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Anyone know what happened? Did it occur in the OF?

What exactly has Marisnick done to earn a spot on this roster? One of the two likely have to make it. Billy at least has one elite tool.

I am far from an iron man. Happy to admit it. I am also not a professional athlete. Yoan Moncada is still most definitely soft. We have a very large sample size to base this off.

Yoan should be fine. It was an extremely mild collision. Dude probably rolls around on the ground when he stubs his toe at home.

Reyes is an awful defender. He’s not really a 4th OF option imo.

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Who cares what year it is. 162 games are better than 15-20 games every single time. Years of control are extremely valuable, especially for a player that projects to be an above average regular. Losing a year of control over Andrew Vaughn for what amounted to like 30 April PA is just pure stupidity. The new CBA rules change the calculus a little bit. But not enough for me. I'd roll with Sheets/Eloy RF/DH for a month. I won't be mad if Colas makes the roster or anything - they're clearly a better team with him - but there are clear and obvious reasons for the Sox to send him to AAA. I always take the longer view on stuff like this, and its quite possible that Colas isn't a + value player right away anyway.

Big fan of Los, but this is one of the least surprising things I saw today.

Somewhere, Parkman is smiling

Cease sucks. Cancel the rebuild of the rebuild. 0-162 incoming

Bump. Still spots available.

Yes. I am not debating that Robert has been injured alot. He has. But he has 5 more seasons to play with only surpassing 92 games once before he is on Buxton's level of un-availableness. That's the point I am making. I am not trying to convince anyone that Robert is a tough guy that plays through injuries. Both Luis and Yoan act like they need a backiatomy or limb amputation multiple times a game.

Yep. Even if Robert doesn't really improve on his career slash of .289/.334/.426 (122 wRC+), he still a 4-5 WAR player with 145 games played. While typing out his slash line you can't help but be a bit surprised since the narrative around him (both within the fanbase and nationally) is largely that he has been a huge disappointing with the bat. And while he has gone long stretches looking like he doesn't have a single clue what he's doing, his overall numbers are still strong. The upside is still absolutely astounding.

No s%*#. Buxton has cleared 92 games 1 time in 8 seasons (7 non-covid seasons). Robert has played 56 games (60 game season), 68, and 98 games. His injury history isn't even close to Buxton's at this point. So Jack's statement was silly (shocking!).

I had to turn that game off in the second inning last night because my dog kept barking at that awful horn noise every 20 seconds.

I mean, he had yet to appear in AAA at the time they would have promoted him and it was his first minor league season. Plenty of reasons to not bring him to the big leagues. But I tend to agree - once they made that decision, it’s pretty dumb to put him on the OD roster in 23 from a roster management perspective. Looks like Oscar may not give them much of a choice tho if he keeps this up.

Robert has been in the league 5 less years, Jack.

Byron Buxton, the guy that’s played more than 92 games 1 time in 8 seasons. I bet Parkman has him penciled in for 162 tho.

I have him on ignore but can’t help myself sometimes. Had him ignored on WSI back in the day too. I see him pop up on Twitter all the time. Always the same BS. Quite a way to go about fandom…all those years. Mercy!

I get all that and think its fair, but the Twins and Guardians also need an awful lot to go right (either again in the case of the Guardians, or different than 22 in the case of the Twins). That just gets completely ignored in the analysis of the division by many.

Interesting take considering they were worse than the Sox last year, and did lose a good bit of their roster and didn't have a manager that was basically throwing games. As @Squirmin' for Yerminand @hogan873 alluded to above, it sure feels like most these takes of the Sox being bad are just being negative for the sake of being negative and completely ignore context and what has happened around the rest of the division.

Yet, even if they accomplish all of these plus some, you'll complain daily along the way.

Lol at anyone that think JR would have allowed that. It quite literally took a third party doctor intervening.

What have the Twins done to improve from a team that lost 2 more games than the Sox last year?