TaylorStSox

Nice to see him work up in the zone 3-2.

Thorpe just needs to settle down and paint the outside corner with is FB. Once he can do that consistently, he's going to k a lot of hitters.

Madrigal. Those tiny legs make him looks like he's moving faster than he is.

Lopez is the most unathletic little guy I've ever seen.

He's gotta start throwing his FB up in the zone.

Send him down.

Last I looked, baseball savant lists Kopech's fastball as below average despite the velocity.

I watched every video I could find on him and I'd agree. Maddux probably has the best I've seen because of the movement, but Thorpe's arm action is unreal.

His "slider" is more like a change too. Same arm slot. Digs into LH's. Looks the exact same as his change on the release.

Nasty. Absolutely love the kid's arsenal.

It's his approach. He just doesn't have a plan at the plate. How are you late on a 74 mph slider on an 0-1 count?

I'm Thorpe's biggest fan and have the worst luck known to man. I preemptively apologize.

I'd prefer all of our pitching prospects skip AAA. There's more talent in AA and pitching in Charlotte isn't productive.

Nobody's being ignored. They've just made poor arguments.

Yeah, I don't think one guy who's played 9 games sulking in the corner makes for a toxic clubhouse. I don't think a player described as lazy, but happy go lucky makes for a toxic clubhouse. A toxic clubhouse is Tim Anderson and Grandal getting into fist fights. A toxic clubhouse is Lance Lynne throwing his teammates under the bus to the press. A toxic clubhouse is one segregated. There's zero evidence this year's clubhouse is like that.

The problem is that they suck, not that the clubhouse is toxic. Like I said in the beginning, not wanting to introduce Thorpe to a losing culture makes sense. The Sox clearly have a losing culture. That doesn't mean the clubhouse is "toxic." They're very distinct things.

So the evidence for this "toxic clubhouse" is an article written last year accusing 2 players of being lazy. Combined, those 2 players have played 27 games this year. Yeah, solid argument, guys.

Moncada hasn't been on the team since April 9th.

And here I thought that when making accusations, the burden of proof was on the accuser. I mean, that's kind of the standard, isn't it? The player poll that keeps being sourced was just a list of bad teams and the Yankees. Of course players don't want to play on bad teams and the Yankees have historically been unforgiving to players.

Do you even read your own links? Nothing says "toxic" like this quote from the article - "Eloy is kind of happy-go-lucky but really isn’t the hard worker at least according to people that I talk to,” Rodgers said." You're not very good at this

I presented a hypothetical. I have no idea how they feel about him. I'm not making things up to fit a narrative I created in my head. Again, there's no evidence the clubhouse is toxic and there are plenty of tangible reasons to be mad at the Sox without making things up.

Scathing.

Or, they might really like Maldonado and feel terrible for him. Again, no reason to make things up.

Nothing says toxic dysfunction like... Gavin Sheets and Andrew Vaughn? Again, plenty of reasons to hate the Sox without making things up.

"Outright disagreeing?" The horror! LOL