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I thought the issue was that you didn't post a link, instead copying and pasting the entire content. Maybe I'm confused.

Pretty sure copyright applies regardless of the profitability of the holder.

The trade was horrible the moment it was made. Sox shouldn't have been trading any kind of prospect for a washed out veteran for a team that wasn't one pitcher away to begin with.

With Beiber on the hump, you go with the best matchups against him rather than worry about bullpen matchups that may or may not happen later in the game. Seems like Ricky can't win either way with these arguments. Either he is too focused on staggering left/right hitters but then not enough, one day he takes Bummer out too soon because he should be a multi inning reliever, a couple days later he leaves him in too long because he sent him out for a second inning.

At this rate, they're going to have to call me up before long. Don't worry, Ricky. I'm ready baby!

Colome has been successful like this since 2015 though. At least we know he doesn't fold when the going gets tough.

Anyone ever tell you, you look just like Obama? Resemblance is striking

I can't believe he separated his shoulder on that play, or injured himself at all for that matter. That was just a routine slide into third base. Hopefully someone can teach him to slide properly, should have never happened

20+% of his at bats would be guaranteed to be with the bases empty. That could be close to 90 missed opportunities over the course of a full season compared to batting third, not to mention the difference in the rest of his at bats between hitting behind 9,1,2, in particular Moncada, and 7,8,9 hitters. He would also be the ideal batter to come up in a 2 out no runner situation, since between his speed and power he would be the most likely to be able to score with two outs. To me, its a no brainer

Robert long term in the lead off spot seems like a waste to me. He should have the maximum amount of at bats with runners on base possible. I would go with Moncada, Robert, Jimenez at 2,3,4.

You asked if we can all agree, that implies you already agree. Whatever, though, no big deal. Just saying, you didn't have to go there to make your point.

Well, you just accused probably tens of thousands of Sox fans of antisemitism just to make an entirely unrelated point. I'm all for open dialogue, but that seems like a jack ass move to me, particularly considering the topic at hand. Who gives a shit about anyone's baseless opinion on who someone may or may not have had sex with in the first place?

Zobrist bailed mid season due to divorce.

You must really want to speculate about Kopech's wife. Trying to equate sports owner cheapness, a common topic on sports boards, to antisemitism in order to make your point seems a tad excessive, considering the original topic isn't even worth talking about to begin with. Kind of distasteful to just throw out antisemitism accusations over this horse shit issue, frankly.

Wow. Talk about taking it up a notch. Geez

We've gotten spoiled with Moncada, Jimenez and Robert. With Vaughn, IMO, that gives us four guys in the last couple of years who are or were essentially can't miss prospects. But can't miss prospects don't come around that often. Collins is a notch below that, but he still has very good potential. A few years ago we would have been hanging our hat on him.

His immediate value is allowing Grandal and McCann to be in the game at the same time, and allow them to come off the bench to pinch hit without worrying about using Leury as emergency catcher. Secondarily he is a pretty good left handed hitter himself Beyond that his offensive upside is pretty high and vastly underrated around here imo

Well, I agree on being a fan of a thirteen pitch at bat as well. If you're going to make an out, that is the way to do it. I'd even go so far as to say there might even be a rare occurrence where a 13 pitch out might be preferable to a first pitch base hit.

I agree the deal you suggested would have been preferable, but it could be Moncada didn't want to sign past '25. Hopefully he'll still be in the latter part of his prime at that point. This way he gets a nice deal in the mean time while setting himself up for another long term deal to carry him through the last half of his career. Can't blame if that were the case. Sox might be in a position to re-sign him if the next six years go the way we hope anyway.

Still, if you're talking about two mediocre hitters at best, when you have plenty of good hitters in the lineup and on the bench, go with the vastly superior defender rather than the debatably, slightly superior offensive player. We should always have a decent bat off the bench to come in if necessary in a pivotal situation.

They've got to put Engel in the lineup. Delmonico isn't a good enough hitter to justify the drop off in defense. Great having a lefty bat in the lineup but it doesn't mean much if its a poor one. Then you've got the lefty bat off the bench to use we you need it most, although I'd probably go with Collins first anyway

Fulmer would be good if he just stopped nibbling the corners constantly. Its like he's trying to make a perfect unhittable pitch every time. I have a feeling he's going to figure out he has to pitch to contact occassionally one of these days. Change of scenery might turn him around real fast. He had enough chances with the sox I suppose, but I don't know about rostering someone like Detwiler over giving him one more

The 72 win teams that would have been what would have to be considered the challengers to the eighth seed would be the equivalent of a 26-34 team this year. So basically the only teams who have any hope of challenging the last seeds are the horse shit ones. Sounds exciting. That said, with the Sox in the position they are in, still looking forward to this, but really this is a joke. I'd rather see if they could pull off 35 wins and get in the old fashion way, and if not look forward to the future seasons of sustained success that appear to be on the horizon.

I'm not so sure about that. Last year in the AL the closest teams to .500 were 84-78 and 78-84. Everyone else either won 93+ or 72 or less. The eighth seed would have been 78-84 Texas Rangers, who would have cruised into the playoffs with a 6 game lead Boston would have been virtually locked in at 7 for at least a couple of weeks with little to no chance to overtake Tampa, or little chance to be caught by Texas. Not that it would have mattered much if they were. It would have taken a miracle for the ninth place White Sox to bump them from the playoffs. I'm not going to do the math, but i'd imagine that would have been mathematically at the extremely improbable, number approaching zero range for half the season . Under the current format, last season would have been an absolute snooze fest.

Yeah, its a bummer. To me, the upside of the 60 game schedule was the potential for a run of frantic baseball, but the expanded playoffs has pretty much squelched that. The twelve best teams are just going to be on cruise control. Not much of an advantage for winning home field this year to offset it either. If you're sitting there at 24-16, its inevitable the thought is going to creep in that you only need to win another six games probably to get in. And if you are faced with the prospect of facing the Dodgers, for example, in either a three or seven game series, which would you prefer? I think I'd go with a three game series. So you could theoretically see teams tanking in the last few games to get a lower seed after they have clinched a spot.