How much more work left to do?

[caulfield12]

At the very least, right now you have to wait because the MLB domestic violence response is literally unprecedented. The rule is brand new and has yet to be used. Until you have some context for how at-risk you are for losing him for months/a season+ if there are multiple issues, you have to leave him with the Dodgers.

 

From everything out there, they've backed off any assertion that he assaulted his sister or a family member and that whole investigation has cooled off significantly from how it was originally reported out of Miami.

 

Chapman will probably be the one who ends up in hotter water, albeit he doesn't have the stigma of Puig's history.

[caulfield12]

Just remember, the plan last year was to "acquire big names via trade and open the team's wallet for big bats". This was also not the first time we had tried that plan. Those who do not learn from history...

 

See Boston Red Sox for 3 of the past 4 years.

 

DD will attempt it again, inevitably.

 

The difference of course being that Danks/LaRoche/Cabrera/Duke and even Robertson wouldn't stand in the way of their going out and spending again and taking their losses in terms of sunk payroll costs.

 

When we take a hit like that, such as Dunn, Rios, Danks, LaRoche...there is seemingly no moving on as the FO continues to attempt to extract any value possible unless it's someone like Keppinger, Bonifacio, Downs, Ohman, Belisario, Paulino, MacDougal or Linebrink that's under the $10 million threshold.

 

Heck, even the Teahen deal was significant enough it forced the Sox to include Edwin Jackson in that particular trade in order to dump the dollars remaining.

Edited December 14, 2015 by caulfield12

[BlackSox13]

Hahn should have probably not mentioned how bad the offense was then. His job should be on the line also this year, IMO. As currently constructed, the Sox are in the bottom 3 of the AL with Oakland and Tampa.

Not sure what else he could have said. The offense was so bad that at some point he was going to be asked about it. The Sox went for last off season and are paying for this off season. Right or wrong, it is what it is.

[caulfield12]

But how many times last year did we hear how all of those FA moves weren't going to really set us back at all...or the Samardzija trade and fatal non-move at the deadline?

 

1000 times?

[LDF]

The prevailing theory is that he's bulked up way too much and also lost X percentage of his fast-twitch muscle memory...and his bat speed has also slowed significantly from 2013-14.

 

It's more of a conditioning/work ethic issue than anything.

 

Sosa went through the same transition, albeit a chemically-enhanced one.

 

or steroids

[LDF]

Hahn should have probably not mentioned how bad the offense was then. His job should be on the line also this year, IMO. As currently constructed, the Sox are in the bottom 3 of the AL with Oakland and Tampa.

 

i look at it this way, his credibility with the fans would be shot.