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If Cruz is here, Sheets is definitely in the minors and Goodwin is as good as gone when Eloy arrives.

Well, here's the situation: LF: Vaughn / Eloy / Leury CF: Robert / Hamilton / Leury RF: Engel / Sheets / Leury DH: Eloy / Sheets / Grandal / Burger / Abreu / Vaughn / Collins (tried to sort this by playing time, but who knows) 1B: Abreu / Vaughn / Grandal C : Grandal / Collins 3B: Moncada / Burger / Mendick / Leury 2B: Leury / Mendick SS: Anderson / Mendick / Leury I know one of Burger or Sheets has to go down in this scenario, but yeah, Cruz doesn't really fill a need like a 2B does.

How did this take not basically close out the hot takes in the thread?

I'm gonna guess it's the pandemic + simultaneous release. WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki have everyone salivating. Shang-Chi and Eternals might struggle a bit as new IPs, but Spider-Man won't be getting the D+ treatment and Dr. Strange is going to be coming off of WandaVision and Loki, so I'm guessing people will be jazzed.

All things considered, I hope Yermin is doing ok mentally.

Can you imagine if Eloy and Luis' rehabs had coincided? Dash OF would have been fun as hell for a few weeks.

Because it never gets old:

Yeah, if my local theater did this (since I'm in NY and they can), I'm there in an instant. Otherwise? Nah.

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Big problem I see here is that high schoolers would be starting college. They wouldn't be playing actual games yet, but they'd be on campus and hypothetically taking classes.

The article is a hypothetical from a Pirates site, but their ask is Thompson, Sosa, and Rutherford.

I remember that my bold prediction was that Gavin Sheets (or Adolfo) would launch some bombs while playing RF. I did not think Sheets would be coming through in the clutch and be a guy that we're looking to to win games.

That's what happened, yes. But also, DA was responding to people saying they'd take Lucroy over Collins and also wanting to trade Collins and nab Lucroy.

Including, amazingly, our own. Like, our own front office picked Collins over Lucroy. Why would they about face now when Collins is the personal catcher for the best pitcher in the AL?

Lordy.

Hopefully the Sox.

This man's coming: Robert's right behind him. Grandal's playing catch. And the offense is #3 in the majors.

During Jose's homer, you can see bullpen dudes lose their shit. Someone is hanging on the fence in excitement.

Especially if you told me we'd lose Madrigal, Grandal, and Moncada a few days here and there.

Ways you can tell things are going great: 1) Fans in the crowd were electric for a game in July against an opponent the Sox are 18 games ahead of in the standings while the Sox are comfortably in first. 2) This:

I panicked a little when it took him time to get up.

AV hit a righty and Moncada hit for power. What is this game?

VAUGHN! ENGEL!

At this point I'm convinced Moncada hate reads SoxTalk

I need these dudes in a bandbox like Charlotte, specifically Adolfo.