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If not legit, handling this way would be silly letting valued time tick. Just option the dude and put him on the development list or take it slow in AAA to give him a break if that is all it is. I am sure its legit-ish, just hopefully not serious.

Not the corresponding move I was hoping for.

Jacob Gonzalez was a bonafide bust prior to like 4-5 weeks ago when he got hot. It's great to see him raking, and let's hope it continues. But the Sox don't need someone at the positions he can play. Sox likely prefer he stay hot by playing everyday versus riding the pine in the big leagues. Nishida has actually been playing the OF regularly for a few seasons. Gonzalez is not a good runner and could not play the OF. Gonzalez will get his chance if he continues to hit, but the Sox owe him nothing.

Yep. Unable to access from my phone. Sucks. Only can access at work, and well --- I am buried at work these days.

It is his turn in the rotation. I doubt they get him off schedule. Either opener for or piggyback off Burke today, then reassess.

Its just tantalizing talent you can dream on. I definitely understand why Getz wanted to hold hoping for the best. Its not like his value was ever great in Getz' tenue. You can always state "well they should have traded him post 2023", and that obviously is true now -- but he was coming of a 5 fWAR season and looked like he might actually become the next Mike Trout. So I can at least recognize why Hahn didn't move him.

Who is he blocking at this exact point? That could certainly change in a month or two, but for now, there isn't a better (realistic) option.

I doubt that. He's 28. I think Robert still has plenty in the tank. But he's never going to play 130+.

Sucks for Robert man. So much talent wasted with that guy.

Appreciate the effort! Can I get a super abbreviated cliffnotes version of the issue?

They gotta fix it. Ever since the update. My Soxtalk consumption down like 1,000%.

Psh, phone? I haven't had access to Soxtalk on my phone since like February. Absolutely blows.

84 wins could win this division. Why not the Sox? I will always choose to believe, because fandom is a lot more fun when you do!

He won't be here long.

May as well ride the hot hand. He's been scorching hot after a brutal first 2 weeks.

Makes plenty of sense to me. He's been terrible. Let him work on getting his confidence and stuff back in AAA. If it works, and he remains a useful starter, you just bought a year of control. If it doesn't work, it certainly wasn't going to work against big league hitters. Sox absolutely have to work on the fringes with player control, until they don't. And that isn't happening until JR is out of the way.

I highly doubt Sosa is the one on the way out.

I don't think Vientos really would be of much use to the Sox once Murakami was in the fold. I'd rather play Vargas at 3B, Murakami at 1B. I suppose Vientos could DH against LHP, but we certainly want to keep that open for our catchers too. Meh, this doesn't really bother me. Sox could probably grab Vientos from the waiver wire in a week or two anyway, out of options and has 5 PA so far this year. Clearly the Mets don't really care for him.

I do not. Comcast. Verizon is my phone provider, and haven't been able to get on there until today either.

Is it just me, or has no one been able to get on here for weeks? There was one day just before Opening Day I could get on for a single day, and then nothing since.

They could have done that without releasing Benintendi and would have had zero complaints from me. But Mead would have almost certainly been in the "Sox could do worse category". But I'd have been fine with trying it.

Welp, just gotta flush that one, eh.

I still don't get the need to release Benintendi. The Sox literally have no OFs of interest close to the majors. If you want to make the argument he isn't an OF and is a DH (fair argument, btw), and that there is no room for him there either, I think the Teel injury quickly showed that wasn't really the case. If we get to a point where Beni is blocking Teel or Quero ABs and is sucking up the joint, the calculus changes. But for now, that is not the case. Beni is not good, but the Sox could do far worse. If they had interesting AAAA guys or fringe prospects to try out there, sure. But they don't. I see no reason to pay him to play elsewhere, and it wouldn't be that surprising to see him deliver a 100-105 wRC+ season. Which for this team, could easily be a top 3-5 bat on the squad. He has had entended mid-season stretches where he has looked very playable; they've just been pre or proceeded by stretches of futility, largely due to playing injured.

To be fair, Merkin is a clown. Guy also asked Venable on Monday if Lee will be sent to the minors. He is legitimately horrible at this job.

I am not defending the move, because it seems pretty simple to me to keep Lee over signing McGuire. But if they just don't like Lee, I can at least understand why the didn't go Quero / Romo. They were able to successful sneak Romo through waivers - if they actually like Romo as a depth piece for later in the season, calling him up for 2 weeks, and then exposing him to waivers again (and even if he clears, will be able to reject outright 2nd time), then he's no longer a depth piece after 3-4 April appearances. So I can at least understand that part of it. Holding him on the 40 all winter actually worked out well for the Sox, because now he is non-roster depth.