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As much grief as Yoshida has received on this site, by myself included, he was doing pretty well for a long while. I wonder if Romy will be called up, soon. Too bad we couldn't keep Rogers as we ended up adding Gasper shortly afterwards.

Yes, and I heard the last time before that was 2010.

Trivia: When was the last time a whole team failed to K in a game?

Pathetic. They stuck with Duran for too long. Now, he's dragging down the 7 slot numbers.

Sounds about right.

Winning a ring is certainly most important. Winning the Pennant is second. Advancing in the playoffs next. Winning the division would be nice, and I'm eyeing it. I'm not predicting it or arguing with anyone that says it is unlikely. I agree it is. I do think we have a good shot at the Pennant.

I didn't say you said impossible. IMO, te Ray are not as good as their record. They have yet to have a long bad stretch. I think they have one in them. They are 7 games over Pythagorean. Of their 10 batters with 250+ PAs... 2 are over .799 7 are below .735 6 are at .703 or lower and 4 below .685. This site would be going bonkers if we had those numbers on O. Oh wait, we did have those numbers and did go bonkers, but we were under pythagorean, too. Like us, they have 3 strong SP'ers (all at 3,25 or better.) I'm not sure Peralta is coming to the rescue. (7.53 last 3 starts) Of course, the odds strongly favor the Rays, but I'm putting the FAN in fanatic!

Damn! No Mayer and the fire got lit.

I realize it's not likely, but it's not impossible. We could pass the Rays by sweeping them and playing .650 overall.

While all teams have injuries and some have as much as we do, ours seems to be focused on the rotation and middle infield. Losing Crochet, but also having a few horrible starts by him hurt badly. His injury forced us to go into the depth quicker than we wanted to do, and eventually got down to Tolle, Bennett and Sandoval to the point where some may be reaching their IP limit (Tolle & Bennett) or our patience limit (Sandy.) The Houck injury was known way a head of time and planned for, but it's still a blow to lose your 2024 ace/#1 SP'er for the full year. Bello was slotted 4th or 5th, sucked for a few starts and developed the Starter yips, and now must be used from the pen. Crawford was supposed to return, last fall, then injured himself while on the IL. I remember hearing Merloni raving about him being a key, this year... NOPE! Early was called upon in early April and got hurt, then traded. He's still on the IL, but for someone else. Oviedo was supposed to be pretty high up on the SP depth chart, but went on the IL before he could start one game. Sandoval missed over half the season, and not is our 5th and seemingly last SP'er to fill the rotation. An opener+Bello can work out well, but we are still at the bottom of the barrell. That's 6 SP'ers missing significant time. Only Gray has gone wire to wire. The middle infield has been a mess too. Our HR, RBI and SB leader (Story) from 2025 got hurt early. Mayer got hurt and traded. IKF justs tarted doing well and got hurt. That was our top 3 middle infielders (Romy was injured and is best viewed as a DH or 1Bman.) We've used 5 SSs, including 4 over 115 innings, and yet it is not really a weak area, right now. We've used 7 2Bmen, including the one we traded for and who got hurt day one. Mayer is still the inning leader as was traded. I wouldn't really call 2B a bad slot, right now. What a bench!

Just win 3 of every 4. No long streak needed.

Agreed, but I'm not done "eying" the division lead.

Sweep the Rays, and it's easy.

I was big on getting KMarte. I'm glad Brez got Willson and missed out on Bregman.

Pass Yanks for Second Then on to passing the Rays Add another ring

I don't get hung up on things like 3-7. How about the 35-12 record? We repeat that and we're in bid-ness.

We shouldn't have had to add a pitcher at the deadline with all the focus put on building up the pitching staff, but it is what it is. We lost 5 guys, counting Belloyippo to the pen.

Can we get back to the topic of music?

I've agreed all along we shoulda gotten a SP'er at the deadline. I'm arguing your point that Brez slacked on rotation depth by trading away too many starters. The rate of immediate success from those starters is not good, and the best one of the group, Early, has yet to pitch for his new team and may not all year. The amount of quality pitchers on the 26 and 40 improved. The amount of quality depth on the 40 improved. You've been ily critical of Brez not addin enough dept, wen e mit have led all GMs in additions. (My keyboard is missin some letters....)

DET still holds the 2nd spot in the AL run differential lead, despite being in a 3-way tie for the 7th best record in the AL. +91 BOS +86 DET +85 NYY +53 TBR +45 NYY ...big gap to -23 SEA and -27 BAL The Sox remain 8.5 GB TBR and 2.5 behind NYY. BAL, TEX and DET are all 61-64 and tied for the last WC slot. That's on pace for a 79 win season! Remember, someone projected us to win 90 games and miss the WC.

Remaining Games: BOS: 2 AZ, 3SFG, 3 at MIA, 4 at NYY, 3 SEA, 4 at BAL, 3 LAA, 3 KCR, 3 at TX, 3 at TBR, 3 CLE, 3 CHC NYY: 3 at BAL, 3 TOR, 4 HOU, 4BOS, 3 at LAA, 3 at SDP, 3 COL, 3 NYM, 3 at MIN, 3 at AZ, 4 TBR, 3BAL TBR: 3TOR, 3at BAL, 3 at DET, 3 SDP, 3 NYM, 4 at TEX, 3 at ATL, 3 HOU, 3 ATH, 3 BOS, 4 at NYY, 3 at PHI The Rays have a few tough stretches and only 2 easy series. They end with 4 v BOS 3 at NYY and 3 at PHI. They better be up 3-4 by then. I'd say the Yanks have 3 easy series. BOS 2 easy and 1-2 kinda easy.

There is an off topic page for this sort of post. 🫣

I'm still eying the division win.

I'm actually okay with Story at 2B, but I'm not sure he has a second half surge like 2025 in him at his age. He led the team in HRs, RBI and SBs, last year after a bad start. His D sucks but so does Monasterio's. What's better D? SS Monasterio & 2B Story SS Story & 2B Monasterio/Seigler/Sogard I'm not sure the first is much better. With Yoshida out, Romy can move to DH v R, so no need for him to enter the 2B mix. To me, Arias might offer the most hope for a late season spark. Campbell could DH w Romy, maybe.

Imposters! Great ones, though.