Nick

Ok, I'll admit. It's nice having Toro right now. He can play both corner positions and he's a switch hitter. We go lefty lefty, then 7 righties. Great to have options.

Whitlock has been a disappointment.

I'm looking forward to watching Dobbins. The team is 4-3 in games started by Dobbins. Here's our current rotation. 8-6 The Wheel (yesterday made up for all of his losses in no run support) 5-4 The Opener 4-3 140 Innings or Bust 6-4 Ferris

Did anyone see the video of Narvaez point of view on the ball hit to the right side for a single? Campbell was frozen. He DID NOT take a false step towards second base. He froze and allowed the ball to go through the infield. I am glad he's with us. I'm glad that he was extended. But, he has been horrendous since April. He can't get the ball in flight. His second hit barely got airborne. Something is amiss. Send him back to AAA and let him work it out. Get his confidence back. If he's not mentally tough to handle that then the entire organization misread him.

I'm not in favor of firing anyone. Brez did take actions during off season. It's easier to build a team around Crochet, who will be with us for 6 more years beginning in 2026. But I'm showing my displeasure with the Anthony situation. What's the hold up? You can't continue with the daily dose of he'll be up at some point.

Thanks for noticing that.....that's at least twice he's done that this week. Keep the single hitter off second base. Geez I told my 12 year olds that 30 years ago.

97 pitches thrown by 3 relievers last night, thanks to Buehler. Luckily Crochet if going. It would be nice to see him go 8, then close out with Chapman.

Well Cora is managing with one hand tied behind his back, courtesy of Breslow.

Quit avoiding the inevitable......Mayer is our future at short, not Story. Hell move him to short. He is just so fragile, he can break any minute playing short. We got a big retrieve by acquiring Carlos Narvaez to replace Teel. Now it appears we need a replacement for Wong.

Exactly. Someone needs to be an adult here, sooner the better. Duran, Rafaela and Abreu may be outstanding in the future. They all can better at something. But not at the expense of keeping down a #1 MLB prospect. Other than the fact that Anthony's promotion is 'blocked', it's management's own doing. Someone has to go and Abreu may be the guy. Duran to me still has more of an upside as a leadoff hitter than Abreu. We can always trade Chapman if we become a seller, then resign him with bigger contract during winter. At this rate, I would make certain Giolito doesn't eclipse 140 innings, not sure if he would have any value at the trade deadline though. I think we should hang on to Houck because he will come cheap for 2026, his first arb year. We need to figure out what plans we can have with trio of young pitchers, Criswell, Dobbins and Fitts. We still have Kutter returning and possibly Sandoval. With Bregman, I am intrigued with what he may return. The big question is if he was to leave at after the season, we would only get the relief of his salary. I may trade him and go after him aggressively, offering him a multi year deal. 'Pay the man what he wants"

Only 5 teams in AL has negative one run games. 4-16 White Sox 6-17 Red Sox 9-13 Rangers 7-10 Athletics 7-9 Twins The Angels are the best at 10-4. In AL East, no one other than the Sox has a losing record in one run games, and has a combined 39-36 record.

I was surprised too. They are second in the league in runs scored behind the Yankees and we are third.

Here's our rotation set as of today. Buehler GS 9 team record 6-3 Crochet GS 13 team record 7-6 Dobbins GS 7 team record 4-3 Bello GS 9- team record 5-4 Giolito GS 7 team record 4-3 Total GS 45 team record 26-19 Fitts (5) Houck (9) and Newcomb (5) combined for 4-15 team record. Interesting that despite our starter issues, we're not terrible in terms of quality starts. Not supporting good pitching by Crochet and losing record in one run losses are main reasons for our losing record.(along with defense, striking out, not playing #1 prospect in the country, etc, etc, etc) Rays (32), Royals (31), Astros (29), Rangers (25), Sox (24), Angels (24), Yankees (23), Mariners (23), Jays (21), White Sox (20), Tigers (20), Orioles (19), Twins (18), Athletics (18) and Guardians (14).

It should have a wide balcony so the Sox can sell more tickets.

He made a great deal to acquire Chris Sale. He knew that there was a player better than highly expensive Moncada. Of course that turned out to be Devers. You and I both hated to give up Kopech but that deal worked our well. That was a bold move and allowed us to have the 2018 magical season. You have to admit the % are always higher that prospects become a bust more often than not. If you are going to spend to the tax limit each year, I'd hire DD in a second.

Great observation. Next time I hear either Brez or Cora say he's still working to get better, I will vomit. He has nothing more to learn at AAA competition.

Brayan Bello, at No. 114 overall. There are a number of familiar faces in the wide swath between the two current rotation pieces, including Chris Sale (No. 5), Nick Pivetta (No. 30), Nathan Eovaldi (No. 43), Michael Wacha (No. 96), Quinn Priester (No. 102) and Eduardo Rodriguez (No. 103). The rest of the 2025 Red Sox are Walker Buehler (No. 116), Kutter Crawford (No. 130), Richard Fitts (No. 142) and Lucas Giolito (No. 145). If you go 5 deep per team, there are only 150 slots. Just look at these rankings. We are pathetic. I am so disgusted by our approach to acquiring starting pitching via injured players. Instead of pissing away $10-20M, why not just pay $25-$30M and get an injury free starter. Think how much money we've wasted on a guy like Giolito. Thank God we traded for Crochet. I hope they learned their lesson. Pitching controls games. I would give up Devers and $15M for the pitcher from Pittsburgh. And I'm serious. I don't want nice manager, nice GM. I want hard asses that can manage and acquire talent. We have failed. If things don't improve, it's time to implode the roster. Get what you can for Duran, Abreu, Buehler, Giolito, Chapman, etc. Go get top of the line pitchers.

We get run back on back to back doubles by Duran and Devers. They need to come to the plate 5 more times to tie the game. Okay.... Brez, what have you done to our team?

And I was looking forward this HOME game. Ouch.

Pretty funny Moon.......

Duran definitely, Campbell thinks he gets bonus money for every bounce he hits into the infield turf. I may get upset but I'm always willing to jump back onto the bandwagon.

Pittsburgh has no intention of trading Skenes per MassLive article. He is under team control for 4 more years beginning 2026. Pirates have Cruz in CF with OPS of .873 and McCuthen as DH with OPS of .730. Their OPS team ranking by each position is 2-9-9-10-12-12-13-15-15. They need tons of help. But they are very cheap. They require tons of team controlled players. Would you give up say, Duran, Abreu (replace him with Anthony), Campbell, Fitts, Dobbins and a couple more minor leaguers plus money for Skenes? We would still have Narvarez, Gonzalez(Casas), Hamilton, Story, Mayer, Password, Rafaela, Anthony, and Devers. We'll get Bregman back and move Mayer to short and Story to 2B. We'd have our 2nd ace.

I have never seen anyone pounding the turf as much as him. Can he get the ball airborne?

OPS ranking for 170 qualified players. 158 Story (that's with 1.750 OPS last night) 145 Rafaela 139 Campbell 1 1 1 Duran Not pretty.

Youngest to the Oldest, Sox starting pitchers. 25 Fitts 25 Dobbins 25 Crochet 26 Bello 28 Sandoval 28 Houck 29 Crawford 30 Buehler 30 Giolito I'd stay away from older guys in the future.