chw42

His profile picture is just a red image, I'm not sure what it was before though. His most recent story from 2 hours ago and it didn't say what the post above said.

Frank wasn't so bad himself in 06. His wRC+ was only 14% worse than Thome's. He was also making 1/30th of what Thome made in 2006. You can argue there was some opportunity cost lost there as well as the fact they gave up Gio Gonzalez in the trade. Thome was very valuable for pretty much the entirety of his contract with the Sox, so I don't think the trade was bad at all. But for just the sake of 05, I think Rowand could have helped with the instability of center field. Mackowiak cost the pitching quite a bit with his god awful defense in CF and Brian Anderson couldn't hit at all. One way or another there was a giant hole either in the field or the lineup with those 2. The Sox also scored a ton of runs, so a 14% offensive drop off from Thome to Frank probably impacts the team less than the massive hole they had in CF. The $14 million you save from not paying Thome as well as still having Gio Gonzalez in the farm system also could have given the team more options to work with at the deadline. IIRC, we didn't really add anyone at the trade deadline that year.

Yeah that's part of him getting out-physical'd by bigger guys.

Bamba also isn't getting the QO from Orlando, so he's an unrestricted FA. I think he seems like an ok fit on paper given that he can shoot the 3 and protect the rim, but his defense still isn't all that good considering his physical tools. I've seen that he kind of gets bullied down low by more physical players, which is the exact problem we already have with Vucevic.

Pollock is so late on high fastballs.

Yeah that looked worse than Sheets' dropped ball.

The sad part is that we should probably have at least 13 runs.

Sox suck with the bases loaded and more than 0 out.

I think the Sox have issues with the batters eye in the first hour of the game. They've hit so much better after the 5th in both of these games.

When it rains it pours. Seby almost got out on the bases again.

I think the runners thought that might get caught

Did Yoan just do something left handed? Holy crap

He's basically what Keuchel was supposed to be before he became a pumpkin.

They definitely made contact. Yoan should have tried to sell it.

I've never seen a team turtle under pressure like this. You'd think the pressure would be on the other team with the bases loaded, but not when the Sox are involved.

TA is almost an automatic double play with the bases loaded.

So they brought the kid up from AA to play in like 5 games? WTF were they thinking?

Seby doing an amazing job trying to lose us this game by himself. Out on the bases in the top half of the inning. Dropped catch at home in the bottom half and then a bad throw on a easy caught stealing.

LOL we just can't catch the ball.

Of course we'd strike out Trout but can't get Taylor Ward.

He's always been bad around the wall honestly. But his speed just isn't the same as it was in 2020.

We're lucky Luis didn't break something on that play.

Catch the damn ball Seby

Gonna need to get Trout and Ohtani out now...yikes