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kinda surprising

1 more season of Ricky until Omar gets the nod...

Omar should be on the bench next season. Be an assistant and get some experience.

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I think their plan was to keep him with the wave of "talented" Hispanic players. Sadly, I think we learned that there is only 1 in the minors, and hopefully he is playing for the big club to start the year.

Stevenson is a loss. No other way to describe it. He was awesome with the A's hitters and also with the young Sox hitters. It is a stupid decision.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Well, they just had the AL batting leader, the # 3 batter, and the leader in RBI....hmmm

Iirc, they went hard to get those two guys. Seems to me the results have been positive. Maybe they lacked snitching and asslicking ability.

Keeping Renteria kills a lot of optimism I was having.

Why? The situation remains the same no matter the manager

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

He has no idea how to manage a bullpen, and keeps playing guys that are bad at their jobs. I still did not understand why Collins was brought up the 1st time, if he wasn't gonna start at C or 1B.

So awesome you don't even know his name despite it being posted right here in the thread

Maybe SteveRson really wasn't awesome and Moncada, Anderson, Eloy, Eaton, Abreu etc were going to hit regardless of who the hitting coach was.

SteveRson has been the hitting coach here since 2014. Let's see just how "awesome" the some of the Sox averages and OPS's are for some of these young players he has coached;

Conor Gillaspie .260 / .711
Avi Garcia .271 / .746
Trayce Thompson .206 / .640
Mike Olt .203 / .584
Micah Johnson .230 / .576
JB Shuck .229 / .604
Matt Davidson .225 / .726 ("The Bat" )
Charlie Tilson .246 / .600
Nicky Delmonico .227 / .709
Adam Engel .215 / .601
Daniel Palka .218 / .710
Cody Asche 62 plate appearances, 6 hits, 3 walks, GONE!
Jacob May 42 plate appearances, reached base 5 times, GONE!

So yeah, Hawk. A lot of shitty, awful numbers there. You would think that if SteveRson was such a great hitting coach, there would be a few guys here and there that actually did well once they got to the Sox from the minors. There is hardly anybody he developed. So, I guess its a good thing you aren't here for the sports talk.


Fucking christ. Some of these guys if I ever hear their names again it will be too soon.

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My goodness, little one. Pardon me if I had a typo for goodness sake. Fact is that Steverson and I have talked several times in Arizona about a couple of kids that I coached who were in the A's farm system while he was the hitting instructor for the A's. He is well recognized in baseball as an excellent coach. But you wouldn't know that, being the weird dufus that you are.

YOu also wouldn't understand that hitting a major league pitch is considered by many as the single hardest things to do in all of sports. You noted a number of players who failed to hit when they reached the majors. Did you ever think in your puny brain that these guys just did not have the requisite hand/eye coordination to hit and drive a baseball against a 97 mph fastball a top notch slider or change-up?

I guess that I am just going to have you go the way of LTG in my eyes. All you do is post nonsense and insults. You just interject yourself into decent conversation and insult people. Go away, little Frankie.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Nobody cares.

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Great. frank now trying to drive away another guy who knows WTF he is talking about.
Worst Sox fan ever.

Shoot yourself inna face. Please.

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"Change has come to Amerika."- TFG

Kill Urself.

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There is a video on The Twitters, Kopech throwing 99mph to hitters.

Optimism returns.

the key for him is going to be control

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I maintain there was a plan to get him pitching again this season but they binned it.

There is no way, any sane GM would attempt that. If you wanna say, they sped up his recovery for next season, I might buy that.

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A small percentage of guys do come back stronger from the surgery.

He doesn't need to be stronger. He needs to pinpoint his control.

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something like 80% now return to equal or greater ability

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I guess Burdi fell into the 20%?

Charlie Tilson outrighted to Charlotte

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Appears so.

Mentality of ownership.

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Yep, saw it this morning. Perpetual rebuild.