Jack Parkman

Yeah I'm shocked the number isn't like 80.5 or somewhere like that.

Idk whether I said this or not but I think a good comp for Colas is Eddie Rosario with better defense.

Player development is the lifeblood of winning organizations and the Sox just do not prioritize it. Most of my strong fandom(since 2000) the Sox have had one of the worst farms in baseball. I can't remember a time outside of the early 2000s and after the Sox sold Sale/Quintana/Eaton where the Sox weren't toward the bottom of MLB farm rankings.

I had no idea this was posted already, I thought it was thread worthy. Sorry.

Probably Bullshit, but thought it was worth a thread.

Since this team is a dumpster fire, fire everyone and trade everyone.

They're both shitty but I think that the second one is worse.

Sign Da'Ron Payne, draft Will Anderson, profit.

I would love it just for stuff like this Wacha was a legitimately better pitcher than Clevinger in 2022.

At least he didn't spell it Pre-Madonna.

At some point, most will realize there never was any window. It shut in 2009 and has remained so since.

See this is what I'm talking about with regard to picking a damn lane. Picking neither paying top dollar for proven talent nor paying for potential is like driving right on top of the center line. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Hahn sucks. He should be fired. Kenny sucks. He should be fired. Jerry sucks. He should sell. Thoughts are all valid and not mutually exclusive. However, MAYBE if Jerry hired better management over the years we wouldn't be as pissed at him. Like say, if they could develop players from their minors like the 90s Braves did or the Rays do now. A team with an analytics infrastructure like Tampa and the ability to have a $150M payroll could be a sleeping giant (I'm taking $30M from payroll and investing it in other places in baseball ops) My issue with Jerry isn't about what he spends or doesn't spend, but rather that he needs to pick a damn lane. Dude is stuck operating in the late 20th century. He needs to join the 21st century. If the budget really is a sticking point, then the prudent thing to do is operate like the Rays but with more cash. Maybe you don't have to trade players as soon as they reach arb 2 like clockwork, but don't let anyone leave for nothing and be willing to make hard decisions. Again, my issue isn't with the budget but rather how they're using it.

Of course it's not, but it's better than trading for a shite player like Lopez.

Just play Sosa ffs.

Because what happened to Kane is rare af. Statistically in these cases it truly is guilty until proven innocent.

The statistics are overwhelming in that direction. False accusations are incredibly rare. Not to say they don't happen, but jumping to this conclusion you'd be right 98/100 times. I was that idiot with the Heimlich stuff from a few years back. I did the research, learned and became a better person because of it.

Some have said that this stuff is collectively bargained and they're bound by that. They might have to let the process play out.

I was listening to the score and there was basically a no comment from Clevinger's agent. The fact that they didn't even issue a denial.........looks really bad.

I'm feeling the same way. Do the Sox realize they've already alienated the majority of their fanbase to a certain degree? Are they trying to piss off the fans so nobody cares when they move the team? That has always been my tin foil hat hypothesis.

I wouldn't put DA's cynical hypothesis beyond the Sox.

Ok then I guess they have to wait until he gets suspended. Hopefully he goes on Administrative Leave and is not allowed at ST.

There wasn't even a denial from his agent. Dude needs to be gone by the end of the day.

Can we just cut Clevinger, fire Hahn and blow up this team?