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We know he can't be any worse on D. His ability to play 3B was likely why he stayed, so long, but now that Devers is back at 3B, maybe we'll try Ref at 1B, at least vs LHPs and maybe a few righties. Who plays vs most RHPs? Ref is a career .632 v RHPs, which is still double Dalbecs overall OPS, this year. Wong actually has a massive reverse split: .782 v RHPs .534 v LHPs (Career) Reyes? Add and call up Kavadas?

Our depth has been highly criticized for a long time, and rightfully so, but for a team that has been missing 4 of their top 6 SP'ers and 4-5 of their everyday players for much of the season, being 14-13 has shown that maybe it wasn't as bad as we thought. One could argue this has been with smoke and mirrors or some genius work by Cora, and certainly many of our subs have really stunk up the place- both on O and D, but several players have done better or much better than pre-season expectations. Here are a few of the good ones: Pitchers: 1. Crawford 1.35 ERA and #1 in IP on team. 2. Houck 1.65 ERA and #2 In IP on team. 3. Slaten 0.63 ERA and just 1 IP from being 5th on the team in IP. 4. Criswell 2.38 and 8th in IP. 5. Weissert 1.69 and 1 IP away from being 8th in IP. 6. Bernardino 0.92 in 9.2 IP. 7. Kelly 0.00 in just 4 IP. Everyday players (some were not viewed as subs): 1. Our catchers have a .906 OPS and are maximizing our staff's production. (Wong .998 & McGuire .751) 2. O'Neill is at 1.137, but has missed a lot of time. 3. Abreu is at .905, after a slow start. 4. Refsnyder is at 1.264 in just 28 PAs, mostly vs LHPs. Some players that have been disappointing on O and or D (or have done poorly but as expected:) Rafaela: poor O (.463)/ Good D, despite several errors (4th in PAs on team) Valdez: poor 0 (.444)/ Poor D but expected. Yoshida: poor 0 (.660) and hoped for .750 or better Duran: poor ) (.660, depsite starting off nicely. does have 8 SBs and 15 runs scored)/ D is as expected- near average for LF. Reyes: poor O (.433) wasn't expected to be good, but not this bad, either/ Poor D at 3B. Dalbec: awful on O (.268) and as expected on D (bad) DHam: .581 on O, bad on D Pitchers: Joely 6.55 (9th in IP) and Campbell (12.79 ERA on IL, now) Anderson (5.52) and Booser (5.40) not expected to do well.

Technically, Gio was 4.90 and 4.88 in '22 and '23. His 63 GS made him our #1 or #2 going into 2024- not because of his great ERA, but because he was viewed as dependable to take the ball every 5 days. Of course, he was the first to go down hurt, but before that he was our 1-2 slot SP'er. We weren't even sure who the 3-5 guys would be. Either way you look at it, 4 of our top 6 pitchers going into this season are on the IL. That is devastating. The same thing happened to the Astros, and look where they are.

Last 14 days: .825 Yoshida Last 7 days: 1.500 Yoshida

I did not want Gio as a one choice addition, but at least we tried to do better than the $10M/1 guys like Kluber & Richards, or $5-7M on Wacha, Perez (twice) and Hill. He was not thought of as an injury risk, but it seems to be something the 2024 Sox cannot avoid. Next year, we should have Gio, Hendriks and Fulmer.

Here is the template, in order of most money spent on contracts and not counting traded players: Ohtani Yamamoto Nola ERod S Gray Snell Imanaaga S Lugo J Hicks Giolito Stroman Wacah R Lopez Manaea N Martinez Montgomery Not sure how deep you want to go... (under $25M) K Maeda T Mahle Woodruff Montas Fedde Flaherty Severino Gibson Under $12M L Lynn Kershaw A Wood Miley Perez Paxton Junis Under $6M Lorenzen Clevinger

$53M/4 for Imanaga is not chump change, but it's not a ton of money, either. It's about $14.3M/season which was less than Gio.

