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Sox would still be trying to make Brusdar a starter.

Bloom scoured the waiver wire for relievers daily.

Loving those Chase Anderson starts, are you?

Not many fans were clamoring for Stroman or Gray either. It's clear they had no shot of getting Yamamoto. Snell was an obvious high risk move. I think the Sox would have still been smart to get anyway. Henry didn't think so.

@BOSSportsGordo Masataka Yoshida will be placed on the IL, Alex Cora said on @JonesandMego.

Career 2 DRS at 1B.

Monty has only pitched in 2 games, both of which were QS. Snell is injured. Ignoring his first start, Yamamoto has been great. Stroman has been Stroman. Gray has been great too.

Well, let's hope they don't put Smith in the OF.

Yes, but you have to think about it.

Smith was mentioned last season for the Sox. It's the epitome of an underwhelming acquisition. He's likely now just left handed Abraham Almonte.

Cooper is already a RHB. How many 1B are they going to bring in?

Kristian Campbell tater alert. Second day in a row.

@BOSSportsGordo It’s a big league contract for Dom Smith in Boston, per @ByRobertMurray. Possible platoon situation with Garrett Cooper. Also definitely wondering about Yoshida’s status with his hand injury.

There's much less Star Trek talk now.

It was bean bag chairs back then. All the metal was used for the war.

His launch angle put a hole in a poor man's straw hat!!!!

Places like Driveline are what's injuring pitchers.

What about the ball that Williams hit? Today, a red seat marks the spot where Williams’s home run struck Joseph A. Boucher in the head, puncturing his straw hat. After the game, Boucher asked reporters, “How far away must one sit to be safe in this park?”14 When asked why he did not defend himself, he replied, “I couldn’t see the ball. Nobody could. The sun was right in our eyes. All we could do was duck.”15 It was his first time sitting with 7,897 of his closest friends in Fenway Park’s bleachers.16 (He could not get a ticket for the grandstand.) After being struck in the very center of his hat’s crown, Mr. Boucher went to the first-aid room, and it was there that he was “treated by Dr. Ralph McCarthy and two pretty nurses”17 before returning to his seat to watch the rest of the game. He did not recover the baseball. It was, however, suggested that he donate his hat to the Baseball Hall of Fame with the following inscription: “Hat worn by J.A. Boucher of Albany, June 9, 1946, when Ted Williams of Red Sox bounced his longest Boston home run off owner’s head. Note aperture.”18

Also, the seat has been moved and the story is ********.

And that's why dinosaurs no longer exist.

Whitlock has always been an injury risk with or without Bailey. Giolito was injured almost on day 1, which leads me to believe it's not a Bailey issue. Bello's injury was lat tightness which was either precautionary or not that serious. It's also not a typical injury that we've seen with this max effort push. Pivetta was the worrisome one. However, he had already adjusted his pitch mix last year when he added the sweeper. Did the damage start then?

On Rafaela, it's not even him knowing the strike zone. He has a pretty bad whiff rate in and out of the zone. He's never been a guy to take a pitch, just a guy who has punished pitches that he can handle. He'll always be up there hacking. If he can reduce the in zone whiffs, he'd be better off. The chase rate is impacting his overall exit velo and barrel rate, but I don't think that's going to get better. Just don't let pitchers beat you middle/middle!

Well, we mostly thought Houck and Crawford were inevitable relievers...

That dang Hang 'Em Chaim!!!!!!

I mean, you're basically TalkSox's Wavy Gravy, so yeah.