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This was CLE's line-up by OPS, yesterday: .705 .644 (The "best hitter slot") .860 .599 (Mr. Cleanup) .790 .647 .462 .624 .510 .600 That's a 3 Wong and 3 DHam line-up.

I think some of the things Pumpsie says is trolling- not all. If he truly wants the Guardians to win "Go Guardians", you know the team that sold at the deadline, and his big beef is what we did not do at the deadline, it sounds like trolling, to me. Just saying he doesn't give a "rats ass" what others think seems shallow, to me. He feeds off it, IMO. He enjoys stirring the pot in a trolling manner.

You think I need to be balanced. I think you are being a troll. We both have our opinions. I'm not for censoring.

A troll can be right, sometimes, or actually believe some of the crap he spews. Saying I need balancing is trolling, too.

Defining a troll.

Please, become a Guardians fan, yesterday!

Sandlin with another meltdown game. He may just go unprotected (or be traded.)

We're one more loss and 2 CLE wins from being near 50%.

Yes, I mentioned the Astros having more key injuries. You praise a team 1 game ahead of the Sox and call your favorite team the "flops." Think about that. BTW, I would not bet on the Astros winning the ALW or even making the playoffs. I'm not sure how clutch a team that is 9-9 int their last 18 is. They are also 29-34 since July 6th. The Astros could always use one more fan. Let's hear you say it, "Go Astros!"

Red Sox Series Record since Abreu went down, after Anthony: 3-1 NYY 4-0 BAL 1-2 PIT 1-2 AZ 2-1 ATH 1-2 NYY 1-2 ATH We've won 3 series and lost 4 (all by 1 game.) Overall record: 13-10 This team's M.O. is ups and downs, yet the doom and gloomers assume the M.O. changes bases on two lost series 2 games to 1.

All geniuses steal ideas.

The Astros have also had a ton of injuries, especially to the rotation and star batter, Y. Alvarez. I do think you have to look beyond just the numbers of injuries and days missed, and many on this Yankee list are key players and some missed significant time, such as your ace being out all year, but I still think the significant injuries to the Sox are more influential than those to the Yanks. Yes, even two weeks missed by Judge, an 1.100+ batter, is likely worse than 4 weeks lost by Bregman, but Bregman missed more than 4 weeks. Our best hitter might have been Anthony, so it's hard to gauge how much missing him to injury is valued. Losing Mayer, Abreu for significant time and Casas (career .800 batter) for 5 months is pretty damn consequential. A little missed time by Narvaez, Ref and some other everyday players adds a little to the total numbers lost on O and D, but the big kaboom on the Sox injury front was with the rotation. You may argue with how I rank our starting pitchers, but I'm looking at what I feel their pre-season rotation slot would have been, if they we totally healthy: 1. Crochet- no missed time (Cole was the opposite- missed the whole season) 2. Houck- last year's #1- missed 23 GS 3. Crawford- last year's IP leader- missed 32 GS 4. Giolito- missed 4 starts 5. Buehler- missed 0 GS 6. Bello- missed 3 GS 7. Sandoval- missed the whole season. 8. Fitts- 10 GS- missed about last 1-2 months. 9. Dobbins- 11 GS- missed over half the season. 10. Criswell- 1 GS- missed the last month. We ended up using Newcomb, D May, some pen starts and then a couple rookies not even considered depth back in March. The pen has been pretty healthy, but Hendriks was considered in the running for the closer or top set-up man, He missed the whole season. Slaten was widely viewed as our top 4 RP'er and missed a couple months. Other lesser arms missed some time. Your Yankee list is significant, too. I'm sure you could justify the value lost as being close to the Sox, but I'm not sure it would top ours, and since ours was concentrated in the rotation, which I consider most important to a team's success, I'm probably biased on that point, too.

Come on, dude, thinking of using trash cans is pure genius!

Narvaez had decent numbers on the farm and actually saw his OBP improve from A+ to AA to AAA. His AA sample size is tiny, and his SLG improved from A+ to AAA. His AAA sample size is 762 PAs, and he was largely viewed as a "defensive first catcher," but maybe the short-changed his offense profile. A .371 OBP is very nice and his winter ball numbers (90 PAs) were off the charts good. While OBP is hard to translate to the bigs, sometimes it does. Narvaez has a .315 OBP, this year, which is not great or even good, but it's not horrific for a first year catcher. Now, about his power: his A+ SLG was .391 and his AAA was .400. Neither is great and might indicate that his .426 MLB SLG is not to be something we can expect going forward. Nevertheless, his MLB sample size is now over 420 PAs. He hit 21 HRs and 33 2Bs in 762 PAs, which comes to about 19 HRs and 26 2Bs per 660 PAs. That's not great either, but it's pretty good, and for a catcher, it's pretty decent. In 2025, within the context of catchers in MLB, he is currently ranked out of 34 Catchers with 250+ PAs... 2nd DRS +12 9th in fWAR at 2.9 10th in ISO at .184 14th in OPS at .746 (16th in OBP and 11th in SLG) 14th in wRC+ at 102 He's certainly been a top tier catcher (top 15 out of 30.) One could argue he's top 10 out of 30 FT Catchers. The MLB league averages for catchers are... -3 DRS .307 OBP .394 SLG .701 OPS .156 ISO (This counts all back up catchers.)

