly what he has shown us for an injury history going back to college.