@redsoxstats
Everyone's putting out their final mocks before last minute tweaks today..
Kiley McDaniel/ESPN:
24. Boston Red Sox
Kumar Rocker, RHP, Tri-City
Prospects Live:
24. Boston Red Sox
Jordan Beck, OF, Tennessee
Baseball America:
24. Boston Red Sox
Chase DeLauter, OF, James Madison
I believe the original comic was written en francais, in modern French if you will. I was not stating that Asterix was French, just that comic is written in French, so it's a French comic book.
I think that's what I thought when I posted the lineup before the game started.
Plawecki has been dogshit this year. DFA. Call up Wong. His OPS is below .500. Enough already.
The Verdugo of 2020 isn't walking through that door. He should have been traded when he had value.
Downs isn't an MLB guy.
Cordero is a backup at best, but he's getting regular time.
JBJ is who he is and we expected it.
If Duran isn't getting on at the top of the lineup, there's only 3 guys that you can count on. It's ugly.
A last DAMN place team that is .500 or above would get the biggest asterisk this side of a French comic book. They have been horrible against the AL East this year. What that tells me is that, they'll probably do better against TBR, TOR, BAL, NYY down the stretch.
Why? Crawford didn't have a high pitch count? When all was said and done, he only threw 91 pitches.
If Houck is the closer, why would you use him in the 7th inning? Didn't Schreiber end up taking the loss anyway?
Ignoring his first start jitters against BAL:
6 GS
3.71 ERA
5.2 IP/S
1.29 WHIP
The only bad start out of the 6 was against NYY. He's been fine for a guy still getting his feet wet.
@MLBPipeline
97.8 mph!
Oneil Cruz with the fastest recorded infield assist in the Statcast era!
https://twitter.com/MLBPipeline/status/1547631549176197120
Absolute cannon. Pirates fans don't have much else to enjoy this year aside from Chavis' long hair.
I agree. The need is to find a 1B that can hit and reasonably field the position through October. Maybe the need for relievers diminishes with Eovaldi, Sale, Hill and Wacha coming back. Keep Crawford and Winckowski up in some capacity. Whitlock is in the pen. Maybe Paxton can offer something at some point.
It's just going to be sad when the Mariner's have the playoffs within their grasp, but blow it over the course of a 10 game homestand at the end of the year.
And now for something completely different:
@PortlandSeaDogs
Jay Groome is on the move to join the @WooSox!
Groome was 3-4 with a 3.52 ERA with the Sea Dogs this season and struck out 81 hitters in 76.2 innings.