Gasper homered again (6th) as did Eaton & Hickey in Woo's 9-7 loss in extra innings. Slaten pitched the first inning and did not allow a run.
GRE lost 13-12 as Hernandez & YRod homered twice (7th & 8th) as did Yuten, Cespedes & White once. YRod is now at 1.006 and Cespedes at .992. Whitherspoon let up 3 ERs in 4 IP.
POR was rained out. Salem is down 6-4 late.
You may be surprised that I totally respect your knowledge on our prospects.
After I mentioned promoting Eyanson, and I read your reply, I agreed with you.
Agreed.
When I replied, I thought the -3 was over about 100 innings, but when I looked it was 600, which is not real bad, as I mentioned in the foillow-up.
His -4 in 433 IP is pretty bad, but yes, for a Utility guy, it's passable.
They did play him at SS way more than anyone else, when Story sat in 2025.
1371 Story
69 DHam
5 Sogard
3 Mayer
2025:
647 Rafaela
433 DHam
228 Story
80 Romy
51 Sogard
14 Reyes
It might be mor common than we think, and I certainly think it was a reason he did it.
Doing it to get yanked, possibly fined and suspended is a bit more speculative on the motive, but with him, it's possible or even probable.
Good points. Only about 100 players go over 2.5 in a given year, so that is a decent bar to set. That's top 3 players for each 30 teams. Fair enough.
78 players went over 7.5 from 2023-2025 combined.
KMarte would have been age 32 to age 36
-3 in 1200 innings is not bad.
-3 in 600-700 is pretty bad.
DHam was -4 in 433 innings at SS for the Sox in 2024. That's a pace of -10 to -12 for a FT SS.
I'd say Theo was the best "thing" that happened to the Sox franchise since the 80's. I agree on the Tigers statement.
The spending levels went way up right before and during DD's time. That helped.