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I'll raise my hand and eat mad crow.

I want to believe but after getting burned by the last rebuild the only chickens I'm going to dare count are Colson Montgomery Edgar Quero Kyle Teel Lenyn Sosa Sean Burke Grant Taylor (reliever) Meidroth is on the borderline — he's the closest we can get to a reincarnated Nellie Fox since you know who — for me and Vargas graduated from "jettison into the sun" to "wait and see" territory. No owner is gonna ditch branding that is profitable despite the team being catastrophically bad. All you do is risk another team taking that spot (like Jay-Z tried with the Nets).

Gio this year + ReyLo last year is softened a bit by Quero and hopefully Bush. The rebuild hitters (outside of bratwurst-fueled Vaughn) aren't painful to watch, but damn if it doesn't hurt seeing Crochet-Giolito-Reynaldo-Rodon-Cease, let alone Chris Sale.

Plesac and Schriffen match each other's weirdness.

I don't know if you're familiar with banner curse, but this feels like it would invoke the same problems

Didn't even have time to turn on the game to see Colson has already homered. My lord.

Benintendi does not hit

Lenyn Sosa just hits.

Start getting Lenyn playing time in LF and get Baldwin more playing time. I still really, really want to see Taylor's arm build more innings.

As expected.

While I see your point, If Colson Montgomery won it over Nick Kurtz, we'd have just witnessed one of the greatest half seasons ever by a rookie and the hype would be real.

I'm on-board with team try Sosa in LF. Tbh, him hitting .202 in Birmingham after not playing baseball for a decade is an absurd athletic feat.

Colson wants to be ROY

Couple of thoughts: - Please god, let Braden and [insert 2B of choice] be the RF and 2B that the Sox haven't had since Dye/Iguchi. - Looked at Burke's stats out of curiosity and man, he's the poster child of being consumed by Birmingham.

We had big "only I can call my brother a moron" energy at the time.

https://www.tankathon.com/mlb 5 sims and I got the following for the Sox: 3rd, 4th, 6th, 1st and 1st.

I feel a little bad that the Ishbias were on the goal line to buy the Twins until the Sox roped them back in. Just a little.

PF Chang's is more expensive your average Chinese place.

Well, Robert is better than any CF they'd get in free agency or in the system, so it leaves the door open.

Ayyyy yo? Anyone got deets on these guys?

I f*** with this. But also very funny that this is a quintessential Rick Hahn return.

Well, I like Luis as player so it'll be fun that he's here when all the young guys are ready and we need a CF.

I mean, Healey is an actual reporter.

I know, and he had potential to become a 4th of at least, which would have been a good return. I was just listing guys who lost all talent once they joined the Sox

I mean we can say anyone could have sold Cease but Getz tripped on his own dick. We all love Quero and expected good things from Bush, which wasn't bad for a half season of Gio and ReyLo. Quintana, Sale and Eaton had sky high value due to contracts he got them to sign. Would have been nice if someone could have developed guys like Rutherford, Clarkin, and Cordell to complement the big swing guys he got in trades.