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I think we all be amazed knowing back in March that our catchers would have a +0.9 fWAR on May 10th (0.7 Wong + 0.2 McGuire). The 3.2 fWAR from Verdugo (1.4), Duran (1.3) and Yoshida (0.5) is even more shocking. (Tapia is 0.2.) The bummers: -0.4 Casas -0.2 Kike Not bad having just 2.

I think McGuire's D is better than we've seen, but who knows? I also think he may be battling an injury. Over time, we may reverse our thinking, but I like what both have done, so far. As far as the rotation sucking and how much of that is on the catcher(s,) we'll have to give it time. Not a good start, for sure.

fWAR is a more kind to some pitchers: 0.6 Sale & Houck (+ Jansen) 0.4 Wink 0.2 Schreiber 0.1 Crawford & Brasier 0.0 Martin, Bernardino, Bello, Littell, Kelly, Whitlock -0.1 Bleier -0.2 Pivetta & Ort -0.3 Kluber

MLB ERA is up 9% from last year (3.97 > 4.33) Pivetta's is up 37%.

So, was someone demoted, IL'd or let go from POR?

We are 2-2 in games where our pitching lets up 4 runs. Our O sucks! We are 8-6 when allowing 4-5 runs, but 5-4 when allowing 6-8 runs. Kinda early to draw conclusions.

Well, Wink has has many IP as some starters. My point about Houck: 3.02 ERA 2020-2022 with anyone but Wong. 5.26 ERA in 2023 w ONLY Wong. McGuire has not caught Houck, at all. Whitlock: 2.73 ERA 2021-2022 with anyone but Wong. 6.19 ERA in 2023 with ONLY Wong These numbers are just as horrible, frightening and concerning as any pitcher's numbers with mcGuire. It's not just McGuire with horrible numbers.

Anyone moving up to AAA to make room for these two?

Not a good night on the top of the farm... Mata was rocked (6 runs in 2 IP 0n 6H and 3 BB.) Fitzy homered. Van Belle had almost identical numbers as Mata. Siked homered. Kavadas 0-4 w 4 Ks Rafaela 1-5 w 2B Binelas 2-4 GRE won with Bonaci & Erro homering. Jordan 3-5 Paulino 1-3 w 2BB and 10th SB SAL won as E R-C struggled but allowed just 2 ERs in 4 IP. 2-4 Anthony & Coffey 1-3 w BB Bleis

I hope the promotions work out.

McGuire has not caught Houck and Whitlock, this year- two of our best ERA guys from 2021-2022. How are they doing? McGuire has gotten better out of Wink and Crawford/ Wong better from Sale and Pivetta.

I watched the whole game on delay, but there just wasn't much to comment on.

I hardly ever buy that line about "handling the pressure" under a tough media and fanbase, but I'm pretty sure it's true with some players.

My projected Sox rotations: 2024: 1. Sonny Gray 2. Chris Sale 3. Bryan Bello 4. Garrett Whitlock 5. Houck 6. Nick Pivetta/Kutter Crawford/Shane Drohan 20/25: 1. Sonny Gray 2. Bryan Bello 3. Garrett Whitlock 4. Houck 5. Kutter Crawford/Shane Drohan 6. Bryan Mata, Brandon Walter 2026 Maybe Perales or Wikelman break in. 2027 Maybe E R-C, Noah Dean or Dalton Rogers

It's like the pitchers adjusted to him, and he could never counter-adjust. First 2 seasons (545 PAs) .244 33 94 with 62 XBHs (.819 OPS) Adjusted to 650, that's like 40 HRs and 113 RBI and 74 XBHs. Last 2 years: .649 OPS projected to 650: .214 23 75 w 44 XBHs

Career OPS: .752 Career OPS as PH: .750

Yoshida and advanced metrics... Keys to Masataka Yoshida's turnaround, as measured by Statcast WWW.MLB.COM After the Red Sox signed Masataka Yoshida to a five-year, $90 million contract this offseason -- representing the largest contract ever awarded to a position player coming from Japan to MLB -- opinion about the transaction outside of Boston was mixed at best. After all, Yoshida was small (5-foot-8, 176 Paxton to pitch Friday... Red Sox injuries and roster moves WWW.MLB.COM LATEST NEWS Devers joins select Sox crowd as fastest to 150 HRs... Rafael Devers reaches 150 career home runs WWW.MLB.COM This story was excerpted from Ian Browne’s Red Sox Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

How about the Mets rotation? They've started 9 pitchers, including Denyi Reyes. 8.56 Carrasco (on IL) 7.34 Peterson (6 GS) 5.56 Scherzer (5 GS, has neck spasms, now: I wonder why) 4.43 Lucchesi (4 GS) Verlander has 1 GS Megill 4.33 in 7 GS Senga 3.38 in 6 GS

I only know about him from the Beni trade and watching if anything would come of the 5 guys we got for him. Cordero flopped. Wink looked like one, but now... Gambrell is with de la Rosa in Salem. Freddy Valdez is still in FCL.

You beat me to it.

I always hoped the St. Louis Cardinals would move to LA instead of AZ, so we'd have the ST. Rams and the LA Cardinals. The Memphis Grizzlies is a weird one, too. The Angels taking 4 shots at naming where they play was odd. I wonder, if they are done.

If I was going to complain about yanking starters to early or leaving them in too long, and I wouldn't on either- I'd choose leaving some of the starters in too long, but only if I was forced to choose one.

I doubt they want Houck to pitch 210 innings, this year, even if he finds and stays in a groove, anyway. With Whitlock looking more and more like a pen arm, to me, I'm thinking we might need to baby Houck a little bit, especially since he will be getting even more innings in the playoffs.

Too funny! I still think the Utah Jazz takes the cake, although all those lakes in LA are funny, too.

There certainly are others worth mentioning over DLR.