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Teams can win with a "disaster" at one or two positions. Winning does not make Toro good or even okay. He sucks. 1B remains a disaster for yet another season. It has nothing to do with us winning. Posters can love the team, be optimistic about the team's chances and still see a major hole on the roster. Our hole is 1B. Maybe Campbell will plug it, someday, but as long as Cora & Brez think like you do, that Toro is okay enough, we will continue to suck at 1B. I'm wondering why Fred has not spoken out on Toro. Do I have to be the only one doing it? (LOL, I jest, of course.)

It's worse than that: .638 career before signing. .538 first 8 games in '25 (16 games stretch at over 1.100) We are looking at a 45 game current stretch at .577. That's nearing twice the sample size we gave Garret Cooper in '24 (.455) and over double the sample size we gave Dalbec in 2022 at .570. I'm just not seeing the value. If the guy had a decent career, before hand, maybe take a chance he can regain, but he didn't and this is what he is: .538ish to .638ish.

Not really acceptable, to me. He sucked before and after his 16 game stretch, early in the season. He sucked for years before we signed him.

It's like 5 something before and after his 16 days in Oz.

The leash remains tight, but he lives another day (or two.) This dog will not be let loose.

Just about every deadline trade ranges from overpay to gross overpay. We just choose to downscale the overpays. It makes more sense to make grand deals in the winter, and that is what Brez has been doing: Crochet trade Dugo for 3 pitchers (last winter) then 2 washed up pitchers for O'Neill Slaten & Sandlin trades. Largest AAV signing in Sox history (Bregman) Best RP'er for dollar pair of signings (Chapman + Wilson) Best catcher trade made by the Sox since VTek with Lowe (Narvaez) In short, Brez loaded up on pitching depth, last winter, so he would not have to trade for costly SP'ers at the deadline. He still fell short. The Priester trade hurt, as did the Sale trade the winter before, but I applaud the overall effort and strategy to load up on pitching from top to bottom and down to the DSL level. Look at the projected pitching staffs for 2026, even without Chapman, Wilson & Buehler, who will be FAs: MLB & AAA ML Ready: Crochet, Giolito (maybe) Bello, Sandoval, Crawford, AAA> Dobbins, Harrison, Fitts, Wink, Tolle, Perales, Early, Uberstine, Sandlin (pen?) Wehunt & Drohan- not to mention Houck who will be out all year. This is stunning! No additions made, yet. AA: Clarke, Rivera, Holobetz, Paez, Rogers, Dean (That's 6) Ingrassia (pen?) A+: Witherspoon, Valera, Phillips, Evanson, Aita, Taygart (6) A-: Fajardo, Neely, Travieso, J Bello (pen?) Y Ruiz, Patton, Morgan, Brown (8) FCL: Cason, Delzine, D Reyes, Zink, Frias, Cordero (6) This being said, I wish we got better than May, but Brez is doing it "the right way" by making the big deals in the winter not the deadline. Let's see how we do this fall, and then how Brez wheels and deals, this coming winter. We have some surplus value at a few positions: I think Brz knows that and will balance things out in a big way.

We are not only beating really good teams on the road, we beat a pitcher having a great year on the left coast!

The announced Sandoval was done for 2025. Same thing happened to Hendriks, last year, and then he barely pitched, this year- and badly when he did. Same with Paxton, years ago. These deals never work for us. The one that did, Gio, was not supposed to miss year one.

Sox have won 8 of 9. 10 of 12. 24 of 33.

SEA should pass TOR by October.

You chose to live there.

Updated Sox OPS (130+ PAs) .912 Romy .901 Bregman .839 Refsnyder .815 Anthony .808 Abreu .790 Duran .748 Rafaela .733 Story .728 Narvaez .700 Toto

Sox are 65-52. In 2021, we were 66-51, then won 3 in a row, before getting swept by the Yanks to go to 69-54.

Buehler needed this game. Sox the win.

Dodgers beat TOR (Betts homered for LAD) Yanks lost. Sox are now just 3.0 GB TOR for ALE lead. 2.0 GB DET Tied HOU +1.0 SEA, +3 NYY, +3.5 CLE, +4,5 TEX, +5.5 KCR The Yanks are very close to getting themselves out of a playoff slot.

Weissert has been fine: Wilson, okay. OPS Against as RP'ers .410 Chapman .465 Slaten (on IL) .530 Guerrero (IL) .560 Whitlock (216 PAs Against as RP- most on team) .566 Berandino .569 Murphy (before tonight) .622 Wink (IL) .648 Weissert (2nd most PAs Against as a RP) .649 Burdi .694 Wilson

Whit locked it up.

I've been a fan of Murphy, but he's testing my fandom, bigtime.

Into the second tier of the stadium... LOL!

LMAO

If the three keep pitching like this, we can forfeit every 4th game and keep advancing.

Even dreaming pitchers.

That would be the playoffs!

Speak of the devil... Jh Garcia homered and went 2-5 and is up to .961 in AAA. Only 4 players in the INT'l league have a better OPS and more ABs.

How about our top 3 SP'ers of late? 2.22 ERA Crochet in last 143 IP (22 GS, basically since his 2nd GS of '25) 2.03 ERA Giolito in last 62 IP (10 GS) 2.66 ERA Bello in 85 IP (14 GS)