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Same. I'll watch plenty of out of town baseball to get my fix once the season starts, but spring games are a nice change in background noise while working.

As much as no one should want to watch this abomination of a team, it's still baseball. Or some semblance there of. Which is still better than no baseball!

Hopefully as more teams release spring schedules we'll see what other viewing options are available.

From the press release:

Only 6 televised games?

If Cease is "struggling" to hit 94mph come April, then I'll be concerned. This sounds perfectly normal and there is zero reason for alarm in early February.

Thank You. Yes, TA was horrible last year, there is no argument. But putting him on a greatest failure list is pretty ridiculous. If anything he is one of the Sox greatest success stories of this era. His fall from grace was as ugly as possible, but that should not outshine the peaks of his success.

Moncada, Eloy, Kopech, & Grandal. All of the ills with this org start and stop with JR, but addressing only the failures in uniform, these four reached the highest peaks of disappointment.

If Mena turns into anything special, it's a big loss for Getz. There's certainly reason to have doubts about Mena's FB and the trade could turn out to be a wash, but I do think there is more potential in it biting the Sox in the ass than for AZ.

It's not just opinion.

I'll really be surpassed if Pedro doesn't give him the bulk of the starts, until age catches up with him.

Not sure if serious

Someone hasn't met a hill they weren't willing to die on...

It is probably an overpay, but for a club like the Royals it's worth it. He'll be the face of the franchise for the next decade, their regular All Star, and the one guy that they can market.

Thank you. I needed a good chuckle.

Haha from whom and where?

The LH OF's always seemed like the sticking point to me. Elias was only interested in selling high on prospects that didn't fit into their plans.

Good for him. But wowza.

1.Benny 2. Robert (?) 3. Eloy (?) 4. Vaughn (?) 5. Moncada (?) 6. Fletcher/Deloach/Pillar (?) 7. Dejong 8. Maldonado 9. Lopez ??? How the f*** is this team going to score runs?

That's what I was alluding to. And that's an easy no without question.

Lets hope. His deal looks atrocious now, and his bat needs to make up for his regression in the field.

Probably the latter. I haven't seen anything specific about their offers for Cease, other than hints that they weren't still in active discussions when the Burnes deal went down.

Exactly. He's #1 on my s%*# list of guys who I see regressing further. If Fletcher or Deloach struggle in the field, Robert is back to covering far too much ground, which isn't exactly a recipe for keeping him healthy. Moncada is no lock to stay healthy either and Vaughn and Maldonado are hardly Gold Glovers. So we are banking on Lopez and Dejong to vastly improve the whole defense? I don't see it. Perhaps a slight improvement, but not significant enough to save them from 100+ losses again.