jacksonianmarch

MRI of shoulder coming up. That’s bad, bad news

He wasn’t pulled for performance. He was pulled presumably for injury

Kluber pulled after 3 innings

Every mock of late has the Vandy boys dropping. Mayo has House going to the sox and Leiter/Rocker going 5 and 6 in the draft. I just highly, highly doubt the sox would pass on either with a system in need of pitching and both of those guys are rapid riser candidates. I also continue to see the Yanks mocked to pitchers. I do love having a deep pitching system, but when you are so overweight pitchers and underweight hitters, you run into the issue we had last year where you cannot protect them all. Whitlock, in prior years, would have been a 100% protect player, but with all the high octane arms in the system, they left him exposed and the sox benefited from that. Last year was the first year we went offense first with our first pick. Typically, the Yanks select a pitcher who can start that they think can tick up velo (ie not a high octane arm out of the amateur ranks) or they draft a position player who is a high character guy with a good glove and questionable hit tool. I would love to see one of the bashers fall to NY. Of all the late 1st round profiles, I like the kid from MA the best, Josh Baez. Most power in the entire draft, cold weather HS player with an absolute cannon (97mph off the mound).

We shall see if their hot shot rookie is any good. I just realized something about the Jays that likely puts them in jeopardy for winning anything. They are road warriors this year. No Toronto and their home games are split between Dunedin and Buffalo. At least give them a single home stadium. With a young team and the obstacles now in their way, my bet is they underperform their expectation.

With all the new statcast stuff, it seems to make more sense to have your best OBP player batting the most amount of times. For the sox, that could be Xander or JD. If I was Cora, I would start your lineup Xander-JDM-Devers-Kike

For a team that has not drafted/IFA signed and developed an ace since Lester, I think the prospects of getting one of the two Vandy boys is too much to pass up

You are just mad that we caught your team in the L column. Looking forward to surpassing your boys soon

Yanks pick up Chapman for his first ER this year. Sweep best team in the AL.

5 shutout innings from Taillon. 35 straight scoreless innings from our starters. First time since the 30s

If the Sox buy heavily or mildly at the deadline is entirely up to what Henry and Co thinks about their chances. While baseball is truly a “momentum stops at the next day’s pitcher” type of game, the better teams typically make deep runs. To this point in the season, the Sox have had pretty good health (I know Kike and Arroyo are hurt, but nothing serious) and they’ve doubly benefited from the dead ball. Their top hitters don’t seem phased by it and the pitchers have tremendously benefited from it. Baseball is a game of adjustments, and as hitters adjust to the new flight path of the ball, we should see offense tick up across the sport. Offense rising means a rotation of overachieving misfits should regress. The real question is not if, but when they fade. If by mid July the rotation of the Sox is still holding teams at bay and the Sox are comfortably up, they’ll buy and might buy big. If they’re in a dog fight with teams that have more talent, I think they’ll get a cursory add on and nothing more. I don’t think the Sox brass are sold on 21 as a title type season, nor do I think they should be. But every day that passes with another Sox win is going to alter that thought process for all of us.

It’s champagne problems, I know

The white Sox showed up defeated today. The only issue during this Yankee streak is they seem to take the foot off the gas when they’ve won a series. My hope is they come out swinging tomorrow, but if we are to follow recent history, they’re likely to get banged around tomorrow

16-5 in the last 21. Stanton (supposedly) is due back Tuesday as it sounds like his IL placement was purely precautionary. Torres is on fire. Voit is still in spring training mode. Judge has been hitting and Lemahieu has been going oppo again. Our offense needs a boost from CF and/or LF. If we don’t start seeing something from Frazier or Gardner, you’ll see some trades occurs g

30 straight shutout innings from our starters

Gleyber is on fire. Bout time

Excuses excuses. Cole is dominating and Yankee bats finally kicked on.

Feyereisen was part of the Miller trade with the Yanks. He’s exactly what the Rays love. He throws damn hard. Upper 90s-100s with a big slider. Command is a problem, though. I saw the return and figured you’ll be seeing a lot of Feyereisen

Yanks pitching last 3 games 0.33ERA 0.55 WHIP 27:4 K:BB

I’ve been consistent with Monty. He’s a mid to back end starter. Yesterday, he flashed up. He doesn’t have the stuff to just dominate day in and day out and he also doesn’t have the stuff to gut through a start when half his arsenal isn’t working like Cole can. He’s a solid pitcher and last night’s effort was tremendous

That Montgomery guy sure does suck.... That’s 1ER over the last 27IP vs the Rangers and White Sox. This pitching is legit

That was the reasoning on the mlb.com mock. His velo has dropped from high 90s at the beginning of the year to now sitting at 92-94. Still effective, but it’s a red flag. A pitcher first overall is always scary for teams because they’re one pitch away from being trashed. The Pirates need one of everything, so if they’ve got a chance to draft 1 overall and they’re not completely sold, they’ll go hitter which is what they’re mocked to right now

Medina, Otto, and Hauver had great days today as did Wells and a few others. For those of you who think a player is having a good start to the minor league season, look up Hauver and Medina’s seasons. Hauver has a 1.398OPS to start the year with 6 bombs. Medina has allowed 5H in 18.1IP with 32K.

How do you leave Matz in like this?

Another shutout. German is on a roll