Things are a lot tighter than we wanted. The Guardians actually have a shot to catch DET for the ALC division title, but either way, our top competition is CLE or maybe DET, SEA or NYY. The Yanks play tonight, but all other meaningful games are over, today. Here is the breakdown: 85-67 NYY (WC1) 85-68 DET (ALC or WC2) 84-69 HOU (T ALW/WC2, as of now) 84-69 SEA (T ALW/WC2, as of now) 83-70 BOS (WC3, as of now) _____________________ 81-71 CLE -1.5 (1 in loss column) _____________________ 79-74 TEX -4.0 (pretty much out of it) 76-77 KCR -7.0 (hanging by a thread) 75-78 TBR -8.0 (the thread is thin)

Good to know. This way he can stay in AAA as long as needed. Maybe he ends up in the pen, but they probably start him at Woo. Soxprospects.com projects this: MLB: Crochet, ______/Giolito, Bello, Sandoval, Harrison (kinda puzzling) w Criswell in the MLB pen. Crawford & Dobbins are listed as "Inactive." AAA: Tolle, Fitts, Early, Uberstine, Drohan & PB Starters: Perales, Jack Anderson & Isaac Coffey w Sandlin & Mullins in the AAA pen. They project the AA rotation as Holobetz, Wehunt, Paez, Clarke & Aita (E Rivera) w Dean & Rogers in the AA pen. A+: Valera, Fajardo, Witherspoon, Phillips, Eyanson, Tygart & Neely (That's 7) A-: Travieso, J Bello, Y Ruiz, M Patton, D Brown, B Morgan Inactives: Monegro, Duffy, Judice & C Cason Something has to give: some will be moved to the pen, but some may be traded.

I was curious and thought maybe it was a typo. Sorry, Max. We both have been among Cora's stronger supporters.

$156M/6 was HOU's reported offer. That's kinda like what Story got, when you factor inflation. DET supposedly offered him $172.5M/6, so the HOU offer kinda seemed low. I think he might get $150M/6 or $135M/5, this winter- tops.

I agree, but I do not think it will be at 1B. I think they will roll the dice with Casas. I think they will not offer Lowe the arb. They will use Campbell and Romy as depth. Maybe, they get Jh Garcia or Duran to learn how to play 1B, too. I think we'll sign Suarez, if Bregman bolts or trade an OF'er and sign Suarez or Schwarber to DH. That's where we get the big bat. One could argue they have (too much) faith in Mayer at 3B and get the big bat at 1B or DH. Getting Marte for 2B is an option, but he's not really a 40 HR guy.

I think that cat of ours thought she was a dog.

Okay, I thought you were blaming Cora for choosing not to play his best bats, when you said, this.. I think it's pretty obvious that Cora gets the blame for the lack of good hitting on the Sox. He simply didn't play his best guys.

We face a RHP, today and it's a day after night game, so I'm going with Wong as the catcher. He is also belo's binky. 1. Duran 2. Story 3, Bregman 4. Yoshida 5. Lowe 6. Wong 7. DHam 8. Eaton 9. Rafaela

Bregman and Abreu got hurt. Devers got traded. None are Cora's fault. Romy and ref may be among our "best hitters" but not against RHPs, so they should not be playing in 121 games, unless they PH in almost every game they do not start. Narvaez will come close and might have reached 121 had he not gotten hurt. Plus, he'a a catcher and many "FT'ers" get about 120-130. The next guy is DHam at 88 games. Are you saying he should have gotten 121? Anthony not being called up earlier is on Brez not Cora, and the injury is not Cora's fault, either. Too bad your guy, casas, got hurt and didnt get to 121 with an .820 OPS.

We had a cat that would go for walks around the block with our two dogs. She watched them do their duty and learned to go outside, so we did away with cat litter. (We have a dog door to our big fenced in back yard.)

Somebody said Perales is out of options, next year, so there would be some issues, if he's not ready for the bigs. (I guess he could start on the IL.) soxprospects.com has him with 2 options remaining. Anybody know about this?