Jack Parkman

Sure. I'm just going to enjoy what is likely his final season in a Sox uniform.

Giolito wants to get paid fairly. When have the Sox ever signed a pitcher to a market value contract?

Sure, they were primed for an ECF rematch that year, which they would have lost. It wouldn't have been particularly close either. The regular season means nothing in the NBA. Back to the Sox, they're bumslayers until they prove otherwise. Just like the 2022 Bulls.

Lol.

No silly, but they could finish behind the Yankees, Rays, Jays and Sawx if they had to play those 4 teams 19 times each. When I said that I was making the assumption that you were swapping the Sox for Orioles.

Baseball is nowhere near as chalky as basketball, but the Sox have had problems with other good teams for 2 seasons now. They are and have been bum slayers. I wonder if they will win as many games as they did last year even with a full season of Robert and Eloy just because the rest of the ALC got better. 87+ wins should still be enough to win the ALC but there probably won't be any 95 loss teams in the division this year.

Giolito is absolutely going to shove this year. I'm going to miss him when he's gone.

Nobody is making that comparison for that reason. They're making the comparison because it was a very good team that everyone knew would lose to Miami before Rose got injured. IIRC after that injury they didn't even get out of the 1st round. Similarly, there are a number of AL teams that are likely to take the Sox down. If the Sox were in the AL East they'd finish anywhere from 3rd to last place, but you could say that about every AL contender other than the AL East top 4. My opinion is that the top 4 teams in the AL East will win 85+ games, and they'll be bunched together between 85-92 wins because they'll all beat up on each other in division play.

In 2012 that was when Rose got injured in the 1st round of the playoffs, right?

Personally I think it's fine if he has a season in Charlotte. Abreu sounds like he's retiring after this season so just wait a year.

I hate being in this weird limbo of being fairly certain that the Sox are going to win the AL Central and also be fairly certain that they're going to get their asses handed to them in the playoffs. It feels like the Sox are the 2011 Bulls or something.

Shouldn't this be merged with the other injury thread? Why have two competing threads?

Let's stop playing 1B in RF, m'kay?

^^^^^

When did Stevie Ray come back from the dead to play RF for the Sox?

This makes me a sad panda.

See quoted post.

I know.

No, I mean people are going to be talking about Joe Kelly in MLB and type his name "Kelley" instead.

I can't wait until posters get Joe Kelly and Jared Kelley confused.

Fun.

Yes, let's put a 1B in RF and see what happens. What could go wrong?????

of course not..... They'll just trot Adolfo out there to be a black hole in the 9 spot.

The Hamburglar is fulla shit. Hahahahahahahaha eat a bag of dicks, Dick.

With the Sox luck it will be a torn hip labrum.