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O’s win in 10!

O’s beat the Yanks in 10! See, the loss column leads sometimes can be bad.

So, we won’t be means tested.

Those late 60's early 70's teams had some great defenders and a few great O & D players like Yaz, Lynn, Evans, Fisk, Petrocelli, G Scott, Smith, Miller, Burleson but also... Luis Aparicio Rick Miller Doug Griffin Mike Andrews

I remember that Nick Punto trade like it was yesterday!

LOL! You crack me up!

Some OPS numbers since the trade deadline: (ranking based 244 players with 100+ PAs) 2. Dalbec 1.116 31. Renfroe .937 51. Schwarber .877 67. Verdugo .852 72. Bogaerts .844 106. N Cruz .794 122. Rizzo .776 128. Kike .759 132. JD M .759 140. Devers .739 154. Vaz .719 185. Gallo .683 193. Schoop .673 211. A Frazier .635 242. C Santana .498

If I had told you that some guy named Motter, along with Bobby Dee, Iggy, Shaw and Santana would be our 5 OPS leaders over the last 4 weeks, I'd have been laughed off the site. All are over .970!

Just a lil...LOL. Last 7 days .362 Kike .367 Schwarb .440 Renfroe .619 Devers .701 Verdugo .808 JD .879 Shaw 1.036 Bogey (the rest helped) 1.038 Vaz 1.070 Dalbec 1.446 Iggy the man! Last 14 days .325 Kike .591 Plawecki .668 Schwarb .708 Vaz .719 Devers .833 Verdugo .845 Arauz .845 Renfroe .878 JD .974 Santana (14 PAs) .988 Shaw 1.029 Dalbec 1.036 Bogey 1.150 Iggy 1.262 Motter (7 PAs)

The Adam for Carl Everett trade kinda tells it all.

I don't remember very many meaningful defensive pick-ups for players expected to be FT'ers back in "those days." I do remember guys like... Manny Offerman Canseco C Everett Tommy Harper Lansford Tony Armas The "D guys?" Darren Lewis Darren Bragg FT? Reese D Buford A Cora Alex Gonzalez Spike Owen

I do, plus they were fed up with Nomar. When we made that trade, I said to my brothers-in-law, "OCab is going to win us a ring!" They said, "Who's he?"

It would have to be a soft stool.

Salvador Perez tied the catcher HR record with 45. The Royals are tied with the A's 2-2 in the 3rd. Yanks play at 5 pm, today.

These 8 home games might decide the whole ballgame. Although our last 6 games look "easy," they are on the road and we don't want to have to count on other teams losing.

That is what my post implied. I should have worded it differently.

Brett Gardner, too?

I won't deny we have gone after many big hitters, but what makes the henry era different from the others, IMO was placing higher priority on pitching and to some extent defense. Although Pedro was acquired before Henry, it wasn't until we added great #2 and deeper rotations and pend did we start seeing rings. Trades and FAs Schilling Lowe Beckett Wakefield Dice-K Lackey ERod Porcello Price Sale Eovaldi To a lesser extent: Wells, Clement, Burkett, Doubront, Peavy, Miley, Wright, Kelly, Pomeranz, Pivetta, Foulke Kimbrel Timlin Embree Koji Okajima Tazawa If you look at our top pitchers by WAR since 2003, only these pitchers were homegrown: 1. Lester 5. Buchholz 7. Papelbon 18. Barnes 31. Bard We did seem to focus on drafting hitters that could also play D more often than before: Betts Pedey JBJ Iggy Youk Reddick Nixon The best UZR/150 players we traded/acquired for were: A Beltre JD Drew Crisp R Sweeney S Leon D Mirabelli C Kotchman D Meintkewicz Victorino P Reese Alex Gonzalez A Cora B Holt S Drew I would agree that defense has not been a really high priority under Henry, but I do think higher than pre-Henry.

I doubt they flip him based on just a handful or games for Mayer, but this is my list.

A small stool might work.

Agreed.

So, give the guy a chair.

With robo umps, it might not be a bad idea.

Here is one way we might use our starters: Off BAL Seabold (+1 day rest) BAL Pivetta (+1) BAL ERod (+1) Off NYM Eovaldi (+2) NYM Sale (back from COVID) Off NYY Houck (+4) NYY Pivetta (+1) NYY Eovaldi Off @BAL ERod (+4) @BAL Sale (+2) @BAL Houck (+1) @WSH Pivetta (+1) @WSH Eovaldi (+1) @WSH ERod WC Sale (+1) We could also begin using Houck in the pen or as a "piggyback) RP'er and start him just once more: Off BAL Seabold (+1 day rest) BAL Pivetta (+1) BAL ERod (+1) Off NYM Eovaldi (+2) NYM Sale (back from COVID) Houck Piggyback Off NYY Pivetta NYY ERod (+1) NYY Eovaldi Off @BAL Houck @BAL Sale (+2) @BAL Pivetta (+1) @WSH ERod (+1) @WSH Eovaldi (+1) @WSH Sale if needed or Houck/Seabold WC Sale (+1)

Sox Days Off (and who TOR & NYY play to make up the 2 games they both have in hand): 9/16 NYY @ BAL 9/20 NYY v TEX, TOR @ TBR 9/23 TOR @ MIN 9/27 (all off)