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Would the Sox be interested in Gallo? He's the only Yankee I've been given authority to trade away

I think what these last two games have shown is that the Sox don't need Devers. They should trade him to the Yankees.

Eh Donaldson made some really nice plays today so can't fault him. Yanks had chances to put this game away but let the Sox hang around. Credit to them for coming back.

Gallo does have 4 walks in his last 3 games. Sorry that's the only positive I could come up with. Hard to sugar coat someone hitting .166 over half a season of ABs. The guy just doesn't make enough contact for his power to come into play.

Happy the Yanks won but more upset about Cleveland's bullpen f***ing up my parlay

Yanks getting outhit 12-10. Fortunately the Sox gifted them 3 runs with shoddy defense.

Not even a bad pitch on either HR. Devers just barrels him no matter where he pitches him.

Well s***

Cole forced to pitch to Devers here I would think, otherwise you bring the tying run to the plate.

Judge and Rizzo out for the Yanks. From what Boone said, they could play if they needed to... almost sounds like disrespect to the Sox, like "yeah we'll rest our best players against you".

Basically just hoping he goes on a streak. Maybe today today will be the spark. Or maybe he'll wait another 2 weeks for his next HR

Florial is actually putting up numbers in AAA (OPS is over .900 for the season). Maybe it's time to give him a shot over Gallo? He's lefty and he's already on the 40 man roster anyway.

I think these games against the Astros have made it especially clear they need a better left handed bat than Gallo. They were shut down by all of Houston's tough righties, and today's only run came from Rizzo (a lefty).

He did settle down somewhat, but he had runners on base all day against a weak Oakland lineup and was pretty fortunate to only give up 3. He had a 2.30 ERA over his first 10 starts and a 5.68 ERA over his last 5 starts. He hasn't reached 6 innings in any of those five starts. I wouldn't say it's alarming, but it should be of some concern.

I think the loss can be blamed on whoever named this game thread.

Regression hitting Taillon pretty hard. Might need to skip a start or a phantom IL stint, he's on pace to throw about 180 regular season innings and that's probably higher than you'd want after just coming back from surgery.

The one to Judge was a gift since he swung at a pitch a foot inside. But the one to Stanton was a meatball pitch in a hitters count that would've probably been hit hard. In any case when you're a team as bad as the A's you find many different ways to lose.

I'm indifferent since I don't think it'll make much of a difference, but I suppose the odds of Andujar rediscovering his stroke are greater than the chances of Gallo doing the same. In either case we're talking about the #9 hitter in the lineup, so defense should probably be the priority (Andujar can only play left field at a decent level, whereas Gallo can play both corner positions and is gold glove caliber).

Still tied. If you don't plan on staying tied with me then you should lose a week

I don't think Andujar is an upgrade. His defense is worse than Gallo's, he's another righty bat, and he has yet to prove that his bat is as good as it was in 2018. He did not get a ton of playing time this season, but in that limited time he hit .268/.279/.317 (.596 OPS, 73 OPS+). He also had 160+ plate appearances last season and didn't do much better. Compared to Gallo this season who is hitting .173/.285/.346 (.631 OPS, 82 OPS+). Both are pretty bad, but I think Gallo's fielding, power, and left handedness (for whatever it's worth) is what makes him the better play of the two. Hopefully they pick up a better option at the deadline.

They're destined for something. It better not be another first round elimination. Around here it's World Series or bust (we sure are entitled!). This is definitely the most well rounded team they've had in awhile, and they can improve it at the deadline without a lot of reshuffling (another OF to replace Gallo/Hicks, another reliever to lengthen the BP, and maybe another back-end starter to eat some innings and keep Cortes/Taillon/Sevy fresh for the later months). Who knows how the team will look or will be playing three months from now, but up to this moment they've looked like the best team in baseball.

It has been about a week since they've swept anyone, so I suppose that's a slump for them

There's been a lot of good wins this season, but was definitely the most satisfying. I'm off to the Astros blog to bathe in schadenfreude!

Easy to say now! But I think most people on this site wanted him gone, and felt his leaving was addition by subtraction.

I'd expect Wacha to regress to the norm (he has done this in other seasons, where he pitches really well for a stretch and then fades). I'm undecided if Pivetta is really good or is just having a nice run, since he was one of those guys where he had front-line potential but it needed to be unlocked (similar to Nate). Hill is pretty much performing as expected, he won't give you length but can give you 5 solid innings. Nate is also pitching about as expected, solid #2 starter. Whitlock is probably destined for the bullpen once Sale/Paxton return, and I think that would be the better place for him since he's been good as a starter but almost unhittable as a reliever. I don't know anything about Winckowski but he seems to be doing alright so far, though I don't think he's someone the Sox would want to rely on outside the occasional start. Coming into the season I thought the Sox rotation looked like trash. It sucks to say that they have been good, and actually the biggest strength of the team (outside of the trio of Devers/JD/Xander). We'll see if they keep it up. I'll of course be rooting for them to fail