moonslav59

So?

I'm sending Yoshida to AAA to play FT. He'd still be an option, of Garcia fizzles out. Romy is another option who is not fixxling out, even vs RHPs.

I felt the same.

We have 9 players on the 60 Day IL with maybe Guerrero as one of two who might play in 2025 (est Sept 3rd and maybe Wink Sept 4th.) Houck- out until 2027 Crawford, Dobbins, Sandoval and Wink by opening day. Casas & Mayer by opening day. Perales by opening day, but has yet to pitch in MLB. Hendriks is a FA, after 2025, so bye-bye Liam. 10 & 15 Day ILs: Abreu (Sept 5?) Fitts (Sept 10th?) Criswell (???) Grissom (???)

I'd rather have Garcia at DH vs RHPs than Yoshida, OR rotate an OF'er at DH and have Garcia in the OF vs RHPs. I thought I was clear. Also, Romy is hitting .704 v RHPs, this year. Yoshida is at an unacceptable .619 in 103 PAs. How long a leash do you think he deserves? All of September? 2 more weeks? One week? I'm done with him for 2025. I'd demote him to AAA and call Garcia back up.

I haven't felt like this since Koji. Kimbrel was excellent, but too often he was a drama king. Jansen had some nice stretches, but not at this level.

Neither has Murphy, Moran or I Campbell. The only other choice not on the IL was Harrison- a SP'er. I guess we could have DFA's someone to add Burdi or Sandlin, but neither has done anything to make that a real choice. (Early???)

It will have to come from May or Harrison. I'm not sure Fitts will come off the IL, soon enough. I really do not blame Brez for coming to this, except the Priester trade. We started the season with 11-12 decent options for the rotation, and that did not include Tolle, Wink or Whitlock.

The AL East is still very much up for grabs. NYY has two more games to play and TOR one more, so we have more days off to better plan our starting rotation. 79-59 TOR -- 76-61 NYY -2.5 77-62 BOS -2.5 As the games remaining clock keeps ticking away, TEX, KCR & CLE see their chances growing tougher and tougher. NYY & BOS +3 on SEA (the 3rd WC team) and +5.5 on TEX, +6.0 on KCR and +7.5 on CLE. Ultimately, finishing above the Yanks would be sweet, but getting a top 2 record in the AL means no 3 game series. The way it's set up, if the season ended now, it would be BOS NYY with the winner facing DET and SEA-HOU with the winner facing TOR.

14 Hits 5 BBs 1 HBP 2 Balks 1 SB 1 WP Just 6 runs.

He hit the ball very hard, today. Maybe 2 line outs?

Wilson, Weissert & Chapman got 7 outs: 13 pitches and 13 strikes. The pen threw 30 strikes in 36 pitches. Only 2 Ks, but they got the outs.

Chapman for President!

We've missed a couple opportunities to bust this game open. I hope it's not one of those "what if..." games.

Sox with some super hard hit singles, here... LOL!

Sory with another RBI.

Bregman is a big key to our chance for a 2025 ring.

I like seeing Romy cleanup vs the lefty. Good to see Refsnyder 5th, too. I can see giving Duran the day off vs a lefty. I kinda wish Garcia was here over Eaton, but no biggie. Lowe vs a lefty is an eyebrow raiser. He is MLB's worst batter vs lefties, but with Romy at 2B, there was little choice, except DHam over Lowe, so no loss there.

What team has the third best record since the Devers trade? Hint: Devers used to play for them.

What team has the worst record since the Devers trade? Hint: Devers plays for them.

It's Kelly and Ali Sanchez. He seems as good/meh a choice as any. I guess they want the ability to PH for a catcher once or twice per game. I don't hate the idea.

ND is a top 10 team by season's end and looked like one, last night. MIA is a top 10 team and we almost beat them on their home turf. It was good to see Alabama lose to FLA St. We should be above them in the rankings, anyway. CBS has ND 8th. Fox has us 10th.

The injuries really hurt Lynn's career. It sucks, because most were caused by his all out drive to win and "make the play." I admire that and always felt he'd have put up enormous offensive numbers had he not near-literally broken his back for his team.

Of course a K bothers me in situations you mentioned, and maybe a little more than a weak pop up to the infield or short OF or a ground out that fails to score the run. Yes, putting the ball in play sometimes advances a runner, but give me a .390+ OBP and .390+ SLG, and I'll take a 100% of all outs as Ks.

I understand why they are playing him. I agree he still has .770+ potential, and in this league, that's 50 points above average. It could just be rust, but why wasn't he DHing with WOO all summer? We still have never gotten an answer to that mystery. We are in the race, now. There can be no pulling punches. I've listed all of the long stretches of slumps Cora has allowed to continue, this year. Some, such as Story's and Rafaela's have paid off. (Maybe Wong will be the 3rd example as he has begun showing life, after a long death-like stretch.) With Abreu out, the pressure on playing all 4 OF'ers was lifted, and the need to play Rafaela at 2B further lessened the bottleneck, but when Abreu returns, I don't care if Yoshida hits .770 or even .800: there is no place for him in the starting line-up, even versus RHPs. I guess one could argue for playing Rafaela at 2B FT, so Anthony, Duran & Abreu-Refsnyder can all play everyday, but I have to think that weakening of our defense is counter to putting our best team on the field and in the line-up. I'd rather DH an OF'er- mostly Duran, and play DHam-Romy at 2B than keep Yoshida at DH. If that means DFA'ing him, okay, but I'd keep him in the system at Woo for the reasons you mentioned. If he can ever get back to .770+, he could have value in 2026. Let him prove it in Woo, first. We can't afford to rehab him on the big club during a pennant chase. Plus, he can play FT at Woo and not platoon.