JUSTgottaBELIEVE

When can they promote Madrigal again? Without losing the year of ST

I still think they’re going to make the playoffs but they aren’t going anywhere if the starting pitching doesn’t improve dramatically.

Don’t say that around here. Upgrading the catching position via free agency was a must last offseason.

Meant to say “needed”. Keuchel is one of those two vets but they’re still one short assuming 2019 Giolito is what we see moving forward.

Sox need at least two reliable veteran starters to pair with Giolito if they want to contend. Cease, Kopech, Rodon, and Lopez were all huge wild cards coming into this season. At best, you get decent production from two of those in the 4/5 slots but even that was a huge if.

McCann was so bad last year that it made complete sense to move him to the bench for 2/3 of the games in 2020. You’d think we were the Dodgers or something with no holes elsewhere.

Glad we used our limited resources on another catcher rather than more starting pitching last winter.

Almost like Ricky is intentionally trying to get fired now. Then he still gets paid and doesn’t have to risk getting covid.

You do it all the time. The act gets old after awhile

Just can’t help yourself can you?

You add nothing except sarcastic BS. I’ll add whatever commentary I want. Hell of a lot more constructive than anything you ever have to offer.

Yep, you’re still a douche!

“Puffing my chest”. GMAFB douche

Grandal is so good at framing he helps the opposing pitchers too!

He’s not a “bad” player. My opinion is he’s overrated, McCann is at least a league average catcher (and cheap!), and the resources would have been better spent on starting pitching.

Barnes had a 1.1 WAR season in 2018.

And how is that supposed to make Sox fans feel when we have title aspirations over the next 4 years? Spend big money for a guy that you can’t play in October? Weird

Honest question, if Grandal is as elite as everyone says, why was he benched in favor of Barnes during the playoffs?

Unfortunately, that doesn’t compute in “WAR.”

I always wanted two arms from the Tier 2 group of starting pitchers. Keuchel and Ryu could have really solidified the rotation until the young arms developed.

Not impressed by Grandal’s defense, sorry. It was a major red flag when a smart organization like the Dodgers was starting Austin freakin Barnes over Grandal in the postseason. That’s all I needed to know.

It is when you blow your load at a position already occupied by a good player (that now resides on the bench 70% of the time) when you clearly have a major weakness in another department (starting pitching).

And yet they already had an all star catcher. I didn’t realize they had a starting rotation filled with all stars.

Well that’s great and James McCann has a 2.250 OPS entering today so what’s your point?

Couldn’t have used that money for starting pitching?