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Let's sweep the O's. They played pretty well against us last week, but they are an awful baseball team. Looked awful this weekend against the Twinkies.

Yah, I see a 2 year/$25-30M extension happening before this season is over.

Is this just negative speculation or you know something?

At this point you definitely need to keep running him out there.

Lol, what a take.

If Eloy has to go to DL, fuck it, give me Tilson. So done with Engel.

X-rays negative per telecast

“Will be re-evaluated tomorrow”

Left ankle sprain. Xrays negative

Evan Marshall next in line in Charlotte? I know he's not on the 40 man, but hes' yet to give up a run. Looks like it could be bit of good luck, however.

Yah, I don't know. Its puzzling. Glad he's gone, but its just amazing how much money Hahn and Co wasted this offseason.

Pretty sure it was mentioned by Heyman when the Sox signed Santana that he had multiple suitors and the only reason it was a minor league deal was because he was a bit behind schedule and it allowed to Sox more time to make a 40 man move. So I do think there was some competition for his services that resulted in the Sox having to pony up to $4.1M...but still.

I mean, rolling the dice on Santana wasn't an awful idea. We needed pitching depth. He was hurt most of last year. He pretty good in 16 and 17. Its the fact that they paid him $4.1M. If it was $1M or $1.5M, so what. I mean its not my money. But when you add it up the sum of the $4M here, $8M here, $3M here, and $9M here for a bunch of garbage, its just so head scratching.

Mmmmhmmmm

My understanding is the $4.1M was guaranteed as soon as he was called up.

Not sure how you come to that determination. $4.1M to Santana, and he provided significant negative value in his few starts. Jay has also provided nothing, but he was a little less $3M. Alonso is at least a major league baseball player, even though he's been pretty terrible so far. In total, the Sox are paying those three $16.1M. In they guanantted that to MM, maybe he takes it. With taxes, $266.1M over 8 may have been enough to avoid those Cali taxes at 10/$300.

Nice. Insert gif of shoveling cash into fireplace.

Definitely possible. Grandal + Castellanos + Cole would be pretty neat, but it'll never happen. C - Grandal, 3B - Moncada, SS - Anderson, 2B - Yolmer, 1B - Abreu (resigned cheap for 2 years), LF - Eloy, CF - Leury, RF - Castellanos, DH - Cheap Vet Eventually trade out Madrigal for Yolmer, Robert for Leury, shift Castellanos to DH / 1B when the first of Basabe/Adolfo/Rutherford/Gonzalez are ready. Get Collins into DH/1B/ backup C mix. Eventually sport a lineup of: C - Grandal 1B / DH - Castellanos / Collins 2B: Madrigal SS: Anderson 3B: Moncada LF: Eloy CF: Robert RF: Best of Basabe/Adolfo/Rutherford/Gonzalez Rotation: Cole, Rodon, Kopech, Cease, Gio/Lopez Plenty of options to fill out a pen. There is still a path to having a very nice (and inexpensive) ballclub by 2021, but who knows if we'll see it come to fruition.

Nope, it doesn't.

He'll be up in 4-6 weeks, which is totally fine with me.

How many times a day do you think you bring this up?

Jon Jay has been with the team.

Some rando on twitter last night said he heard that his hand is broken and he will be out until August, but a couple FS Sox guys quoted him saying that is BS.

Nova and Santana could completely turn it around and make the All Star team, and they're still not going to return anything of substance.

I know we gave nothing up for Nova and we acquired him before the market had truly been set for FA SP, but my lord, we could have just signed like 15 pitchers for less money that would have been just good or better.