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I doubt any major moves will be made over an 8 game sample size. While Kike is not doing well, at all, he has company: 16+ ABs .364 Wong (more ABs than McGuire) .496 Casas .519 Arroyo .579 Kike .586 Refsnyder .645 Turner (despite the .378 OBP) I will say, I did expect better D from Kike, too.

Yes, 2 hits, 2 BB, 2 runs and 2 rbi in 12 PAs. Not bad.

I was hoping to say, "Everybody Wong Chang, tonight!"

We need an HR to keep the run efficiency high,

I like the new physique.

Wongerful!

Dugo off to a nice start.

Duvall Forevers!

Turner was one of MLB's hottest second half hitters, last year and has a career .857 second half OPS. He's off to a .400 OBP start. I'd hold on, unless there is a fire sale.

I should have put that in sarcasm green.

The three Bloom O guys acquired all have OBP of .400 or better. .516 Duvall .400 Yoshida .400 Turner Someone needs to start a Fire Bloom thread.

As advertised. Now, work on that BA!

I'm really looking forward to Houck being our 2-4 inning pen guy.

What? There is no Guffman?

He may not make it twice through.

Good game to test if the 3rd time through the lineup thing is for real with Houck.

Who is Mendoza? Mondesi? Joely? Bellisimo?

The one guy Bloom did not give a 2nd year or club option. I've finally come around to the majority thinking: Bloom sucks!

Just glad we now have... Devers Forevers!

CBS MLB Sox Injury Report and ETAs: at least until... APRIL 11 Whitlock 16 Bello 24 Paxton MAY 1 J Rodriguez 1 Mills 30 Mondesi June July 14 Story

Big start for Houck. Here is the lineup: (No Casas or McGuire) 1. Refsnyder LF 2. Devers 3B 3. Turner 1B 4. Yoshida DH 5. Duvall CF 6. Verdugo RF 7. Arroyo 2B 8. Kike SS 9. Wong C

I'm not certain about our pitching being okay. They almost have to get better- only because they have been so very bad, up to now. To me, we have a pretty solid 6 SP'ers and sketchy but still more promising depth than recent years. They still need to do it on the mound, but I do remain optimistic, as long as injuries don't equal last year's totals. If we can keep 4-5 of these top 6 healthy, at almost all times, we'd have a real chance: Sale Whitlock Kluber Bello Paxton Pivetta If no, we'll need 1-2 from this group to shine: Crawford Mata Walter, Murphy, Drohan move Wink back to SP?

Sending Crawford down keeps him in a starting role at AAA, but if he does well in his next start, I'd consider moving Houck to the pen, instead and sending Kelly or Ort to AAA. The tougher choice may be when Bello becomes ready. I doubt they keep him in AAA, and hopefully it is they they move Houck to the pen, leaving this 13 man staff until Paxton and or Joely are ready: Rotation: Sale, Whitlock, Kluber, Bello, Pivetta Pen: Jansen, Martin, Schreiber, Houck, Bleier, Winckowski, Brasier and one from Kelly, Ort or maybe Crawford. Paxton and Joely would force all of Ort, Kelly and Crawford to the minors.

We did have hopes some players would be returning back in 2022, as well, but perhaps with more uncertainty about time table and effectiveness of those about to return. Kike went out June 7th and didn't return until mid August. I'm not sure he was suspected to be out so long. He had been a big key to the second half and playoff success of 2021. Story's injury in Mid July was a killer. He had hit .786 in his previous 2 months. The worst part, of course, was the massive overlap of SP'er injuries that forced us to go too deep on the rotation depth chart: Whitlock: June 7 to July 15 Nate: June 8 to July 15 Wacha: June 28 to August 14 R Hill: July 1 to August 3 Houck: August 2 to end of season Sale: made 2 starts in mid July then missed the rest of the season Paxton: never made it. It would have been close to impossible to foresee such a timing scheme of injury like that. We ended up starting 12 different pitchers with Paxton never getting a start. For argument's sake, this might have been our rotation depth chart with all healthy: 1. Sale 2 GS 2. Nate 20 3. Paxton 0 4. Wacha 23 5. Hill 26 6. Pivetta 33 7. Whitlock 9 8. Houck 4 9. Winckowski 14 10. Crawford 12 11. Bello 11 (Davis 3) We were forced to yank Houck and Whitlock from successful pen roles and then use Wink, Crawford, Seabold and Bello for 42 starts, That's nearly the same as Nate + Wach (43). It's almost double Sale, Paxton, Nate (22)- our best 3 SP'ers. Not many teams can overcome that. The Houck injury came after the trade deadline, but the rest were before it and some left hopes of prompt returns to action. It never happened. Devers playing hurt in August only added to the confluence misfortune.

14 AL Teams are within 2.5 games of each other. Only the Rays (7-0) stand alone, although 3 teams are within 2.5 of them.