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I do that every time.

I know I wasn't necessarily questioning your comment just that general line of thinking as others have brought it up as well.

Aren't many of the GM's non-MLB players in todays game. Did Theo Epstien play MLB? How about Kim Ng? I don't think Brian Cashman ever played either.

Might as well start the thread now.

I hope it's not Epstein. He couldn't draft and develop pitchers for anything.

I would prefer the Bears don't get a dome. However for practicality and financial reason, I understand why they will.

Thanks for saying the games were on MLB. TV. Didn't know that. Watching now.

Got it. I'm at the game and really can't see that.

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According to gamecast he had both of those first 2 hitters struck out. At one point 5 of 7 balls called balls were strikes.

High school pitchers are high risk.

Is that the phone plan or just the home plan through Verizon?

Thanks! These are the best part of the site now.

No doubt.

True. It could also be that they rushed them back. FO and managers get impatient.

Just because someone gets injured again does not mean they came back too soon in any injury. For pitchers, if they don't make an adjustment in mechanics that caused the injury, there is a high probability another injury occurs. They may try to change but if the pitch doesn't move the same or it's not comfortable, they don't change. Buehler talks about this in that article. Only after the second one is he willing to modify his mechanics. In position players a joint injury may be because they are too loose or muscle injury may be because they were too tight. both could be caused be muscle imbalances. The player needs to modify the root cause of the injury not just rehab the result. Unfortunately, too many don't carry it through.

Sounds familiar

Article in the Athletic about Walker Buehler returning to pitching less than 12 months after surgery. This is his second UCL reconstruction. The Sox aren't the only organization to look at this timeline, the dodgers did it.

They may as well try for individual accomplishments, the team is going nowhere.

I wasn't comparing the Sox and Cubs attendance. Just showing that even the Cubs attendance is predicated on winning. Never said the Sox would win next year. Only said that all of the factors you stated really won't change the attendance. Only winning or losing really changes attendance.

It will increase if they win. decrease if they lose. All of the rest of it really doesn't matter in the big picture for attendance. Everyone hated what the the Ricketts did with Marquee and some said they wouldn't go because of politics. They have started winning, attendance is up.

For cash? Now they are spending money!

True, the mortality rate is much lower. However, what the treatments do to the body when preparing for a baseball season is an unknown.

Very true. It didn't start in December. Also, there aren't many rehab protocols for a pitcher recovering from oncology treatment who has a 4 year history of a partially torn UCL.

I disagree. In the clubhouses I've been in the GMs ways had a spy (Boston) and they knew exactly what was happening. In today's game the GMs have even more influence.