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God I love seeing Bummer, Crochet, Fry, and even Rodón in the BP from the left side. Death by sliders.

Hot damn. Please get Grandal/McCann at DH and start Engel in RF. I know it's Ricky, but come on my dude. Leury is back, so you have the flexibility.

He's discounting the guy's two years at Stanford, being drafted, major league experience, tenure as a scout, VP of player development, and as a GM. He's doing it on purpose.

The reason they signed McCann to a 1 year, $2.5M contract in 2019 was because he had be DFA'd the season before. However, he was still arbitration eligible due to service time - so they negotiated the 1 year, $5.4M contract. There was no sneaking in a second year option. If you're going to make Soxtalk a personal blog, don't be a complete moron.

Ask and ye shall receive.

If you use the #WorldSeries on Twitter, you get the Sox logo. (If it's not showing on SoxTalk, just go to the Tweet directly)

This is where I lean. Before he slimmed down, I might have leaned Cespedes if we removed Colas' 2-way potential. Now, just go with Colas.

Having Collins on the bench, allowing McCann and Grandal to both bat, is worth more than Gio, Jace Fry, or the 6+ ERA safety blanket Jimmy Cordero. Especially now that Bummer and Crochet are in the pen.

3) The suggestions you make on this board are often asinine when given the benefit of hindsight.

By that logic, you might as well include Eloy, Anderson and everyone signed to an extension as they block FAs.

Oh yeah, it's not good. Just including Mazara is pointless. Also, @South Side Hit Men's "original value" post is worthless because we're not in a full length season where players get a regular season to adjust, rest, etc.

If we're stretching things this far, we should include Robert and Abreu who have far, far stronger arguments as free agents than Mazara.

If they have All-Star seasons under their belt at a notoriously thin position, sure.

I always wonder what happens if Blatt actually gets called for a tech in the Bulls-Cleveland series. I severely doubt the Jimmy-Rose Bulls take down the Warriors, but it'd be hard to justify breaking up a finals team. The Bulls of the 2010s are just a massive series of what if's: Rose's knees, Draymond or Dieng as draft picks, clearing out Deng's contract, and the Blatt call. The X-factor every time (aside from Blatt) is pretty much always Forman thinking he was smarter than everyone.

Everything but the House of Horrors and Ricky Renteria plays to the Sox advantage. Alliteration is our enemy.

Get a lead to the bullpen. That's all I ask.

To be fair to Nomar, that was a shit call.

Then just post the thread, this isn't a column.

https://www.mlb.com/news/chris-sale-throws-his-fastest-pitch-since-2010-c286283410 Yeah, Crochet hits it easier, but Sale threw hard as a reliever.

Contrarian Short-sighted Close minded Bad talent evaluation Unrealistic New Gifts on Christmas Syndrome Lazy Premature Rushing into things Ignorance Shall I go on?

...that's what you're doing. "Oh, new toy. This is what he shall be forever."

I'm ready for playoff Yo Yo

This is the answer.

Sir this is a thread about Garrett Crochet