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Well, we started the year getting swept by Baltimore, but we also took out the Yankees and the Rays in the postseason…

Right. Best go with Perez since he didn’t do that…

Yordan Alvarez has 4 hits today. The Red Sox have 5 total in the last two games…

I’ll give Garcia this - he has the longest and most complicated windup I have ever seen. It’s like he’s doing the Electric Slide before every pitch…

The Astros have scored 11 of their 33 runs in this series in the 9th inning. So we best get more than 2

Actually I was volunteering. Can’t be any worse than using Danny Santana as a pinch hitter…

See now THIS is when you bring in Danny Santana - to play defense. Not to pinch hit..

So who plays RF next inning?

Every move Cora has made tonight has not worked out…

So… one run in their last 23 innings?

Santana is the guy you pinch hit for, not with…

Ah yes, the true biggest myth in baseball. "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers." If you keep your good relief pitchers in the bullpen, many of them will continue to pitch well. But if you continually fill the bullpen with volatile pitchers whose performance will vary, then you will continue to get a bullpen that is just not reliable. Right now, the sox have two very good pitchers in the bullpen in Houck and Whitlock, and the consensus is "GET THEM OUTTA THE PEN!!" Why? I get that SP is in need of improvement, but bullpens are very important in today's game and when you have one that works, try not to tear it down to build up other aspects of the team that don't. The Sox probably need a 2B next year (Arroyo injured himself this year taking a throw at first - if that doesn't make you question his durability, what will?). Hey, we have extra outfielders!! Let's put Duran in CF and move Kike to 2B. It might not work out, but centerfielders are a crapshoot, right?

ERA is not remarkably useful when a pitcher has 4 IP...

Babe hit this board, too? He must have quit his job to troll full time.

Three days ago, this team was pitching and hitting well and looked to run over Houston. Today, this team is not pitching well and not hittng and should be eliminated by Hosuton. If it switched one way so quickly, why can't it switch back? Part of the reason seems to be we evaluate the Sox solely on their most recent games, but then evaluate Houston on their season-long performance and assume they had day-to-day consistency for 162 games. They are just as capable of rolling over and dying as Boston is...

Let's assume Taylor is closer to Kike Hernandez money. That makes sense to me. They're very similar players who now both have post-season games in which each has hit 3 HRs. As much as pitchng is the top priority, there really isn't anyone on this free agent market the Sox should be dedicating massive wads of cash to. We talk about Stroman, but will he be looking for Eovaldi money and years? Or will he be looking for Patrick Corbin money? If it's the latter, let someone else have him. The trade market is probably the better way to go, since free agency largely means paying players in their 30's for whatever they did in their 20's for another team. The Sox would be better off identifying some of those 20-something arbitration eligible pitchers that small market teams are looking to offload to save money. Oakland is an obvious place, with Montas, Bassitt, and Manaea. Also maybe KC (Keller, Junis), Detroit (Boyd, Fulmer), Arizona (Luke Weaver, Caleb Smith), Colorado (Freeland, Senzatela), and the Chicago White Sox (Lopez) might all be looking to move pitchers who are pricing themselves out of their team's budgets. And it is possible Cincinnati (Castillo, Mahle) might be as well, depending on how other arbitration cases work out. Obviously, every pitcher named here is not a "ace," however you define that term. But I think there are a few diamonds-in-the-rough that could he had cheaply and perform surprisingly...

Yeah he's not all that wild about you, either I'd be all for Taylor if they let him play 2B and nowhere else. Put Schwarber at 1B, Verdugo-Hernandez-Renfroe in the OF. And get some pitching...

Please

Maybe it's a compromising picture of both of them together?

Taylor is certainly a very good player who is now having a terrific NLCS. But at some point hopefully the Sox will stop grabbing all these multi-positional guys and get someone to pay an actual position every day.

No. Interleague play is fine. Just get rid of the whole "pitchers batting" thing. Watching pitchers bat is like watching punters tackle...

No one is saying trade him, release him, or DFA him. Just bench him. For one game. Patience is something the Sox cannot afford right now….

Maybe Boone just has some really compromising picture of Cashman…

Since it’s a discussion about rum, can I assume that in your request about Schwarber, “DFA” means “Drink, Fat Ass!!”

Hicks is on the books for $40 mill over the next 4 seasons...