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If Frank was an asshole to other players and a great guy to fans, that's better than the opposite. Players get paid plenty, deal with a teammate who's not nice to you every single minute and stop whining.

I don't know who the best free agent offensive lineman is, but there's no excuse for the Bears not being the highest bidder for him.

They banned the shift, another advantage in favor of hitters. I don't see the trend of needing max effort to get hitters out changing anytime soon. With hitters, at least ones not coached by Menechino, being so much better at exit velocity and launch angle, missing bats is much more important now than ever.

Illinois (though it was almost Florida at one time)

Unless you're going to expand rosters to allow for carrying 14-15 pitchers, you need something to avoid lots of 12+ inning games, and this is the best we've got.

Unfortunate that the shift goes away the same time the Sox get a guy who appears to be an expert on the matter. Even so, a guy who's heavy into analytics is very encouraging. Hiring a guy who's not a "loyalty" hire is huge as well. That, combined with the hopefully-true reports that the coaching staff aside from Katz and Hickey is gone, tells me that JR has finally abandoned his insistence on legacy hires, possibly due to getting soft in his old age or possibly due to seeing what a disaster TLR caused. While it's a nice start, it doesn't mean anything if there's no solid player moves to back it up. Grifol might win 86-88 games with this roster instead of 81, but that's not good enough.

I think he should get a couple years until he can demonstrate whether those issues were is or his former boss'.

Doesn't look like Philly holds any 3rd round picks aside from their own.

Will wait to see the return to judge the trade, but at the very least this shows that they aren't holding out any hopes of accomplishing anything this year and are doing more to set themselves up for the next few years. As much as I want to see Fields get better and better, I also don't want him to play them out of a Top 10 draft pick. EDIT: 4th round pick? Seems light.

Trying hard to find a meaning in this other than what I think it means.

I think he ends up being mostly a DH but playing some LF vs LHP if the primary LF bats lefty, or if Grandal magically finds hit hitting skill Eloy plays LF and Grandal DH on days Grandal isn't catching.

Gonna end up being Ozzie, isn't it?

If we get the 2021 Moncada back he should be the leadoff hitter.

That's what she said.

If he was honest in his interview with the Sox, he said that he wouldn't bat TA leadoff and that may have disqualified him.

I feel like it's someone from Houston or Philly or else it would have been announced by now.

I don't know how old he is or what his current job is, but this sounds like an entry level position.

The day the "Sell the Team" banner showed up at a game was the day there was never going to be a 2023 Soxfest. They just waited a while to announce to try and not give that perception.

I'm more upset about not beating the Phillies offer for Schwarber than I am for Harper. That Harper contract was a huge risk. It's paying off, and I wouldn't have been upset if the Sox had taken that risk, but man getting Schwarber was an absolute no-brainer.

I don't understand why they aren't rolling him out of the pocket on 75% or more of pass plays?

That happened, didn't it? Didn't an appeals court put this on hold?

Leslie Jordan, actor, 76. Car crash, possibly due to a medical event.

I guess the bright side is that Fields looked decent but the Bears didn't hurt their draft position.

Field Goal kicking isn't the worst thing to be great at.

Josh Allen has thrown for 348 yards and 4 TD - IN THE FIRST HALF!