baseball_gal_aly

The kids have figured out a better way to be a sports fan. With national packages and such, maybe us older folks should follow suit. Root for the name on the back of the jersey, not the name on the front. I did this with the NBA and NHL when I was younger, and I stupidly stopped as an adult.

Yeah it was dumb.

I haven't been watching much lately.

for good news, at least GC got his velo back after TJS. The Sox have been having issues with pitchers not recovering well from TJS lately. Hopefully this bodes well for Thorpe, as IIRC Thorpe wasn't always averaging 91 mph last year and he was more in the 92-94 range in 2023.

I just turned the game on, but right after I posted that Stone said he has been consistently 97-99 tonight.

I don't remember the last time he hit 99

Seriously, it's like the plot of Major League.

Eder

I do remember having a discussion about OAA vs UZR, yes. fWAR has since been adjusted and Moncada's 2021 fWAR has dropped from 4.1 to 3.7.

This is offensive.

Nobody doubts he sucks now, but from 2018-2021 he was solid.

I know I posted what was being reported yesterday, so don't kill the messenger, but Moncada is is the 2nd most productive position player in the 2016-17 rebuild after Robert. He has been worth 14.0 fWAR over 8 seasons and Robert has been worth 13.0 fWAR over 5 seasons. Moncada should not get as much s%*# as he does from Sox fans, he's been solid.

At this point I think that after he doesn't get traded in the offseason because of a poor 2024 and after another poor 2025, Robert is as villified as Moncada and Eloy and the Sox don't pick up his 2026 option.

I'm sure they took Fletcher because of service time remaining rather than talent.

We probably are going to have to wait until at least 2029 until Getz gets whacked. GMs usually get 5 years. I doubt they lose fewer than 100 games under him. They are so bad and regardless of Hagen Smith I don't think that it really matters.

Thorpe sucks and Vargas sucks. The centerpieces of the Cease and Fedde deals.

We thought it couldn't get worse than Hahn.......

Ok i think it's pretty clear that Thorpe is not an MLB pitcher.

This.

2030 seems optimistic.

This is really bad news for the Sox in the future. If T100 prospects are now untouchable then the Sox have no chance for a very long time.

I would assume so