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I am going to say this much. For a guy like Drew Thorpe to be ranked, there has to be a lot extra there. These guys doing evaluations know what it takes to be successful, and if a guy without a lot of those plus tools is getting this much attention, the rest of his stuff must be that much better.

I just want to know where the artificial barriers we have created in Latin America are coming from, and fix that problem. If it is Paddy, cool. If it is Jerry, it won't make a difference.

I fully expect the repeated injuries to also start to take their toll like we see on so many oft injured players.

Not to mention if a Sox pitcher is significantly out performing their FIP, it probably means that stat is flawed in this case we know the Sox D is historically bad and isn't helping anyone.

Zavala is a plus defender. On fangraphs he is also basically a replacement player, which is vast improvement over Moldy. If you will also notice the entire theme of my post was all of these guys were already here and Getz blew it on their evaluations. He also blew it with guys like Fletcher and DLoach that he traded for and has buried.

They also wanted Devers as the 3rd piece.

I am amazed at how many Sox fans seem to be better at professional scouting than the guys the Sox are actually paying to do it.

That's just it, I don't know. I would guess so as most Cubans start proball early.

He might be out of the window with his age. But also we still have a million for this year.

Let's start with a simple no. Chris Getz signed the worst defensive catcher in baseball to improve the catching position. Literally anyone was better. How about Seby Zavala who he waived for starters? In RF, can we start with a guy who can actually play RF unlike Gavin Sheets? Hell if we don't care how he is going to hit anyway, why not a guy who can catch and throw in Oscar Colas? A better 2b? Oh how about Romy Gonzalez that he let walk for nothing. Out of the pen? Declan Cronin, who walked for nothing? Jesse Chavez who was released? Brent Honeywell, let walk for nothing? Jose Urena another one? Tim Hill been great in NYY?

Get better players would be a great fucking place to start. Who on gods green earth thought Nicky Lopez or Martin Maldonado were answers to this teams problem? Oh right Chris Getz. Aren't GMs responsible for positional coaches? How about that? Maybe someone that can teach fundementals to major league players? It's absurd that I have to list off the literal job of a GM as what a GM could be doing to make his team better, like this is some big secret.

The last Mike Trout contract is going to be there.

Their position player group is by far the worst in baseball. Dude even went out and preached about bringing in all of these defenders to improve things and still managed to put out literally the worst defense in baseball. He acquired low floor players who he then was scared to play. He has churned somewhere around 70 players through this roster trying to find anyone who can play. There is plenty to judge Getz on.

I am definitely not writing off Thorpe. Personally I didn't want him here yet, and we saw that he's still not quite where he needs to be with his control, but you also saw an insane change, plenty of pitches, and flashes of greatness at times too.

The idea that the GM isn't responsible for how the roster preforms is new on me.

So what you are saying is that people saw him and adjusted. Interesting.

I do agree with this. Fill out the pitching and be done with it.

This is going to be a terrible baseball team next year, no question. A 20 game improvement over what they are doing now gets us back up to a 100 loss team. We need 40 games to get back to .500

About 30 slots ahead of Oscar Colas peak. Where is he at?

You can judge Getz on the fact that pretty much every single position player regressed and/or failed. It is really, really hard to inherit a 100 loss team and make it 20 games worse.

They figured it out two years ago and apparently you missed it.

He DHd 104 times last year and OFd 14.

He played the OF once this year.

LA was not going to DFA Vargas.

So does Schultz. Are we knocking him down too? It might not be now, but it will come eventually.