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YOYO TIME

NASTY

For as much as I hated this offseason, its a fun time to be a Sox fan. Even if not everyone pans out and not everyone hits their ceilings, this season has been like that time between when you buy a lottery ticket and when the actual drawing is... thinking of all the possibilities....

Can we just field a team of 8 McCanns?

"Today's call the the pen brought to you by Stevenson Cardiology...."

Good job by Jose to move the runner over to scoring position with less than 2 outs LUL

Buck Farmer has to be one of the most "baseball" baseball player names ever.

He's still tracking down his facebook source

Palka not in the Knights lineup tonight

ITT/TIL: You can't express your opinions about sports without "credentials" and "credibility" established over a prolonged period of time on the internet.

This probably isn't a bad trade idea. But I don't think the Braves would give up on Mike fhqwhgads this quickly. I live in "Braves Country" and the ESPN sports blab in my city, the dudes won't shut up about how "terrible the Braves bullpen" is and how their GM "is working to" fix it. #shrug

I can't wait for next season when we never have to see Juan Minaya again

The Texas offense is REALLY bad. When you score 4 runs against a team like that, you should win.

While we're picking on Hahn....

you left out the part about assdribble playing on a 4-game suspension appeal.

be me... out with family all day comes home looks forward to watching some Sox baseball pops on the game sees score in 4th inning turns off TV is sad

I'm not gonna get ahead of myself, but damn that Collins HR stroke looked a whole lot like Josh Hamilton

I would imagine the Sox want to stagger the service time thing / callups a bit so that they dont have 14 guys all in their final arb year at the same time.

you are probably right... at his ceiling. Today though he's probably best suited in the 5 hole. I probably should have been more specific with my conjecture.

I'm probably in batshit crazy PlayStation mode here, but a couple bullet points.... Moncada is the best hitter on the team and should hit 3rd. Abreu isn't a 3 hitter. F$%& pride. He is a power bat in decline, and should bat cleanup. Eloy is at his ceiling a prototypical 5 hitter on a great offensive team. We don't have a prototype OBP/Speed leadoff hitter, Anderson needs as many ABs as he can get so he can have the most impact for the team. So... Anderson McCann Moncada Abreu Eloy Everyone else on the team is replacement level or below so who cares who hits where after the 5-hole. I'm gonna go back to my day job now and stop with the armchair baseball managing.

oops

Its a good thing Gio and Eloy are putting on a show tonight because I doubt anyone wants to look at the Charlotte boxscore. Pretty sure Pnoles is on suicide watch.

For as painful as it is to watch Alonso, just remember that Dunn got 450+ ABs in 2011... and hit .159 ONE.FIFTY.NINE. If I am being honest here, I'd rather watch Adam Engel run out two-hoppers to the second baseman than see another Alonso AB. I would hope Skole would get called up at some point to take Alonso's ABs. I can't imagine any scenario where Alonso's agent could file a grievance related to suppressing ABs to avoid a vesting option when the player is terrible and there are multiple guys knocking down the door in AAA. I feel bad for Alonso. He was brought here as a gimmick by a front office that couldn't close the deal on Machado. Alonso is the fat chick at the college house party you flirt with because you know her rommate is hot AF. Sox got burned by their own flame.

Though Verlander pretty much tops all the stat boards, Gio leads the AL in FIP, which means that our sometimes terrible defense can't contain the greatness either.