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Evidently it was an April fools prank?

One could argue anything better than -1.5 WAR at short and catcher would still be an upgrade over the -2 and -2.5 we got from TA and Grandal last year

Ah yeah could be

My dad sent me the following text about two hours ago: Do you believe they fired Pedro already? I responded half hour ago: they did?? no response as of yet. Should I be concerned? Just sitting here baffled at the moment

I’m not convinced Thorpe was the centerpiece.

I would bet good money on Colas over Fletcher as the 2025 starting right fielder. I think I’d even bet on that by the end of July of this year

The Knights’ #5 hitter is probably a better hitter than the Sox’. Colas. Time will tell. Replace the bottom four with Sosa, Montgomery, Colas and Lee by the trade deadline and those other four could make a decent bench. Dump sheets and eloy and add deloach and the august roster you have: Lee Vaughn Sosa Moncada Montgomery Benintendi Robert Colas Bench/DH: Maldonado/Lopez/Dejong/Fletcher/Deloach Maybe Shewmake instead of Dejong, Pillar instead of Fletcher or Stassi instead of Maldonado. Then next year you can merge in guys like Ramos, Rodriguez, Quero, etc in a similar fashion

Then you’ve got guys like Thorpe, Cannon or Bush potentially available to make late season starts, depending on how their seasons go of course. Don’t think there would be much of a point signing a 44 year old Hill or Cheto both of who looked cooked last year

Oh yeah forgot. Still I’d just as soon go with one of Nastrini, Woodford, Kuhl, Shuster or Toussaint over Rich Hill or Cueto at this point.

Sox have Kuhl, Woodford, Shuster, Touissant, and Martin at Charlotte all of whom have MLB starting experience. Not sure Rich Hill or Cueto is preferable to any of those guys at this point. Also have Cannon at Charlotte

Looking forward to Reynaldo wiping out Sox hitters starting for arguably the best team in baseball, with the curveball Katz had him eliminate despite the fact it was formerly his best pitch, while relegating him to the bullpen for a team that couldn’t manage 63 wins

He wasn’t good enough to make the Knights roster. Had to bump someone after Knebel was added

Sure, as soon as you explain how someone retains any of their previous arm strength after TJS and subsequent arm immobilization during healing

That’s the exact same thing Crochet did. The 18 month rehab. Any building prior to the surgery would be irrelevant because it would be gone after the healing process is finished

Say what you will about Getz, getting useful returns for relievers when your team sucks I will always get behind. If Soroka remains healthy to the deadline, that trade could look like a stroke of genius. At worst we got a couple of utility players and some AAAA starting pitching depth for a reliever that drove us nuts and even at top form wasn’t going to help us any

Sox lose 2-0

Then how did countless other TJS pitchers come back after only the same TJS rehab Crochet went through, if not less advanced versions of it. I don’t think any of them could have put in the eqivalent of 1000 innings of work, wherever that came from, in those 18 months. It’s kind of flabbergasting that people are arguing that isn’t enough to prepare the arm for a full workload, when it has in fact been done repeatedly.

Right but post injury his arm would have had to be completely rebuilt from scratch. That’s why it was a seemingly miraculous procedure, and why it takes 18 months when it heals after only two, roughly.

I don’t see how that is analogous. Tommy John clearly rebuilt his arm solely through a 18 month TJS rehab in order to run a marathon, as he made about 165 mlb starts in the five years following it. How is that TOTALLY different? Crochet has been rehabbing for considerably more than 18 months. Presumably he has put in the thousands of miles of roadwork, or at least the amount necessary as countless others have done after TJS

Tommy John himself came back from the first TJS, after roughly 18 months of rehab, and pitched 207 effective MLB innings without a single rehab appearance in “actual game play.” And that was some 45 years ago. Crochet has had more time than that with 40+ years of advancement to the process. If done properly, his arm should be a cannon by now

Every time a pitcher has TJS, he is rebuilding his arm from scratch, yet they often come back with full workloads as effective or more so than ever. Previous workloads are practically irrelevant since the arm has to be completely rehabilitated. After two months of immobilzation, every pitchers arm strength has been reduced to virtually zero. So if it can be done by other pitchers, to go from be incapable of throwing a baseball at all, to being strong enough for a full workload following rehab, without any actual game innings involved in that rehab, there is no reason it couldn’t be done with Crochet. When they shut him down from gameplay with shoulder discomfort, he still continued his rehab. He wasn’t shut down from activities for more than a few days. At any rate, not sure how you can claim there is no way on earth when so many pitchers have come back stronger than ever from TJS

Crochet had Tommy John surgery on april 2, 2022. The healing time is approximately two months, the rest is arm rehabilitation. So he has been rebuilding his arm since approximately june 2, 2022. That’s nearly two years, he should be stronger than ever if that rehab was done properly