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Updating number 2- Dane Dunning making his debut at some point, and impressing.

Crochet interview around 19:30. He's hanging in Schaumburg getting ready for the taxi squad.

The “no spitting” thing is almost impossible to enforce.

Nice that Robert, Madrigal, and Vaughn are getting this home park experience. They'll feel at home once it's for real.

Robots. Very lifelike.

Kopech would be 30-some months between starts. I certainly wouldn’t count on him showing up to Glendale in February ready to start 32 games. We’ll see.

If he’s back next year, it’s bullpen. Giolito, Keuchel, Rodon, Cease, Lopez, Dunning, Lambert, Stiever, Crochet, maybe Gonzalez again. We’ll get by.

3 scoreless for Dunning. Sounds like a rough outing for Gio. Vaughn homer.

Not in the main camp. Don’t know about the taxi squad.

Hopefully Dunning/Lambert are good enough to fill in at some point. It’s got to be tough to throw in scrimmages against veteran teammates. You want to make pitches and be aggressive, but you also don’t want to mess up and break a guy’s hand or something.

Cooper’s comments were based on what Kopech has put out there publicly in the past, so I don’t think it’s that bad. But he would have been better off just saying, “we wish him well and hope he’s back next season. But for now, I have to worry about the 20-some pitchers we have here and get ready for the season.”

Cuthbert is there.

It’s complicated for the front office and teammates, I’m sure. Obviously, they wish him the best as a human being, but you never know what they’re saying away from media. Hopefully six months from now, everything is better or getting better, and he’s ready for a normal spring training with the Sox. But you certainly couldn’t blame the front office if he’s no longer part of the rotation plans in 2021.

Don’t disagree, but how’s the Marlins system looking?

I’m calling this a convenient excuse. Look, he doesn’t want to be there, for whatever reason. Hope he’s fine or will be fine by February, but the rehab angle, I’m calling bullshit.

Completely agree, and that’s why I think he’s now a bullpen pitcher. He could be a dominating closer, which would be fine. But no way would I pencil him in the rotation for 2021. Maybe they still will, but I’d be very surprised.

Then he would get service time, correct?

Semantics, but he’s choosing not to play. Opting out would mean he had a Covid reason to not play.

Bullpen pitcher

Sox are in Boston on Patriot’s Day/Marathon. Hope that happens.

The few times I’ve heard him do Sox games, I’ve really thought he’s good. And seems like a genuinely good guy too. Hopefully the radio broadcast matches up to the TV picture close enough.

Sox and Twins would (will) be done with each other in August. 19 meetings in an 82-game period.