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Sox are crushing the ball today

Crochet giving up some solid contact. His fastball doesn't seem as effective at 96-98.

My favorite quote from the article:

I agree. They're still better than us right now. The division is gonna be a fight.

Sure it's not common, but Giolito did it with the guy who is now the Sox pitching coach. If anyone has a chance it's Cease.

It's an endless source of amusement that what was likely a 70-ish win team rode a short season to a playoff berth and completely spanked the Cubs.

Yeah, none of this happened.

Is that Corbin Bernsen?

How do you think Boras both gets so many players to sign with him, and routinely gets players the best deals?

So you he could pay us back for messing up our brand new Jumbotron with your his drone.

BBRef has him at a projected .883 OPS which would be better production from DH than anyone else we could get (Ozuna projection at .817, Brantley at .814), and would be the best production we've had at DH since Thome.

Sounds like he's spoken with LaRussa and it went well:

Not at all!

Mitch fits the "and a player" part

I like Musgrove fine, but no thanks on that.

How do these prospects compare to our system? What would an equivalent return be? If the Sox were in on Darvish at all, any deal probably fell apart due to requiring the Cubs to kick some money in.

Given all the Sox stuff he's wearing, this seems to indicate the Sox got both Colas and Cespedes, right?

Any ideas on the ask from the Reds? Assuming Kopech + Vaughn was their starting point.

Yeah, and his age is part of why I wouldn't do both of them. I also think it shortens the window as I think Cease still has a chance to be a solid starter.

I wouldn't add Cease. He's part of the extended window to me, hopefully. Let's see what Katz can do with him.

I'd be ok with both.

I'm onboard with Steiver +, depending on the +. Don't want to mortgage the farm, and if the Sox absorb most/all of that deal it shouldn't cost too much.

How did you infer that I think Robert is prone to slumping due to "a mental thing"? I said absolutely nothing of the sort, nor does anything I said come close to that. I also wouldn't agree it's because he's vulnerable to velocity or lacks plate discipline, because he showed both at times last year. I have no idea WHY he slumped, only that he was hot, then slumped, and our offense suffered a large amount as a result. I'm also trying to project forward trends based on the only data we have. Otherwise you can't predict his performance at all, and I don't see how that's any different or makes anyone feel better about him carrying a large part of the offense next year. If he runs hot and cold next year or otherwise is not the player people are expecting him to be this offense isn't built to absorb that, as we saw last season, and you can't convince me Adam Eaton is the answer to that.

It's the only reference point we have. By your logic there's nothing we can predict with him, as his entire MLB career is also based on 2 months of baseball in a bizarre year.