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Koji Retires in Japanese League.

Farm OPS Leaders: 1.024 Duran (13 SB/2 CS and batting .409) .991 Ockimey (Can it last? 11 HR and 24 RBI in 112 ABs) .955 Holt (He'll be back soon.) .954 Chavis (Doing about the same in MLB) .937 A Marrero (With Greenville) .876 Dalbec (When does he move to AAA?) .864 Granberg (Greenville) .844 Fitzgerald (Almost leads the Sox minors in RBIs with 29, but he has NO HRS!) .806 Casas (Greenville) ERA Leaders (29+ IP) 0.92 Bazardo (Salem) 1.09 R Gomez (Green.) 2.15 B Mata (Salem) 2.72 Crawford (Salem) 2.81 K Hart (Port.) 2.91 Shawaryn (Paw) 2.91 T Ward (Green)

Those were the easy choices. It's gets a bit harder when the next guys are ready.... Pedroia (Go to 12 pitchers: Weber or Brewer to AAA or DFA/trade Thornburg) Holt (Must decide who to keep- Nunez, Holt or Pearce) Johnson (Weber or Brewer to AAA or DFA/trade Thornburg) Eovaldi (Weber or Brewer to AAA or DFA/trade Thornburg) Final 100% healthy 25 man roster: SP (6): Sale, Price, Porcello, Eovaldi, ERod, Johnson RP (6): Barnes, Workman, Brazier, Walden, Hembree, Velazquez C (2): Vaz & Leon 1B (1): Moreland 2B (1): Chavis 3B (1): Devers SS (1): Bogaerts LF (1): Benintendi CF (1): JBJ RF (1): Betts DH/OF (1): JD Bench (3): Holt and 2 from: Nunez, Pedey or Pearce. A look at the final 3 slots: Holt: He can play 1B, as can Chavis, and he can play a decent OF, so I slot him ahead of Pearce & Nunez. Nunez: He needs to start hitting, or he may be the odd man out, but he's more reliable than Pedey (which isn't saying much). He can also play a better OF than Pearce, when healthy. Pedey: He will not be DFA'd. He may retire, if it comes down to him not being able to play more than 2 times a week. I think he stays over Pearce, if he can show he can play 3+ times a week, if needed. Pearce: If he doesn't start hitting, I think he'll be the odd man out. Even if he does hit, we may keep Holt, Nunez & Pedey over him. Tough call. (DFA/Traded: Thornburg)

If Leon only catches Sale and nobody else, he'll be worth keeping around. 2019 CERA with Sale: 2.61 w Leon 6.39 w Vaz 2018 was closer: 2.04 w Leon 2.27 w Vaz 2017 (Vaz caught 0nly 2 games) 2.63 w Leon 13.50 w Vaz Career: 2.44 w Leon (350 inn) 4.37 w Vaz (78 Inn)

With Keuchel still unsigned, who knows what the market will be next winter for someone like Porcello. I'd love to have him back, but I think the price and years will both be too high.

Nice win yesterday. Sale was not at his best, but we squeaked enough runs across to get the W.

He's looked horrible for over 6 weeks. I'm not sure how much longer Cora & Co. will give him.

I've said the same, myself. It was Leon vs Swihart, and to me that choice was always clearly Leon. It is interesting how Sale walked so many people today with Vaz. Small sample size, but I'll be glad when Leon is back behind the plate for Sale's next start.

If they weren't blown saves, they might not be bad, and you can blow a save with an unearned run as well.

But, those blown saves listed may not have come in the 9th inning. (I bet most did not.)

Maybe, if you tell us where you are getting your data, we can respond more accurately.

Brasier only pitched in the ninth inning 5 times last year out of 34 appearances. None after 8/22/18. 7/9 We won 5-0 (Full IP) 7/10 We won 8-4 (Full IP-NO ERs by Brasier) 9/26 We lost 2-1 (Full IP- No ERs) 8/2 We won 15-7 (Full IP- 1 ER) 8/22 We won 10-4 (Full IP- 0 ER) In 2019, He pitched just the 9th inning in 7 of 20 games. He also pitched the 8th as the final inning in losses twice (none of those were blown saves and both had 0 ERs) 9th Inning 4/3 We lost 6-3 (O ER in 1 IP) 4/7 We won 1-0 (O ER in 1 IP) 4/12 We won 6-4 (O ER in 2/3 IP) 4/19 We won 6-4 (O ER in 1 IP) 4/20 We won 6-5 (O ER in 1 IP) (4/21 he pitched the 11th in that 4-3 win @ TB- O ER in 1 IP) 4/25 We won 7-3 (O ER in 1 IP) 5/2 We lost 6-4 (2 ER and 3 Runs in 1 IP for the loss & Blown Save) I'm not seeing anything all that bad in the 9th, except his last 9th inning appearance.

Yes, I get your point. We're talking just the 9th inning. How many 9th inning blown saves do they have? 24 save opportunities 11 saves __ Hold? __ blown saves? Until we know the "hold" numbers in the 9th, we can't say they did poorly 13 times. Where are you getting your data?

Here's some 2018 ninth inning numbers: OPS Against (PAs) .214 Hembree (24) .367 Brasier (18) .511 Kimbrel (210) .546 Kelly (48) .677 Thornburg (28) .701 Barnes (24) .776 Velazquez (48) .792 Johnson (34) 2017 .243 Boyer (21) .266 Kelly (31) .446 Kimbrel (229) .693 Scott (41) .804 Abad (33) .818 Workman (31) .843 Barnes (44) 2019 .350 Walden (12) .364 J Smith (11) .490 Barnes (28) .536 Hembree (8) .705 Velazquez (11) .724 Brasier (26) .896 Brewer (14) 1.473 Thornburg (27) Some very small sample sizes.

What if in 12 of those 13 "non saves" they got the first two guys out, and then Kimbrel was brought in to get the final out and was credited with the save. Did they really "fail" just because they did not get the save? I'm not saying this happened, and it is very likely they did not do all that well in some of those 13 non saves, but to just assume they did poorly in all of them is not based on any data.

They could be taken out without blowing the save before the game ends, and the next guy gets the save or BS.

Beni has way more PAs than most players on the Sox. Here are the K% for Sox players (65+ PAs) % 36 Pearce 30 JBJ 27 Chavis 24 Beni 21 Moreland 18 Bogey 17 Nunez 17 Vaz 15 Devers 15 Betts 15 JD

I'm not blaming him for our losses. I do think our pen could be improved by replacing him with someone we could think of using beyond just blowouts.

I wanted him gone after last year. These 17 innings only confirms what I already thought.

2 wins away from .500 on a small sample size of games.

I've been done "waiting" on Thornburg for quite a while. He's never going to "come around," IMO.

Agreed, but they have not caught on, so not many would understand, if we used them.

If they created a new metric whereby they counted OBP as 60% of "OPS" and SLG% as 40% of "OPS", it would be more accurate, but hard for many to understand, so we don't do it. 3 x OBP + 2 x SLG = Adjusted OPS 5

On defense, all flash and little substance. On offense, he was a god.

What I listed were not my opinions. They were what I expect might happen based on what I know at this point in the season. Pedey will be called up, if he gets healthy enough. I'd probably rather have Nunez or Pearce on the 25 man roster than Pedey, especially if it means we have to DFA one of them to make room for the "fragile" Pedey. I'd rather keep Holt over Pedey, too, but we are not going to DFA Pedey or keep him down against his will.