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With the renewed emphasis on speed/defense/stolen bases/OF positioning like employed against Gallo in the spring...definitely has 25% more value.

Eloy has to be getting 150+ games between OF and DH for the Sox to go anywhere.

Not enamored with Reyes. Too streaky.

Marisnick the other OF only option.

https://sports.yahoo.com/2023-fantasy-baseball-rankings-top-40-third-basemen-202956405.html Moncada just 23rd at third base. Also, no ranking in Top 40 for Seby's anomalous season...

Banks?

Have to bank on Crochet comeback this year. Not exactly the smartest idea.

https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1622723222150995969/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1622723222150995969&currentTweetUser=JomboyMedia https://focustaiwan.tw/sports/202303030017 Taipei, March 3 (CNA) Six cheerleaders with a Taiwanese professional baseball team, the Rakuten Monkeys, will be heading to New York in August to perform at the annual Taiwan Day put on by the New York Mets. Known as the Rakuten Girls, the Taiwanese cheerleaders will appear at the Mets' home park, Citi Field, on Aug. 27 to highlight Taiwan's unique baseball cheerleading culture during the 18th annual "Mets Taiwan Day."

Mired in mediocrity/apathy.

Tanner Banks

Abreu, Vaughn, Sheets, Burger, Jimenez...all profile best at DH/1B. In retrospect, drafting Madrigal and Vaughn at non premium positions might have started the series of roster debacles leading to Rodon/Kimbrel...then Pollock...then Benintendi to correct all those poor decisions. Always playing catch up.

JR KW Hahn TLR Coaching staff Abreu, TA7, Liam, Giolito, Andrus, Cueto Sox Fans for being pessimistic, lol

If Hahn hadn’t fucked up the payroll allocation and got an actual competent outfield instructor like Rusty Kuntz, we could have Eloy in LF at league average, Abreu at DH and Vaughn at 1B. Then we wouldn’t have needed to spend another $75 million on Benintendi. That money could have gone into another starter and reliever instead. We’d have enough LH hitting from Colas, Moncada and Grandal…

https://sports.yahoo.com/2023-fantasy-baseball-rankings-top-100-outfielders-202600945.html Anderson #9 SS, Robert #10 OFer and Eloy Jimenez also sneaks into the Top 20 positionally.

Well...other than Greg775, haven't seen anyone advocating giving him that contract for his full decline years. Astros had a similar situation with Gurriel and seem to be repeating it...hoping for one or one and one-half solid seasons left in that bat.

Deep thoughts by Jack Handey. Madrigal moving about as well as I can remember for Cubs tonight on the basepaths...seems to realize his career trajectory is seriously at stake, finally.

Reds have three lefty pitchers, all out of TCU. Colas continues to rake against fastballs. 6/13, first XB hit.

Lopez and Graveman really have to come through in the back of the pen...it's as simple as that.

Reds aren't going to be very good this season but will be quite aggressive on the basepaths. Really need a healthy and productive season from Nick Senzel and continued progression from Hunter Greene.

Lots of first pitch breaking balls. Like any pitcher who can get off speed pitches over consistently... Montgomery got overwhelmed in his at-bat.

Ray Knight highly complimentary towards Avila. Took out two of the better Reds' prospects.

Much more likely to pull the ball on the ground than in the air though...especially against 97+ heaters.

He let Grandal and Moncada lead the Cuban Corner off a cliff. Hopefully they get their acts together with both their careers on the line this coming season. Renteria allowed the players to have fun together. They totally lost that with TLR being the laughing stock of MLB the last couple of seasons...despite the team trying to present as much evidence to the contrary that Tiny could be cool hip modern as a manager and make the necessary adjustments to the modern players.

Sox fans tend to turn even more skeptical in seasons when they start April and May mired in mediocrity. They would really need to be at least 10-12 games over .500 at the 54 game mark to start being most back into the fold. Not to mention jacking up ticket prices and parking coming off one of the most disappointing seasons in team history. I would give fans a free GA ticket for every game they turned up to and the Sox lost by more than five runs.

Here's the thing. Winning cures a lot of clubhouse and chemistry issues. Machado and Tatis were at each others' throats quite publicly two years ago when their season was imploding. It happens in every clubhouse where a massive preseason playoff favorite disappoints...players tend to turn on each other. Then the fact that he was pushed out the door pretty unceremoniously must have hurt after almost a full decade with the team. Fans understand the logic behind cutting him loose...a lot more than we disagreed about no QO for Carlos Rodon. No TLR or hitting coach excuses this year. It's on the players to perform. Unfortunately, they've already taken a bit of a gut punch losing Hendriks.