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I'm not sure I want him over Seigler or Sogard, but as long as he's a back-up, okay.

I'm not excited about a Story return, despite his 2025 numbers. IKF was heating up before his injury, but Monasterio, Seagler and Sogard are doing fine. Anthony for Duran could be a major boost, even if he just hits .725.

I basically said the same thing at the same time!

I hope this puts any thoughts of Story getting his job back to rest.

Monstererios!

Made me think what the best BA & HR seasons are... 20's Hornsby '22 .401 42 Hornsby '25 .403 39 Ruth '27 .356 60 Ruth '23 .393 41 Ruth '24 .378 46 Gehrig '27 .373 47 Ruth '26 .373 47 Hornsby '29 .380 39 Suttles '26 .425 32 30's Hack Wilson '30 .356 56 Terry '30 .401 23 Klein '30 .386 40 Ruth '31 .373 46 Gehrig '30 .379 41 Foxx '32 .364 58 Foxx '38 .356 48 Greenberg .315 58 40's Williams '41 .406 37 Musial '48 .376 39 Williams '49 .343 43 Kiner '49 .310 54 Williams '42 .356 36 50's Mantle '56 .353 52 Mays .319 51 Kluz .326 49 60's Mantle '61 .317 54 Mays '65 .317 52 F Robinson '66 .316 49 Cash '61 .361 41 Maris .269 61 70's Foster '77 .320 52 Aaron '71 .327 47 Rice '78 .315 46 Lynn '79 .333 39 Stargel .295 48 80's Brett '80 .391 24 Boggs '87 .363 24 Mattingly .352 31 D Murphy .315 44 Canseco '88 .307 42 Oglive .304 41 Jackson .300 41 90's Walker .379 37 McGwire .299 70 Sosa .308 66 Walker .366 49 McGwire .278 65 Sosa .288 63 Griffey .304 56 McGuire .312 52 Belle .317 50 Bagwell .368 39 Piazza .362 40 Thomas .349 40 00's Bonds .328 73 Helton .373 42 Sosa .328 64 Bonds .370 46 Bonds .363 45 Pujols .359 43 Vladdy .345 44 Howard .313 58 L Gonzalez .325 57 ARod .300 57 10's Josh Hamilton .359 32 Cabrera .348 44 Betts .346 32 JDM .330 43 Stanton .281 59 Davis .286 53 Judge .284 52 20's Judge .311 62 Judge .322 58 Judge .331 53 Ohtani .310 54 Acuna .337 41 Raleigh .247 60 VladJr .311 48

That album did show it was time to end it all.

Yoshida .882 since June 27th. White .797 Duran .600

I heard TUE AUG 18th to begin rehab asignment.

Abreu now over .800. Durbin has been on a steady rise and is over .730. Duran has been very consistent, lately- never going to far from .614.

We helped light a fire under the Jays, but at least they beat the Yanks. The Rays have been on fire and play the O's at home. The CWS beat the Tigers. The Jays jumped into the #3 WC slot, and MIN & TEX are tied with DET, pending their games tonight.

I'm trying to avoid getting too excited about a prospect, but Arias is making that near impossible. If we could just pencil him into the SS position for 6 years and do well, our everyday roster would look pretty damn solid for many years to come... Years of control, including team options C: Rutschman 1 1B: Contreras 2 2B: Mead 4 SS: Arias 6 3B: Durbin 5 LF: Anthony 8 CF: Rafaela 5 RF: Abreu 3 DH: Yoshida 1 Bench: C: Wong 2/Jo Garcia & Ge Rod (2028)>> Primera (2029) 1B: Gonzales (2028)/ Winnay (2028) 2B: Seigler 5/ Story 2/ Mason White (2028) >> Mataczynski (2030) SS: Cheng 5/ Godbout (2028)>> Soto (2030) 3B: Monasterio 3/ Schaffner (2029) LF: Duran 2/ Jones 3/ Gutierrez (2028) CF: White 1/ Hull (2029) RF: Campbell 8/Eaton 5>> Silverio (2030) DH: Romy 2/ Casas 2/ Brannon/ Cespedes (2028) So... after 2027: no Rutschman & Yoshida DH should be easy to fill, even if from within the system (Campbell, Casas, Brannon, Cespedes, Duran, Romy, Gonzales and others) Catcher will need to be filled by someone other than Wong. Jo Garcia & GeRod are longshots. after 2028: no Contreras, Duran & Wong Maybe we fill 1B with Gonzales, Mead or some sort of Romy/Casas/Winnay/Brannon mix. Replacing Duran might be addition by subtraction. Wong is the back-up catcher, so...

The Who was my favorite band from my late teens until maybe my mid 40's. I still love 'em. BTW, the "moon" from my username comes from Kieth. Quadrophenia is stunning. Who's Next is the most popular and worthy of a ton of praise. Live at Leeds is one of the best live rock albums of all time. One of the best bassist tracks ever is on Eminence Front. Pete's guitar gets most of the raves, and that's understandable, but to me, Moon's rumbling, often off-beat style carried the band. I used to say he played "lead drums." The Who was really 3 musicians all thinking they were on lead. Poor Daltrey had no chance, but he did his best to steal the show.

Did you win tickets or something?

Duarn still up 7th. 😒 Yoshida leading off. Rafaela back in the line-up and the 2 slot. Rut is up third. Contreras and Abreu 4-5. Durbin 6th. Black hole up 7th, followed by Monasterio and Sogard,

Not in all states.

Could be.

