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He does that often, but those pitches are at other players' belts.

Matz is no door mat, so far. May May fair as well.

You know you suck when you let up 3 ERs is 4.1 IP and see your ERA go down just 0.02- Buehler 5.72 to 5.74! I know Cora gets s ton of grief, especially on game threads, but we all thought our pen would suck, this year, and we have 4 of our best SP'ers on the IL, and yet our staff is doing very well, as a whole.

Not a bad idea, as Narvaez needs some rest.

Early struggled with control: 5BB in 3.2 IP, but allowed no runs and just 2 hits. Jh Garcia hit his 14th dinger and has 2 hits through 6 innings. KC & Grissom are both 1 for 3. Both DSL teams won, today and are now over .500 after pretty bad starts. The Red team pitched a 1 hitter. The Blue team allowed 2 hits.

Rookie fWAR 3.1 Kurtz 293 PAs 2.6 Narvaez 325 2.4 J Wilson 396 2.2 I Collins 279 2.0 D Baldwin 262 1.7 C Durbin 316 1.5 ANTHONY in just 182 PAs Pitchers: 2.0 Patrick 95 IP 1.8 Warren 111 1.4 Cameron 81 & Dreyer 53 10th: Dobbins at 0.9 in 61 IP

Buehler Sandoval Hendriks Paxton (twice) Kluber Richards (Wacha & Hill did okay but missed significant time, when we needed them most.)

DD was certainly decisive: Theo, too.

Maybe I need to start bashing every Sox player!

The replay shows his eyes were closed! LOL! (That homer is still not enough to get him over .600 since his 9 game hot streak.)

He's young, but I agree. Also, is anyone else worried about Crochet leading the league in IP, after being babied last year? He's 4th in batters faced at 565.

Book it! Chapter and verse!

$10M out of $27M- just about the same as Gio's contract.

RF: Abreu- Refsnyder DH: Anthony 1B: Campbell- Romy (both RHBs) 2B: Mayer-Romy or RF: Abreu-Anthony DH: Anthony-Refsnyder 1B: same as above Yoshida's time expired for 2025, IMO, but as long as Mayer is out, he can DH v RHPs.

Yes, JH's wallet.

We are 10th in road OPS. Is that a tree that stands out in a forest? Our offense is good, but it's not 4th or 5th best.

The never ending Story!

Romy and Ref are lefty killers. To those who dislike platoons, take note!

Ooops

Here is a comp between the 2025 and 2021 Red Sox: Rotation: (BWAR) listed by IP EDGE 2025 3 to 2 Crochet 4.6> Nate 4.3 Bello 1.7> ERod 1.7 Pivetta 2.5> Buehler -1.2 Giolito 0.6> M Perez 0.4> Sale 0.9 Richards 0.2> Houck 1.5> Newcomb -0.2>Dobbins 0.3> Fitts -0.3 Pen: EDGE 2021 (3 to 1 with 4 equal), but it doesn't seem right, to me Chapman 2.3> Barnes 1.1 '21 Whitlock 2.8> '25 Whitlock 1.1 Weissert 0.5 = Ottavino 0.8 Josh Taylor 1.2> Bernardino 0.2 Sawamura 0.8= Wilson 0.4 DHern 0.9> Slaten 0.0>Kelly -0.6 Valdez -0.2> Robles 0.5= Guerrero 0.0>Murphy 0.3 Andries -0.6> Rios 0.4= -0.1 Criswell & 0.0 Alacla ___________________ Everyday Players: 2025 +5, 2021 +3, Equal 1 C: Narvaez 2.9> Vaz 1.2/ Plawecki 0.2 1B: Toro 0.4+ Romy 1.3> Dalbec 0.3 2B: Marwin -0.3> Arroyo 1.5> KC -0.8>Mayer 0.2+ DHam 0.3 SS: Bogey 5.2> Story 2.3 3B: Bregman 3.3> Devers 3.6 LF: Duran 3.3> Verdugo 2.2 CF: Kike 4.9= Rafaela 3.7 RF: Abreu 2.6 + Ref 1.2> Renfroe 2.4 DH: JD 3.2> Devers 2.3>Yoshida -0.1 Gotta give the edge to 2025.

I think it's time to move the game thread back to the #1 slot.

Did Brez shop Buhler?

I wish we'd see an upgrade over Toro at 1B vs RHPs (70% of our games.) 1B is a hitter position. Sub .600 needs an upgrade. Call up Campbell!

I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. The trade for Crochet rivals the Sale, Beckett, Schilling and Pedro trades, but has a way to go. On this past winter FA signings: Buehler: bust, so far. Sandoval: TBD Chapman: Great! Wilson: Great for the money. (The 2024 Gio signing has moved from the bust column to pretty decent in 2025.) Yes, the Sale & Priester trades look horrible and the Buehler & Hendriks signings look real bad. I can't blame anyone for not believing in a farm change with pitching, until we see it, but isn't Bello, Dobbins, Crawford and Houck about as good as we've seen from the farm in over a decade? It's still not great, but it's not bad, either. While Fitts, Slaten, Whitlock, Wink and others were "developed" more by other clubs, we did get them as prospects. The emphasis on drafting,increased IFA signing bonuses and trading for prospect pitching has taken an enormous step up, and we now see 3 of our top 4 prospects as pitchers and 7 of our top 9 (Tolle, Perales, Witherspoon, then Clarke, Valera, Early & Sandlin. We also have 9 pitchers ranked #10-27th (Phillips, Eyanson, Paez, Fajardo, Uberstine, Mullins, Delzine, Wehunt & Cason.) Don't be surprised if some of the pitchers jump into the top 20 or 30, soon: Holobetz, J Bello, Monegro, Aita, Travieso, Ingrassia, Foutch, Futrell, Morgan, Tygart, Neely, D Reyes or Patton. The effort is there, now.

That is likely a fact, especially since 2020. Even the Price signing looks bad on paper. (Nate was technically a FA signing, but I don't really count that one.) Lackey was no big prize. We can maybe go back 10-12 years or more.