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Receiving one of the most dominant starters in the game, who is getting paid 800k at the moment, for 2.3 years, isn’t getting blown away? What do the O’s expect, the Sox to just hand out candy?

According to fip, if you give up four doubles off the wall and strikeout three to get out of the inning, you just had an outstanding inning whereas if you give up a solo homerun and get of the inning on three weakly hit infield dribblers you had a bad inning, even though you gave up 1/3 of the runs and got hammered 1/4 the amount of times. That’s why it doesn’t make sense. FIP isn’t a particularly sound measure since it concludes that since fielding may have an impact on some plays, that all fielded balls are irrelevant when it comes to the measure of the quality of pitching. Which is clearly ludicrous. I mean it’s still an interesting stat, but way too much credence given to it when its entire premise, that fielded balls are irrelevent, is completely unsound.

Need to get a KBO pitching coach. They are making excellent major league starters out of formerly extremely mediocre mlb pitchers. And that’s being generous in Suarez’s case

How the hell do you not like Fedde? Dude’s a pitcher’s pitcher. Love watching that guy pitch

Just have to wait until he’s in the Dodger rotation

He has power though

Zavala was ranked 4th in Padres system by MLB pipeline at one point

WestEddy

MLB Pipeline might be the worst of the major prospect rankings

Zavala is way more than a 40 prospect. Depending on the source, the Sox did acquire three top 100 prospects. Baseball America for example had Iriarte ranked as high as 100 and Zavala in the 70s.

Pillars don’t get benched

I think third is his weakest position. He’s played way more at second and shortstop

Damn I did’t realize Bo was so racist

No, you are inferring it from his posts. He would be conferring it, if that is indeed the case. Inference is done by the recipient

Two years of service time were essentially wasted

It’s not that he would have been where he is now sooner, it’s that he’d be where he is now with like two years less service time.

Maybe he wants the babies

On May 22, 2022 TA was sporting a slash line of .359/.400/.517. Then the story about TA saying Josh Donaldson’s calls him Jackie went national and he hit .246/.283/.286 the rest of the way, with 1 HR and 6 RBI. Then followed with the disastrous last two years. Bizarre

Nah there was a thread (at least one) with people specifically claiming there is no way he can physically handle more than 75 or 80 innings

That’s good news

You said an entire rotation including a couple TOR studs. Whether they can get five reliable starters out of that I’m not so sure either

They do??

Dude has made four starts at low A and one at rookie ball and you have him pegged for the ‘26 rotation? ?

He definitely was as bad as everyone made it seem in 2023. 6.79 ERA, 36 BB in 58 innings, -0.9 WAR

Soroka in his last four appearances has struck out 16 in 8.2 IP with a 1.04 ERA and .484 OPS against, though. He did actually look pretty damn good against the Dodgers