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Take him or Odunze, whichever is available. Otherwise, trade down.

Mully and Haugh talking about the #9 pick this morning on The Score. They agreed that you have to take Odunze if he’s still there but he probably won’t be. I see the Cardinals, Giants, and Chargers taking all three big WRs before #9. They then said, if one of the OTs is there, you can jump on him. Otherwise, they thought trading down would make sense. I tend to agree. I still jump all over Odunze if he’s there.

I assume a scout would have their own separate speed gun, rather than relying on the stadium gun.

The Bauer story is a weird one. If you read all the texts between the two, she was apparently into BDSM, as was Bauer. He was stupid to ever go through with it, but it seemed to be mutual from the texts, but he may have gone overboard. Later, she argued that it wasn’t mutual at all, even though the texts show otherwise. There seemed to be some other motive for her to go after him in my opinion, but she dropped the lawsuit after a picture was provided showing her with no bruises on her face and laying in bed with Bauer smiling a day after the incident allegedly took place. She didn’t receive any money from Bauer due to dropping her lawsuit against him; however, she still received $300K from her insurance company. Also, if you research the legality of BDSM encounters, it is apparently one massive legal grey area.

Also, if Kopech had anywhere close to Thorpe’s command, he would be our best pitcher instead of headed to the bullpen.

I’ll be more interested when the retreads get replaced by the true talent. Also, I prefer Ivanka.

The perfect video to play before every 2024 Sox home game:

Hah, other people were thinking the same way as you, which he addressed years ago.

Has this ever been proven statistically? I have heard this same argument on why you don’t want to stack a bunch of lefty starters in a row, etc. but is it backed by data? Some people disagree and say that each new ball game is a completely clean slate.

I am on board with this and hopefully this is what Poles is thinking.

I never said this about the rotation guys. I just don’t expect them all to have bounceback seasons like you do. However, I probably did say that guys like DeJong, Maldonado, Pillar, Moustakas, and Sheets don’t deserve to be in the majors… because they don’t. ?

I would have preferred drafting one of the big three WRs at #9 to grow with Caleb, but I realize there is no guarantee that one of them would be available there.

He’s still awesome but he’s turning 32 in April. It would have to be a short-term deal for sure. Otherwise, I don’t see much of the point in this deal. They must think Caleb is going to bring the Bears to the playoffs in his rookie season. And Poles is likely trading down with the #9 now, unless one of the two OTs are there at 9.

Any time someone disagrees with you, you get all defensive and turn it into that poster trying to convert you into a “negative whiner.” If you can’t handle people disagreeing with you without getting defensive and name calling, perhaps you should rethink posting your thoughts on a message board.

For a 4th round pick, okay, but Allen is only under contract for 2024.

My post never mentioned the Sox as being the team to build such a rotation. I said that “a team with a very low payroll could…”. Regardless, I’m not sure how picky Greinke can be at age 40 and after his performance last year if he truly wants to pitch. He will have to wait for some rotation injuries a few months into the season.

It just depends on what top 100 listing you buy into. It definitely doesn’t look as good if you only have faith in MLB.com’s list.

No apology was given. The one good Soroka season you are referencing was in 2019, FIVE freaking years ago! C’mon… Flexen had two good consecutive seasons in 2021 and 2022, but was moved to the bullpen in 2022 when the Mariners acquired Luis Castillo at the trade deadline. However, he owns a bad ERA, WHIP, and pedestrian K/9 in his career and he was pitching half of his games at one of the most pitcher friendly parks in all of baseball. Good luck at GRate, Chris. And finally, Fedde. During Fedde’s one good season you referenced with the Nationals in 2020 out of his six total career major league seasons to date, he threw just over 50 innings with 22 walks and only 28 strikeouts for a horrifyingly low 5.0 K/9. He had garbage peripherals and a metric $hit ton of luck that season. Further, you think the KBO is at the level right between AA and AAA. I don’t know if that’s true but there’s a ton of guys not good enough for the majors that can dominate at that level, so I don’t see how you can solely depend on that, along with 50 mediocre innings from 2020 for any future MLB expectations. I don’t consider any of these three players’ one or so “good” seasons that you mentioned to be a “recent track record of success” like you stated they are. A “track record of success” would mean more than one good season and the term “recent” is defined as “having happened not long ago,” not multiple years ago.

This was the mistake the Sox made IMHO. Not making him a DH immediately when he debuted. The dude couldn’t stay healthy in the minors with the Cubs before the Sox even acquired him. Now it’s not all the Sox fault. Eloy could probably suffer a season-ending injury getting up off of his couch and walking to the bathroom, but the Sox didn’t do a good job on minimizing his proneness for injury by continuing to throw him out in LF every chance they had, and refusing to stop doing it after each and every injury.

I do believe some of these guys are probably total dbag teammates, rub other players the wrong way, are not well-liked as a result, and that could definitely include both Bauer and Clevinger, but I doubt other players care all that much about the allegations made against them by women. I’m not saying Bauer or Clevinger are innocent of any wrongdoing, but just think how many MLB players have women throwing themselves at them just for the notoriety, trying to entrap them with a kid for a very high amount of child support, etc. The majority of pro sports players deal with this all the time so I doubt they give it a second thought.

I think it’s interesting how a team with a very low payroll could put together an entire rotation of 1-year deals for a very cheap total amount of dollars right now, if they didn’t care about fan backlash for two of the guys. Sure, this rotation would need some starters ready in the minors due to the inevitable injuries that would arise but this would be a very cheap one year rotation. It definitely doesn’t have any future promise but it could arguably perform better than the Sox opening day rotation. Under $30 million total for one year? Trevor Bauer Mike Clevinger Zack Greinke Jake Odorizzi Michael Lorenzen Syndergaard doesn’t make it because he’s likely toast.

Dazzz purdy good.

He’s quite literally an average center in the NFL. Rated right around the middle (17th) of all starting centers.