moonslav59

That narrows the choices.

I'd like to see Criswell get a shot. He was a decent starter in '24, and did well his only start, this year. I'm not sure Fitts really deserves a start, but Harrison hasn't shown much, either. My guess is Harrison gets the call.

LOL. Maybe we could include Winckowski, too.

What we are witnessing with Chapman is legendary.

What a sweet win! Bello has become the best we could hope for. Gutsy game. These guys are for real.

Sandlin is imploding. Paez pitched a shutout 3 IP (1H, 0BB, 5K)

I kinda surprised myself. I'm not usually this close. I shoulda known Wong.

It will be interesting to see who the Sox send for winter workouts at 1B: Campbell and or Jh Garcia? Justin Gonzales? If we don't trade Duran, what about him? Maybe we can trade for that 1B whiz on San Fran! Dump Yoshida's salary for their $30M 1B/DH.

But, I did.

I almost nailed it! Wong over Narvaez- I shoulda known with Bello pitching. I had JG at 1B, which was a stab. Jh Garcia in CF over Duran is telling.

I was thinking they wanted Duran or Abreu plus Tolle. I'm not sure I'd go higher than Duran/Abreu and any 2 from Valera, Clarke, Early and Sandlin. I might give three, if not Valera. If they want DHam or Grissom,,, lol.

A few past prospects took steps back or failed to move forward, but that is expected. End Last Season/Start of season>>> 9 Cespedes> 16 15 Bleis>12 (by attrition) 21 D Reyes> 51 (Injured) 22 Castro>25 Tygart and Nunez fell, too. I agree, though- a nice season!

We've used 31 pitchers, including Toro and Eaton, and another 8 or 9 guys are either gone or out for the year with an injury. Here are the OPS Against numbers for those who may still pitch, this season for the Sox: .384 Chapman is an absurd number (.192 OBP and SLG) He's let up 5 XBHs in 182 PAs Against! .465 Slaten has been sorely missed. (3 XBHs allowed in 90 PAS) .479 Matz in just 31 PAs Against, but still... .530 Guerrero in 72- not sure if he'll be back. .556 Whitlock in 242 (most PAs Against by a RP) .558 Bernardino in 194- welcome back Brennan! .606 Crochet in 637- excellent for a SP'er! .614 Murphy in 89- still walking a ton of batters in AAA. .651 Weissert in 224- underappreciated season. .680 Bello in 539- nice improvement, this year. (.724 in '24) .711 Wilson- heading downwards. .714 Giolito in 466- not too bad! .721 D May (71)- nice get by Brez, so far. .787 Fitts (177)- gotta do better to stay around. .788 Kelly (103)- not sure he gets another '25 look. .797 Hicks (75)- thought it would be worse. .809 Criswell (80) .773 as a SP .823 Buehler (498)- may be losing his spot. .974 I Campbell- may be done for 2025. When Slaten returns, does Fitts get demoted? Could Fitts, Criswell or even harrison unseat Buehler?

Was Pumpsie on the old BDC site? Maybe he was from before my time, there (2005.) I remember hearing about him, all the time, but don't recall interacting with him. I joined BDC after I moved to Mexico in DEC 2004 and missed the day-to-day Sox banter I had with friends, family and co-workers. Little did I know what I got myself into.

softlaw was a real character. I recall, he was a big "Jake" hater. He called Theo supporters "pink hat fans." He said he was a lawyer, but I can't imagine seeing his logic used in a courtroom. There was a guy who later gave out my real life info and contact info and was banned for it. I'm not proud of everything I've ever done in the past. (Is anybody?) I go overboard. I don't give up. I'm a last-worder guy. Maybe being raised by a college English professor and with 5 out-spoken sisters, I was fated for this. My OCD doesn't help, but I'm not making excuses, I take full blame for my ill actions and words. I can't "let it go" way too often, but I don't need to tell you and others that. LOL!

The Sox DSL Blue team is now 2-0 in the new playoff format with a win, today (4-1.) Tolle pitches tonight for WOO. Rivera for POR. TBD for GRE. Travieso for SAL after they complete the suspended game.

