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I think this is worth the gamble. If Parker is good again, they could vault themselves to the top of the East. I realize that is the tallest midget contest, but still.

I hope it is just taking him time to get his strength back after injury, but Hansen's fastball velocity has been about 3-4 mph down from where he was last year. Everything I have seen says he's sitting at 92-93 and topping out at 95 this year. This was after sitting 95-96 and topping out at 99 last year.

GMAFB. Kwitcher b****in. Very few, if any of us are happy or even okay with the fact that KW and Hahn got the opportunity to right the ship. We're not on the board, so we can't make the decisions. Why waste time complaining about things that are history and that we can't control? All we can do as fans is hope that the powers that be make the correct decisions from here forward.

About half of those he wasn't going to do anything with the pitch anyway. The whole ump/called 3rd way out of the zone thing has become beyond ludicrous and frustrating. I can only imagine how Moncada feels.

Yeah, and I think a lot of that has to do with the period since around Memorial Day to now. Let him do his thing. He was on a tear before he got hurt in early May. they didn't tell him to swing at 1st pitches until he came back from injury. He's not comfortable being impatient at the plate.

Last season he was, and at the beginning of the season he was. Then the staff told him to swing more after he returned from his injury and I don't get it. His huge asset was his knowledge of the strike zone, and they are neutering that because he's swinging at 1st pitches and shit like that. He's more dangerous as he sees more pitches and gets deeper into the count. Umps notwithstanding. Honestly I think his regression has a lot to do with him being more of a free swinger and he's not comfortable with it. It could also explain the pulling off everything because he's got into the habit of trying to destroy pitches early in the count.

I disagree in principle with batting Moncada leadoff, unless the purpose is to get him 700 instead of 600 ABs this year. If that is the plan, I understand though I disagree. Moncada is a run producer, and should be in a run producing role in the lineup.

He's right there with them. The big difference is that Dunn and Thome had a long track record of destroying baseballs at the big league level that Moncada doesn't.

He has an incredible eye for the zone. I don't know why Umps are screwing him. Best I've seen in a Sox uni since Hurt. I think it has to do with Hurt's comments to the media from about 16 years ago when he said the following: "If I don't swing, the Umps will call it a ball."

Moncada oozes talent. Dude has the potential to be the Infield Ken Griffey Jr. A true 5-tool stud. For all of the shit that Moncada gets for his errors, his range is incredible, and even though the metrics argue otherwise, I see him go to Anderson's side of 2B with regularity from the 2B home position. He gets to balls others would allow for hits, and that is why he has more errors. Simply more opportunities to make a mistake.

Yes, that is dreamland if Moncada reaches his ceiling. It really isn't that hard to imagine. He has the potential to be on the "best of the best ever" (i.e. Mike Trout) level. I'm not saying he gets there, but yeah, he has the potential to have the argument in the future: Which season was better? Moncada's 2022 or Thomas' 1994?

He's going to be just fine. He'll settle in in the 5-7 WAR range with an outside chance to reach Trout levels.

I've been arguing with people on a different sports board about Moncada. This is the way I see it: Moncada has "Best position player in the game" potential. His potential is Who is better Trout or Moncada? His floor is Trevor Story. I don't know where he's ultimately going to fall on this spectrum, but if he hits his ceiling, I could see this as his career year .310/.405/1.085 43HR 45 SB 38 2B 13 3B 130+RBI And a GG

Gohara?

2.25M. Kruger is worth 3.075

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Lots of that. Santiago is a gascan at this point too.

Q: do people think Giolito doesn't have actual talent? Anyway, It is good to see Moncada taking pitches again, hopefully he's about to explode. That was just tough pitching. There really wasn't anything Moncada could do with those.

C'mon Moncada. You have to crush hangers like that.

Rodon's change is filthy tonight.

I get him and Lincoln Henzman confused. I can't remember which guy is in A+ and in AAA.

They had 1st and 2nd with nobody out, Abreu hit a gork shot to left that got caught and Moncada got doubled off 2B because he wasn't paying attention.

None of the top pitching prospects deserve a callup or are ready, so who goes into the rotation if Shields is traded?

I was talking about the Manuel years when they should have won more and didn't, and the later Ozzie years.

Even when they were good, they pulled shit like that.