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Seby has been decent with the bat, and def prefers lefties.

Nice job by Johnny battling back after the three homers

I thought he was a bust?

AV sure cooled off in a hurry

J HAY!

PROMOTE NESLONY

Welp

Imagine having those 2 dudes and having the same record as us.

Right handed hitters are hitting like .180 against him.

Can’t you just covid IL guys and get them off early too if they’re sick but never teat positive? Makes it even more strange. Especially with an open 40 man spot (Mendick), even tho it’s eventually going to Eloy.

Agreed, was mostly kidding.

His bat.

Shrug; I am well aware of how options work. Sox can send Sosa back and forth between the minors and majors for 2.5 more seasons. Their hands are not tied until 2025. If he's still looking at getting optioned in 2025 after 2.5 seasons in AAA, he isn't worth all the hand wringing. I get the potential downside risk, but its fairly remote. If he was better prospect heading into 22, he'd have been added to the 40 man last December. Like I said, calling him up for 5 days was a curious decision. To me it reeks of the a lack of communication between the FO and TLR. But this downside risk you laid out isn't really all that likely to come to fruition. I too would have just opted for a waiver wire pick, or Dee Gordon as you've pointed out, but I just don't think this is something worth skewering the organization over. There is plenty of other things to do that about.

That's fair. Sox deserve plenty of criticism for a myriad of decisions. I just don't think this one is at the top of the list of things to b**** about. Sticking with a lifeless corpse as the captain of the Titanic, and not acquiring a legitimate LHH or two this offseason rendering our OF corners into a men's softball team, however, deserve TONS of criticism.

Yeah, I mean it seems to me like this situation is a bit blown out of proportion. The Sox left Sosa unprotected last offseason; if there was Rule 5 draft, anyone could have had him. Obviously he's blown up this season and become a much better prospect, but he would have had to have been added to 40 man this coming December anyway. Calling him up and not playing him is/was stupid, but he ended up playing in 4/5 games he was here and looked mostly overmatched. If the plan was indeed just a short term plug until Moncada's return, they probably should have just grabbed someone off the waiver wire they were willing to DFA in a few days. Most of Sosa's PT was because Harrison got hurt AFTER Sosa got called up; so it seems like they either didn't intend to play him much; or TLR and the FO disagreed. But is it really worth getting your panties in a bunch? Sox gave the kid some reps and let him taste the big leagues. It was a tiny sample, but he didn't do much. He is the right person to get demoted - accepting that Leury isn't going anywhere - based on the current roster. It is bad process. But its really not that big of a deal. If Sosa cannot become a major league quality player by 2025 when he's out of options, he's probably not really worth getting too worked up about anyway.

2030? Believe Kopech is an arb 1 next season (same as Cease) so he has 3 seasons of control after this 1 because the Sox needlessly called him up in 2019 and then he got hurt and burned 20% of his service time. Now that was a dumb fucking move. But we shouldn’t be worried about Kopech and Cease control. They’re here awhile. Let Parkman worry about silly things like that. Neither are going anywhere.

That’s fair tho imo like 5 days of service time is mostly irrelevant. Using an option year for 5 days is silly, but he would have had to have been added to the 40 man this offseason anyway (he was actually rule 5 eligible this past winter if there was one).

Yes you can. He has two options remaining, and does not have five years of MLB service time.

Ehhh kinda the nice that made the most sense. Haseley seems mostly worthless on this roster but you need a reserve OF, especially with us playing 1B in RF.

Gio looked pretty good last night. Its been a rough 4-5 weeks for him, but if Sox made him available, teams would be lining up.

Gonna have to do better than 9-7 against the Twins.

Eloy is lost. Give him the next 2 weeks to figure it out, and if/when he doesn’t, you gotta option him. We don’t need more of this BS at the big league level.

Now use Yoans career sample size instead of 100 plate appearances.

The Sox aren't trading Giolito and punting 2023 in the process. Sorry. Abreu is unlikely to be dealt, but perhaps if July is disaster.

Ehhh. Baltimore is 1) playing great lately; and 2) not nearly as bad KC, Detroit, Oakland who the Sox still play 31 combined games against (35% of remaining schedule). That makes no mention of the 11 against AZ, Seattle and Colorado. After this week, the Sox legitimately have a cakewalk schedule. But....none of it matters if they don't play signficiantly better baseball than they have, and play no worse than .600 against MN and CLE.