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Is there any doubt he will outhit Vargas? I have zero doubts. The Dodgers dumped Vargas and Luke Keaschall was developed in the Twins farm system.

They can’t and won’t. Getz had a chance to improve the Sox and hurt the Twins long-term with a Fedde/Keaschall swap but Getz chose stinky Vargas instead.

But on the positive side, Robert will win his Little League Tee Ball championship.

Of qualifying first basemen with at least 3.1 plate appearances per game, only Ty France put up a lower OPS than Vaughn. https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/player/_/season/2024/seasontype/2/position/1b/table/batting/sort/OPS/dir/desc Vaughn is also ranked 37th among all first basemen (including non-qualifying) in WAR with 0.2. https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/player/_/season/2024/seasontype/2/position/1b/table/batting/sort/WARBR/dir/desc Quite frankly, Vaughn is one of the worst starting first basemen in the MLB and shouldn’t even be starting at 1B for any team based on his performance.

That was for their Christmas bonuses.

But almost everyone here who ripped Elias for his prospect-hugging said that he should have traded them for pitching — an ace quality starter like Crochet for example. Meanwhile, the Orioles lost the series because of their hitting, not their pitching. They gave up 3 runs in two games. I don’t recall anyone saying the Orioles needed to acquire bats, even though they did trade for Eloy [hardy-har-har]. So Elias was actually right to not trade a prospect like Mayo for Crochet.

Well, anyone who said they needed Crochet to advance was wrong. Their hitting failed, not the pitching. They definitely went to the wrong team looking for a hitter. Eloy… 🤣

Perhaps, but I wouldn’t put my money on it. And even with an .800 OPS he still wouldn’t be very valuable because his defense sucks.

Exactly. There is zero reason to give $5 million to Lopez with Amaya around. They are both bad and neither can hit so why waste $5 million? Sosa starts at 2B, Ramos should start at 3B over Vargas (who should be in LF), Montgomery eventually takes over SS, and Amaya is the utility guy.

Sad when your 26 year old #3 overall pick is not worth $6.4 million for one year. 🤢 🤮

Does it really matter for just next year? I know Getz won’t just want to accept defeat but they are going to be bad again.

Yeah, that was a part of Getz’s failed strategy — that defense and leadership was going to improve the team. Give me some asshole players with talent and the Sox will win more games than with nice guys who suck at baseball. I don’t think we should worry about what the Sox did. It led to a record-setting piece of garbage team. Whatever Getz’s plan ever is, he should do the exact opposite. Think George Costanza in that Seinfeld episode called “The Opposite”.

No one cares about the face of a 100+ loss team. Did anyone care about it this year? No. So no one will care about it when they lose 100+ games next season.

Nicky Lopez at just over $5 million. Talk about burning money. Vaughn and Sheets for a combined $9 million? You could sign a random vet 1B that would be better. They should just let them go and play anyone else at 1B. The rest of the salaries are reasonable, but I probably wouldn’t waste a million on Justin Anderson. He’s disposable.

Unless I’m missing something, both channels are the same feed.

Brooke Fletcher is one of the hosts, lol. Scott Fletcher’s daughter and Gordon Beckham’s sister-in-law. Oh, Jerry…

Yeah, I just checked the channels and noticed 62.2 comes in at 1080i and 62.3 comes in at 720p. The channel and set looks a little hokey but I’m happy that the signal is strong at least. It comes in well with no interference.

Is there any reason they can’t do 1080p and 60Hz?

Has anyone made a better move getting the hell away from Jerry than Benetti that has paid off so soon?

There are still things to discuss — Crochet and Robert trades, other offseason moves, minor league players, etc. But I see no reason why an admin of a Sox message board would want to spend any time [waste their time] watching a team that they know will be absolutely horrible next season, just like I wouldn’t expect many posters on this site to be excited to watch most of next season.

“The website will be fully functional…” ”The money will be spent…” 🤣

Reported. Political talk…

I know people get upset about these gif’s but why would anyone think they should defend the worst owner in baseball who has crapped on Sox fans (including those fans that defend him) for years?