Timmy U

For everyone complaining about the Burger pick, who should they have taken? They had the 11th pick in a 10 player draft. After the Angels grabbed Jo Adell, who I believe the Sox were on, they were left picking through the leftovers. Probably the best guys were... Evan White? D.L. Hall? Jeter Downs? There is no Mike Trout they passed on here. Sucks they killed their draft position in 2016, that the draft fell the way it did, and that Burger got hurt, but of every player development blunder the Sox have ever made, this is pretty low on the list.

Absolutely. Reynaldo should never be in the same sentence... With Jason Bere.

Man, I'd say Lopez is lucky. He has missed with a ton of fastballs drifting right over the middle of the zone. Sox would be killing him.

I was just kidding. Trust me, I was furious the week before that trade was made when it was just rumored. I take a backseat to no man in how much I hate that trade. Just pointing out the Sox drafted JaredMitchell ahead of Mike Trout too.

Well, if we're playing what ifs, what if they had drafted Trout?

Good point. ReyLo worked very hard during the offseason at Kobe's facility and then looked okay in real spring. He did not look good during ramp up or in his brief appearance. The question with him for me is not so much conditioning, or command as it is tilt on his pitches. When he came up, he had a plus slider. He doesn't really have that anymore and he has a very flat fastball. That's why he gives up so many long homers. He gets very few swings and misses, therefore he has trouble finishing guys off even when he gets ahead. If he can't come up with a way to get more swings and misses, I think he realizes that he'll slide from prospect to hanger on very quickly.

Clubber Lang predicts “pain.”

And the cardboard cutouts head for the exits...

Depends, does Hahn have his phone on him?

I think if I’m not good, I’ll have to watch Cisheck pitch in hell.

I had to mute them. They’re barely mentioning the game at this point.

Par for the course tonight. Watching Gio and Lindbloom nibble has been excruciating

Gio got hit, walked people and worked slow the entire game. He may have deserved a better fate, but he was an active participant in his own poor performance.

Absolutely it was a brutal play, but how exactly is Eloy responsible for Gyorko’s homer? Whole game has been brutal. Eloy is just one part of it.

Yeah, it's pre-existing relationships, which is why the Sox are favored to sign the youngest, who again, is supposed to be good. Disturbing to see that, if you read between the lines, his own father doesn't think that Elijah works that hard to get better.

Ha ha. Tho the youngest brother is supposed to bd very good and linked to us. Maybe it all works out in the end.

Welcome! I think Goins is that defense-first bench piece. I remember him from Toronto: he can't really hit, but man can he pick it at short.

Robert is always going to be super valuable because of his defense and base running in addition to his hitting, but you look inside the stats of the 3 guys and Eloy may be off to the best, most sustainable start of the 3. Robert currently has a 10% walk rate, 28% k rate, and a .500 BABIP. He hits the ball hard and is super fast, so you imagine he’d have a high BABIP. Probably not that high. Moncada may be able to sustain what he’s doing: 12% walk rate, 25% k rate, with a .429 BABIP. It’s a little high, but he’s proven he’s always going to have a high BABIP. Meanwhile, Eloy, 8% walk rate, 24% k rate, and .364 BABIP. 191 WRC+. He may finish in the neighborhood of those numbers. I am just glad we have all three. Though it did hurt my heart to see who was sitting at 7.

Personally, I'd flip EE and Nomar to break up the R/R thing, but it's a quibble.

Strike zone was rough. Maybe the hit on the head affected him?

Ugh, feel bad for Carlos. Looks like Kopech did the right thing. I guess it’s Detwiler? Or do they bring up Dunning or Steiver?

Ha ha, not close to Pierre. My grandma can throw better than Pierre and she’s dead.

Personally, I am Steiver curious. Guys coming back from TJS in the short turnaround have not fared well thus far. I’d hate to get Dunning hurt too.

Fastball, sadly. I am concerned that his arm may not be right.

The Sox really don’t need Mendick, Goins, Delmonico, or Collins. I predict when they go to 26, they keep either Mendick or Goins but not both and everyone else goes down.