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For everyone's sake, rehab in Charlotte

Don't worry, Dominic Fletcher will rescue us.

Yeah, obviously Pillar isn't going to keep hitting like Mike Trout. But Tommy Pham is probably gonna turn back into Tommy Pham. And so far, one of the two is a good defensive outfielder and can apparently have drastic mid season turnarounds due to coaching.

Uhhhhhhhh .294/.344/.772 with bad defense is worth more to contenders than .345/.396/1.028 with good defense? Sure.

The Pham signing is completely negated in the losing of Pillar, who has gone nuclear in Anaheim AND plays defense.

Saw the score was 5-4, went to walk my dog, come back and now it's looking like another X-Lax

Dallas Keuchel catching strays. I know you're talking about Rodon, but apparently, Tanner Banks was the only lefty starter in 2023 and Keuchel the only lefty in 2022.

I think the rel play here is to get Sosa enough frequent flier miles to cover the rest of his travel expenses for the year.

Oh he'd be a good signing for the Sox. It'd be a bad signing for his own mental health.

He said worst teammate - he both clarified it in a statement and when you listen to it, you can hear it, it's just with an accent. Wednesday was also his son's birthday. His son suffers from a chronic illness that "that causes immense physical discomfort and has required regular hospital visits and multiple transplants." I don't want to see anyone dealing with that kind of stress having to deal with this dumpster fire org.

Mayo's new mock has the Sox taking Cags https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pipeline-2024-mock-draft-may-30?partnerID=web_article-share I feel like this would become the most contentious pick in this board's history. Some (me) would be ecstatic. Others would rue it.

"JR you can sign Harper and Machado to your team on the rise that has 10 top 100 prospects, TA, Abreu and Rodon. They fill needs and will be below market value soon." JR: "Try low balling."

Objectively, this is stupid.

Kevin Pillar (season total): 1.5 WAR

Remember, JR said that only Getz could get the team to its current state.

What did I do now?

I should probably add that I appreciate the rest of this mock James, especially info on Dix, Stovall and Sirota and why they actually make sense for the Sox to draft (local, previously scouted, etc). The toolsy prep also matches your previous assessment of Shirley as a big game hunter, which has been working, so I won't complain if that's the route he takes.

While the Orioles have infinitely better prospects than Dominic Fletcher, Getz doing pitching prospect-for-hitting prospect deals scares me.

It also feels like it applies to outside hires for coaching. Katz had a good rep coming from the Giants and working with Giolito while outside the org. Then he gets inside the org and poof, even Giolito backslides. Then it feels like every single hitting coach produces the same flaws.

Chaos and the best logo/jersey combo in baseball.

Wondering if we can break these.

1. Draft Jac 2. Let him pitch 3. Resurrect Colas' "Cuban Ohtani" moniker. 4. Have Jactani and Cuban Ohtani as lefty monster mashers and relievers 5. Profit??? 6. Wake up 7. Pedro has benched them for Martin Maldonado and John Brebbia

All the pundits I see are "hitting is his true ceiling, let him focus there," (especially in lieu of having had TJ) but I'm in the "f*** it, let's get weird" and let him pitch unless he starts to fail/it hinders his hitting. Here's his pipeline grades. It feels too good to be true: Scouting grades: Hit: 55 | Power: 70 | Run: 40 | Arm: 60 | Field: 55 | Overall: 65 Scouting grades: Fastball: 70 | Slider: 50 | Cutter: 50 | Changeup: 55 | Control: 40 | Overall: 50