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Schlitter was a 7th round pick out of Northeastern meaning roughly 200 guys were picked before he was. He was undrafted out of high school. He’s a late bloomer and nobody foresaw him turning into what he has, including the Yankees.

Would you be/would have been happy taking a demotion where you work(ed)?

Breslow would not have hired Mattingly in a million years; he wants no one around who won’t kow tow to his “brilliance”. Mattingly would never have accepted the job even if it somehow had been offered. He knows a cl**terf€***k when he sees it. Now not hiring Mattingly because of his Yankee stench would be a legit reason.

Every position player should just do the same and tell whoever is on the payroll as a hitting coach/instructor to go to hell. What’s Breslow going to do, demote/DFA them all?

Let’s see, Early was at 96 pitches in the 5th inning (most high stress since runners had been constantly on all game), hadn’t been sharp and had just allowed the go ahead run to score. Guerrero comes in and ends the inning by striking out a guy on 4 pitches (2 fouls) and then pitches the 6th allowing 1 hit. Are you really complaining about a move that worked?

Supposedly the Brewers took a look and changed his arm slot. I have little faith that the crack Sox pitching lab would have done that.

IIRC, Wes Farrell holds both the single season and career records for homers by a pitcher.

Re. Priester, those are last year’s numbers. He has yet to throw a pitch for Milwaukee this season and his rehab numbers are horrific (8 games, 0-5, 15.75 ERA, 2.875 WHIP). Which is the true Priester? I sure don’t know. Too soon to call this one. The Brewers studied Harrison and changed his arm slot which seemingly has made him much more successful. Think the Sox pitching lab would have done that? I have my doubts. The real bad thing about trading Harrison is that the Sox never really gave him a chance to show them something. Drohan spent 5 rather nondescript years in the Sox minor league system. He really never showed he was ready, and it’s still very early to make that call at the major league level. A lot of guys start out great until the league figures them out. Let’s see how the guys we lost do over 2-3 years, not 60 games. No trade should be evaluated that quickly. All that being said, I can’t explain why Breslow got the job, much less still has it. Since the Sox are in Tampa, I’ll borrow from John McKay, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers first coach. The Bucs went 0-14 their first year in the NFL and lost their first 11 or 12 their second year. Sometime during that second year, McKay was asked about his team’s execution; he replied he was in favor of it. (Note, I am not advocating actual execution here, but I would not object a squad of upper management firing him).

Early wasn’t sharp but you really can’t complain when your starter only allows 2 runs. He's given the team a chance.

I always get nervous when Duran hits a few homers in a short time; he starts getting pull happy trying to hit more and the Ks accumulate faster.

You are assuming that the crack Sox pitching lab would have developed him properly.. Huge assumption.

Pretty sure he already knows the Spanish equivalent.

So who would you have used with Whitlock out? Like it or not, Slaten is the next best guy right now after Chapman.

You can tell that after 1 pitch? Now realistically, LaSorsa wasn’t even traded, he was sold, so yeah, he probably does suck big time. At least he didn’t cost anything but some if Henry’s $.

He seldom has major meltdowns.

Bottom line is 1 run scored. Thats the whole game right there. This was not going to end up on the plus side for the good guys with that output.

Bottom line today is 1 run scored. This is where no Whitlock hurts.

I was taught there’s only one time to slide into first; when you can see the throw is wide plate side so you try to avoid a possible tag by the first baseman by sliding under it.

Not sure I’d go that far, but his career ERA against Boston did jump from 0.56 to 0.83.

Cedanne lucky the throw home was wide. The slide into second tells me he forgot how many outs there were.

At least he may have hastened Schlittler’s exit from the game by an inning.

Difference being Rice just told the kid to go play with his computer. Ted would have stuffed the computer down the nerds throat.

Beat me by 5 seconds

Breslow’s nerds would just tell him to go away since the advice wouldn’t correspond with the Sox philosophy.

August 29th