Small samples, but here are the draftee numbers: Schaffner .733 GRE Owen .929 GRE Mataczynski N/A FCL Davenport N/A FCL Lanman N/A FCL Adetuyi N/A FCL Volmerding N/A FCL Shelar N/A LaFavor N/AFCL Maginnis .539 SAL Webster N/A FCL Lei N/A FCL Evangelista N/A FCL Frey (Did not sign) Coates .296 SAL Kranzler N/A Offing (Did not sign) Calderon N/A FCL VanDeHatert N/AFCL Undrafted: Revay N/A FCL Castro N/A SAL Padgett 0.00 SAL (2 IP)

Physical Graffiti doesnt get the credit it deserves.

Batters have Silver Slugger Awards, but they seem to not be very high profile, but so what? I always thought Pedro not winning the MVP, when he put up astounding numbers in a hitting era was a travisty. Current fWAR leaders: NL (Looks like a two man race: batter vs bat/arm guy) 7.8 PCA 6.6 Ohtani (3.6 bat/3.0 arm) 5.1 Misiorowski 5.0 C Sanchez 4.6 Sale 4.4 Lopez 4.3 Luzardo 4.2 Turang, Wetherholt & Wood AL (2-3 man race between all batters) 5.7 Alvarez 5.4 Witt 5.3 Dingle 4.8 McGonigle 4.7 Schlitter 4.5 Cease 4.1 Caminero & Rafaela _________________ 1999-2003 AL fWAR Leaders 41.3 Pedro (No MVP, 1 second, 1 fifth, a 20th & 22nd) 41.2 ARod (1MVP, 2nd, 3rd, 6th & 15th) 33.7 Giambi (1 MVP, 2nd, 5th, 8th & 13th) 28.5 Manny (No MVP, but 3rd, 6th x 2 & 9th x 2) IRod 6.8 in '99, Suzuki 6.0 in 2001 & Tejada 4.5 in 2002 all won an MVP in this period. Pedro (11.6) was almost double IRod's fWAR. Highway robbery. He was lower (5.5) than Suzuki's (6.0) in 2001. This one was okay. He was nearly 3 fWAR higher than Tejada in 2002. Shoulda been Pedro. In 2000, Pedro was at 9.4, while Giambi was 7.7. (Giambi went to 9.2 in 2001) Shoulda been Pedro. 2003, Pedro was at 4.9 and ARod 9.2 to Pedro's 7.4, so that one was okay. Pedro should have had 3 MVP, and maybe one with Montreal (8.5 in '97)or the Mets (6.1 in '05)

Hard hit cannot be just exit velo, because of the wide difference between them and Statcast.

Sox OPS+ Leader (with 2025 /Career OPS+) 180+ PAs: 158 Contreras (122/123) 123 Abreu (120/116) 122 Rafaela (99/95) 118 Monasterio (96/109) 110 Yoshida (109/93) 105 Durbin (103/101) 95 Wong (88/42) 73 Duran (107/114) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20-179 PAs: 308 Jones (95/74) 102 Sogard (91/85) 101 Seigler (83/44) 101 IKF (82/75) 75 Anthony (126/140) 73 Cheng (47/n/a) 73 Gasper (50/38) 69 Mayer (75/85) 62 Romy (98/128) 61 Eaton (70/105) 55 Story (106/104) 53 Narvaez (82/100) _________________ Major players doing better than Career and 2025: Contreras (+38/+37) Rafaela (+23/+27) Wong (+7/+53) Monasterio (+22/+9) Yoshida (+1/+17) Abreu (+3/+7) Durbin (+2/+4) Players doing worse on both: Duran (-30/-41)

Some interesting tidbits... With about 25% of the season to go, the three top AL teams in run differential are the 3 wild card teams: +87 NYY (68-54 is second best AL record, though) +86 DET (amazingly only 60-62 w WC3 slot) +82 BOS (65-57 is third best AL record) ________________________ The Astors lead the ALW with a -24 run differential and Pete Lambert as their ace. _________________________ 5 AL teams are within 1.5 of the WC3 slot, and none have a run differential better than -32 (CLE.) _________________________ SEA (57-66) is the 4th worst team in the AL. They are 16-27 since June 24th. ________________________ The NL has 4 teams over .585 win%, while only the Rays are there (.612.) Both leagues have 3 teams below .440 ________________________ PHI and AZ are tied for the last WC slot, and nobody else is closer than 3 GB. The NL does have 5 teams "hanging around:" -3.0 MIA (62-61 is better than DET) -3.5 STL (61-61 better, too) -5.0 STL (59-62) -5.5 PIT & WSH (We did our best to keep these two teams close, as we are 1-3 vs the two and counting.) _________________________ Sox best and worst records by teams: 6-0 CWS (Division leader) 3-0 LAD (2nd best team in MLB) 3-0 NYM, KCR & LAA 5-2 DET (3rd WC team and second best AL run diff) _ _ _ _ _ _ 2-4 ATL (Division leader & 4th best MLB record) 4-9 TOR (We have kept them in the race almost by ourselves) 1-5 MIN (0.5 GB WC3 thanks to us.) 1-5 HOU (Division leader thanks to us.)

Sonny will need to be at his best, and hopefully can go deep into the game. No Whitlock and a shaky Chapman turns the Sox strength of a pen into a big question mark. Others who have been doing well most of the year have begun to struggle. OPSA last 28 days: .425 Whitlock (hurt) .468 Slaten but .646 last 2 weeks .503 Bello (.492/2 wks) .541 TGuerrero (.599/2 wks) .551 Miller (same) .649 Gamboa (n/a) .724 Weissert (.630/2 wks) .731 Chapman (.891 implosion) .795 Moran (.596/2wks is surprising to me)

Maybe he goes back to HOU, if they miss the playoffs this year. PHI offered him a job, already, but who knows. Maybe he latched onto a team with an ex-Sox excec.