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First place team puts ace on the market? Just the simple act of advertising his availability would plummet his trade value. Teams will know it's not a salary dump, considering he only makes $3M. That leaves performance, attitude, or injury. His performance has been there. His attitude is good. So that leaves injury or injury risk. Which competing team will be chomping at the bit to assume the risk you don't want to take and pay a premium, in terms of prospects, to take that risk? Just an awful idea....I mean, I guess it drives some conversation here to that's good.

It just never ends... If you'd told me last season, as I was busy salivating over what a fun season 2021 was going to be, that I would be ecstatic that Billy Hamilton was coming back from the IL to fill an OF spot, I'd have laughed in your face. Billy Hamilton....our savior. Kill me now.

Tony should be in that office, too. JR hired him to win a championship and there's no way Tony feels they can maintain their winning ways with this patchwork lineup. I think his lineups in Houston tell you all you need to know about how he's feeling about this current group of hitters.

Rodon's situation, in a contract year, is wholly different than Kopech, Crochet, and Cease. They will happily run him into the ground as long as he's relatively effective. If that's 200ip, then that's what he'll pitch.

They won't do anything other than bring in reinforcements from the minors. This is still Jerry's team.

This one stings because it was gift wrapped to Toronto. It's not like a good team came in and beat us. We fucking handed it to them. The umpiring handed it to them. TLR handed it to them. The defense handed it to them. Our 2,3,4 hitters handed it to them. Brutal loss. Going to bed in a bad mood lol

I take it you’ve never actually played team sports? Emotion is overrated? Are you implying that clubhouse leaders, in any sport, are best if they’re stoic and quiet? There’s nothing positive coming from a guy pumping up his teammates? Nothing good about players holding one another accountable (see Rizzo and Contreras the other day)? MJ—-stoic? Tom Brady—-stoic? Tatis Jr, Acuna, Trout —-stoic? No one is looking for drama. A player like Yoan coming out of his shell to celebrate with his team, clap his hands hard after a big hit, or just joking around with the guys, speaks volumes about his maturation process as a leader in the dugout and the emotional investments he’s chosen to make in this team.

Is it me or is this the most emotionally invested we've seen Yoan since he's been in Chicago? He's been so much more animated than he has been in the past. Dude was absolutely pumped up last night in the 9th. He looks like he's actually having fun and feels heavily invested. Love to see it.

Marshall needs to go. Not sure if he has any options left but he needs to be off of this roster. Tony thinks he's a high leverage guy despite him blowing holds left and right. No one should see the 7th, 8th, or 9th innings with a lead other than Crochet, Bummer, Kopech, Hendricks, and Heuer. If we can find another late inning RP before the deadline, I think it'd be a very sound investment.

Didn't like that pitch sequence at all starting at the 1-2 count. Everyone in the park knew a change-up was coming. Couldn't spot it, would've been hit hard if he had, and forced him into a belt high fastball over the heart of the plate when count went full. I would've liked high heat on 1-2.

That's a nice change-piece Jimmy has.

I mean, it sucks for us but that was a super quick pop time and strong throw to get Tim. Looked like he had a pretty decent jump.

OK. Watching on a tablet and it looked pretty bang-bang on the smaller screen.

Is it just me or should we have challenged that call at first? Looked awfully close, surely close enough to challenge.

Meh. They could be worse, I guess. The pinstripe pants are hideous....looks like a 1930's gangster suit. Definitely glad these will be a one-time deal. Also, considering it's a "City" uni, I think the hat is probably the best part.

I don't expect production, per se, just a judgement of how rusty he is. If he looks completely lost at the plate after a week's worth of games, we've got a problem. If he has poor BABIP but is having good/decent ABs, so be it, we can expect him to produce at some point soon and can resist trading away any talent.

I think we have to see what Engel brings to the table when he returns. If he starts that first week with horrible ABs, Sox are going to have to shop for a "meh" LH OF bat that costs little in the way of talent. If his ABs look good, regardless of production, I think we roll with what we've got coupled with internal moves.

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Some 8-0 records are more impressive than others. Couple decent wins on here, I guess.

Yes, I'm sure there's barely any demand for a guy who came out the other side of a rebuild with a World Series favorite roster. Which teams do you think advertise this shit? Should we believe the Cubs were the only team that wanted Theo because they're the only team with reported interest? Work on your "gotchas", kid.

He's completely oblivious to criticism. Unless our beat reporters say something specific, he has no clue. I'm being serious....I don't think he reads the sports pages, social media, sportscasts, nothing. He's come out and said as much.

I'm not defending Hendricks...of course he should've grooved on with 3 balls. My central point was that he was brought into a no-win situation and yet, because he gets paid a lot of money, you think he should be able to overcome any situation thrown at him. TLR fucked him, plain and simple.

Oh, you wanted him to groove one to one of the hottest hitters in MLB? You act like he had choices. Groove him strikes and it's nearly guaranteed game over. Nibble to get him to chase and it's still nearly guaranteed game over.

Keeping him in? Fine. The moment he allowed a baserunner he should've been pulled. I can't believe y'all are giving TLR a pass while getting pissed at Hendricks. What happened to putting guys in position to succeed?

This is seriously getting out of hand. Someone in the FO (Rick Hahn) needs to go to JR and issue an ultimatum. There's absolutely nothing to indicate TLR is a competent manager for any team, much less this team. Time to start calling your season ticket reps.