Harold's Leg Lift

Floor is the McLean Deluxe. Ceiling is the Big N' Tasty.

68 per team. That's down 8 games from what those teams played as affilliates. My question is who fills in when/if players are drafted? College Freshman and Sophomores are playing in the new league formed with old Appy league teams.

It will be comprised of teams from the old NY-Penn league. Mahoning Valley, Trenton, Williamsport, State College and West Virginia. Another unnamed team will be added. Yes it's a wood bat league and any draft eligible player can participate. Graduating HS seniors, college Jr's and sr's and JC's. Too many changes going on at the same time so they're bound to F it up.

That played a part but it was the pitching injuries that made them change gears so quickly. Here is an article from last year highlighting just how many TJ's they've had and there have been many more since this was written. https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2019/05/02/rangers-claim-unofficial-lead-in-unflattering-statistic-involving-tommy-john-surgeries/

The Rangers started drafting college hitters because they had an incredible amount of HS pitchers go down with TJ. They need pitching, pitching and more pitching.

Agents already saying they won't send their top guys. It will be a 2nd tier league.

That's a good one. The cavalier use of the word elite is mine.

Riley Pint is rule 5 eigible. Remember when he was considered the most major league ready HS player (there's no such thing).

It's great when the jokes write themselves.

I'd like a nickel for every post that starts I didn't like the hire but......

That's a no brainer for the Sox which is exactly why the Cubs wouldn't do it.

It would be tough to explain to any fan.

I was not speculating.

Seems he would fit that Gio Gonzalez swing role pretty well and if he's finally able to put together a string of consistent starts in his walk year that would be a nice added bonus.

I'll be realy surprised if he's not on the team next year.

Correct

A team with World Series aspirations should always be looking for upgrades.

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I'm all for aggressive promotions but the Sox have been overly aggressive in pitcher development. I don't want them to get greedy and try to get too much out of Crochet too early. Good god did they not learn anything from the playoff game fiasco or from how they mishandled Rodon, Fulmer and Burdi. Don't push him to fast. Give him the time he needs to develop.

I'd honestly be surprised if any of these guys are traded this off season. I think teams see a really shitty FA pitching market so they're throwing these guys out there to see if they get an offer that blows them away and I doubt they get one. I know the Rays operate different than other clubs but it's really hard to believe they remove Morton and Snell from a WS team.

I'm less worried about what a pitcher does in back as to what happens out front. You can have a guy with what's considered a clean arm action blow out in HS and a guy with a bad arm action pitch for 10+ years in the big leagues. There's no rhyme or reason to why a pitcher gets injured but one thing that is true of every big leaguer is they're really good out front. They have good extension, a strong lead leg, a consistent release point and follow thru, stay on top of the baseball and they have great stuff . Crochet is excellent out front. I hope they give him a full year as a starter. If they want to limit his innings a bit to bring him up in September that's fine but he has to be developed as a starter. He has a chance to be special.

Damn. It sounds like the Rangers are tryng to package one of their bad contracts along with Lynn. A former WS hero is not a name I was expecting to hear.....

Morton is 37 yrs old. If the Sox trade for Lynn and sign him to a 2yr/$30M extension he'll be 36 at the end of the contract.

Do you still think Kopech is thought of that highly around the league? At the start of next season it will be 30 months since he has pitched in a game. No one knows what he's going to look like when he comes back and that's obviously a huge red flag. Add in the makeup issues and command problems he was having before the injury I would think Kopech is one of if not the riskiest players to acquire in all of baseball.