jacksonianmarch

One of my favorite nights of the year. Somehow the Sox got home field vs the Yanks last year AND the higher draft pick, wtf?

Verdugo has been really weird this year. With most players sacrificing contact for power, Dugo is going the other way. 10% K rate is way better than his prior history. But he’s sacrificed power and his BABIP plummeted, essentially noting that while he’s making better contact, he not making harder contact. If I’m Bloom, I have him work with the hitting coaches in the off-season to add some loft to his swing and sacrifice some of that contact

Someone on the Sox is gonna get pegged in the 9th

Pin will be in for 6 weeks. Rehab for 1-2 after pin is removed. Throwing can start around week 7-8. Will need 3 weeks to ramp up. He’s functionally out 10-12 weeks unless the Sox bring him back as a reliever

Broken proximal phalanx with rotation. Hard to splint those into position without the tendons pulling the fracture apart. Usually need to be pinned

Sale’s injury usually needs pinning

I didn’t realize we had Monty for another year. Just another reason why Castillo isn’t worth the acquisition cost.

The writers said he looked tired from the jump. Not sure what that means

Yanks blow out Sox then lose the close ones

Got three kids and I’m snipped. No need

Nice to see the Yankees beat the piss out of Pivetta. Went out drinking and missed tonight and yesterday! Tomorrow rubber game!

Sox need a closer and a 1b. Houck and Whitlock would be better used as multi inning weapons before having a true blue one inning closer. Sox also need a 1b. Franchy and Bobby D have turned in pathetic offense and league worst defense at the position. It shouldn’t be hard to upgrade there. If I’m the Sox GM, I also look at the OF market and see if someone drops. Verdugo isn’t going anywhere. Kike might be out for the year. JBJ sucks balls. JD doesn’t belong out there. If the Sox snag guys like Peralta, Bell and KRob , they’ll be in a pretty solid position going forward

Yanks have lost 5 of 6 and are still 12 games up on the Rays, who I still view as pretenders. Ultimately, I think the top two teams in the ALE behind NYY will be Toronto and Boston. Toronto because they're in a win now mode and Boston because they're finally getting healthy. So with the Yanks limping into the final 2 games vs the sox, their health has started to be tested. Surprisingly, in the lineup, they've been healthy. Their "10 starters" from ST are all healthy right now and have actually added in Matt Carpenter, who has been quite possible the best player in baseball since he signed on with NYY (at least offensively). With Gallo phasing out, Carpenter phasing in and Hicks starting to hit well (he really only have one abhorrent month in May), the Yanks offense is pretty well set. I know the Yanks seem to be in on every OF out there, but I don't think that's a need now if Carpenter can play LF or RF reasonably. With the high price of Beni (and the lack of vax status) it seems the Yanks have backed off on him. David Peralta came up as a fine option, but I would only add him if we can subtract Gallo. That being said, Gallo will bring GG level defense and good speed, so he could phase in as an all or nothing option off the bench and a D replacement/pinch runner for Carpenter late in games. As maligned as the Yanks offense has been in terms of the big OF positions, I think they stand pat here, maybe they add a speedster to PR. In the rotation, I know the Yanks are linked with Castillo, but I don't see it. Yes, it would mitigate the loss of Taillon and Monty at year's end, but they've already got a ready made replacement for them in both Sears and Schmidt. With Sevy down, we are about to get a long look at one of them. But when it comes to winning a title, you could do worse than a top two of Cole-Cortes and a 3-4 of Taillon and Monty, especially if Taillon goes on one of his runs. That also doesn't throw out Sevy, who was arguably our best starter before his trap started barking. Now Castillo would give them a 1-2-3 that is absolutely nails and if Sevy can return to form, a 1-4 that is all ace level. It would be a nice problem to have, but the Yanks cannot be shipping out their prospects when another weakness has set in The bullpen is where the Yanks need work. Holmes has been lights out. Yes, he had a blip, but he recovered quite nicely last night. Wandy has been amazing. Michael King has been lights out. Luetge, until the Cincy game, has been really good too as a long man. Chappy is rounding into form, which is helpful. Yes, he gave up a Bobby D bomb, but he was hitting 102 and locating. He will be fine. The problems come after that. But the Yanks HAD a pen that literally had lights out options up and down the ranks. Castro has tailed off lately and it appears injury related. Loaisiga spent two months on the IL and seems to still be lacking his putaway pitch that he had last year. We had Green, who was as reliable as they come, and now he's out for the year. Marinaccio was lights out and needed a breather for a dead arm, but he appears to be coming back soon. My concern for this Yankee pen is that everyone is in a role they aren't familiar with. Holmes hasnt been a closer before. Chappy hasnt been a MR in a long time. King was a washed up starter, not a setup man. Wandy was a fringe mop up guy who is now a big part of the bridge. If the Yanks make a move, it has to be here. I would get a guy who is rolling AND can close. This can give Holmes a breather and allow Chapman not to be thrust back into a position he isn't ready for. If the Yanks are to make any move this year, it's for Bednar in Pitt. The Pirates have made deals with NYY in the past that have worked to their advantage (they're very happy with the Taillon trade at this point) and others that didn't (Holmes deal). Yanks have a good farm and as with any reliever, the return isnt as much as a big time starter. But the Yanks need to re-establish their dominant pen back there while also dropping the work load for their most trusted guys

