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POR won 8-2, as they try to reach .500 (57-59.) Mullins never gets much cred. He's got a 2.30 ERA and pitched okay, today. Cooper Adames pitched 1 hit shutout ball in 3 relief innings (0.55 ERA.) Liendo & Castro each had 2 hits. SAL won game one 2-0 as Gartrell and Klinader let up only 5 hits and 3BB over 7 IP (8Ks.) Drohan got drilled w GRE, as they are on their way to a loss. YRod, Martin & Mussett with 2 hits, each.

Read somewhere the Sox are considering adding Tolle to the 40 and calling him up.

TOR scored 1 in the 10th, 11th and 12th to squeak by MIA 7-6. DET is up 3-2 on KCR in the 7th. HOU is up 5-2 on BAL early on. TEX is up 3-0 on CLE in the 3rd. We gained on NYY, but we may not on the others.

Sox players on the 60 Day IL and 2026: Houck will miss all of 2026. Sandoval, Crawford & Dobbins should be ready on or near opening day. Guerrero should be ready. (Slaten should pitch this year.) Casas should be ready. Mayer is not on the 60, and he should be ready by opening day.

WOO won. Uberstine pitched okay. Moran & Kelly- no so much. Campbell, Hickey & Sogard had 2 hits, each. Zavala homered.

How much will JH allow Brez to spend, this winter? We just dumped the Devers deal and are losing the $21M Buehler deal and maybe $18M for Giolito, Add $12M for Chapman and a few $million here and there, and one would think it should be "spending time." Extensions given to Crochet and some kids will kick in, and some arbs might add some cost, but what will it be, JH? The Bregman decision is the key. What we do with Chapman & the closer role is right up there, too. Here is a quick look at the 2026 Lux Tax Budget: 28.3 Crochet 23.3 Story 19.3 Giolito (140 IP trigger option) 18.0 Yoshida 16.3 Anthony ~11.0 N Lowe arb 10.3 Hicks 9.2 Bello 9.1 Sandoval 8,0 Duran (option) 7.5 Campbell 6.2 Rafaela 4.7 Whitlock ~4.0 Houck arb ~3.3 Crawford arb ~5.0 Wong+ Bernardino+ Casas + Romy arbs $185M +$6M others and pree-arb pool= $191M +$18M player benefits $209M before any additions. First Tax line is $244M. That leaves $35M AAV for Bregman & Chapman, so it looks like we need to go up to the second line just to keep those two ($55M). If we let Lowe walk, we'd have $45M to $65M to spend. If we can somehow dump some of Yoshida or Hicks' money, maybe we can pull it off.

He might make $10-12M in arb. That could tighten up what we can do at other positions, but it seems worth it.

Not many teams can match our top 3 SP'ers and top 2 RP'ers: 2.38 Crochet 3.07 Bello 3.72 Giolito 1.08 Chapman 2.72 Whitlock

Because Ref and Abreu are on the IL and we needed a big RHB. Lowe is MLB's worst batter vs lefties. Fried had been struggling for quite a few starts. It's hard to project he'd be back in form.

Story hardly played, but a close call. OPS improvements: 210 Bichette (330 more PAs) 165 Bregman (180 less PAs) same Story (410 more PAs)

August OPS: 1.158 Lowe .967 DHam .919 Bregman .879 Roman .872 Story .832 Abreu (IL) .698 Romy .690 Ref (IL) .687 Duran .658 Yoshida .634 Narvaez .613 Wong .517 Rafaela

Had I said Story would be 7th in the AL in RBI on August 23rd, back in March, April and May, I'd be called crazy. Nice turn-around Trevor!

Sox are now 4.5 from TOR, who I feel is due for a tough stretch, soon. Sox up 1.5 on NYY & SEA up 4.5 on the WC outsider KCR & 5.5 on CLE. The Sox are 0.5 GB the 8th best record in MLB (HOU) and 3rd best in the AL.

Sweetness!

and PR'er. That's more value than Toro gave us. Maybe he can heat up, like he did for a long stretch in the summer of '24.

I do believe hot hitting is contagious.

12-1 with out top 3 batters at 3 for 12. Gotta like it!

Damn! Save some runs for Sunday!

Are Sox fans starting to see how most AL contenders have more weak spots than we do?

We may get that!

Rafaela getting hot would be a huge plus for this team!

Only a very few players get to 3B on that hit.

Nice to see Duran get an RBI.

Stanton is owed $29M, $25M and has a $25M option for '28 with a $10M buyout. Essentially, it's $64M/2 or $$79M/3. His tax line is $25M, but MIA is still paying $3M a year for the next 3 seasons. That makes it $55M/2 or $70M/3 and a tax hit of $22M. You think NY would take Yoshida and Fitts for Stanton & $5M a year?

Weissert has been pretty good, most of the season. He's gotta get through this!