Brock Beauchamp

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I was only able to watch the second half of last night's game and my takeaway is that Trevor Story looks hopeless with the stick right now.

WHAAAATTTTTTTTT

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I think they have a winner in Breslow. He's an ex-player and even during his playing career, was always known as being one of the brainiacs of the sport. He's also a pitcher who embraces the modern approach. I think he'll be able to do good things in time; the problem is that it takes 4-5 years to see pitching development fully come to fruition.

I think it's a given the Sox have to eat some of the contract. How much? Dunno. He's not a bad hitter but that defensive profile depletes whatever value he might have. He's a bit of a poor man's Luis Arraez. It's easy to fall in love with the hit tool but then you realize he brings absolutely nothing else to the table.

It's unlikely he'll ever be a front-of-the-rotation starter but on Sunday, rookie Richard Fitts showed he could be a part of the 2025 Boston Red Sox. Richard Fitts smiled as he handed the ball over to his new manager, Alex Cora, and left the mound in the 6th inning of a tie game. He had given the Red Sox exactly what they needed in his major league debut: a chance to win. But like many Red Sox starters before him, he was betrayed by shoddy defense and a combustible bullpen. The 24-year-old cruised through the first five innings against a historically bad White Sox team that had lost 111 games. Fitts wasn’t overpowering, but he was efficient. He leans on his four-seamer, which topped out at 96 MPH; he mixed in a slider and sweeper while throwing in a few splitters. With Boston leading 1-0 to begin the 6th inning, Triston Casas could not pick a grounder that ricocheted off his shin and squirted into right field. That was the beginning of the end. Fitts gave up a single to Luis Robert and was ultimately pulled with two outs and a runner on third. Cora brought in Greg Weissert to get the final out. Weissert, along with Fitts and Low-A pitcher Nicholas Judice, was traded to the Red Sox in the offseason in the deal that sent outfielder Alex Verdugo to the Yankees. Weissert promptly induced a weak grounder, which he fumbled for the second fielding error of the inning, allowing the runner at third to score. The inning was a microcosm of the entire season for the Red Sox. Fitts finished with 5.2 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, and 2 K. He threw 66 pitches, 44 for strikes, with five swings and misses. But swings and misses weren’t a huge part of Fitts’ game in the Triple-A Worcester this season. In 116.2 IP, he struck out 111 batters. SoxProspects.com has Fitts ranked as the #12 prospect in the Red Sox organization and third-best pitching prospect behind only Portland’s Luis Perales (#6) and David Sandlin (#11). He’s projected long-term as a back-end starter or multi-inning reliever. In his major league debut (a game in which the Red Sox would lose 7-2 after another late-inning bullpen meltdown), Fitts showed that he could be major league-quality depth. With 19 games left in the season and Boston back by four games in the Wild Card race (now behind the Twins, Tigers, and Mariners), this will likely be just a cup of coffee for Fitts. But when the calendar flips to 2025, he might want to find a bunch of good podcasts to listen to during the ride east on I-90 from Worcester to Boston. View full article

One thing I have to say as a person following both the Twins and Red Sox. This September is shaping up to be a fight for the ages... if you like watching toddlers fight.

I didn’t realize it was possible for the White Sox to score five runs in a single inning.

Yeah. I'm a Brewers fan so I watch a lot of their games. I don't really understand what has happened to Adames. It could be a blip on the radar - sometimes defense slumps - but I wouldn't bank nine figures on that being the case.

Matthew will probably be writing for the site at some point, I've spoken to him several times and we're just working out the details.

Personally, while I like Willy Adames plenty, his defensive nosedive this season is really troubling.

Could be a tough night, as the hometown Sox need to face what is literally the White Sox's only good player.

Thanks to everyone for voting! We may hold another voting round in about a month, just to see if the numbers shake up as the season winds down. Ranked ProspectsRoman AnthonyMarcelo MayerKristian CampbellKyle TeelBraden MontgomeryFranklin AriasYoeilin CespedesMiguel BleisLuis PeralesJhostynxon GarciaDavid SandlinChase MeidrothRichard FittsPayton TolleMikey RomeroElmer Rodriguez-CruzJohanfran GarciaWikelman GonzalezYordanny MonegroJuan Valera

We've recruited a bunch of new writers and I'm giving them one final shot at voting. I'm setting up a reminder to post the results tomorrow morning some time. They will appear as a thread in the MiLB forum.

Okay, the Red Sox can win this series.... right?

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I mean, it's just what happens when a team doesn't pitch well. No need to isolate the Sox here; the Royals, Twins, and Sox are all doing their damnedest to miss the postseason, yet two of them are almost guaranteed to make it.

Yep, the soxes are holding up the graph.

I saw this today and… yikes.