CBS says: May 7 Bello & Pivetta May 15 Whitlock

It's good to have Devers back, even if just as a DH, and O'Neill being back helps, too, but we still have a ton of our top players out: Gio (#1 SP) out all season Story (#1 SS and maybe 4th or 5th best hitter) out for the rest of the season Casas (#1 1Bman and maybe the 2nd or 3rd best hitter) out for a long time (CBS says JUN 14.) Grissom (#1 2Bman and maybe a top 6 or 7 projected batter.) CBS says APR 30 Bello (#2 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 7) Pivetta (#3 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 7) Whitlock (#4-6 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 15) So, basically 4 of our top 6 SP'ers are out and 3 of our everyday 9 are out, too. Plus, role players: Romy G (utility IF) May 10? Campbell (top 7-10 RPer on team) May 7? Heineman (3rd C) May 2? Hendriks (knew he'd be out until maybe August Murphy & Mata (Pen depth) Fulmer (knew he'd be out all year)

LOL. The main point, however, is that if you make a suggestion, and it doesn't happen, you were wrong, wrong, WRONG!

I can't believe we can do no better than Joely. Our RHPs have done better vs LHBs than RHBs, so far, so I'm not sure we really need a token LH'd RP'er to go along with Bernardino. RHPs vs LHB .585 OPSA RHPs vs RHB .647 OPSA Our LHPs are at .707 v LHBs, but Bernardino is at .610 (Joely .666.)

We made it through 14 games before needing SP'er depth. Since Criswell's start in game 15, we have use depth guys 5 times in 13 games: Win Criswell Loss Bernardino Win Winkowski Win Criswell Loss Anderson 3-2 record

How long can this team hold out with starters/openers like Wink, Anderson, Criswell and Bernardino? We have played 27 games and have started 9 pitchers. With Gio out all year, these are our 2-10 slots pitchers. Kind of amazing we are 14-13, despite these facts.

Cora is waiting for him to go 4 for 5 before resting him- preferably vs a LHP.

Just about all the top AL teams lost, yesterday. ALE 16-9 BAL 17-10 NYY 14-13 BOS 13-14 TBR 13-14 TOR Wild Card Race 18-8 CLE ALC 16-9 BAL ALE 14-12 SEA ALW 17-10 KCR WC1 17-10 NYY WC1 14-12 DET WC3 14-13 BOS -0.5 14-13 TEX -0.5 13-14 TBR -1.5 13-14 TOR -1.5 13-13 MIN -1.5 We are essentially tied for 13th in MLB best records (NYM, BOS, TEX)

What a change of tunes from a couple weeks ago.

I wasn't aware Ref had played so much 1B. I'd do it, at least vs RHPs. Maybe play Wong at 1B vs some lefties. Man, that Casas injury is killing us.

I was pretty high on him, but I was on others, too, who are hurt or struggling. I liked Seth Lugo, too. Here are some selected FWARs 1. Crawford 1.4 3. Houck 1.1 8. Imanaga 0.9 13. S Lugo & Yamamoto 0.8 23. T Roger 0.7 (trade talk) 27. M Perez, M Wacha 0.6 42. Severino, C Sale, Nate 0.5 The list of injured or struggling SP'ers might be longer.

POR is up 3-2, late. Mayer is 2-4 Lugo & Jordan homered. Dobbins had another good start. 6IP 5H 2ER 3BB 7K Woo is down 3-2, late Alvarez homered.

It looks like our rotation might be coming back down to earth.

What an infield! 1B: Dalbec .246 (Bad on D at 1B) 2B: Valdez .427 (Bad on D at 2B) SS: Rafaela .483 (Okay on D at SS) 3B: Reyes .428 (Bad on D at 3B)

The strawman builder strikes again.

We all know Devers is only DH'ing, because he's a better defensive DH than Yoshida.

Our defense at DH is worst in MLB.