Snopek

Pedro requested it just to mess with him.

Best Buy gift card?

Completely agree with all of this.

Wow. These pitching injuries have been brutal. We can argue all day about the return for Cease, but I’m still glad they didn’t carry him into the regular season.

This is our new pasta party now that TA is gone

Fedde getting some solid rest between innings

Lol

120 for sure, since 8 - 13 in their next 21 feels basically impossible.

I get all this and that he's a grown ass man and responsible for his own body but like, is the training staff not helping with this or what? Are they not paying extra attention to him given his history?

If anyone cares

I would think the next two candidates they have circled for the job are the Paul Konerko statue in left field and Jerry Reinsdorf's dog.

Lol

Hahn should be rehired just so they can fire him again for the Benintendi signing.

The Sox are gross, man

For sure. Some interesting SP's, but the position player side looks pretty rough after Alonso and Soto.

The history is so ugly that I honestly can't even remember who May is.

Love the hypothetical arguing with no one you're doing here. Indeed.

Literally anyone other than me would have been better off getting those ABs than Moose. He played 1B, why not let Elko get some more ABs? He played 3B, why not let Ramos get some more ABs? And if the argument truly is that it was meant to push or replace Sheets, well that just brings it back to the Royals connection. Perhaps you could have gotten someone that would be a little more of a threat than the soon-to-be-out-of-baseball pal of Getz.

The point being Grifol is still here because Getz decided to keep him. The other point being, yes, all spring training at bats are precious for a team like the Sox who are trying to find out what they have in guys at almost every position. The Moose thing was a waste of everyone's time.

Wasting spring training AB's on Mike Moustakas was a cool time for everyone. Glad Getz and his bud got to hang out. Also, Getz choosing to retain Grifol despite 101 losses and well documented clubhouse issues for a team that was trying to contend might as well be a new hire. Edit: Grammar is hard sometimes.

What makes you think Cease wouldn't also be hell-bent on testing free agency? He is a Boras client after all.

This is the approach I'm warming up to. If you're gonna be bad, might as well be entertaining.

Can someone smarter than me rationalize this move as a way to maybe help players on the team that actually matter? Like, does this help Nastrini in that he gets more time to develop? Does this somehow help potential trade chips like Soroka and Fedde because it takes some pressure off of them to go deeper into games in order to save the bullpen?

If true, it’s pretty amusing to me that them trying to save face with moves like this would only make them look worse. It would mean that they actually believed the sad roster they patched together was going to be more competitive.

No-hitters are cool