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These things sort of get to be steamrollers once they get going. MLB figures the Sox are better than this and so every team tries to get their wins while they can. The Sox meanwhile are failing in every aspect of the game. Hard to accomplish for a professional sports franchise at the pinnacle of a particular sport that has this much talent. But the Sox are managing it.

Well, Remdog has seen enough

Thought it would be foul. Thought it would be caught. Thought it was a HR. I am getting sick of this s*** too. Run for God sake. Its not like they did anything to get tired during ST.

I failed to mention in this post the sterling performances of our two RH starters who also suck ass and don't appear to have a clue to this point in the season.

We have 3 LH Starters. If they keep throwing crap Changeups like this to RH hitters...forget it. They will be lucky to win 90. Heck they might be lucky to win 90 anyway.

Its all Leon's fault.

Why don't you just crow hop all the way to 1st base Rafi. Then you wouldn't have to throw it at all.

Another s*** Changeup from a Sox LH starter. These guys are flat AWFUL....A.W.F.U.L!

Yuk.......

I don't know. I would have thought one game was enough. The socks drive me nuts too.

Not hard to see that Sale didn't finish the FB for the RBI base hit.

Well Sale is much quicker to the plate. I can see that much....I don't mean the pace of play....I mean his delivery.

DL apparently told Remy that they are working on Sale's mechanics. Not a surprise since other than Price, their mechanics suck to a man. Actually as much as I comment about the motion, release points and follow through of our pitchers I have no shot with Sale. I have no shot with any of the tall gangly pitchers. Could not figure out Randy Johnson either via video screen. So I have some sympathy for DL trying to help Sale work things out. The tall lanky guys are all elbows and knees and are all over the place. They are so big and lanky that their deliveries tend to be specific to them individually. DL says he is trying to get Sale to a more compact delivery and trying to get him to speed up his delivery.

They will be better because work will round them into form. We will not know if this is going to work out unless this team makes it to the ALCS at least. If not....so much for Cora's grand strategy. i think what Cora actually missed was how poorly his everyday players would play and how much he would have to rely on his rotation to win games early. He missed how poorly they would handle carrying all this hardware from 2018 around. JD us the only guy that has handed it well. Why is that not a shock? X is coming out of his funk a bit. The rest...not so much. I think that was really what Cora missed. I am of course engaging in major Monday morning quarterbacking here.

Price was the most prepared of an unprepared rotation coming out of ST and it shows. He was the best of the pack from start till now though that is not saying much. Sale appears to be making some progress though slow. Porcello cannot repeat his motion, release point or follow through especially on secondary pitches and from the stretch. Nat can't find the plate and has no idea where the ball is going. ERod was talked into a good start and had the whole first inning directed for him by the coaching staff last time out. So they are basically still a mess but making slow progress. None of the LH starters can throw a consistent Changeup to save his skin...THAT is a big problem getting RH hitters out these days. Spring Training has a purpose and if you allow your rotation to effectively skip it then they are going to be doing ST work during games that count. It ain't rocket science folks. Its just baseball. It might work out in the end if Cora's grand strategy plays out. If not....NOT. It only even has a chance to work if they make it to and through the AL post season. Regular season games all count. So losing them in April is just as bad as losing them in September.

He won't. But that is not the issue and Leon is simply not that much better than Vaz defensively if at all. You don't think Vaz can hit? Wait till you get a load of 2019 Leon. He is batting .120 in AAA with a .274 OPS.

The link is not Leon and the entire rotation. The link is Sale. They are paying Sale approximately $10k per pitch. Sale should not need his Binkie and he is making lousy pitches. But at $10k per pitch he is going to get his Binkie regardless of anything else just because $10k per pitch is $10k per pitch. The time is going to come in Sale's career that even his Binkie is not going to make that much of a difference. You can count on one hand the number of pitchers that have gone through a complete career so confident in their entire menu of pitches that they did not have to shake off catchers. In fact, you can count them on one hand with fingers left over. The "I can throw anything, just put down the sign" idea is naive....cute but naive. This is going to be part of Sale's maturation as a pitcher whether we like it or not and whether he likes it or not.

Would not be a total surprise. But somebody is probably going to gamble that Swi is just a riddle that the Sox have not been able to solve and will take a shot on him on that score alone.

Yup...Swi's bat was seen as his salvation and he just was not performing like it. We knew this was a fish or cut bait effort for the Sox with Swi. Lesson to ballplayers....gotta' know what your opportunity represents and gotta' take advantage of it especially when you getting paid nothing. Thought they would go longer with Swi but those last few AB's were pretty disappointing and they were not going to give Swi three weeks to heat up. That was not happening under the current conditions. I still will never like the way Swi was treated here in that they stuck him in LF as if he could just play there. He ends up crushing his ankle.....predictable given how hard it is to learn Fenway Outfield positions. Then again, carrying three catchers worked for them last year. Could they have given Pedey more time playing minor league ball and thus given Swi more time? We will never know now. I wonder if they will throw Sandy right in to catch Sale tonight. Somehow this timing makes me think that is the plan.

I hear ya'. The Church has been tone deaf, far too compliant and even complicit on that issue for decades. Father PullDownYourPants was/is no joking matter. That said you would have thought something at the Vatican itself would have been morel likely in that case.

Just checked CNN. Man that fire is raging which makes me wonder if it is an accident. You would think fire officials could have gotten to that sooner than raging.

If that turns out to be arson, that is a sorry state of affairs.

Literally losing twice as many games as we are winning sounds like a long way from .500 ball let alone contending.

Mancini is probably the only guy torqued off about this. He probably had visions of added playing time as the Davis career went down the drain.

Cure for Chris Davis......Red Sox Pitching. I hate Hembree. That is all I will say about him....until the next time he pitches.