OT: Sox Fire Everyone

[HuskyHawk]

Who? Give me a couple names? I wanna see who you’re talking about.

Crochet. Anthony. Suarez. Story. Duran. Narv. Bello. That’s just a few. All dramatically worse than last year. So is Durbin who was a rookie of the year finalist last year. Anthony was tearing the cover off the ball at the WBC. What happened?

We will see what happens but my hunch is that Tracy will shift some things and the guys will start playing better. Hopefully Story goes to 2B. I’d actually put Durbin at SS and Mayer at 3B. And leave them there.

 

[Waquoit]

Crochet. Anthony. Suarez. Story. Duran. Narv. Bello. That’s just a few. All dramatically worse than last year. So is Durbin who was a rookie of the year finalist last year.

Crochet I’ll give you. The rest are players that bad teams call good.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Crochet I’ll give you. The rest are players that bad teams call good.

Anthony was the #1 prospect in MLB, and that wasn't the Sox rating him

 

[Waquoit]

Anthony was the #1 prospect in MLB, and that wasn't the Sox rating him

Again, that's a projection. In the bigs he showed some pop last year but couldn't make it through a season. And he's hurt again. The best ability is availability. Now tell me how good Durbin is. He finally hit a dinger, off a field player.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Again, that's a projection. In the bigs he showed some pop last year but couldn't make it through a season. And he's hurt again. The best ability is availability. Now tell me how good Durbin is. He finally hit a dinger, off a field player.

Yeah, then he was the left fielder on the WBC all-tournament team, with key hits and RBI. I understand about the injury thing, and his early production this year is disappointing, but if there's hope for anyone on the current roster it's him.

BTW, I'm not a Durbin fan, you don't have to convince me. But he may prove useful eventually, jury still out though early returns stink.

 

[Spaceman213J]

I didn't get why people thought this team was a real contender.
Their whole thing last year was they couldn't score enough runs. It sucks that Anthony is banged up write now. Durbin came in with reputation as a slower bat and not a lot of more projected power. Contreras is fine, but he basically substitutes in for Bregman in the order. Story is not a good hitter anymore and hasn't been for some time. He had a decent year last year, but he swings at bad pitches and doesn't get on base a whole bunch.
Then you have the pitching. Crochet is a stud. Chapman is coming off a career year and no one really expects him to repeat it. It doesn't mean he can't be really good. They have some good young pitchers. The spent their off season money on Suarez and only time will tell how that works out, but he can't hit.
All the other teams made significant moves in the division and who were part of the wild card race last season. Off course they are going to lag behind them.

 

[HCCForever]

I realize that hope is not a plan but hoping that Crochet regains his form and Early and Tolle develop as reliable starters. Both looked good in their recent outings, but Tolle needs to develop more pitches.

 

[The Viking]

Crochet I’ll give you. The rest are players that bad teams call good.

Insanity

 

[The Viking]

Again, that's a projection. In the bigs he showed some pop last year but couldn't make it through a season. And he's hurt again. The best ability is availability. Now tell me how good Durbin is. He finally hit a dinger, off a field player.

Anthony was regarded by all as the top prospect in the game and then in his first say 300 or 400 plate appearances proves it by putting up an OBP at his age that only a handful of players ever did- including Ted Williams and Juan Soto. Its not just about pop with him. Also its Way Too early to call him injury prone yet

Durbin is a good player who is under control for 5 years and is starting to show glimpses of turning it around.

A lot of players were playing miles under water under Cora and this staff - in particular the offense. A slow start seems to be a recurring trend with Coras teams the last few years and quite frankly they were losing so much and the vibe in the dugout seemed to be crap. I dont blame the FO for pulling the plug on what was supposed to be a team many thought was playoff bound.

Perhaps this move is triggering a turnaround. They already are playing more agressively on the bases, keeping starting pitchers out there longer and sticking with Mayer everyday. Its about time.

When Cora helped NY sweep us by going to Weissert instead of Whitlock i was done with him. Chance to lock down a win and Tolle is having an incredible night and he blows it all with his stupid weissert love