AL Records since June 30th... Why 6/30? Because it looks good for the Sox: that's why! (And, the Yanks look bad, too!) 28-15 BOS 29-16 TOR 27-17 KCR 25-18 ATH (We still have 6 with them!) 25-20 SEA 24-20 CLE 23-21 BAL & DET 22-23 TEX 21-23 NYY 20-24 HOU 18-25 MIN 17-26 CWS 14-30 TBR How about since July 26th? (More cherry-picking) 16-8 DET 16-9 KCR 15-8 ATH 14-9 BOS 14-10 BAL 13-11 CLE, NYY, SEA 12-12 TOR 10-14 HOU Here is a bad one for some "balance:" Since 8/6 10-4 DET & KCR 9-4 NYY 9-5 ATH 8-5 BAL 7-6 TOR 7-7 SEA 6-7 CLE & LAA 6-8 HOU 5-8 BOS 5-9 MIN 5-8 TBR 3-11 TEX & CWS

What should the line-up be? Where will Jh Garcia bat? Where will he play? RF, LF, 1B? Lowe is MLB's worst batter vs LHPs, this year. Romy at 1B & Rafaela at 2B? Garcia at 1B and Romy at 2B? I might go with... 1. Romy 2B 2. Bregman 3B 3. Anthony RF 4. Story SS 5. Garcia 1B 6. Duran LF 7. Rafaela CF 8. Narvaez C 9. Eaton DH My guess: Cora will keep Yoshida at DH, until Brez removes him from the 26.

He'd probably be great there, too, but why? Just to put our weakest defensive OF in CF? That is the most insane part of the suggestion. Abreu is more than fine in CF, even if not worthy of the GG. He also has a plus arm. He's got 15 assists in the 220 or so games he's play in RF since 2024. He gets good jumps and reads on balls hit to RF. Why mess with RF? It's one of our strengths.

Yes, true. Abreu is a better defender in RF and probably LF, though. He has more power. He hit lefties better over his first 100+ PAs than Duran did at the start of his career. He has not been given the same opportunity to hit lefties, like Duran was after his poor start. I'd really like to keep them both, and both have plusses the other does not. Both have one or two different minuses, as well. If we can get a better return for Abreu, I'd be fine with him as the package headliner for Ryan.

Here are the teams we have struggled with, so far, this year: 0-3 MIL & DET (We end the year w 3 vs DET) 1-5 LAA (WTF?!? There is always one like them.) 3-7 TOR (We have 3 more at TOR, right before we play DET to end the season) 1-2 CHC, PHI, SDP & SFG 3-4 TEX 4-5 BAL (We play them next for 4.) Our best records vs... 8-2 TBR (3 more with them) 6-1 NYY (5 more with them) 3-0 STL, WSN & COL 4-2 HOU, KCR 2-1 LAD, NYM, MIA, CIN, CLE (3 more w CLE) 4-3 CHW Teams we have yet to play... 6 v ATH 3 v PIT

As long as no Mansieres are on that table, okay.

The two worst batters vs LHPs, this year (150+ PAs) .509 Lowe .590 Duran (7th in MLB in PAs vs LHPs.) One could argue both should platoon. (Abreu is at .721 in 64 PAs but was worse, last year and career.) 2023-2025 vs LHPs: .527 DHam (68 PAs) .607 Abreu (141 PAs) .641 Duran (457 PAs) Worst MLB OPS vs LHPs since 2023 (400+ PAs) .611 de la Cruz .620 A Gimenez .624 Cronenworth .630 B Donovan .638 McMahon .641 Duran (only 2 players have more PAs vs lefties and a lower OPS than Duran.) If Abreu is an issue due to platooning needs, then so is Duran. Just because Cora does not platoon Duran does not change the data.

I think he played a game there for Woo. Maybe, someday, but I'm not sure he should play his second career game at 1B on the MLB club. Someday, maybe. BTW, he's supposed to to be a plus defender at corner OF and maybe okay in CF, but so are our current OF'er, for the most part.

KC may become an athletic DH, someday, which pressure even more from the bat.