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Well someone’s gotta go when Robert and Lamb come back. Maybe it’s Sheets and Lamb never comes back, but there’s only so many roster spots. It’s probably not Goodwin, but prior to that huge Homer, he’s been mostly terrible for several weeks.

Im generally very positive Sox fan…but that home run doesn’t change the fact that he’s close to playable in the OF and has cost the some NUMEROUS times with terrible defense. But he’s got some pop and can hit righties and that’s something this team sorely lacks. It’s not his fault this team is so banged up. He’s also not very good. But he’s gonna stay around, and hopefully he starts catching the ball.

He lives to fight another day! Hahah but we’ll take it!

Yawn

I miss 2019 Yoan. Edit for clarity: he’s still really good. Just doesn’t have that exit velo and pop we’ve seen before.

True. Plenty of useless fodder at the back end now that that deadline has come and gone. Gonzalez, Rutherford, Adolfo (sad), and Mercedes are unlikely to ever factor into the Sox plans again at this juncture.

I feel terrible watching him. He’s had legitimately like 8+ gaffes in the past 2 weeks. Any margin for error he had is long gone.

Send Goodwin into orbit after this game. It’s ovah. He’s unplayable in the OF.

Like 2 weeks ago I said I’d never badmouth Goodwin cause he had been pretty dang solid. But fuck he’s been terrible since then.

Lambert probably goes right back down tho, so Robert can effectively take Billy’s spot if they bring up up Tuesday. Probably going to be Lamb tho. TLR said he didn’t expect Luis for Royals series.

Nah. Sox should have picked up another OF.

Leury is a plenty capable OF. Goodwin is the problem.

Well there is the Billy phantom IL stint some of us expected.

Home runs are great and all but when your OBP is .300 and OPS+ and wRC+ say you’re an average hitter even with the home runs, it is a little less exciting. Cesar is a fine 9 hitter and 2B. But he’s a sizable downgrade from Madrigal at 2B in 22. But yes, it is what it is and he’s our guy now I guess. Certainly prefer Cesar to Leury for the rest of 21.

That was a fun game at least. Get em tomorrow. Get Robert up here on Monday and let Engel Take RF most days. Goodwin sucks balls in the field.

At this point it is what it is, but Cesar Hernandez shouldn’t change anything. Dudes an average player. The only way I would not be disappointed with as him our 2B next year is if the Sox make a big move in RF like Conforto. Ready to see Kimbrel hopefully make it all worth it. Cause Nicky is gonna be a good ball player for a long time.

Will miss ya, Nicky,

Sox took the whole deal.

I too think the dollars don’t make sense and is a big reason I’m not overjoyed with the trade. But would be a curious to turn around a trade him in 4 months. Bullpen gets weaker next year without Kopech (and hopefully some starts from Crochet as well). I hear ya tho. If the Sox were dangling Crochet in this deal as rumored, makes me wonder if he’s as good as gone this offseason.

No way? Seems a bit certain considering they just gave away their franchise 2B for the next half decade and a future setup man or closer for Kimbrel. If they think they need him now, why not next season?

Care to elaborate on this? Sounds like you know some of these stories. I did find Nick to be a little awkward. A few more candid videos from ST kind of showed he struggled to interact comfortably with his teammates. Quiet and reserved perhaps. But what makes him a "turd" and what are these stories? Let it spill!

Anyone have a link to Stoney's comments?

Nearly $65M with Keuchel.

As is? Woof. Looks like we’ll need to be closer to $200M then.

I can't give them that benefit of the doubt. They don't deserve it. But I hope you're right, man. Really do.