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Yes. They’re nothing alike, really. But whatever. If Sox are 15 games under .500 come mid July, then we can talk a Giolito trade that still won’t happen.

The Sox aren’t punting the next 2 seasons. It’s just not happening.

Except LAD leads the league in walks and Sox are last. It matters. Sox suck balls at getting on base.

Sox aren’t trading Giolito.

If it means we don’t have to read your terrible takes daily, sounds good to me.

If you consider yourself a fan, yes. Get that trash outta here

Great hustle Yoan. Dear lord

When we lost 10/11.

If the team plays this bad all season, he’ll almost certainly step down tho. He didn’t come out of retirement to manage this garbage. He’s a big part of problem to be sure, but you can bet your ass he doesn’t feel that way.

I love how you say three of the most valuable assets aren't tradeable, ignore 3 of the next most valuable (AV, Giolito and TA), and completely dismiss the significant value of Moncada and Hendriks, and to a lesser extent Lynn and Graveman. Good stuff. If the Sox wanted to go Parkman-mode and tear this thing down, they'd go from the 30th best farm to the best in a hurry. They would get an absolute kings ransom. But its never happening. The Sox could miss the playoffs this year while going under .500 and they're still not going to tear down to the studs. This team is massively flawed on the position player side - their inability to consistently hit right handed pitching or catch the ball should be a surprise to no one, and the FO decided to mostly sit on their hands this offseason. Puzzling to say the least, but the performance to date has been worse than anyone could have imagined to this point.

Thanks for this! Did the update include system rankings? Not a great farm by any means, but is this really still the worse farm in the league?

Also, what is up with Engel? If the dude isn't going to be a great OF, he's not worth playing. He's been bad out there this year. The lack of hitting with RISP cost us the game yesterday, but Engel's botched play was the nail in the coffin.

Today a must win really. Sox would be lucky to get 1 of 3 in NY.

I just don't see how the org can let this continue to happen. I don't think firing Menechino does jack squat, personally. But its a start. Tony is the one that really needs to go. It starts at the top and going back to last season, we now have a full season sample of this team being around .500 in the worst division in baseball. NOT GOOD.

This is like asking degenerate gambler to take a year off.

Yeah, Sox really need both of the 2 next because they'll be lucky not to get swept in the Bronx.

How are 70% odds in your favor? Robert has ~30% chance to get a hit, therefore scoring Harrison. IMO, I think Benintendi screws up that throw more than 30% of the time. Therefore, math would tell you sending the runner is the right play. Of course, one of those %s is easier to point to (batting average) as opposed to Benintendi throwing out runners at home on somewhat routine plays, but we've already seen him both the that play once in a previous game this season on a very similar play. I guess I just support aggressive baserunning when your team is struggling to score runs. The fact that is was the 8th inning and we only had 4 more bullets just exacerbates that. I will leave it at that. Like I said, I get it from both perspectives. Sucks it didn't work out. I wouldn't have been fileting Super had he not sent him.

I mean I think its safe to say Hahn would can TLR if he had approval to do so. But even the Chairman can't be watching this club and be impressed with how they look. They're frankly lucky to be .500, and look uninterested. A change in the clubhouse is sorely needed.

The crazy thing to me is the Sox largely built the big central lead last year without Robert, and Eloy who at the time who all considered to be a big time bat, with big time contributions from scrubs like Yermin, Goodwin and Hamilton that can't even crack the big leagues this season.

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The results have been a .500 club for the past 125 or so ballgame. Get your head out of your ass, man.

If anything, his performance this year makes cutting Keuchel a little bit easier in a month or two as we have a solid arm to fill in for Kopech rest if the rest of the rotation isn't fully healthily.

Sure. I will take the longer sample size. Castellanos was not and is not the solution to what ails this team.

Yeah, I disagree. I think there is a better than 30% chance Benintendi fucks up the throw, which is all it needs to be to be a better decision than letting Robert bat. It didn't work out, but with 4 outs left in the game and the offensive sputtering all season, I think you gotta send him there. I appreciate and understand the other side of the argument however.

I agree its not terrible, but we don't need more right handed hitting DHs attempting to play the OF. We have enough.