Timmy U

Look around the league at some opening day starters, like Angels and Mets. Sox rotation is not the worst out there, it seems. I think the Angels may lose A LOT of games. Then they’ll draft Holliday, he’ll become the best player in baseball and they still won’t win.

7 guys over 30 on that roster plus a handful of 29 year-olds. Woo! If all the prospects are going to be at Birmingham, I wonder why they promoted Colson. Maybe they wanted him to focus on power in that launching pad. Gonna be interesting who plays short at AA. Popeye’s best position by far is 2b. Any chance Baldwin makes it to AA?

Any chance mods merge this into the fire Grifol thread because it is two sides of the same arrogant, incompetent coin?

Crochet is a huge positive. Deivi Garcia looked quite good. This year is all about identifying actual assets and churning the rest of the roster. This game will not be the low point of the season.

Happy for Garrett. He's living his dream.

Ugh. That is bad news about Nolasco. I have high hopes for him.

At 1-5?! That seems way too rich for my blood. It would have to be for a massive discount, right?

Man, I was throwing out 110 losses as a worst case scenario. It can always be worse, I suppose.

Kopech? Deivi Garcia? Banks? They have a lot of options.

I’m not sure there’s that much of a roster crunch. Matt Foster, Shane Drohan, Jimmy Lambert, Jesse Scholtens, and Davis Martin are all headed to the 60 day. If Toussaint doesn’t make the team (it would be a sign of progress if he does not), he will be released. Sammy Peralta would not be a great loss. That is 6 guys right there. I can imagine them trying to sneak a few guys through like DeLoach. I believe they will be fine.

Seems like Caglianone, Bazzana, and Condon are all going to be gone when the Sox pick. That’s fine. They’ll still get a good player at 1-5.

Sad to see dreams die for people. I saw Sommers pitch at Kanny. Baseball is one tough business.

DeJong is making like double the minimum. If he’s a 1 WAR player, that’s probably a win. Dallas, on the other hand, got paid.

Any chance Sox muscle Slade Caldwell down to 42? He’s an undersized lefty hitter from Arkansas. Seems like their flavor these days.

With Cease gone what Sox pitcher has the best mustache? I know they are both starting the year in the minors, but it is clearly Drew Thorpe vs. Ky Bush. Battle to the death. There can be only one.

For sure on the deck chairs, but Grossman kinda is a butcher out there.

Everyone realizes that Grossman is not a good defensive outfielder, right? Pillar had that at least.

Wow. Did not see the Pillar release coming. He was FASTs approaching TWTW.

Game over. 2-0. 13 K on offense. These are not mlb players by and large. Position player depth is really going to be an issue.

Banks had a dominant 2 inning stint.

Career .725 OPS, so not horrible, but also not anything to celebrate. I don’t really get it, but they have committed to dumpster diving for nearly washed up marginal players, so it is on brand.

Cannon is out 4IP 4H 1R 1ER 1BB 2K.

Angels squeeze one home. They’re playing FASTs.

If you think the Sox regular line up cannot score, you do not want to see what they’re running out in this B game. They have some pitching depth. Position players? Not so much.

Sosa hits more gappers that almost get over the fielders head than anyone I have ever watched.