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If he's healthy he's just a good hitter who provides quality abs instead of just giving abs away. I saw that coming.

Is Tony sincere about winning? It should be okay to be a manager but only if you're sincere.

TLR needs to go. Also these umps in MLB these days should be the first test humans on Mars. It's really getting old to see the young team with the most talent on the field lose and especially lose the game in the 7th and on with this bullpen. Just fuck everything at this point. But fuck reinsdorf the most and the hardest. Fuck you Jerry you piece of shit. Fuck you.

LOL sometimes I feel like I do, and that's very sad. But that's what happens sometimes when your owner is jr.

Lemme know when Madrigal becomes a guy who fucks.

The reason Madrigal is just handed the starting 2B instead of having to "battle" Danny Mendick for it in ST, is the same reason Yermin sat in AAA while the Sox ran AJ Reed out there, and also the same reason the Sox ran Nomore Mazzara out there over Adam Engel: draft position-based "pedigree." IMO, Danny Mendick is a more versatile defender with a better arm who is overall a smarter player, with substantially more power than Madrigal. Madrigal has contact on him, that's really it. If you just looked at both of these players for the first time knowing nothing about either of them beforehand, you would be shocked to learn both of these two things: 1) one of these players was drafted 652nd overall; and 2) one of these players was drafted 4th overall.

Danny Mendick is a better baseball player than Nick Madrigal is. Once you're in the Majors, draft position doesn't matter anymore.

Lineup should be: Anderson SS Eaton RF Yermin DH Abreu 1B Grandal C Moncada 3B Robert CF Vaughn LF Mendick 2B

If Cease misses a start, I hope it goes to Lambert. It's a faint hope but I'm still holding onto it. Might as well call up an actual MLB pitcher this time and a guy who actually can stick instead of Fire Marshall Bill / some other gas can.

I wonder if the Brewers would have accepted Kelly + Stiever + Thompson + Dalquist, or the same package with Heuer subbing for one of the arms, or the same package where Narvaez is added for Collins in return. Probably not.

I absolutely doubt that rumor. Asking price was probably Kopech or Vaughn as the centerpiece plus Madrigal and Heuer, or it was Crochet as the centerpiece with probably something like Madrigal, Heuer and Kelly behind it. That above deal even the dipshit Sox have to do all day. They're getting the highest ceiling in the deal and a guy who can step into the rotation immediately. If they balked at adding any player, they balked at adding Kopech, Crochet, or Vaughn.

Some announcer (Matt Vasgersian IIRC) made a comparison between Yermin and Kung Fu Panda. But that's comparing a Kung Fu Panda to a Kung Fu Terminator and that is quite unfair to all of the Pandas out there.

Right, but I was referring more to the quality of ABs, not the actual results. He's obviously not a .500 hitter, but is he a .310+ hitter with power? He may be, and if he is, holy shit what a find.

I would say that TA, Abreu, Eaton, and Eloy have all put together track records with the bat (even a shorter one with Eloy) that make you have to think they are better hitters at least until Yermin has proven himself over a longer period of time. But it's pretty clear that Yermin is a very tough out for the opposition and if he keeps it up, he's easily tons better than Moncada has ever been, same with Grandal.

I would have been just fine with a Bochy + younger understudy bench coach committed to the organization as the heir to the position. That would have appeared to be a competent hire.

Yes, and also, he made his out hitting the ball into the hole which the shift covered up, but he still hit it fairly hard and he forced the defense to make a play on him. The pitcher still couldn't get the ball by him. I think TLR was probably trying to "keep Yermin hot" by sitting him against arguably the best RHP in the division, and starting Nick Williams because he's a piece that is likely to get sent down anyway. He probably wants Williams to prove himself, like Yermin did, because apparently that is what TLR is looking for. The question is though, how are either of these thoughts / decisions more important than actually winning the baseball game? What is the greatest objective? Apparently, if you want to know how TLR is feeling, he will say, "Ask me at the end of the game." Maybe in this case he felt good about the loss because Yermin will still presumably be hot going into tomorrow and the 26th man on the team Nick Williams got a chance prove himself. Way to manage a contender, idiot.

Even in Yermin's outs, the majority of the his ABs where he made those outs were competent at worst and at best, worked and challenged the pitcher. There isn't a hitter in baseball including Trout who a pitcher cannot retire by making enough good pitchers. He is a defender himself, and he has another defender in front of him and 7 more defenders behind him. The problem for the pitcher usually is, the more pitches the pitcher has to throw, the less likely he is to make enough good pitches in the AB to stop the hitter from reaching base. Yermin actually challenges these guys. Not just in batting average, but in terms of competitive ABs, he's leading the team and the entire organization. And the next guy is probably Adam Eaton.

I didn't want the Sox to hire TLR, but I also didn't want them to hire ballless cheater Hinch either. Ballless cheater Hinch can suck a bag of dicks playing for the Tigers. Fuck that guy. The real problem is the front end of our organization as a whole. Why was a retired 73-year-old and a ballless cheater who sucks a bag of dicks the only 2 options available? JR, GTFO. Kenny Williams, GTFO. Rick Hahn, GTFO. All three need to go kick rocks, pound sand, GTFO. This organization is a total fucking mess at the very top. It's one guy who can't get fired only because he won't fire himself, and 2 guys below him who are only working in such positions and capacities because the guy who won't fire himself also won't fire them. There are a plethora of options. I guarantee that if the Sox were actually run like a proper organization, and brought in a long list of qualified candidates, and if SoxTalk members could look at all of these resumes and actually sit in on all of these interviews and listen to what the candidates talked about, they would clearly understand that, yes, there are indeed a plethora of options beyond a guy who is almost dead and a ballless cheater who sucks bags of dicks. For instance, I have no reason to believe that Miguel Cairo, who we just hired, wouldn't be a competent option. Let's just try him. No matter what, I see 2 things: 1) TLR has to go; and 2) as long as the dorf is breathing, no one can really expect anything to change.

Really? Well that's not good. He's looked fine to me when I've seen him.

Maybe Gio will threaten to throw a perfecto and this 2021 version of Dewayne Wise will make another "The Catch" to save it.

The fact that they couldn't trade for him shows they offered absolutely nothing. Maybe they were thinking of offloading one of the zillion bust OFers, but wanted the Sox to add. Prolly.

If so, I would offer Keuchel + Grandal for McCann + Carrasco ASAP.

AV is a useless waste of a roster spot if he's never even going to pick up a bat. Why is he here, Tony? I mean it's not like this team needs another shitty LF and another backup 1B.

Whatever brain cells Captain Morgan, Bud Weiser, and Jack Daniels haven't already killed, Old Man Time and Mother Nature have pretty much taken care of. Whatever his rules are at this point, they should be determined by his primary care provider and administered by a registered nurse.