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Hope Solak clears waivers. Doesn’t look like he’s been outrighted before. Would be nice non 40 man depth. I would have just sent Alberto packing, myself.

The Benintendi water cooler theory was peak WST.

Why even bother? Much rather keep Solak in the org.

It looked to me like Beni was pissed AV dumped a cooler of ice water on him. While I suppose it’s possible the cooler slightly hit his shoulder, seems like stretch he got injured enough to hit the IL on that. That said, doesn’t seem to be alot of other options for Haseley to replace unless it’s an Alberto DFA.

Really need to play well the rest of this homestand.

Was out with some friends and catching up on this thread. That was an entertaining read! Nice dub, Sox. Now figure out the walks and let’s go get the series tomorrow behind 8 strong from Cy Cease.

The umpiring is in his head. Dude gotten like 15 easy balls called strikes on him this season. Tries to improve his approach and they just won’t let him. It’s awful.

90% of the season is left and You can’t trade guys in April and May anyway.

Yah, I find the takes to tear it down but not trade Cease comical. He’s controlled 2 years after this. If you trade off everyone controlled thru 24, WTF you keeping Cease for? He’s the most valuable of the bunch sans Robert. That said, things will need to go very off the rails IMO for a mid season tear down to occur.

That’s debatable. It’s a tiny sample size in the bigs. He’s 23. Can play good defense and multiple positions. He’s raked in the minors.

Lol WTF Lenyn. Swing the bat

Any word on severity of Chappy’s hands injury?

The Twins have not win a single playoff game in over 20 years. Not a series, a single game. It’s not exactly an organization to fawn over.

Of course. Language barrier for one, Colas may have no idea. But who really cares - 24 YO dude liking public bikini photos…big deal. I certainly wouldn’t advise the activity, but this is a big nothing burger

Pedro has him as a high leverage reliever! That’s why!

Exactly. I think my list had Conforto #2 as well - mainly due to the power -Certainly have been no stranger to banging the Nimmo and Conforto drum here the past half decade. For 2023, I liked the fact that Beni was the better defender and obviously Conforto was a sizable question mark coming off not playing in 22. I’ve been underwhelmed with Benis defense so far, but it’s still so so so so much better than the alternatives. Sox fans love to have it both ways - absolutely b**** and moan that Sox don’t sign enough FAs, but whenever they do make “larger” splashes like Yaz or Beni, the fan base turns on them quickly. Good stuff. Finding any FAs that turn out to have surplus value is extremely difficult.

Really need to finish this home stand strong

Who else was there tho? They absolutely had to have a LHH OF. Nimmo signed for $162 million. Benintendi was the next best option. Sure they could have signed Joey Gallo to a one year deal for a bit more power, but honestly the Benintendi deal was fine. He certainly hasn’t looked good in SSS tho.

Diekman leads the league in appearances. Not sure how you allow your worst pitcher to do that.

Just give me Colome and send Diekman to the moon, please.

Nooooooo

Another hit for Chapelli. This guy has me very intrigued.

Over under on how many times Jason mentions Solak is a "local product" tonight?

Easy on the facts, Sir.

While I agree playing a man down is stupid and a gimpy Yoan is worthless at the plate (but still FAR and away our best defender at 3B), there really isn't anyone to call up. All position players on 40 man are on active roster but Ramos (hurt and not ready), JRod (not ready), and Perez (Catcher/DH type). So you're DFAing pitching depth to get a pinch runner in Billy or a guy you're never going to play in Haseley. Just not really that useful. A bit of moot point now that Eloy is coming off IL, so you can probably just swap them. But making that move for Billy or Hasley on Monday/Tue for a couple games doesn't really move the needle. You're just going to have to DFA those guys again when Yoan comes back a few days later.