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Just curious, how many posters has TYPM told to not respond to his posts? I’ve lost track (okay, I was never tracking it). Hint - if you don’t want people to respond, don’t post. Otherwise, it’s fair game. (Not that he’ll see this, as I’m pretty sure I’m blocked since I’m not of an equal “superior baseball mind”).
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Agree 100%. Campbell earned his way on the team and then earned his way back to the minors via performance, not some dislike on the part of the manager or team management. For what I assume is the first time in his life, he struggled at baseball. As I’ve said elsewhere, he was promoted too fast IMO. He made the majors with less than 150 minor league games total, or about 1 minor league season. Mookie was over 300. Trout about the same. As for TYPM’s insane complaint about being moved off of shortstop, I’ve pointed out to him that so were most other right handed infielders in the majors and more than a few right handed outfielders as well. There’s no hate for KC here. We want him to succeed. But I’ll take the judgement of the people actually paid to make those decisions (and there are many) rather than the opinion of one disgruntled guy with a man crush on a young player.
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Does that include the Hick from French Lick?
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There are reports of a possible ankle injury and an MRI today. If true, maybe not so stupid? You know, there is the possibility that the Sox brass has a little more knowledge on player availability than we do.
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The veteran Ramirez made sure there was contact as well..
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I’m a little surprised Cora didn’t get himself tossed there.
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I thought it was established in the 10th inning of Game 3 of the 1975 World Series that it was merely a collision.
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Only good thing is it counts for exactly 1 loss.
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He’s should only be used in spots where you would use a position player.
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What rookie doesn’t? As for Bregman, every player goes through rough patches. If you could look back at Ted Williams game logs, you’d find a few bad weeks or months in there. Not many, but some and Alex is not Teddy Bsllgzme. Bregman is not 100% and won’t be the rest of the year. He’s going out there every day and giving it his best. Even at 70%, he’s still better than anyone else they could put at 3rd on a regular basis.
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As I posted yesterday, when you play a team is almost as important as who you play. Bad teams, even White Sox/Rockies level bad, have good weeks here and there over the season. Good teams have bad weeks. Catch any team when they are in one of these extremes … The Pirates have won 9 out of 12; they are in a good stretch right now. It’ll end soon, but that doesn’t matter today.
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Yeah, Fred seems to have forgotten or more likely never knew Breslow was around 11th person they contacted about the job; most if not all of the earlier candidates declined to even interview.
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Was ERod really the Sox #5 in 2018? Guys like Pomeranz, Brian Johnson and Hector Velazquez combined for 34 or so starts and Eduardo was certainly better than those guys. ERod went down with some injury in mid July (was that the ankle after which he never covered first again?) which I think influenced Dombrowski to get Eovaldi. He was definitely #5 when he came back in September and had a pretty bad month. Arroyo was definitely #5 in 2004.
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A little premature on the best top 4 starters talk. We have no idea what we have in Tolle except potential. Let’s see what happens once teams get a book on him. Agree totally with your take on the #5 starter. By definition, a #5 is not a great pitcher. You hope they can keep you in the game most of the time and your offense can score enough to win.
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It’s not always who you play but when you play them. The best teams will have bad weeks. The worst teams will have good weeks. Even the Rockies and White Sox will have a couple good weeks over the course of a 6 month season. The Pirates are way better than those teams. Catch any team at the wrong or right time and anything can happen. The Sox have caught Pittsburgh at a bad time (from a Sox viewpoint).
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Or realize that other teams have major league players too, even poor teams. The Pirates have been playing well the last couple weeks. I think they came in having won 7 of their last 10. They aren’t a real good team, but they aren’t close to White Sox/Rockies level.
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Were you actually watching? He was losing effectiveness in the 6th. One could argue whether he should have come out for the 6th, but he was done when Cora pulled him. And since he hadn’t even come close to 100 pitches in the minors, why would you think he could all of a sudden do it in the majors. The Sox offense scored one earned run. I said last night the pitching matchup did not favor the them. Skenes is not a just a good pitcher, he’s a great one.
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Im guessing Bernardino since he’s mostly a medium leverage guy who has options. Don’t know how the September call up rules apply re. whether he has to stay the normal 15 days or not.
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Skenes goes for the Bucs tomorrow; he’s only 8-9, but his ERA is 2.08. The pitching matchup does not favor the Sox no matter who they put on the bump.
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Mocking a couple of our more vociferous naysayers. One was never here today; notice how another one disappeared every time the Sox took the lead but showed back up when Crochet (who definitely wasn’t sharp today, it happens) allowed the tying run to score.
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Slaten and Refsnyder activated, Moran sent down, Lowe on paternity leave.
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Lefty opener will go 3 innings max. Bulk guy is right handed, hence the lefty lineup for one time through the order.
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They didn’t show it, but more than likely he was going hard to first and didn’t initially see what had happened on the play, probably overrunning the base. He then saw the catcher running back to the backstop and decided to go. Unfortunately, he’s slow as molasses to begin with and whatever’s going on with his knee didn’t improve his speed. I’m thinking it was just bad judgement by a rookie. No way to know what the first base coach was telling him.
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They’ve had a pretty good record since the end of May. I think they are 5-6 games over .500 since then. Their awful start sunk them.
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Bradish had serious stuff tonight. That slider changeup combo was downright nasty. Literally looked like they dropping a foot or more in the last 2 feet to the plate.
