TheFutureIsNear

Love it for the kid Don’t love the broadcast. Shouldn’t do this on the series opener vs the best team in the league. Save this for a Royals series in August.

Sure doesn’t feel like it recently. Maybe from earlier on when they were using Taylor? I’m not even totally against it, but you have to have better arms. These lefties throwing low 90’s sinkers are going to keep putting the team in hole. Just doesn’t make any sense.

This whole opener thing isn’t going well. Maybe let’s not do it anymore?

I wonder what it would take to get Carmen Mlodzinski from Pittsburgh? They had a disagreement about him pitching out of the pen and he could certainly have a spot in our rotation. Only 27 and controlled through 2029.

Pitching has obviously been bad, but also a bunch of fundamental errors allowing base runners to advance

That bunt was certainly a choice

And reality is that Martin is going to regress. At this point we might have to trade for multiple SP’s just to not kill every arm in the pen.

The ghost of Lenyan Sosa is going to convert to C Meant Romo

In this scenario I think the bigger question would be for Nashida. Gonzo is DH against RH and 2B once or so a week to spell Meidroth. Antonacci in LF play the hot hand in CF and RF with Hill/Peters/Hays/Pereira/Nashida C- Quero/Sosa (please come back Teel) 1B- Mune 2B- Meidroth/Gonzo 3B- Vargas SS- Montgomery LF- Antonacci/Nashida CF- Peters/Hill/Nashida RF- Pereira/Nashida/Hays DH- Gonzo/Hays

I like it. Now do Benintendi and Grichuk Swapping Nashida, Hayes, Gonzo, and Pereira for Beni, Acuna, Kelenic, and Grichuk would be a breath of fresh air for the team.

I get what you’re saying, and I honestly don’t think Peyton Pallettte is worthy of an on going discussion…BUT is it not possible that the Sox internal scouting was correct? I don’t think it should be considered a mistake to prefer to gamble on an arm you don’t know vs 1 the team has been developing and knows isn’t remotely consistent enough to be productive.

I wasn’t really following him, but I do seem to remember a decent amount of Getz hate for making a stupid move to leave Pallette exposed.

Would a Gonzo for Jake Bennet trade make sense? Red Sox just acquired Bennett last year in somewhat strange prospect for prospect swap, but he’s 25 and still not in the big league rotation. Boston is also desperate for IF help specifically so a 1 for 1 swap of 2 guys that will get a deserved immediate call up to the majors for their new team makes some sense to me.

Don’t get wrong I’m not trying to run the guy out of town and I’m not saying he’s bad by any means…BUT if Meidroth can’t hit for any semblance of power the reality is he’s likely going to get replaced in the next couple of years. Without stealing bases, hitting for power, or being elite on D he’s kind of in no man’s land for a baseball player in 2026. Probably would be a future all-star in the 90’s though.

Not like he didn’t have pedigree though. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think he has a ton of value or would be a “headline” type prospect in a big trade deadline deal. But I definitely think there would be a decent amount of teams interested, just the value is debatable

We’re in a weird spot with adding in my opinion. The odds of acquiring a good, young, cost controlled SP are very low, and I’m still not interested in trading any meaningful prospects for a “solid vet type”. We aren’t competing for a World Series. I don’t hate the idea of trading Gonzo (+?) for a young “failed”/struggling former top prospect SP though. No idea who that would be though

Yeah I’ll wait for more than a 30 day sample size before I crown Vargas as a part of a “Big 3”. Hopefully the swing adjustments really have turned things around, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic for now

I know getting to see mediocre baseball is exciting compared to the last 2 seasons, but there’s a lot of people getting ahead of themselves. There’s no reason to start rushing prospects to the majors in early May.

Why stop there?

I know there’s no other real solution on this sorry roster…but I could do without ever seeing a Vargas or Meidroth AB again. Neither have a shred of potential to be starting MLB players. Time to stop pretending with that

I’m not going lose any sleep over Sosa, but I’d love to know what this organization hated about him. I hope (for peace of mind) that he’s uncoachable or something. Because it really doesn’t make sense to stick with players that are clearly much worse hitters.

Fair enough, but we have some time on Bonemer and a lot of time for Carlson and Roch. I’m just saying if you are going to bring up Antonacci now it should be full time at a position he’s comfortable at. And mostly that I don’t care about Vargas or Meidroth. I don’t think either are starting MLB players and we shouldn’t be worried about the amount of AB’s they get. There’s also no denying that there’s a void of talent in the OF on this team so I understand if that’s where Antonacci ends up playing.

I’ve seen enough of Vargas and Meidroth that I don’t think they should be factored into the future at this point. If Antonacci’s best position is IF just play him at 2B or 3B. Montgomery and Mune are the only 2 IF’s currently on the roster we should be worried about getting regular AB’s.

This thread went in an interesting direction… Anyway, the person who made the tweet in the OP should be put in jail. Wait a few mins, way too dramatic of a post for what ultimately ended being a bruise

Getz has a crippling addiction to mediocre left handed relief pitchers