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If he had any speed he would have been camped at the base of the wall waiting. Don't drift back...bust ass get there first to the wall and readjust. Outfield Play 101.

But the Sox typically lose patience when a young rookie starts 1/10...leading to more Harrison/Leary. Cycle repeats or perpetuates itself.

Harrison blown away.

Twins and Guardians basically have opposite philosophies of finding guys who can play multiple spots well like Gordon Urshela Arraez...Lewis was going to be another.

I thought Palka was bad...nah.

he drifted get back to the damn wall as fast as you can then turn for the ball and adjust unless he has been ordered/warned not to run at full speed in the outfield either? so slow it's hard to differentiate 80-85% and Sheets sprinting whatever that actually looks like

Can we hire a GM who actually knows the difference between an outfielder and an infielder?

Hit probability there about 10-15%???

Sox fan reacted about as well as Burger down at third. Would have been more fitting had he touched it the way things are going this year.

Not the ideal shift for a high and outside FB.

Whatever they do, the Sox need younger players for those spots and not a growing number of 32+ guys. Sosa could end up at third or taking over the Mendick role...pushing Harrison out in the short term.

Lucas seems more comfortable/confident in his hometown environment.

Fine. But we need to worry about 2023 first.

Best hitter for average.

He meant Anderson would move off SS at that point in his career...assuming they extended him. Which is questionable at this point with the overall direction of the franchise right now.

There's just no way that Montgomery should be playing in Chicago next year unless they really rush him. Then you're going to play him or Anderson at 2B or 3B? Trade the best hitter in the AL to open SS?

Corpseball when Syndergaard has been pretty darned hittable without plus stuff.

Lopez would arguably take 4-6 weeks to ramp up. He should be used in high leverage situations with Hendriks Graveman Kelly...any of those guys traded to cut payroll and prepare for 2023.

Hahn addressed it already in his typical non answer, non accountability syntax.

Then what? Davis Martin or Lambert? VV? Those are your three options...

But he’s still at least 1 1/2 years away, and that’s pushing optimistically fir a high school kid from Indiana. If the argument is Montgomery will replace TA7 in 2024, or they will move Anderson to 2B and extend his contract, sure. But we still don’t have any good solutions for 2023. Colas is also at least a year away. So do they really spend for a legit starter on Opening Day, 2023? And sure, we can try to ditch Pollock, but that leaves two open corner outfield spots. Does anyone trust Hahn not to mess that up…or for them not to throw Leury and Engel and Mendick out there again? Are we legitimately going to join the race for Conforto, and how effective would he be with so much downtime, switching leagues, hitting age 30/31?

But missing on Aiken led to Bregman Tucker and Cameron. Cameron helped lead to Verlander. They got Alvarez for a song from the Dodgers and always have a knack of relying on Latin America for a number of their starting pitchers. Plus they hit on Correa Springer and already had Altuve in house.

V-8 juice, too. Does that still even exist?

2006 second half. That was just more running out of gas and two incredible runs by the Twins/Tigers.

On position player side, see if anyone will take Pollock. Likely to be stuck with Harrison/Leury. No way you get what you want back for Moncada Eloy Grandal. And you arguably are without a legit 3B if you have to rely on Burger there. Some might even argue go with Sosa at third with Burger as pure DH. Others will argue Burger will improve with additional experience. Selling Lynn doesn't make much sense because we need him next year to compete since we will refuse to go after any top line talent in FA. Giolito is a conundrum.