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OK, this whole Ceshek closing thing is old news folks. I'm talking going foward. Hudson feared being a closer. The Nats trusted him in high leverage situations including closing down the stretch and he succeeded. I have a feeling he will take off from there and be a solid high leverage guy for whoever gets him. Ceshek is just washed up junk at this point. I wouldn't trust that guy to pitch for me in the 8th inning. Sorry.

Yes, that's exactly the reason.

Hudson could check in as a closer in an emergency.

Hudson by a mile.

Oh God, Steve Cishek sucks. Send out the kids for all I care, don't overpay for that side-arming junk.

Guy tops out at what, 91-92? No gracias for 3 years.

That's a pretty cool shout out from a media bigfoot! James Fox >>>>>>> WSD

This is why he's my sleeper this year.

"The money will be spent."

There's just something special about having your full squad on opening day. The Sox have not given me that much of a roster to bail on an OD tailgate party to get into the stadium early for the intros. I think this might be the first time since probably 2006 I plan to do it.

They did bring up a good point, with the talent now maybe the lineups will no longer be an issue.

They had to give Bruce his token spot to pretty much add nothing but a bad cell phone line connection.

Not if you really lay down an aggressive deal. Like 8 years $150 million plus.

"Sox are gonna be good" by Passan just made my third leg move a little.

Sox doing this right. I applaud them. You have Eloy, TA, and now Robert locked in beyond Arbitration and Free Agency. Real smart business.

Let's be careful what we wish for in hooking ourselves to a multi year reliever deal just for the sake of "feeling better" about our bullpen. Kelvin Herrera made many folks "feel real good" about the bullpen last Winter. Bullpens are crap-shoots, just need to hope to get lucky with a bunch of the unknown arms down in the Farm to supplement those we think are already known commodities from last season.

Imagine not, since both play Soccer for Defense. A platoon would be happening even for late inning defense featuring Engle or Garcia. Like it or not.

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My optimism has more to do with playing 76 games in the division. Win 50 of those (which there is no excuse not to be able to do that with how terrible 2.5 of those teams will be), you are only looking for another 40 wins from the rest of the league to get to 90. You don't even have to play .500 against everyone else. This is why I don't put too much stock in closing the gap on the 100 wins by the Twins.

Bullpens are such a crapshoot. Not knowing how bad he turned out, Herrera would have been an exciting pick up right now. Not knowing how solid Bummer turned out, right now we'd be pissed calling him a key piece. I just let Spring Training dictate who gets hot and makes the cut. Plenty of solid hard throwing arms to choose from, just need to find command and consistency.

2000 was crazy good. I think we had 7 guys in the lineup with .800+ OPS

This part here, can we finally have a prospect who just blows up on the scene from jump street?

The argument that because we lost to the Twins by 28 games last season, or whatever it was, is irrelevant. New season starts in March. I see us wining anywhere from 86 - 93 wins, all depending on health and also the impact that Robert, Madrigal, Cease, and Kopech will provide. If Giolito, Moncacada, and Anderson regress significantly, getting to 90 wins will be a be tough.

I agree. People are pissed off at Hector for the Machado garbage. Not his fault the Padres went all in on the final minutes to steal him. I trust Hector more than any of our local Sox Twitter Trolls, including White Sox Dave.

Pillar sucks too.