GreenSox

i've got you both beat.

Teams make their own smite: no accountability, refuse to use state of the art techniques, friends and buddies instead of top professions.

Looks to me like they are hell-bent on Alonso earning the option so he doesn't hit the open market, so they'll have a 1B next year without having to do any work. There's got to be some reason he's had one whole day off all season.

This is why (there isn't a game thread). Pure torture.

Desperation time...

The opener requires modern thinking. Cooper will have none of it.

On the roster as a whole, yes. But those specific players make serious money and some cost prospects and a young player. Those specific players are expected to produce. With the young guys, it's different.

$40+ million plus 2 prospects and a young catcher is not dumpster-diving. That's serious spending for players who should be productive. 6/7 would be a reasonable expectation. The only one in the dumpster is Hahn.

Ricky mixing and matching down 9-0. Why not let Fulmer get out of his jam?

Fulmer needs a pitch clock. Lord he's slow.

Derek Holland, once he got away from this team, pitched 171 innings last year with over 8 Ks per game. Talent evaluator Rick Hahn decided to trade a prospect for Nova and his 6.4 Ks per 9 and pay him over 9 Million per year. Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Out

Did they even bother to scout him? Serious question. They may be that lazy. After all, Rick Hahn said they liked him 4 years ago with the Yankees. I've wondered who, if anyone, scouted Shields in that last game in Seattle and delivered the okay.

Don't start swinging at that stuff, please

Geeze....nice play I think Delmonico will hit...perhaps not enough to justify his modest defense though

Just trade Colome for Hoerner. He's out-hitting Madrigal by a ton in AA already.

Sox trying to make sure he get Sox trying to make sure he gets vests in that $9 million salary....

Yonder Alonso has had zero days off.

What they had been (recently) was not very good; both were sorely overpaid for their performance. If their recent performance is what Hahn wanted then it's no wonder...

I'd do the Nova for Happ part, but the Cubs don't need Nova. Montgomery is a middle reliever or a #5 starter. I'd hope the Sox can do a more creative/productive trade for Colome - but that's my heart; my head says they'll probably end up trading him for the next Madeiros.

Thanks for the offer, but, uh.....NO

Engel wasn't ready for the majors when he was brought to the majors. Maybe he never would have been, but an OBP of c .306 in hitters paradise Charlotte does not signal "major league ready."

Not only are the Sox dead last, they are nearly twice as bad as the #28 team.

Burr's not going to make it. Banuelos looked good; he might have been aided by a generous zone, but he was close. He looks like a starter to me - how successful, we'll see.

this hess must get tired quick; he was hitting the corners. 2 of the Sox outs that inning were ripped.