Chick Mercedes

Indeed. I don't know how it was supposed to affect us differently, but we do have a fair amount of pitchers that would rather miss bats than pitch to contact. Cease could benefit though with his homer issues. Anyway, the league should not be deadening the ball in a world of shrinking revenues.

The part of this extended search for a #4, #5 guys is something which has left me a little confused as to why. I completely understand the desire to get 4 studs with an ERA of under 4 in the rotation. But some of the candidates mentioned in deals haven't been that in awhile, like Quintana. Cease and Kopech easlily project to be pitchers with reasonable ERAs for # 4, 5 starters. Hell ,even Rodon. Who else around the league at a reasonable price can be penciled in projecting better raw stats among all the pitchers mentioned? Certainly we may have to bridge to get to Koppech later in the season. But I don't see the need to look around past those 2.

Again, I'm not sure if it is right to engage along these lines, but if a new member can't be able to respond to incoming hostility toward a viewpoint that is willing to have a different preference than what the Sox have done in a couple cases, that's up to y'all to decide. I post a lot on the forum of a different Chicago team that has much more posts than this one, but if a new member came in and was forced to defend himself against other members over a reasonable username, the mods there would't try to intimidate him/her over this, I'm sure of that. I sure didn't want to have to talk about any of this. If you had a problem with anything that is going on, you should have messaged me instead of joining in to the derailment which was unfortunate, and I probably shouldn't have indulged either, but at that point I thought everyone was playing. I'm done talking about this here in this thread. Message me if you have anything further please.

I'm sorry this has become about me, I had no idea y'all would be this protective over a username. If this forum membership is unable to tolerate something that is not complete fealty to the organization's record, perhaps I should leave. A Sox fan for 45 years. I'm willing to rename the account, but perhaps this place isn't for me.

Just to add, that cannot be true about Hahn, because the team was on a glide path to failure no matter that happened with Tatis. Hahn generally seems like a truth teller, but he also said he supports hiring of Larussa. If they weren’t already embarrassed by the farm system, they must have been by the attendance numbers. I think the stale FO and new trends of the league i.e the Astros were bound to have the same effect as the you know who faceplant.

Wow. I was this close to going with Ron Leflore, but a natural tendency to be controversial is in my blood apparently. I will let the board name me, just don’t call me Vicky please. Back to the point of right field though, having such a donut hole farm system at the moment, a prospect trade for a question mark with a down pointing arrow seems like something we cannot afford to do. You do that when your prospects list does not have a similar prospect ready to step in soon

Its just gonna default to CJ Abrams! Uh oh, Ill take my ban hammer like a man now.

That’s all right. Troll detector on alert setting. Truth is I will carry the scars to the day I die along with the election of 2016. So I have to emote.

Ill get right on that Jack

All in all Engel and Eaton is good enough for now, and I’d rather bet on Cespedes for a long term solution than trade prospects given Cespedes (and possibly Colas)