Castro now out for a month at least Severino expected to miss a month at minimum Marinaccio should be back for beginning of second half What went from a strength has turned into a thin unit of they keep leaving their best relievers stretched out in the minors

Soto just turned down a 15 year $440 mil offer from the Nats. That would have been the largest contract extension EVER and it wouldn’t even be close. Betts’ 12 year $365 mil contract stands as the largest contract in terms of dollars ever doled out. Soto would have beaten that by $75 million. It stands to reason that Soto wants out of Washington. And now the Nats are expected to move him. So, build a package to get Juan Soto for the rest of this year plus two more seasons. For the Yanks…. Nestor Cortes Jr Anthony Volpe Ken Waldichuk Austin Wells

Twice Yanks had the winning run on third and less than two outs and they couldn’t get the job done. In the 11th, Yanks didn’t play for the one run to tie. Very uncharacteristic of this team

Yanks pen is running on fumes. Even with the yeomans work of the rotation, the thinning of the force by injury and ineffectiveness have let some pretty reliable guys start to fade. Luetge had been lights out for his last 10 outings and last night he couldn’t avoid middle middle. Loaisiga comes back last night and while he wasn’t hit hard, he lacked the late life on his pitches to get strike 3. Every guy who got a hit off him got to 2 strikes and he just couldn’t put them away.

Loaisiga still lacks the put away pitch he had last year.

Shame on Boone. First inning Sevy’s velo is down 4-5mph. He checks him out and allows him to stay in the game. He gives up 3 straight bombs, he checks him out again and let’s him keep going. Dude, the guys arm is a time bomb. Don’t let it explode and don’t let him give the game away. I’d have pulled him after 1 once it was clear he wasn’t throwing his usual heat

Uh oh. Sevy velo down and he just gave up back to back to back dingers

Holmes has been so good. Even vs the Sox, he wasn’t bad. He allowed a ground ball to Verdugo that got through because of the shift Yesterday, however, his release point was shot. He’s gotten a ton of work this year. I’d moth ball him for this series and see if he can close vs the Sox. Yanks really need this ASB

As of right now it seems the union is unwilling to agree to an INTL draft, so QO's will still exist. The problem for the large market clubs is that the QO only nets them a 4th rounder. For the sox, I definitely see them offering a QO to Bogey. JD is a tougher case. If he finishes the season strong, it's an easy one. If he ends up with 14 or 15HRs and a BA around .300, I think they pass. Eovaldi will get a QO Kike will not. Wacha would probably get a QO if he can get and stay healthy in the second half. Hill no way. Vaz, no way For the Yanks, Judge is a definite Rizzo will be a definite Taillon most likely Montgomery most likely Gallo f*** no Chapman and Green no

I got Omicron. Wasn't bad. I am not really seeing a lot of young people critically ill with Omicron or BA.5 like I did with Alpha and Delta. But this variant is crushing the elderly. The one in India is almost as infectious as measles and really won't be protected by vaccine or prior infection. So Paxlovid to the rescue! Either way, if it is in the clubhouse, and I know guys go on the covid IL without having confirmed covid, but if it is in the clubhouse, it will hit most of the players

FYI, this new variant and the one coming from India will all sweep the nation. We will all get it. Prior immunity from Omicron won't cover it and shots right now are inadequate to prevent. If this BA.5 is in the sox clubhouse right now, it will spread like wildfire. Not a bad time to have a covid outbreak, though. Right before the ASB

I said it last year and he didn't win. I will say it again this year. Cora brought a ramshackle team to within 2 games of the WS last year. He watched as two of its biggest power threats left (Schwarber and Renfroe) and got replaced with wet noodle Bradley and Trevor Story in the lineup. His pen is made of swiss cheese. He never got a closer. He lost a reliable starter in ERod and was replaced with a guy who has been a juggs machine for the past 3 years (Wacha) and one of the only players in the league older than me in Hill. His team came out flat out of the gate. He has had stretches with 4 OD predicted starters on the IL and had to dip down into the depths of a pretty barren upper minors to fill in and he still has this team as a WC1. All the while, he has watched Kike go from AS caliber player to injured, Xander and JD lose their power, and Bobby D turn back into a windmill. And yet they still have fight, they still win games. The Yanks were poised to sweep them. Game 3 was a game they should have lost. Game 4, the Yanks had 2 4 run leads and instead, that team kept fighting. That is Cora. Doesn't matter how bad the team is, they will run through a wall for him. And for me, he edges out Boone as MOY in 2022. Boone is probably #2 but he hasnt had nearly the s*** go wrong Cora has