chw42

I think the contract situation isn't ideal either. Even if he is the guy (he isn't), you're gonna have to sign him to a big contract after next season. And then the advantage of having a cheap QB is gone. If you get the #1 pick, you draft a new QB. Williams has his flaws, but you can't not take him if you have the chance.

I think the whole Alan Williams thing really screwed with this team, especially on defense. It also helps that they have an edge rusher who can pressure the QB consistently. I actually think Fields did not play well at all today, despite the pretty good looking stats. I definitely think he looked better against Minnesota and the last time they played Detroit. Lots of overthrows on throws your average NFL QB makes. The TD was on a free play, although I'm glad he recognized and threw a good ball.

Yeah this is better than signing Maldonado (who's good at nothing now) or Hedges (even worse than Stassi on offense). Also way better than trading for Perez.

What's worse is that Jerry could have effectively signed Machado to a 4 year $120 million deal since he was probably going to opt out anyhow. There's no way we would have given him that incredibly stupid 11 year extension, but getting an all-star caliber 3B for 4 years at $30 million a year is a pretty good deal.

Is it really a bad day when we had no chance to begin with?

Maybe some old timers here can tell us how exhilarating it was when Jerry signed Albert Belle.

Remember when Jerry balked at $300 million and just 5 years later, we're getting $600 million deals.

Today I feel Canadian.

I feel like the Dodgers are too smart to sign a guy like Snell to a huge deal, whose peripherals are nowhere near as good as his numbers were this year. In both of his CY years, his peripherals lagged behind his ERA quite a bit and we saw how that played out in between his 2 CY awards.

Or trade for Cease

Remember when the Blue Jays thought they had Michael Brantley signed a few years ago and then he re-signed with the Astros a few hours later?

I really did not see the Jays as the top player for Ohtani going into this. I saw they're offering him $600 million.

If you go and look at similarity scores for Yoan on Baseball Reference, Candelario is 2nd on the list. Candelario has actually been more productive since 2019, which for a player with the prospect pedigree of Moncada, is pretty sad.

Candelario is one year removed from being terrible. I can see why teams would be reluctant to give him a ton of money.

Oh so this is why they didn't pick up TA's option.

I don't think I've ever seen a QB struggle so hard to throw for 1000 yards in a full CFB season.

Texas was also up by 3 scores in 2 of those games. They can play with anyone they just take their foot off the pedal once they have a comfortable lead. I think they've kind of corrected that with how badly they destroyed Texas Tech and OSU the past 2 games.

They didn't play anyone outside of Alabama, Missouri, and Ole Miss. And they lost to the best of those 3. Sucks for them but maybe schedule harder out of conference games. Alabama did and it didn't hurt them even when they lost against Texas.

It sure sounds like Giolito didn't want to trash the Sox. He's a nice guy and probably didn't want to burn any bridges. But I'm not sure that means he necessarily wants to sign here.

They really should be 6-6 with competent coaching. They lost 2 games where they held a 98%+ win expectancy. I'm kind of afraid that if the defense keeps playing this well, the guys at the top of the org might think they should keep Eberflus.

Lynn is cooked. His issue was homers, not the defense behind him. He gave up the most homers in baseball last year and that didn't stop when he got traded to the Dodgers.

Win would have been nice, but terrible in the grand scheme of things. A win would have knocked you out of the top 5 in draft position. This loss was pretty much squarely on the coaching staff. They had ample opportunities to go up by 3 scores, instead they kicked 3 field goals because they were content with 3 points and the play calls on 3rd down telegraphed it. The defensive head coach's defense then let Detroit cut through his defense without any resistance and gave up 15 points in 5 minutes. It's hard to blame the players when you were content not scoring more points, thinking your defense was good enough. This and the Broncos game, and to an extent, the Washington game were all great examples of just how bad this coaching staff is at playing with a big lead. They get complacent on defense and run extremely safe and low yardage plays on offense just to allow the opponents back in the game. That's not winning football.

Good way to have a combined batting average of .400

Yeah Lopez and Soroka were most likely non-tenders.

Lopez has been worthless with the bat but his defense and base running have made him a 1 WAR player each of the past 2 seasons. That's something at least. He can't be any worse than TA or the awful 2B the Sox have trotted our there the past 2 years.