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Wasn't he on a hot streak two weeks ago?

Even if he's a complete dope and they hate him and don't want him near the team, just keeping him on the roster and refusing to use him is a strange choice. You'd think the options would be 1. play him 2. trade him 3. drop him.

Its bizarre. Is it his attitude? Is it baseball related? Why don't they just trade him? He has to have some trade value, right?

Finding the camera and making goofy faces.

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The Sammy Sosa

Don't get me wrong. He is also a bust. But Eloy has been completely worthless.

Isn't Canada super strict about letting people in that have DUIs? I wonder if they had to go thru extra hoops for TLR

I've enjoyed the Julks era as much as the next guy but what is Schriffen talking about when he says "With the addition of Tommy Pham, and now Corey Julks, there hasn't been a rush to get Luis Robert back"

At least Moncada played defense, had a very good 2019, and didn't spend as much time on the IL as Jimenez

This is one of my favorite nicknames ever.

Looks like he hurt his hammy rounding third (improvement over getting hurt running to first)

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After 90 days, does he just become a normal player again without any restrictions?

Lol... I think he's exaggerating? For a while, their horrible start was a big story with national baseball media. Pierzynski's podcast and Jomboy type of outlets did devote a lot of time to them. Not sure about the media aspect and I'm not an expert on player development but I think there could be an argument made that Dominic Fletcher having a bad start on a new team that is off to a historically bad start not being a great environment for him.

The panic discussion began with him saying he would be ok with a roster full of placeholders or a roster full of struggling kids (not both). He said Getz was losing prospects on the roster and then provided a list of a handful of 26-29 year old minor leaguers who were supposedly dropped or traded. When it was pointed out that one of them was still with the organization and Brad Keller was the same age as those "prospects," he said I was missing the point by looking at the specific names he provided. Doesn't seem like anyone is going to be persuaded here.

I don't think it does. But just because they disappointed me the last couple years, I'm not going to pretend it takes 5 years to build a team as good as the Detroit Tigers when they have like 65 million dollars coming off the books.

It means that I don't think there's any reason for a team in a major market to not be able to field a .500 team after losing for 3-4 years, millions of dollars coming off the books, only one bad long term contract, and an influx of talent coming up. That isn't some insane expectation. Rick Hahn couldn't find a RF or a 2B and spent all his payroll on bullpen arms. He's gone. That doesn't mean that the Sox will (or should) operate like that for the rest of time. I'm not predicting they will sign Juan Soto... but that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend that there's no way for them to become an average team in a couple of years.

I think some for some people, they define "competitive" differently and that's the disconnect. I think others just have a humiliation/complaining kink and they get off on losing and pouting about losing. I used to think Sox fans had a lot in common with NYC baseball fans because I thought they demanded a lot from the team. This new post-twitter breed of Sox fan just likes to whine. You'd think the reaction to the team would be "Go out and get some bats!" but instead its sad guys claiming its impossible to find a second baseman.

Agree. The offense needs a lot of help. However, I don't think its too much to ask a front office to figure out a way to sign or trade for a 2B, RF, 1B, and a DH over the course of two seasons when they have millions coming off the books. You sound like a JR apologist. You don't expect them to be able to field a .500 team in the next three years? I hold my teams to higher standards I guess.

I think they will continue to be bad this year. Next year, they will probably be kind of bad but more fun. The year after is when I expect that they should be better than .500. If they fail to sign an impact free agent in 2 years, I'll get mad about it in 2 years. That doesn't change the fact that there's obviously a timeline based on when the next crop of prospects are coming up. If all their top prospects were 17-19 years old, 5 years is more realistic. But they aren't. There's a wave coming in the next 18 months. You claim we need to fill out 24 roster spots like this is an expansion team with no farm and no existing major leaguers. Between this trade deadline and next offseason, they need a RF, 2B, 1B, DH. At the end of 2025, they can evaluate the team again. If Ramos sucks after playing 1.5 seasons with the team, they go out and find a new 3B. That's how it works.

I'm not saying they will all work out. If they had a roster full of good players and no question marks, they wouldn't be a bad team in the middle of a rebuild. The question is how long is the rebuild going to take. They have 8-10 young pitchers that will be on the team in the next year with their 4 best position player prospects and a good CFer. The way you are determining the timeline, they'll just be perpetually 5 years away until they all of a sudden aren't?

Benitendi stinks but he's on the team and they aren't getting rid of him. Of course there are unknowns. That's how this all works. Its an estimated timeline. Let's assume we are going to do a full blown 5 year rebuild. How many known quantities are on a team in the 3rd year?

Guys who will be on the team or coming up in the next year and a half C Lee & Quero LF Benitendi CF Robert 3B Ramos SS Montgomery RF TBD 2B TBD 1B TBD DH TBD SP Crochet/Thorpe/Nastrini/Cannon/Iriarte/Eder/Bush/Adams Then you have whoever we get at the deadline for Fedde, Kopech, Flexen, Brebbia, Eloy, Vaugn, Sheets, etc. Then any FA signings and trades in the offseason. Don't see how its a 5 year rebuild.

Yup. The idea that Getz has panicked and shipped out a bunch of prospects when he got rid of Matthew Thompson, Jose Rodriguez, and then a list of 6 guys between the age of 26-29 (one of which appears to still be on the Knights) is silly.