poppysox

He's one of the most hands on owners in baseball. This guy is not sitting at home wondering how the team is doing. There are very few days he doesn't talk to RH. Might be guilty of many things but not caring isn't one of them.

Lets not corner the market on 1B / DH. We already have 3 or 4 high draft choice people who profile for this.

I ready for just exactly this.

We finally get to our best hitters.

Bummer looked gooooood!

4 th & 5 th in the lineup. Stubborn!

Pathetic!

More along my thinking.

We have a much better chance when we lead off with the 8 & 9 hitters then turn over the lineup. Our 4 & 5 are a dark hole.

I'm just being a wise guy. Actually, I am a very optimistic fan but these lineups are driving me nuts. You could pick nine names out of a hat and make more sense of it.

Apparently.

Alonso batting .176 followed by Castillo hitting .169 in the 4 and 5 slot in the batting order. It's hard to believe we're trying to win. I'm pretty sure 99.9% of fans could find a lineup with a better chance of being productive.

Along with Cease, Robert and Madrigal.

I could make do without ever seeing Castillo in the lineup.

Kind of like the Garcia 2B.

It's very nice of you to be so accommodating.

They hope he shows something enough to unload at the trade deadline. I think if that doesn't happen they will DFA at that time. I wish they would give him a few days out of the lineup to clear his head. I just don't like these extreme shift guys.

Every GM in baseball has traded for Jackson it seems.

Every player has inflated value when it's going good and should be DFA when he's going bad. Most are somewhere in the middle. Fans are not easy to please.

This forum is about discussion not arguments. State your point of view and let others discuss it or offer other ways to look at it. When people are just trying to make others look dumb...they're not changing anyone's mind. We all love the Sox just not what we might see out of them from day to day. Even when I agree with you it doesn't make either one of us right.

I would love to see it. These three guys would energize the fan base and I'll bet we would win a few more games as well. They couldn't possibly mess things up and we might move the time line up by half a year. And I assume the best coaches in the organization are at the major league level. I've suggested this move in several threads and added that putting an extra coach or two to tutor the young guys specifically.

Injuries that haven't happened yet can overnight change the buyers interested. When we get to the dead line there is no reason to deal unless the offer is so good it can't be turned down. I would happily extend him or trade for the right deal. People do overpay when they perceive it's a player to put them over the top. ForAlonso I would be happy with salary relief. I want to be over paid for Abreu. If I like my car but someone offers fair market value I say no thanks. Same situation occurred with Q. We got overpaid because Cubs overpaid because they thought Q was the man.

Doesn't look as good after a 5-0 two hit shut out loss.

Agree at this point.

Teams that score zero runs seldom win.