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I don’t think Cora asked him to play 1b. In fact, he seemed to avoid that whole confrontation, which was a recurring theme on that drama. If they just decided to move Devers to first on a whim, I would have understood Devers’ frustration. Maybe not condoned it, but at least understood it. But when a teammate goes down for the year, and Devers gets asked to help fill another void, I cannot justify his selfish response, especially if his translator accurately repeated what he said. But I guess since he is hitting well and Toro has been working out, it’s ok in some eyes. As long as Toro keeps hitting, I guess…

And for all the hype on the big three, the current front runner for Sox ROY has got to be Narvaez. And by a lot…

Or he’s awful…

With Anthony up, this team has what, eight rookies right now? That is certainly an important factor. (I’m counting Van Belle because he’s here, but I don’t think he will last long.)

Like every MLB team? The Royals just called up Jac Caliagnone (sp?), their top prospect, and put him in RF, a position he never played before this year. Last year the Padres put top prospect Jackson Merrill in CF despite his never playing anywhere but SS. Why? They needed a CF…

How are they a bad fundamental team? That’s a vague criticism that probably confuses fundamentals with skill…

It seemed like his plan was simply to collect blue chip prospects in hopes of increasing the quality of the farm. The easiest way to do that is to avoid those risky pitchers with high draft picks…

It matters when you’re talking about “gut punching” losses or whatever team you use to describe disheartening losses. They just lost a game a couple days ago because they opted for a 5-4-3 double play over cutting down the run at home…

What if that team has 36 losses, but 17 of them are by 1 run?

So roughly half the league is slower. But the point is that errors, and ultimately fielding percentage, is clearly dependent on factors beyond the fielder…

That works too, despite the stretch…

This loss might be on Cora. Not sure why he would walk Aranda to load the bases for a white hot Junior Caminero (who thankfully only walked). I get Aranda hits left-handed, but not all lefties are Ted Williams…

The idea of the ever-replenishing farm was slowed by Bloom and his repeated use of high draft picks on safer position players. He actually did a very good job with them, but the pitching void remains…

How woefully unpoetic. You could have at least gone with “Dobbins, Crochet and pray, pray, pray”…

Makes sense. Noda’s only chance was if Toro failed…

Technically he only walked two. Aranda was intentional…

Seriously? You called a 10-8 game over at 3-0? Why are you bragging about being the fastest to the white flag?

My big decision now is who to drop to activate him on my fantasy team…

It s did seem like Cora is, especially since Bello’s last start snapped a streak of 5 starts in which Cora pulled him in the middle of the fifth inning. In 4 of those 5 starts, Bello allowed 2 earned runs or less, including one in which he was throwing allowed 0 earned runs…

Not if Cora has any say in it…

Me too, but largely by default…

The big issue with dealing Duran is he’s been a very good leadoff hitter. And while he struggles against lefties, he’s not so bad as to necessitate a platoon...

I think Hamilton sticks in Boston ant most until Bregman returns. Toro has made himself a keeper, at lest for 2025. Anthony does need a call up, but who does he push to the bench? Even Rafaela is holding his own as a starter. In theory, Rafaela to 2b and demote Campbell, but Cora clearly prefers C-Note be his CF and not sure what Campbell gets out of AAA. Should the Sox bench Abreu here? Anthony could also DH, but that’s a whole separate thread…

There are lots of issues with fielding percentage. A couple weeks back, I was watching a Rangers-White Sox game and saw the following “defense”. Austin Slater hit a routine flyball to deep center. Rangers’ CF Sam Haggerty settled under the ball on the warning track. Just as he caught it, LF Wyatt Langford plowed him over and the ball popped out. Slater, who had been jogging, managed to reach third. Error was charged to Haggerty. Haggerty!! For what? Making the mistake of forgetting his LF was a buffoon? Next up was Chase Meidroth. Routine grounder to third that Jace Jung dropped, Jung picked it up and fired to first but Meidroth beat the throw. Error -Jung. Had this been a less speedy runner, it’s very likely an out with no error. So now fielding is measured by the speed of the opposing runner? Then Lenin Garcia hit a routine grounder to Rangers 2b Marcus Semien. Instead of throwing the ball, Semien tried to chase down the speedy Meidroth. Once that failed, he threw to first but Garcia beat the throw. No error charged. Somehow it was a clean play. So three routine hits, no outs recorded, and what should have been a clean 1-2-3 inning for Ranger hurler Hobie Milner was instead a 6 run inning. The two errors in it were from one player getting tackled by his teammate, and one because the runner was too fast. Just not seeing the value in this stat…

Can’t it be both?