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Ok. thanks. The app is just easier at work.

Sounds reasonable. Time to get a look at players if they think they're ready.

He can't pitch during daytime starts. Or at night, or in high humidity, or when it's cloudy.........?

Is there a way to find the DSL and ACL games on the MiLB app? I see how you found it online but I can't find it in the app? Thanks!

Look at what st. Louis got from the Orioles. If that was the offer then it was smart to hang onto Cease

He'll be there for a couple of years maybe it will lower the average temp for the area.

I wouldn't necessarily write off covid issues. 95% of people who git it have no long term ramifications. However we have patients that look like they have had pneumonia constantly for years as a results of covid. Their O2 say remains below 90 which can be dangerous. We have no idea if it is and it's not likely but it can't be ruled out.

That did suck. It would have been fun to see in person

OK. How about this then. They won 93 games just two years ago and now they suck. It has been a precipitous fall in a short period of time. I would currently take a 93 win team even if they did not make the bloated playoff system. And to take it back to the original hijacked discussion, it's not because they haven't had a poorly ranked farm system for years.

I did. Making the playoffs in 3 out 4 years would be a pretty good start.

I would take it right now.

Good points but also not on topic. I don't think anyone would argue that the rebuild has fizzled and the plan hasn't worked. I just think people are ignoring the fact that it did start well. He should go as it overall hasn't worked. It his responsibility.

Very nice but not really sure that has any bearing on the discussion of how the farm system ranked. I don't think anyone would argue that most of the players started out strong as it lead to 2 playoff appearances but then fell off a and suck now. It's very short sighted to only look at a very small window of performance on either side.

We'll I guess its good they can acquire players other than from the draft.

Even if it was only 60 games, they were one of the better teams in the league. Now they're awful.

It's really amazing that just a year and a half ago the sox made the playoffs two years in a row for the first time in moxern history. It has been like falling off a cliff.

Got it. Just sounded like you were implying that it's been a really long time that they haven't been ranked and that the current front office hasn't produced a good farm system in a longtime based on the performance of the current group. That's what it sounded like. Guess I'm too old to realize the "few" has so many definitions.

A quote from your post an hour ago "This Sox farm has been bad for a few years now,"

It hasn't been bad for a years like you said or even imply here. It's been bad 2.

This is a little bit of recency bias and revisionist history. MLB had the system ranked 2019: 9th , 2020: 11th and 2021: 16th based on many of the players on the roster now. While many of them aren't living up to their potential, the farm system up until last year wasn't bad.

That's why they call it the practice of medicine. We are getting better at research but there is a limit to what type of research we can do on people. Dang FDA and IRBs. The article I posted is a good meta on preventing muscle injuries though.

Yes. They made what seems like good changes. We'll see. Not too promising so far.

He did. We'll have to see how it works. One off season isn't enough to decide. But they should be evaluating it all.

Interesting. Good article. Playing short handed is more of a roster issue not so much an injury issue. Maybe they thought the players weren't ready for the MLB and didn't want to stunt their progress. I know Herm well. The primary responsibility of the AT is rehab and getting ready for the season. That more the strength and conditioning though they do overlap. I don't necessarily have an issue with Mike Reinhild and the Toradol. While the drug was abused for some things he was a scapegoat for other behind the scenes things in that situation in my view. The overall point is a good one though. With all of the soft tissue injuries in recent years they need to look at all aspects of the off season and season training regimens.

I'm not an expert on all of those other things so I'll let that to those who know more. The injuries are more my lane and I don't know this staff as well I knew past ones and I'd love to know what the protocols are.