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Shaw over Panda took big ones, as did Holt over Castillo.

The real referendum on Farrell will begin with ERod returns. If Buchholz stays while a deserving member departs, then you will have a mutiny

I'd have a travelling roster of 29 players with the need to designate 25 active for each night. No need for the other 4 starters to be active when there is no chance in hell for them to pitch. It allows for more opportunity and the 25 man roster was created at a time where a team only needed 8 pitchers. It's an antiquated system.

when it rains it pours.

Unfortunately, what we could have predicted is true. A lot of times, an injury manifests itself first as poor command or production and later as pain. Severino left the game with elbow pain and is due for an MRI tomorrow. Wouldn't be surprised if something bad is in there

Severino needs to go down when CC comes back. He has lost his confidence and seems to have lost his location on his slider. That slider was a devastating out pitch, but he's lost his release point. Now, he either hangs it or he's burying it into the ground. He's lost some confidence in his changeup too as he is slowing down his arm speed and telegraphing it. Last yr he came up with no expectations and his mechanics going. This yr, he has started all messed up and needs to refine his mechanics out of the light. He'll be back

He hit a HR yesterday!

Yet we will keep trotting him out there. I want to see Refsnyder up again. If he can't handle third, I'm sure Castro can. Headley needs a phantom injury

His swing has looked better of late, but he still blows ass

Perfectly adequate? A WHIP of 2 is adequate? Really? Cmon now. ERod needs to not only get his velo up, but he also needs to show progression in year 2. It took a bunch of starts for our kid to adjust back to the adjustments the league made, and I assume the same will occur with your kid

ARod also did a shitload of steroids

navafan, he wasn't an every day guy. He was a second round pick who washed out as a traditional pitcher

Severino was really good today. 3 pitches left the yard. He was dominant otherwise. Definitely a positive start

4 pitch walk, YS HR, groundout, 5 K's. The kid can be electric. Just have to be consistent with it

good recovery kid

Well, he already f***ed up. f*** this

Severino was on the cusp of being really good last game and put up a QS. His defense was his biggest detractor. We shall see which way he goes, but he finally started hitting corners and missing the middle of the zone.

How ever many holes you create, you fill one for a decade with insane production.

We thought the same thing about CC. Oh, he has the slider and the change up, he can manage with diminished velocity. Well, we were wrong. The problem isn't necessarily the velocity. Some amazing pitchers couldn't break 90 with consistency. But those pitchers knew how their stuff moved to such a significant degree and they could locate it enough that they could put it exactly where they wanted to and they knew the sequences which were most effective against opposing batters. That's the biggest thing. If CC could locate his 4 pitches to a point every time, he'd be a CY candidate. The problem is, good velocity can hide a lot of location mistakes. And good velocity also gives you back the upper part of the strike zone. A guy throwing 90 cannot use the upper portion of the strike zone. He either needs to be right on the edges, above the zone, or off the zone on either side. Guys like CC and Price would go to that upper tank to change the eye level and overpower a hitter with 96. When that 96 goes to 91, those pitches that used to blow by hitters are being stung into the stands. Some pitchers make the adjustment well. Others don't. We all thought CC would, but we were wrong. You have absolutely no idea if Price will transition well should this loss of velo be permanent. And one thing that the sox FO didn't even fathom was the possibility of that change happening on day 1

He is either #1 or #2 in all of baseball and he is only 24. Yes, he is worth it. Everyone is on the table for a guy like him.

spud, I believe that's $46 mil

You cannot give up on him 6 starts into his sox career. If the high end velocity returns, then he's too good to continue like this. My only concern for you guys would be if the velo is gone. If he doesn't return to the mid 90s with the capability to hump it up on occasion, then he's going to have to re-learn how to pitch. And you don't pay $217 mil to a guy who has to reinvent himself on day 1

They both have been dominant with a lower velo. Price has been dominant with the higher velocity. He builds off his elite fastball. When that elite fastball goes, the rest of the stuff needs to break more and locate better. I thought CC could do that, but he hasn't proven it yet. If this is the beginning of the velo decline phase for Price, he better work on his location more, because the same stuff 2 mph slower is a lot more hittable

He's been lit up twice now by the worst offense in the AL

I have never seen this David Price before. You better hope he finds that extra gas, cause the guy who was just pitching reminds me of CC once he started to lose it