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I think brining in Whitlock is the right call. Fingers crossed. We need this win!

Chase, the spoiler!

I agree. Maybe start a tradition where the first poster who posts on the game thread gets credit for the W or L.

I think Casas has a hard line out, but that's about it.

Man, these 1-2-3 innings by our offense are brutal.

90 pitches in 7 IP. Can he go 9? Should he?

He's got a hit in every game, this year, but he is 0-3 w a BB, today. He will get one more AB in the 8th or 9th. His OPS is over 1.000, now! GRE soon?

Shoulda been caught, yes.

Nice reverse jinx!

Word of Story's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

On paper, I did not see a single position that got worse on D from 2024 to 2025: Catcher: Wong=Wong and Narvaez> McGuire 1B: Casas=Casas 2B: Campbell (DHam/Romy)> Evaldez, Reyes, Grissom SS: Story>> Rafaela, DHam, others 3B: Bragman >>Devers LF: Duran FT> Duran, O'Neal & Ref CF: Rafaela> Duran & Rafaela RF: Abreu & O'Neal/Refsnyder= Abreu & Refsnyder Just goes to show you how "on paper" does not always equate to on the field.

Are we turning the corner? Just 2 Ks in 15 outs. Look how this has led to much more run scoring.... NOT!

Soliciting funds for those in need is "fleecing?" Wow! Where is the link to "begging" JH, not that begging for charity for others is a vice. I'm fine with losing respect over cheating, but then why are you a Sox fan? We've been caught cheating several times- from players, coaches, managers to the GMs.

That is a major shift, and when you figure in that all teams seem to be K'ing more and more, our increase has been astounding. What's worse is that our HR totals, BA, OBP and SLG are not improving by swinging more or harder. 2021>2022>2023.2024>2025 BA: .261>.258>.258>.252>.250 OBP: .328>.321>.324. >319> .330 SLG: .449>.409>.424>.423>.375 ISO: .188>.152>.166>,171>,124 It's not working- whatever we are doing. I'm not so sure we can blame "roster construction," since most of the decline is attributed to players that were on the roster in the past 2-5 years- not the newbies like Bregman, Campbell, Narvaez and Romy, Abreu and Casas, who were not playing at all or that much in 2021 and 2022 and some in 2023. For this, I can see why people want to blame the coaches and manager.

I'm not doubting the trend that the whole league seems to be following. Is there any team not seeing their K rate go up over the past 2-4 years? It does worry me. I miss the days of working counts, high OBPs and getting to the opp's pen by the 4th inning.

"Fleeced?"

When I look at these numbers the 16 to 3 ratio is the second thing I notice. The first is the small sample size. That being said, I suggested demoting Casas down to 6 or 7 vs R and keep platooning Romy at 1B v L.

GRE won 5-0 Dean 0 hits in 3 IP (4BB/5K) Mullins 2 hits in 4 IP (0BB/7K) Team: 4 hits in 9 IP (4BB/ 17Ks!!!!) Bleis 2-4 w HR. _______________ SAL got swept Gm1 3-0 Aita went 5 w 3 ER Gm 2 5-3 Arias went 2-6 on the day Arias has a hit in all 8 games played in '25 .467 BA .529 OBP .567 SLG

And, we thought splitting with the CWS in June '24 was bad.

Because he is the constant, it must be his fault? He is actively sabotaging the defense?

The thing is defense is supposed to be the easiest to equate on paper to on the field, and yet this team looks worse than last year's team. Bregman>Devers Story> committee Campbell> EValdez, Grissom & Co. Rafaela FT in CF> 2024 Duran FT in LF> 2024 Narvaez> McGuire

Good correction on 2020. It was still JH & Co's fault.

A very sad day for the Sox and their fans. Too bad Fitts did not get the win. He looked good. Not much can be said about anyone else looking good.

I think Cora is more likely to be promoted to a higher position with the Sox than fired. I find it hard to blame Cora for 2019. 2020 was all on JH & Co. 2021's spending was absurdly low, and the team came very close to making the WS. 2022-2023 was on JH, Bloom and a weak and shallow roster. 2024 was a better roster, but the Gio injury and lack of major additions made it difficult for Cora to do much. To me, 2025 is the first legitimate roster Cora has had since 2018. (2019's was good enough, but too many players were injured and underperformed. I guess some can blame Cora for underpermance and the whole resting the rotation in ST'ing, but I don't.) Could we have done better with the roster we had? It's hard to say. I wouldn't say we underperformed expectations in 2020, 2022, 2023. Maybe 2024. We overperformed in '21. When I look at some of the pens we had in recent years, I think Cora worked miracles. From 2021-2015, our pen is ranked 16th in fWAR. IP in pen only w fWAR 146 Wink 1.1 142 Whit 2.7 112 Schreiber 2.0 104 Sawamura 0.2 99 Jansen 2.5 96 Martin 2.4 95 Brasier 0.5, 94 Benrardino 0.7, 94 Barnes 1.4, 78 Kelly -0.4, 70 Weissert 0.7 2021-2025 the Rotation is ranked 14th in fWAR. The IP leaders & fWARs: 560 Pivetta 6.6 376 Houck 7.2 372 Bello 4.8 355 Crawford 4.4 293 Nate 6.8 (missed about 30% of starts) 157 ERod 3.8 151 Sale 3.1 127 Wacha 1.5, 110 Richards 0.5, 109 Whitlock 1.8, 107 Paxton 1.3, 100 Perez 0.6 One could argue getting a 14th ranked pitching staff from these guys is a sign of plus management.

Cora chose to give Duran the day off vs the lefty and give Abreu a chance to start vs one. Romy and Casas seem like they are a regular platoon, now, despite Casas having decent career splits vs lefties. Casas has looked awful, so far, so I have no issues with this move. Here is the line-up, for today vs the lefty: R Romy 1B L Devers DH R Bregman 3B R Refsnyder LF R Story SS R Campbell 2B L Abreu RF R Narvaez C R Rafaela CF The all lefty bench: L Duran, L Casas, L DHam, L Sabol,