Red Sox (Sandoval) vs White Sox (Kay): 7/9/26, 2:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Alright, so the Sox have been legit good for a few weeks now. How do you feel about the team right now: a real shot at October, or a brief mirage?

	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	TOT
Tyron Guerrero	0	26	0	0	0	26
Ryan Watson	0	0	0	15	0	15
Justin Slaten	0	18	0	10	0	28
Jovani Morán	13	0	0	0	12	25
Greg Weissert	12	18	0	0	10	40
Garrett Whitlock	0	10	0	12	0	22
Danny Coulombe	0	0	0	14	0	14
Aroldis Chapman	0	13	0	0	0	13

 

[vegasbob]

Possible mirage but also a reversion to mean with a motley crew of players.  

Hard to argue that excellent pitching can't carry you a good ways down the road.

[mvp 78]

Need Sandoval to pitch lights out and then for him to be traded right after.

[Tedballgame]

What a terrible AB by Cedanne. Where is Fred to rip him?

[Tedballgame]

Durbin is coming around.

[notin]

38 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Need Sandoval to pitch lights out and then for him to be traded right after.

Absolutely not.  The Sox are going to need Sandoval.

If the Sox do go into sell mode, they likely dump Gray, and potentially Bello.  And at some point will probably shut down Tolle and Bennett (and Early if he ever gets activated).  The Sox are going to need an arm (or more?) to handle the IP at that point.  And helping preserve the arms of Tolle, Early and Bennett is far more useful than anything Sandoval will brings back in a trade…

[mvp 78]

Just now, Tedballgame said:

Durbin is coming around.

Seems like it. Thanks a lot Sox hitting coaches. Great help.

[mvp 78]

Just now, notin said:

Absolutely not.  The Sox are going to need Sandoval.

If the Sox do go into sell mode, they likely dump Gray, and potentially Bello.  And at some point will probably shut down Tolle and Bennett (and Early if he ever gets activated).  The Sox are going to need an arm (or more?) to handle the IP at that point.  And helping preserve the arms of Tolle, Early and Bennett is far more useful than anything Sandoval will brings back in a trade…

I wouldn't dump Bello. He has lost too much value. He goes back into the rotation for the rest of the year for me. I'm dealing Sandoval and picking up waiver claims on every pitcher I can to take rotation spots down the stretch.

[mvp 78]

What a terrible pitch that was to Durbin, sweeper over the middle of the plate. If he just cleans up garbage pitches like that, he'll have a long career because of his glove. 

[mvp 78]

Brett Harris has a career 154 SLG Away.