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Toro is an easy guy to later DFA, too. (Hate to say it, but...)

Yes, I'm behind the timeline. Been on a plane to Maine, this AM and missed the boat.

I had Romy vs LHPs and Grissom or Grandal v RHPs. (Yes, Toro is better, too.)

Some of these injuries were known ahead of the season, but damn... Crawford, Gio, Bello, Sandoval, Fitts and now Buehler Hendriks, Wong, Yoshida and now Casas.

Toro, TORO, TORO!

Delay tactic to choose who to add to the 40?

I't not an ideal platoon, but Romy is so bad vs RHPs, Grissom's .623 career split is significantly better.' If the hope is that Grissom can return to his 2022 numbers, I think that has to be part of any reason to give him a chance, then his ,723 split, that year is not so bad. Grandal might be the better platoon bat, and he'd offer a 3rd catcher option that allows for more PH'ing for Narvaez, when needed.

It's the "American way." Are you some kinda commie? (LOL)

Umm, I mentioned 1B. You want Wong at 1B?

They also lost Torres. He's been their third best hitter over the past 2-3 years, so they lost #2 and #3. Other players like Stanton & LeMahieu were already in decline before 2025. Getting D Williams and Fried looked real good, but the Lost Cole, Cortes and Holmes, among others. They did not get better, on paper, IMO. If anything, I'd say worse, overall.

It doesn't have to be that way, and Yoshida isn't even facing gametime pitching, now.

Replacing Rafaela should greatly improve the offense, but the D would suffer some. If somehow we get Devers at 1B, we'd have the DH role for people to share and allow Anthony enough ABs to be worth the call-up.

I'd sit him down and ask what he thinks about it. If he seems hesitant or worse, I'd try to ask if he'd give it a try in practice and see how he likes it. Remind him that he wanted to play in the field and not DH, and maybe this might be better. If he still says no, I'm in the school of telling him he needs to pick up a glove and do what's right for the team. This is a way to get Anthony playing near FT (or Mayer.)

I think Grandal has played some 1B.

Salem pulled out a win in 10. Encarnacion homered. GRE is 10-10 in the 10th: Arias doubled & homered (2-4 w BB) Bleis 3-4 w BB (up to .851) Zanetello 2-3 w 2BB POR lost 8-2, but Wehunt pitched okay. Jordan had 2 hits. (HR)

They shoulda handed him a 1Bman's mitt in ST'ing (or years ago, as I suggested often.) Romy hits lefties, very well, so he's fine at 1B v LHPs. I'm not sure Grissom is the guy we want at 1B vs RHPs, but we will probably try it. There doesn't seem to be anyone else that looks like a 1Bman to make room for Anthony and or Mayer.

Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em. Through the streams are swollen Keep them doggies rollin' RAWHIDE!

Okay, call me "giddy" (this time, only)... DEVERS FOREVERS, baby!

Little did he know steroids would revive Clemens' career.

Maybe Criswell was just not meant for the pen, as witnessed in 2014, and tonight with WOO. 6 IP, 4H 1ER 1BB 8K

Not every team "can." There are only so many bargain deals out there.

Yes, losing Burnes was bad, but they also lost Santander. I wasn't buying the Yankee Soto replacement talk. They also lost Torres. The Dugo/Rizzo losses were additions by subtractions, but I did not have much faith in Goldschmidt. Rice has been surprising and a bit unexpected. I expected us to finish ahead of TOR and TBR and be close to NYY. I thought we could pass HOU & BAL, but the O's have so much young talent nearing prime. (I think we do, too.) DET & KCR are hard to predict. Basically, no AL team jumps out as dominating, so that is why my hopes were up, this season- more than out of what I saw was an improved roster on paper, over the '24 Sox team. We lost O'Neal, but we are already talking about a logjam in the OF blocking Anthony. We lost Pivetta, a guy no MLB rushed to sign. We added Crochet, Buehler and essentially Gio. We lost McGuire/Jansen and added Narvaez. The biggest losses were K Jansen and a not as great in '24 Martin, but added only Chapman and essentially Hendriks. I saw this as our weak link and the only area we got worse, on paper, but with so much pitching depth, perhaps only mediocre, I felt we might cobble together 8 arms (some starters) to form an okay pen. Better O Better D Better rotation and starter depth Worse pen. Plaus teams that were ahead of us in '24, mostly getting worse or breaking even- on paper.

I thought the O's got worse, but not this bad. The Yanks looked worse on paper, before the Cole injury. HOU looks worse on paper. I felt SEA and DET and maybe KCR would be about the same- pretty good.

I thought we'd end up with closer to 90 wins- more out of how bad I felt the rest of the AL is than us being way better than last year. I do think we look better on paper, but paper does not win games.

Part of the reason, yes. We tend to look at all the winnable games we lost and think we could be 4-5 over .500, but we've won a few games, maybe we didn't deserve to win, too. Right now, we are on pace for being 5 games over .500, which can't happen, unless a game is not played, so we are on pace for 83 to 84 wins