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Let's hope Mayer can keep this up. Nice poke by Willson, too. Mr RBI, Ceddanne kept it up. Even Durbin got a key hit.

Believe what you wanna believe. Truth be damned.

That was a nice win. If it wasn't for Ceddanne losing that ball in the sun, we might have seen a shut out.

There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down

The thing is, we are farther away than we appear in the mirror.

Magic might be our only hope.

Here is the distribution of top prospects by level: Top 13 (4.5 to 5.5) 2 BOS: Early (3) and Uberstine (13) 3 WOO : Tolle (1) Bennett (10) Romero (12) 1 POR: Arias (2) 6 GRE: Witherspoon (4) Valera (5) Eyanson (6) Phillips (7) Gonzales (8) Godbout (11) 0 SAL 1 FCL: Soto (9) ____________________ 14 to 30 (all 4.0's) 1 BOS: Watson (30) 3 WOO: Castro (16) Samaniego (19) Bastardo (21) 6 POR: Holobetz (14) Wehunt (20) Taylor (22) Mullins (24) Monegro (25) Ziehl (28) -Maybe Paez is added here. 1 GRE: G Rodriguez 1 SAL: Azocar (15) 3 FCL: Ramos (17) Rivas (18) Delzin (23) 2 DSL: Silverio (26) Brito (27) ___________________________ Top 30 (4 to 5.5) 3 BOS 6 WOO 7 POR 7 GRE 1 SAL 4 FCL 2 DSL ________________________ 31-60 0 BOS 2 WOO (Ward & Song) 3 POR (Rivera, Alcantara & Rogers) 7 GRE (Cespedes, White, Jackson, Guzman, Ingrassia, YRod, Ehrlicher) 8 SAL (Heyman, Finley, Morgan, Neely, Nunez, Foutch, Patton, Brown) 9 FCL/DSL (Primera, Cason, Wu-Yelland, Martin, Bravo, Garcia, Ogando, Brannon, McShane) __________________ Top 60 3 BOS 8 WOO 10 POR 14 GRE 9 SAL 15 FCL/DSL The only thing that kinda jumps out at me is that Salem has just one top 30 prospect and 3 in the top 43. GRE looks loaded.

Oviedo to 15 Day IL with right elbow strain. Yikes! He joins Crawford & Sandoval, already on the IL. Whitlock is on paternity leave. Casas has a new injury issue. Uberstine was added to the 26.

One man gathers what another man spills.

1. Anthony DH- Let's put the better OF'er at DH. 2. Story SS- Let's keep the new "team leader" batting 2nd. 3. Duran LF- Inferior on defense to Roman. 4. Contreras 1B- The 4th batter in a row under .685. 5. Abreu RF- The only guy pulling his weight. 6. Durbin 3B- God-awful start to '26. 7. Mayer 2B- Needs to show he belongs. 8. Narvaez C- Back after being benched. 9. Rafaela CF- Mr. RBI needs some more.

While baseball is my favorite sport, I was best at basketball- for whatever that is worth. It is really not the same game, anymore, and it's not just the 3 pointer aspect. Travelling, the "eurostep," jump stops and on and on...

What would be the answer to the answer man? -Garcia/Lesh/Hunter

They did end up making reactionary changes to address the "wearing down" issue by expanding the roster size. Also, teams used to keep 10, 11 or 12 pitchers on their 25 man roster- now everyone keeps 13 on their 26. They have specialized "long men," 6th, u7th and 8th inning guys, and of course almost everyone uses a one inning closer. Yes, someone made a choice to try and maximize pitcher's skillsets by pushing them towards "not saving themselves" for a long game. It makes sense, beyond the machinery analogy. Yes, it has led to more injuries- not less, and that might hint at the fact that this wasn't done to prolong pitchers' careers. I remember that A's team, where almost all the starters went way longer than anyone else in MLB, and most of those pitchers didn't last very long either. Good post. Thanks.

Woo rained out. GRE scored 5 in the 11th to get the win. Valero: 7 Ks in 3.1 (2H, 2 ER, 2BB) Encarnacion with a 3-run dinger. Gonzales 0-5 w 3 Ks SAL won 5-4 as Dylan Brown went 6 scoreless (2 H, 0 BB, 6K) Nunez & King each with 2 hits.

After looking over the new rankings, I think my top 25 might be... 1. Early 2. Tolle 3. Arias 4. Witherspoon 5. Valera 6. Gonzales 7. Phillips 8. Eyanson 9. Soto 10. Godbout 11. Bennett 12. Holobetz 13. Azocar 14. Ramos 15. Rivas 16. Romero 17. Delzine 18. Paez 19. Samaniego 20. Bastardo 21. Uberstine 22. Silverio 23. Brito 24. Ziehl 25. Castro/Watson Sleeper: Jo Garcia

It is rather amazing how few top everyday prospects are near MLB ready. We have some decent ML depth in AAA, but all are graduates or AAAA types. Romero & Ward with maybe Castro in between those two is all there is. AA has.... 2. Arias 22. Taylor 33. Bleis 42. Alcantara

LOL! 😅

The old folks in the 70's probably wished the game was like it was in the 30's.

Oh, the good ole days. I remember my granny saying this.

Hasn't pretty much every generation in the history of the world spoke of how things were better way back when?

2018 was really fun, too. Yes, I liked the game more back then, but I was also an impressionable teen. I don't sit around wishing the game changes back to the way it was. I love the game as it is and baseball will always be my favorite sport. Now, ask me how much I like the way the NBA has changed. LMAO!

Just before dropping back out.

2024 to 2025: IP by SP'er Sox are 11th. (2019-2023: 26th)

No. I preferred the games of the early to mid 70's, but like everything else in life, things change. It is what it is. I accept it and still think baseball is the best game ever invented. Change is ineviditable.

So, every manager, GM, scout and probably everyone in every baseball role doesn't know what the hell they are talking about.