caulfield12

Have to get off to a fast start to rebuild the fan interest. .500ish first couple of months and tepid attendance means the focus is on trading guys like Anderson, Giolito, Moncada, Grandal and Lynn. Still no idea what we're going to get out of Graveman and Lopez at the back end of the pen. Hoping for a hyper competitive 2008ish season minus the Quentin injury late.

For? You'd have to eat 70-75% of his contract.

Or if Leury receives ANY playing time...

Kelenic 0/2 with a k and 2 lob. Picking up right where he left off. Rangel Ravelo sighting.

It's funny that Jose Berrios and Gio have been lumped in together comparatively and statistically (at least standard numbers the past 2-3? seasons and similar team control, resulting in a trade with Buxton extended) and those numbers were among the worst in the AL for both. Except they're not going to get a $100 million, 7 year deal out of Anderson if he sees himself at $175-225 million range, sort of like a Trevor Story and not a Benintendi.

Whiskey A-Go-Go would be preferable.

Rodon and Cueto the last two years lol...pretty darned fortunate. Andrus as well.

https://www.mlb.com/news/best-players-on-team-japan-that-aren-t-shohei-ohtani

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10066404-way-too-early-manny-machado-landing-spots-with-padres-opt-out-looming Top Ten candidates for Machado after opt out at season's end, Sox 8th (see last sentence) and Cubs 5th. SD, NYY, NYM, SFF top four...

Antidisestablishmentarian to the end...loquacious, btw, that's not exactly the way that 30-35% of the posters are describing him, though.

He's much less "woke" than Balta...and he does tend to lean rightward on the majority of finacial issues, so it balances out more or less.

Is your account name related to the MD basketball player?

That's why I like AJ or DJ ten times more doing their own version of analysis. Even Black Jack McDowell. The only one who could possibly be worse than Beckham is Ventura, but I sincerely doubt even that. He's like a frat boy mixed withSan overall inflated belief in his own cultural footprint and beliefs being more important or valuable than anyone else's.

I will agree on Hahn/Pollock. Although he was never meant to be a RFer.

Leury Moncada Kelly Moncada Grandal TA7 Eloy for lack of discipline about his craft Tellingly, all of scapegoats over the disastrous 2022 season are non-white except Joe Kelly...

He's going to be the target of a ton of fan ire replacing Benetti. What's the next step beyond mired in mediocrity?

It's from that movie The Hate U Give...

And the Royals not only ripped up Sal Perez's first extension because it was too advantageous to the club, they gave up another $82 million sunset extension out of appreciation. And all this from a small market. Plus they (fortunately) outbid the Sox for Alex Gordon, or the White Sox would have been even more screwed.

LF/veteran catcher/Cuban intl. market to be more precise. Dylan Cease will become the next big lingering contract question mark...or Vaughn if he performs really well this year. So Giolito and Anderson already on way out the door...Lynn perhaps not far behind.

Torture chamber. Maybe I will still learn to appreciate Jason more when he's gone...and Len Kasper must be very getting annoyed. Cubs look like they will have much brighter future 3-5 years out. White Sox window already starting to close on them.

That's pushing it. Maybe if he had become the next Jeter for the Sox he could or would have reached that status. No more "that's a real professional at-bat there" comments repeated ad nauseam please.

Top 3-5. The best they can't be, with Stone's surly water carrying for JR/TLR and Benetti being appreciably better on both college basketball and football broadcasts. When the Sox are playing well and he's not trying too hard to entertain or be corny or hawk concession items, sure.

Wasn't against the Sox...refers to 2016 World Series against Cubs when with CLE.