Woof.  No more ABs for you Dyson...

2 minutes ago, bmags said:

Great job by Stiever. Getting ground balls, fastball working.

Adrenaline is the enemy of a sinkerballer.  

Stiever + a lower level prospect for Nimmo. Do you do it?

What a play by paredes.

3 minutes ago, GermanSoxFan said:

Some people need to relax. Stiever was a non-prospect, mentally soft and ruined by Cooper 4 pitches into his career.

 

 

Oh lord. I guess I won't go back and read the pages I missed then.

LOL at some of the takes in this thread.  Ridiculous.

I see 3 potential plus pitches and I've seen some flashes of a potential well above average change and curve.  I like his ceiling even better than Dunning.

Those of you who don't see that, all I can say is that I hope the Minnesota Twins hire all of you as scouts and let you run their drafts.

10 minutes ago, SouthWallace said:

 

No WAP for WTP

 

51 minutes ago, bmags said:

Wuh oh. Come on bud. Don’t become Miguel ascensio

Or Jim Derrington.  Same deal.

 

That didn’t take long...

2 minutes ago, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Stiever + a lower level prospect for Nimmo. Do you do it?

No. Can never have enough pitching

3 minutes ago, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Stiever + a lower level prospect for Nimmo. Do you do it?

It depends who I am?

Just now, JoshPR said:

No. Can never have enough pitching

Could also really use another competent left handed bat. Nimmo is a perfect fit here. Tough decision

1 minute ago, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Could also really use another competent left handed bat. Nimmo is a perfect fit here. Tough decision

Ill give you that

Mendick on the spot!

Mendick is an asset.

What do we think Stiever is capped at? 75?

Turnbull gets an inch both sides but not stiever.

2 minutes ago, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Could also really use another competent left handed bat. Nimmo is a perfect fit here. Tough decision

With the Sox pitching injures I’m loathe to give up any young healthy arm until we have a clearer picture. 

Here's my Sox Math ? for the day....what % of the fans are like me and totally tune out and don't try to figure out the soxmath answer at all

Re: trade value, let Dunning and Stiever get a lot of work up here and then think about that later.  We don't need to make trades.  But on paper it's just a name.  Stiever looks about as advertised to me; Dunning looks better; and it's a real shame about Lambert because I already knew he was real good and was being slept on, and he started to show it before getting hurt.  Heuer's value also has gone from "unappealing name on paper in a trade proposal" to "guy I don't want to trade" for many Sox fans I am sure.

I think the new formula for GMing should be to get the prospects up and let them sink or swim a bit before deciding to trade them, plus trade vets in their primes with 2+ seasons remaining, and don't give out 5+ year contracts to FA.  I think that general scenario is far likelier to lead to an extended contention window with enough flexibility to sign a name FA on the second tier or much better yet, trade for a vet another team is trying to dump at depreciated value with money coming back.

I'd like to see the Sox kind of be more like the Rays or A's but still spend money, basically.

1 minute ago, bmags said:

What do we think Stiever is capped at? 75?

Cordero up again.  Probably his last inning.  

1 minute ago, wegner said:

Here's my Sox Math ? for the day....what % of the fans are like me and totally tune out and don't try to figure out the soxmath answer at all

I'm one. I think its dumb