Jack Parkman

Honestly if I were the Sox I'd tell him to go home and rest up for 2021. Props to Yoan for trying to play through this. Hopefully this ends the "soft" narrative about him. He's proven to be a warrior.

1. Yes they are, but the ball doesn't always fly out of the park. 2. Maybe a bit, but they need to kick the crap out of the Twins the next go around.

I can tell you from personal experience it sucks. I drive for a living and its scary sometimes. You never know when it's going to hit you, all of the sudden you feel like you haven't slept in 24+ hours. If you ever went to college, imagine what it feels like after pulling an all nighter and the red bull/monster wears off. It's tough to fight through that constantly. I go to bed earlier and sleep less than I ever have before. I'm not sure if my sense of smell will ever return. It's not completely gone but it has to be a really distinct, pungent odor to smell it. On the plus side, used to have really bad nasal allergies and those are gone. My sinuses have never been as clear, though they're very itchy. I got sick in March.

Damn...I hope he gets back to normal next year, not only for baseball but for the quality of his life.

No I get it. The huge issue was that the only MLB quality secondary that Lopez had was his curveball and the Sox had him ditch it. Cease does have way better secondary pitches. I have no idea what it is with the Sox aversion to curveballs though. They had three guys with above average to plus-plus curves and they all ditched them. (Giolito, Cease, Lopez)

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Shhhh don't tell anyone. Cease's career path looks eerily similar so far. Cease has worse command than Lopez.

No, but there hasn't been anything like this in 100 years

No, I think that there might be 5-6 rogue owners that go nuts while the rest of baseball spends practically nothing or sheds to those few teams.

I don't disagree with anything said here. I'm more concerned about how the pandemic affects their window and ability to fill the holes.

What I meant by "looking a lot like the 2000-2004 group" was about how the offense is built around the 3 run HR and they struggle to score when not hitting HR. Also, allowing the Twins to occupy space in their noggins and they couldn't care less, which is why I brought up the Burke incident the other night.

Yeah I remembered something to this effect about the experimental surgery, but that was during the 04 season. Like I said, it was a good move and Dye was better for the Sox over his two contracts than Maggs was for Detroit over his one. The italic stuff I completely forgot about until you reminded me.

Nope, I remember. What was it like 2003 when Maggs hired a certain guy named Scott as his agent when said guy was persona non grata for the FO? I don't remember anything else that may or may not have happened. If there was more to it, please enlighten me. Dye was better anyway. I'm not complaining. They had a metric ton of highly regarded prospects get injured or bust. Malone, Honel, Rauch, Barcelo, Borchard among them. Crede took a while to get going and Garland underperformed every year outside of 2005.

Yes I know. Dye was a wonderful signing, probably the best move that Kenny ever made. They're lucky he had a freak injury in 2004, and that he actually stuck by his agreement in principle when he got a better offer elsewhere.

He's on the DL with a Lat issue. That's arm related.

Very true......but idk how Covid changes things. It could put a dent in the whole shebang. They never locked up Maggs when they had a chance to.

The pandemic changes things. I'm concerned about Jerry whining to Bob Nightengale about revenues among other things. I hated the Keuchel/EE signings btw. I liked the Mazara gamble. I was wrong about Keuchel. I thought they should have kept their payroll flexibility for better options next year. I believe they're closer to the 2015 Astros than the 2015 Cubs. Think about all of the moves the Astros had to make in 2016 and 2017 to win a title.

How is this any different from 1997-2000 and what followed so far? Serious question. They tore it down in 1997, Won a division in 2000, built a great farm, and continued to finish in 2nd place with the core players they had. They did win the division 3 times, but nobody expected them to do so when they did it. It took a bunch of convergence of things to go right(Contreras and Quentin being on fire among them) that nobody expected to win the WS in 2005 and the division in 2008. We'll have to let this one play out, but as of right now they've built another 85-88 win team over 162 with some glaring holes. Last time they tried patchwork stuff and sometimes it worked, and most of the time it didn't. EE and Mazara were yet another patchwork hole filler. They didn't work. This group looks a lot like the 2000-2004 group right now. I think they want to win, but they want to do it the their way (finding bargain options) rather than the easy way(just paying up to fill the holes)

No I was responding to WBWSF when he questioned whether or not the FO actually wants to win. That's where that comment came from. BTW I agree with what they're doing this year.....they need to see what they have in-house before they go out and make trades to fill holes. I wonder about the Sampson stuff because there's a lot of evidence that it might be true with how Reinsdorf behaved with the last core that emerged in 2000. There was always a hole or two that needed to be filled and he never did it. 2005 was just a confluence of simultaneous career years and emergence of players from the farm. I don't necessarily believe it, nor do I want to but to dismiss it outright is to ignore the moves they made over majority of the decade from 2000-2009. It's actually plausible, and I hate it.

Agreed.

Ideally, I'd want them to sign Bauer and trade for either Nimmo or Conforto. What would be a realistic cost for one of those two Mets OF? With Quintana hurt all year, that's becoming less of a realistic option. Brantley is also a more realistic option for RF.

It's not even that. It's beyond frustrating that they didn't do it after the Cubs series so he'd be back for the Twins series. Just give him a longer break and try...if he has to play through it, fine...but give him the 10 days and see.

I'm not trying to fire anyone up, I was asking a legit question. It's obvious that Ricky needs to be fired, but who is out there that is better? idk if there is an upgrade available tbh. As for the Samson comments, we'll find out about that this winter. I already said that Jerry isn't actually cheap, he just tries to spread his spending out over multiple players than just one or two.

Where's the upgrade? That's the question. Who's the replacement?

Well, it could be that David Samson was telling the truth. I don't want to believe that, but it could be. I agree with standing pat at the deadline and making sure all stones are turned in-house before making trades.