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I’m assuming someone is in the wrong game thread...easy mistake. Otherwise, micromanaging Stiever’s outing would be weird.

Milwakee’s success is 50% Marlins’ stupidity and 50% Stearns is really adept at judging position players...but yeah, it’s easy to come up with 7-8 small market teams that can still operate successfully in this environment, and yet we’ve somehow failed to come up with any unique (and sustainable) approaches to roster construction other than Cubans and trying to create a superpen out of collegiate pitchers, which has so far backfired pretty spectacularly, overall.

That’s where you need someone who specializes in extracting value from second/third tier free agents and young players blocked on other rosters. Someone whose mindset is every single penny counts...from Tampa, Cleveland or the A’s, etc.

Epstein said it was a classic seller’s market after the Stroman trade went down...that teams were holding out for extreme packages and most deals weren’t consummated because everything was rushed the last 2-3 hours on deadline day and a lot of teams couldn’t decide what to do so they just held serve.

Trading a top 3 pick in Vaughn at this point for maybe a #2 doesn’t make much sense...when your #1 form of resources is financial flexibility, why create more holes in the everyday lineup when you don’t have to?

Need someone like Ozuna with positional versatility who can also hit.

At this rate, more likely to be part of a random mass shooting...so good luck.

Whether it’s the Pirates, Reds, Royals, Brewers, Twins...it seems like those midmarket teams only have 3 year windows. The 5 exceptions would be Tigers due to Ilitch, A’s, Indians, Cardinals and Rays. Oakland has made the playoffs nine times since 2000...and will be right there with A’s and Indians this year. Indians, likely 12 times in the last 25 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tampa_Bay_Rays_seasons Best case scenario for the Sox is the Rays, their first decade they averaged 64.5 and 97.5 per year. Last 12 seasons, only two years below 80 wins. Four playoff appearances, two more seasons missing the playoffs with 90 wins...this year, looking like they’ll be right at the cut line again despite three major starting pitching injuries (Glasnow, Snell and one of their top minor league prospects in Honeywell.) 86.5 and 75.5 average record...in the worst stadium in baseball for attendance and bottom 5 t.v. market.

Ron, I sincerely doubt threatening half the board is going to end up with the result you want...or that admins/moderators have the time and energy to sort it all out on a weekend. Besides, If half the board was actually suspended, wouldn’t the whole point of the board...which is interacting with other Sox fans...be null and void? It’s like bullying in middle or high school...if victims don’t care of it themselves and go to their parents or principal, it just brings further wrath down upon themselves, which is only exacerbated by this social media echo chamber age we live in.

It was weird, they were acting like they wanted to walk the weak hitting back up catcher (Knaack or whatever his name is) to get to the pitcher's spot...were calling for an intentional walk, and forgot that Realmuto was on the bench and would be hitting with the bases loaded. So then after deciding NOT to walk him, they still accidentally walked him anyway. Fry has to have been pissed that their signals got crossed.

Yep, Mize and another top 2 next year. We had Rodon at 3 (bad luck), Madrigal at 4...I guess we can pretend that Robert, Moncada, Giolito, Jimenez, Kopech and Cease are all high first round draft picks. In the end, it shouldn't matter where the talent originated, and Detroit still has a few years before they can get out of the Cabrera contract.

If this was the 1917 World Series, Renteria would be blacklisted for trying to throw the game to the gamblers...

I’ve never seen a Latin player described as gritty, gym rat, grinder, high baseball EQ or acumen...

How can you explain all the derogatory and borderline racist insults he absorbed for the rest of his career post-2010 (about his fielding)?

Same argument for Bumgarner staying in the NL...

He was definitely more focused out there with Vizquel next to him...

Renteria claiming he wasn’t trying to walk the batter...can we be so sure, lol? Realmuto PHing, someone from the coaching staff needs to check the available bench there...anyone awake?

More lowlights from the Eloy Jimenez on defense 2019 film...

The one manager everyone expects would play the same style..but at least Moncada, Anderson and Madrigal would be tutored/mentored into Gold Glove-quality fielders, like he did with Alexei.

Somehow, that’s sadder than anything Thad Bosley writes..they’re really just a very average team this year.

I don't understand why would play for a tie game on the road in the late innings in the first place...it’s that unwritten baseball rule, like never making first or third out at 3B.

Was he safe? Already used challenge? Renteria trying to keep the Phillies in the Wild Card hunt come hell or high water...

Only the White Sox could put down a great bunt and the runner is still out...Phillies’ announcers chiding White Sox for over-bunting and making that play too predictable, lol.

And there it is... Btw, look at Aaron SANCHEZ line tonight... 6 2 0 0 0 2 6

We’re due for another “1/2” a hit the next three innings...