moonslav59

Anthony is a freak, too.

I'd add Bleis to the list.

Today's games: BOS (Bello) at TOR (Varland) DET (TBD) at CLE (Messick) HOU (Valdez) at ATH (Ginn) Afternoon Game CWS Martin) at NYY (Rodon) COL (Blalock) at SEA (TBD)

Speaking of "Beast Bats..." OPS+ since 2021 _______________________ Schwarber (turns 33 before the 2026 season) 149>131>121>134>154 _____________________ Alonso (turns 31 in December) 133>146>123>122>144 ______________________ Tucker (turns 29 in JAN) Trade 2 OF'ers to make room? 147>129>142>179>146 ________________________ Suarez (turns 35 next July) Shorter deal? 82>129>103>115>127 ______________________ BTW, Bregman turns 32 at the start of the '26 season: 113>134>122>116>129 K Marte turnes 32 in OCT: 143>105>127>154>142

Why do you think that? 1. It was a lock out, mostly on finances. 2. Was it about robo umps in the NFL? 3. Did fan rush to support the refs?

Apparently, we kicked the tires on Ryan. I've agreed many times that Brez shoulda have done more. He likely could have done more, but it's hard to judge without specifics. I the overall scheme of things, Brez did a fine job building a what amounted to a 50-60 man roster over the winter and did okay with Lowe and Matz at the deadline. Since many jusge deals on just hindsight, then Lowe and Matz were fine.

He has a higher OPS, but far less PAs, HRs and RBIs. Still, Lowe has 15 RBI in 105 BOS PAs, Suarez has 27 in 203 PAs- pretty close to the same ratio. Who was the other big bat traded? Correa? .775 OPS and 19 RBI in 210 PAs for the flopping Astros. How about O'Hearn? .718 and 19 RBI in 171 PAs. Yaz? .782 and 15 RBI in 167 PAs. My guy, Joe Ryan, has sucked. That's why I cut Brez some slack on this.

No doubt, this team's offense has had some slumps, but even missing Devers, Casas, Anthony and then Abreu for part of the year, out team OPS is .748, but we see this... .764 last 7 games .730 last 14 days .741 last 28 days .750 since AUG 23rd.

It doesn't matter what the M's did, anyway. Their DNA is 100% flopadocious. It's all destiny.

Let 'em. There will never be a strike so unsupported by the public in the history of strikes. Besides, the home plate ump still keeps his job and can pretend he's making the pitch calls by himself. He will never be wrong and can never be rightly criticized for a ball-strike call ever again. They should rejoice!

We still hold the 8the best MLB records and 4th best AL record. It is a league of flawed teams, as I pointed out all year long, and the Tigers and Astros are adding more evidence to that position. The streaking Yanks had a 26-35 stretch. They played under .500 baseball for a half season stretch (40-411.) Teams like CLE and the M's, who had some earlier stretches of questionable play are now looking like juggernauts. Guess what? They are flawed, too. The Jays are flawed. Hell, the Dodgers, who bought the world twice over have just two more wins than the stingy JH team. The good sides and bad sides of these teams seem to come and go willy-nilly. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it. As bad as the Astros are playing, they are still just 1 GB, because the Tigers have found a way to play even worse for longer. It looks like TOR or NYY will win the ALE and the other will be the WC1 team. BOS is 3 behind TOR, and a win tonight gives us a longshot chance of catching the Jays. The better news is that we are ... +2 on DET (DET holds the tiebreaker and play us for 3 games to end '25.) +3 on HOU (We hold the tiebreaker against them.) The NL is tighter with the NYM holding a 1 game lead over AZ & CIN for the last WC slot.

This team is the offspring of past flopping parents. It's in our DNA. Thus Spoke Fredathustra.

Still some games to finish tonight, but the Sox currently have the 8th best record in MLB- just 1.5 games behind a tie for 5th best with CHC, LAD & SEA.

I think Fitts, Dobbins and or Tolle will start in the ML pen, if they don't win a rotation slot. Perales will be in the AAA rotation. Holobetz & Paez may be there by AUG. Maybe by AUG, our AA rotation might be Valera, Fajardo, Witherspoon, Clarke & Aita

It's too bad Brez sucks because his failures at the deadline. It would be nice if we could celebrate a non-flop season and the GM who helped put the team together, but we all know how this season will end. Thus spoke Fredathustra.

It was 14.1 IP (4 ERs) Tiant went 12 IP in 1973, allowing 1 ER. In '68, he went 10 IP, 6 H, 0ER, 0BB 19Ks!

Yup. It's been 4 games, now. Perhaps we can yank him after 3-4 innings and have him well rested for the playoffs. Last 4 games: 5.85 ERA and 4.65 FIP. We need him sharp.

DET lost again. Maybe HOU can sneak in by just losing a little less than DET does in the next 4 days.

Doesn't this expose a big weakness in the whole idea of a challenge needed? A player can be a great hitter but not be good at knowing when to challenge and when not to.

We really need our trio to be in a groove to have a legit shot at going far, this year.

The Yanks have now tied TOR for 1st in the ALE. The Sox are 3 back with 4 to play, so hopes for passing TOR are near impossible. It is nice to even mention it with just 4 games left to the season. It's good to see crooked numbers in multiple innings. It's good to see Crochet looking like a Cy Young winner just when we need him to be.

Yes, they are witnessing themselves.

Just win, Baby! We don't need to scoreboard watch, if we do.

A lot depends on adding another SP'er to take Gio's slot or not, or bringing Gio back. The health of several SP'ers is still in question: Crawford, Dobbins, Sandoval, Fitts and even Criswell. It's hard to know what the pecking order is now, and a lot can change between now and opening week.

To those who say pitchers should not win the MVP, because they only pitch every 5 games. I realize they are not part of those 4 in 5 games, but they more than make up for it in the one they do play in. Consider this... Crochet has 788 PAs against, and he should go over 800 tonight. How many everyday players get 800+ PAs in a season? BTW, Bello has 677 and Gio 613 against.