Jack Parkman

Ok, counterargument: Why do you want to waste a season of Moncada and Giolito's prime, by waiting for Robert and Madrigal to make adjustments? Why not get those growing pains out of the way before they matter? The Sox are past the time in the rebuild to worry about service time considerations. The goal now is to get as many good players performing at a high level on the team simultaneously. This is a completely different scenario from last year with Eloy. In 2018, the Sox didn't have an established core group of players. In 2019 they do. Huge, massive, gigantic difference. If the Sox keep playing service time games they're going to inadvertently shorten their window because there's always going to be a hole here or there in the lineup or rotation because somebody's going through growing pains. If you have a chance to avoid that, why wouldn't you? Players that will be here in 2020: Moncada Giolito Lopez Kopech Players that are all free agents before 2026: Moncada Giolito Lopez Kopech Think about this long and hard before playing silly games with service time. If they bring up Robert in late August and Madrigal in September, they have a chance to be the 2015 Cubs in 2020. If they don't, it is likely 2020 is another rebuilding year. Eloy has been here since day 1 and he's still struggling at the plate, as well as showing promise. Do you really want to go through that all season with Robert next year?

Here's Sox Machine guys being insufferable eeyores again, but........this time Josh Nelson might just have a point. I don't think it is 100% set in stone like Josh does though.

We all know this. Soxtalk will know that the rebuild is over when Covey and Engel are DFA. Until then, they're the tank commanders.

Rally Engel? Edit: nope.

All of the things you described are all mental errors. All are also a result of either being lazy or a general lack of focus. If you have the athletic ability to make the play you should make it. Very binary. Not going to argue this anymore. This is my opinion. It might be unorthodox, but it is how I would approach it.

I don't think Hostetler was great at his job, but I don't think he was awful either. I'd agree with this. Hostetler was much better at his job than Ricky was at his. My beef with Hostetler was that I disagree with his draft philosophy. The results were ok.

They shouldn't. The fielder never had a chance. That's just bad luck. A physical error is a bad throw or dropping the ball during a transfer. A mental error is being lazy, or trying to make a low % play. Anything else is just bad luck and should be awarded a base hit. Miscommunication between two OF is more of an error than a grounder that takes a weird hop off the grass. I didn't get that stat from anywhere. That is my personal opinion based on how I'd score the game if It were my job. Sorry for not being clear about that up front. I thought it was obvious from the context of the conversation that it was an opinion because it is impossible to track that scientifically.

Most of them are botched because the fielder got lazy. If it was a bad hop like you described I'd rule those base hits. When the ball does weird things that's not on the fielder, that's bad luck. When those things happen the the majority of the time the fielder has no chance. In my mind all fielding errors are of the mental variety. If they weren't, they should be ruled base hits.

Please don't say that.

If they don't whack Renteria after game 162 they're not serious about winning.

OMFG Covey is awful.

Momentary brainfart. I'm on pain pills recovering from surgery. Briefly forgot about the 15 inning game last night.

QFT

Lmaooooo

This just retarded managing by Renteria. You have the bases loaded with nobody out and you bring in your worst pitcher in a 1 run game???

There aren't enough ways to like, love whatever, this post. Can someone Photoshop Renteria's face on this? I'd then have a new signature.

Sorry for not being clear enough, I meant 70% of botched grounders are of the mental variety.

70%+ of all errors are of the mental variety.

Those are also mental errors. Being lazy in the field is just lack of focus on your job, which is 100% mental. A physical error is not being able to get to a ball or throwing the ball wildly when you have to rush it to get an out, or just being plain bad. Being lazy in the field is a mental error leading to a physical one. The root cause is still the same.

Being lazy in the field is just lack of focus. Still a mental issue that manifests itself in a physical error.

Yes, because he's in position to make the damn play. Same thing with Moncada at 2B last year and at 3B this year.

OMFG a walk.

Errors from being lazy are still mental errors.

I think he just needs to focus more. He's having mental errors not physical ones. Physical errors lead to MI becoming OF. Mental errors can be corrected. Anderson and Moncada make a lot of errors because they both have insane range for their position. It looks worse than it actually is because they get to balls the average SS/3B wouldn't even touch.

Idk how the Sox hitters can be so impatient year after year. It is almost like the org doesn't give a fuck about walking and making the opposing pitcher work for his outs. That's not even SABR stuff that's baseball 101 shit.