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Be careful with such a ringing endorsement of Grandal. There are still a contingent of posters here who thinks he is terrible!

+1000000. Honestly, I’m just ready to move on from Cesar. Dude sucks. He adds nothing. With Engel back, just let Leury play 2B. At least he plays with some fire.

What personal problems is TA having?

I am well aware of now they’ve played since the ASG. Obviously having a pitcher who looked to be the Cy front runner the first 60 days of the season is incredibly valuable in the postseason. What I am saying is that (version of) Rodon isn’t taking the mound again this season, and that’s been the case for some time. This doesn’t really change much.

Rodon hasn’t surpassed 5 IP in a start since a few days after the ASG. This should be of no surprise to anyone. Anyone that was actually still thinking we’d get April-June version of Rodon was dreaming. Plenty of SP left on this team. Hope Carlos can contribute in the playoffs but I certainly wasn’t counting on him for some time.

Bump

Ehhh. I don’t know about that. Pretty obvious we weren’t getting the early season Rodon anyway. Giolito, Lynn and Cease still pretty darn good 1-2-3 punch.

I got laughed at for saying decent chance Heuer is better than Kimbrel rest of 21. He has been. And it’s not really that close. Brutal trade.

Yet someone is gonna hand this dude $120M? Lol

I think you’re getting just a tad ahead of yourself. Leury is still just a 3 fWAR player over 2000+ PA. I don’t think anyone is paying him handsomely in free agency, and I think he’d love to stay with the Sox. We’ll see how it shakes out. Hope he sticks around tho cause he’s useful. I’d probably pass for over $5M AAV tho.

I’m on team Leury at 2B in October.

I’d take the under on $5M AAV. But lol At “not a chance” at $7M and then you quote $1.5M AAV higher hahaha. Obviously that real money to you and I, but basically nothing in the scope of a big league team.

There is next to no chance Leury isn’t on this team next yeS. My guess: 2/$7M early in the offseason will work for both sides.

Probably not, but any idea what time these games will be at yet? I hate day games for playoffs - especially during the work week.

Move Moncada to accommodate burger? Lolololol

Can Engel come back please. B Good sucks

I don't believe we've seen our full team play all season? Have we had a single game with this lineup (ignoring batting order): TA SS, Moncada 3B, Abreu 1B, Eloy DH, Grandal C, Robert CF, Vaughn LF, Engel RF, Hernandez/Garcia/whoever at this point 2B. I don't think we have, and I think we've only had a few not counting Engel too.

Let's win the series. Then sweep the hapless Rangers.

+1,000,000. TLR still kind of sucks. This team is still 4 games behind its xW-L, and LaRussa hasn't really done this team a ton of favors with his "strategies". Last night was tough. Got one of the fastest dude in the world at 2B with no outs and cant' score him. I know TLR doesn't use TA on off-days, but if you're going to sit him 3x a week right now, he should be available off the bench to PH.

Regarding Kopech - lol what? I agree the Kimbrel trade sucks but it wasn’t made for August or September. It was made for October and hopefully he’s figured it out by then. Cesar has sucked but he’s a fine stopgap.

Not sure. Wouldn't be against that. Wasn't sure if Lopez would keep starting with the Lynn and Gio back.

This guy has me blocked for his god awful Grandal takes (that Yaz guy sure does suck, eh!?). I have read on multiple occasions Keuchel needed to pitch 160 IP in both 21 and 22 including on Sox official release on the signing, but perhaps that wasn't the technical language in the contract. Cots is a nice resource, but certainly isn't 100% accurate. But if that language is correct and its 320 IP in 21-22 and 160+ in 22, I guess keeping him under 160 innings this year doesn't matter all that much. In any event, Sox need to do whatever they can to avoid that option from vesting. Even if Keuchel is back to his pre-2021 self next season, paying him $20M in 2023 is something they should avoid doing. Is it really bad faith to take a rotation spot from a guy with an ERA of 7.50 his last 50 innings? Of course its not.

Dallas is at 145.1 innings. If Sox keep him under 160 IP, his vesting option for 2023 is torn up. Obviously, the hope is Dallas figures it out next season and is back to being a solid #4 type. WOuld be ideal to just keep him under 160 this year. Making a regular start every 5th game, he'd have 4 starts left including today. IMO, I'd give him 2 more at 5 innings max and then let Lambert take the last 2 and get Keuchel ready for the pen role he's going to have in October. Would be really dumb to let him throw like 165 innings.

Lol. Maybe we can send them that Kimbrel guy back!

Posted this in yesterday's game thread that will soon close, but.... Cesar sporting the 219/.294/.288 slash with 3 homers and 9 RBI across 165 PA. Hope the Sox try to figure out a way to improve on Cesar this offseason. Not priority A like RF should be, but should be on the list. At this point, I am not even sure you pick up the option because if you do end up finding a fit for 2B elsewhere, you may need to eat $ to trade Cesar. I am sure am going to miss Nicky.