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He really needs to figure that out. He skipped most of the minors, but most Sox prospects come out of the minors lacking in plate discipline anyway.

Several walks, though. Hopefully they get that addressed early.

I assume in return for cash considerations.

I don't want him moving the team. I don't care if he sells. What I want I want is a new Front Office.

Elvis; Moncada at 2nd and Burger a 3rd. Some shakeup wake them up and spark some interest. Or Anderson at 2nd. I get that moving Anderson to OF is kind of a big deal, but never giving Moncada a game or 2 at his original position of 2nd seems like excess coddling.

If the FO does the work. They are unreliable in that regard in the July training season, including during the rebuild when that should have been an absolute focus.

How about letting Anderson play some OF. Do something to freshen this operation up. Banks' numbers have been consistently decent wherever he's pitched. But he's consistently the Sox begrudging choice.

Sox have treated Crochet basically like a fungible middle reliever. I don't get it.

As win again; lot of energy in their ballpark.

Or the Sox just didn't know what they had, first-rate talent evaluators that they are.

Of course Hahn wouldn't interview Bochy. Hahn wants someone who won't show him up. Grifol, Renteria and especially Hinch ( a winner, but a winner who also kowtowed to the GM Luhnow) Lord I hope he's right about breaking this org. up.

4 years $66 million for a hitter with no power. Who would want that?

If they for a player and do an under-slot deal, that would have to be something that had been thoroughly planned and then worked out with the player before the draft, right? Now I doubt that do that, because they never have (as far as I know). Anyway, no corner infielders, free swingers nor over-used pitchers.

Sox like free-swingers. I'm sure the coaches in the org. try to tamp it down some but, in the end, you live or die with it. And when it goes bad, it gets ugly.

I can understand Detroit ahead of the Sox. Tigers are in the midst of a 9 game losing streak, and the best Sox streak of the season just ended. And despite that disparity, the Sox are only 1 game ahead of the Tigers.

Lafayette. The Sox were on a small station that we never listened to in the car, so I didn't knew existed until I got my radio. Most of my friends were Astros or Cardinals fans (Cardinals were the "southern team" for the WWII generation). I think they were broadcast through 1970, so i never got to hear the fresh-air of the Roland Hemond quick rebuild. Sox have a roster that could really use a shakeup like Hemond did after the 1970 season.

Born at U of Chicago Hospital, moved shortly thereafter, but we had this Sox pennant in our bedroom when I was a little kid, so they sort of became my team. But then I got a radio for my 9th birthday in the summer of '67, and low and behold, the Sox were broadcast into a south Louisiana town (complements of "Friendly Bob Adams"). I was hooked. Later that winter, when I heard that Tommy Agee had been traded. I was devastated. I had opinions on Sox trades even at the age of 9!

Well ostracizing him is not the best way to get maximum value in return.

Well if you're looking at it that way, Graveman and Middleton sucked, so it wasn't a great overall market-value day. But Hahn won't get anyone of consequence for Giolito anyway.

Way to go Romy. LOL Marlins manager.

Naah. Not this organization.

7 saves in 12 seasons. I guess it's pretty obvious why that is.

He's slapping .267 and a single isn't a sure run anyway. The Marlins needed outs. If Robert is so bad, then, he could have been the third out. Middleton will finally get 7 figures next season and he's earned it. Signing a bunch of relievers for Charlotte and calling up the guys who are having good seasons looks like a winning approach for the bulk of the pen.

The Sox should be all over the minor league systems of the NL west. Arizona always has excess outfielders (and a couple of young pitchers of interest) and needs a closer and a ready-now starter. The Padres have 0 a 1B/DH and the Sox have 4 of them. Et al.

The Sox, understandably, tried to smooth out his delivery. It didn't take. The problem is drafting players with funky deliveries and swing-hitches in the first place. Why put yourself in the position of immediately having to fix a problem on a high draft pick, especially when they struggle mightily developing any players?