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A little help from the other guys would be welcome.

And we can put a lot of guys in scoring position.

We've got this going for us: the Sox pitching staff can put up a heck of a lot of zeroes.

I do not love that.

It's been done by slow oafish left-handers as well, when presented with an extreme shift.

Baseball is definitely a sport where, if you could go back in time and draft with the benefit of hindsight, you could make a killer team in about 3 years.

I had to look it up.

That is almost unfathomably bad.

This equals our total runs scored in the previous 11 games! Roughly.

MLB rules on options: "Once an optioned player has spent at least 20 days in the Minors in a given season, he loses one of his options." I don't think Mona has been in the minors at all this year, so 3 days in the minors shouldn't burn an option.

That is a mystery. He has two options remaining, I think, and I don't think that sending him down for 3 games would even burn an option.

If I had one wish for the current Red Sox offense, it's that they would somehow figure out how to swing at strikes and leave the balls alone. I know, I know, that's like the baseball-insight equivalent of rocket surgery. I've just lost count of how many at-bats I've seen where the batter looked at two pitches in the zone and swung at three pitches outside the zone. I'm sure it's 5377 times harder than it looks. But as a fan and spectator, it's frustrating.

O-for-7 with RISP through 3 innings. It's like a rare and precious work of art, crystalline in its purity and beauty, unmarred by flaws or imperfections.

That doesn't seem unreasonable. Yet look how we all felt after the Rockies series. We know there is something in this team. Can they find it again? I haven't given up all hope yet. Do I expect them to beat the Yankees? No. But I'm not burying the 2026 Sox just yet.

Is that a known fact, a done deal at this point? I've heard that he still has pain, but we're a few days away yet. Has there been definite news?