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Devers shows no signs of contractual laziness.

It seems Houck does much better the first and second times through the line-up. Mullins was the first guy up for the third time. Tie game.

1 is not crooked.

Crooked number needed, here.

Shouldn't this have been something we knew and did from day one?

Good points. When you look at what positions seem "covered" for 3 or more years, it's interesting to see what we have on the farm at the positions not covered. Covered: C: McGuire/Wong 1B: Casas 2B: Story 3B: Devers LF: Yoshida UT: Chang Uncovered/ to be covered by???: SS: Mayer/Romero CF: Rafaela RF: Paulino/Anthony/Abreu/Duran DH: Dalbec/ EValdez/Kavadas UT: Yorke/Hamilton/Lugo/Bonaci/Jordan Pitchers: Covered SP: Whitlock, Bello, Crawford, Winckowski (Sale w option) RP: Houck, Schreiber, Kelly, Mills, Ort Uncovered SP Mata SP Walter SP Murphy/Perales/Wikelman RP Fernandez/ Converted SP'ers

It is a pretty small sample size, and when he joined the team, last August, not only should an adjustment period be given, the team and staff were in chaos. McGuire never caught Nate, Houck or Wacha and hardly caught any of Whitlock and Strahm. That's maybe 5 of our best 7 pitchers of 2022. (Hill & Schreiber being the other two, and RM did not catch more of them than his share.) With all the change-overs from 2022 to 2023, it's like a brand new staff. Here are the pitchers he caught the most in 2023 by PAs Against: 186 Pivetta 120 Hill 110 Crawford 67 Bello 67 Brasier 60 Schreiber 52 Barnes 46 Ort 45 Winck 41 Davis 35 Seabold 31 Danish 30 Sawamura 29 Bazardo 26 Familia While the bottom 6 on this list do not have large sample sizes, their total PA is 192, which is more than with Pivetta. Look how McGuire's PAA list compares to the full season list of PAs Against by Sox pitchers: 773 Pivetta 526 Hill (120 w RM) 515 Wacha (0 w Rease McGuire- a huge disparity) 460 Nate (0 w RM- a huge disparity) 334 Crawford 316 Winck 311 Whitlock (only 21 w RM- a huge disparity) 268 Bello (only 67 w RM) 263 Brasier 257 Schreiber (only 60 w RM) 254 Davis 247 Houck (0 w RM) 221 Sawamura 193 Strahm (only 19 w RM) 176 Barnes 134 Ort 111 Robles As you can see by the pitchers highlighted in red, RM hardly caught 5 of our very best pitchers. The biggest disparities in RM's favor (meaning more PAs w Reese than an even distribution would be) were Pivetta, Hill and Crawford- not really our best pitchers, except for Hill. It was large an apples and oranges scenario, last year. The two game sample size of 2023 does look frightening, as did the ST'ing numbers, but I think there is still an adjustment period underway. Sale and Kluber are new to RM. OPSA in 2023: 1.168 w McGuire 1.460 Kluber (19 PAs) 1.526 Sale (19 PAs) 1.125 Ort (9) 1.270 Kelly (9) .286 Wink (7) 1.214 Brasier (7) .650 Jansen (5) 1.167 Schreiber (4) .000 Martin (3) with Wong (.844): 1.100 Martin (5) .400 Wink (5)

It will be interesting to make the what-if comparison of keeping all or most of last year's players vs what we replaced them with. The cost comp is more difficult, as we will always wonder about what we could have signed Bogey for, instead of what he ended up getting with SD, but here is the financial comp: Lost Sox Players in $millions 25.4 x 11 Bogey 17.0 x 2 Nate 10.0 x 3 Vaz 10.0 x 1 JD 8.0 x 1 Hill 7.5 x 2 Strahm 6.5 x 4 Wacha Total: 84.4M AAV 2023 FA Additions: 17.0 x 5 Yoshida (not counting posting fee) 16.0 x 2 Jansen 10.9 x 2 Turner 10.0 x 1 Kluber 7.0 x 1 Duvall 6.8 x 2 Martin 2.0 x 1 JRod Total: $69.7M for 2023 It's too early to look at 2023 production, but some players on both lists are off to good starts.

You can throw to 1B with 0.1 second remaining, so I'm not sure about this.

I think he'll right the ship, and we'll see him in the bigs, at some point, this year.

To me, the biggest danger with Duvall is injury- not suckiness.

Keep the horns tooting! God knows we hear the kazoos blaring when we lose.

Last night, WOO won 11-2. Whitlock 4 IP, 6 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K Hamilton 3-5 w HR Allen 2-4 w HR and BB Today, WOO lost badly, 16-6 Walter 3.2 IP 7H, 5 ER, 2BB, 1 K CHamilton 2-3 w 2BB and HR Alfaro 2-5 w 2B

It sure was a great one. Falling down 7-1 really got me down.

I suppose they could jerk Whitlock back to the pen, but I wish they just give him a full season as nothing but a starter. My choice of 5 man rotation: 1. Sale 2. Whitlock 3. Kluber 4. Bello 5. Pivetta 6. Paxton (Mata) If all are ever healthy, at the same time, God help us, I'd piggy back Paxton and Bello, or see if Paxton can fill a long relief role. Since Whitlock, Bello and Paxton all seem very close to being ready, and nobody gets hurt in the next 1-2 weeks, we may just keep Bello in AAA to limit his innings total, so he can help later in the year. To me, he is clearly one of our best 5 SP'ers, so he should start, when ready to start.

Maybe a rule should be added to the Rule 5 eligibility requirements that demands a certain amount of time actually spent in the minors- playing.

Chooo- Chooo!

Sounds as simple as 1-2-4.

We are tied for a WC berth.

Does the date involve watching the UConn game?

Our two best SP'ers might not even be on the 26, right now: Whitlock & Bello

True, but really, that ball should have been caught. Their RF'er took the wrong route.

Bloom must have got lucky.

Gotta love the 5 scoreless innings by Wink, Schreiber, Martin and Jansen.

This team is light years better than the 2021 team. .500 better than they were after 2 games.