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Give him a break! Don't you get how hard it is to pick a lane when you're going full idle? ... unless coasting downhill.

I don't even remember Kike at second base (where Cora called him the best in baseball, when he signed)... probably because he was so good in center in '21. Of the others on the list, Story was the best on D, but the guy who made the biggest impact -- as an acquisition to bolster the line-up -- had to be Iglesias. He was ineligible for the '21 postseason, but stuck around cheering like a player-coach (like Pedroia in '18)... some posters pointed out Joe Churches lost a step, but he's still solid -- and learned how to hit in his 30s: '21 Boston .356/.915 '22 Colorado .292/.708 '24 Mets .338/.852 How dumb of us to suggest re-signing him, when there were so many other worse choices for our CBOs to recycle through...

Luis Medina, Red Sox at your feet. Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.

Realistically, Breslow knows he'll need to part with one of Mayer-Anthony-Teel-Campbell if he wants a controllable under-30 big league starting pitcher this month. The lower level prospects may turn out to better players, but rebuilding clubs always ask for MLB-ready or near-ready guys (the Top 4 could all feasibly make the majors by the end of next year). The handful of teams giving up on even a wild card can just sit back and wait until the last minute of the deadline to take the best possible package from desperate GMs. Smart CBOs, though, should be able to land a rental or two before then...

Because it just sounds like it would hurt -- even wearing the proper protection.

"Go to Woo" is the most-dreaded phrase in the clubhouse for the not-blowing-bubble guys (bubble guys who really don't want to blow).

Duran's "F*ck 'em" t-shirt being sold out at 30 bucks a pop pissed off the talksox young guard (my 13 year-old).

Even if Criswell throws no-hitters in Worcester this month, they won't bring him back to Boston until the deadline so Sam can tell us he's better than any starter they can trade for.

When the interview was over, he bent his index fingers, then held up the other ones to the fans.

Every poster on this site is permanently banned from the Dads of Bailey Horn for knowing more about baseball than everyone that gets paid to work in pro baseball. Criswell was just named International League Pitcher of the Week.

Sorry, I guess I was being too defensive here. How can guys that run an entire minor league not know who's good or bad, when all they have to do is look at stats.

"Defense has always been a question, but Yorke enjoyed success last year, taking home Eastern League’s Defensive Player of the Year honors at his position." (J.McWilliams, BGlobe, 3/17/2024)

"Defense has always been a question, but Yorke enjoyed success last year, taking home Eastern League’s Defensive Player of the Year honors at his position." (J.McWilliams, BGlobe, 3/17/2024)

I know -- why would any player deserve promotion for doing well! There has to be some other suspect striking out all the time who would fit in better on the parent club. Is he good... or just doing good? Ask the other high school picks from the 2020 who are already in The Show. You're killing me, Smalls sample size (Whitman's Sampler 36 oz, 72-piece box recommends a daily limit of three pinky pushes to the bottoms of assorted creme chocolates to determine filling flavors). Team president Sam Kennedy just reiterated "resources will not be a problem when it comes to doing everything we can to be a winning championship team for the now and for the long term." Pressed for specific examples, he reportedly listed fossil fuels, solar power, banned library books, campus posters, unfolded maps, Google Earth, and Volume S of the Encyclopedia Britannica currently holding up the broken window in his office...

I see what you did there...

He was with the Braves, replacing the equally-impotent Arcia... unless he was a cheap rental to replace O'Neill, who was part of the Seattle blockbuster for Bryce Miller.

"Certainly there was consideration for the component of durability as a mitigating factor of the Sale trade, especially the probability of potentially facing him in the postseason," said Craig Bloomslow.

I do: Grissom will hit a walk-off homer in Game Six of the World Series vs. Atlanta off Tanner Scott, but Sale -- the Braves' scheduled Game Seven starter -- will then take a pregame tumble upon arrival at Fenway, tripping over a cross-walk on Lansdowne Street, then getting bonked on his pitching elbow off a BP dinger by Bo Bichette. Instead, the Braves will be forced to pitch a rookie who Boston has never seen before. Twenty-one Red Sox will strike out swinging at sweepers two-feet outside, but after a couple speedsters get on base via late-inning walks, Raffy will throw his bat at a lowball in the righty batter's box... and barrel the championship-winning hit off the Monster... with lucky, unrepeatable RBIs! The ring-bearer will be the Incredible Houck, who, as a rookie, was referred to as a righthanded-Chris Sale. "I told you," said Sale.

Don't forget the number of pitches Pitchman Dave O'Brien makes every night; this isn't a knock, but this batter doesn't have a knock yet tonight, though he had two knocks last game, and is among the team leaders in knocks, and needs a knock -- there's a knock between first and second, and that's going to be a knock... there's his knock.

Atlanta minor league execs are already looking at their levels for other former high-ranked prospects whose stock has dropped to offer Breslow for Story next winter.

Yankees are the greatest team in the history of two months ago. Every May, they're going to the World Series. In their last three Mays, the Yanks won over two-thirds of their games, with a record of 59 and 26. In their last three Julys, New York is 24-33... so far.

Crawford may not be a Hall of Famer -- or even a hallway monitor -- but I like his act, embracing emotions and sweating out each pitch and outcome. It's not hard to imagine amateur pitchers reacting the same way, if suddenly forced to take the mound and battle the Bronx, smackdab in the middle of a national network's AARON JUDGE SHOW. In that way, Crawford is more fun to watch than stone-cold Maddux, the android assassin from The Terminator.

Every time I see Breslow interviews, he seems to speak with restraint. He just can't allow himself to get excited about hot streaks Right -- just wish the Sox weren't underachieving, according to the team president. Maybe Brez would recruit some reinforcements, if only they could just... achieve...

Every time I see Breslow interviews, he seems to speak with restraint. He just can't allow himself to get excited about hot streaks, hot pitchers in the Spring, hot hitters in the Summer, or a hot manager all season (with this roster). When asked to comment about the current team, he always has to repeat his stock line about doing what's best for both now and the future... It would be shocking if the Sox traded a top prospect for a top-of-the-rotation ace. But it would also be disappointing if they didn't at least deal some farm depth for a big league starting pitcher -- someone reliable to just take the ball every five days for the next three months. Bassitt, Flaherty, guys like that are out there -- and will be moved to contenders. If Brez supplies the latter, it's a sign he's also supporting Cora (with more hopes of retaining him, as well). Help for the rotation also helps the bullpen, where Wink could move back to, and provide quality innings. If Brez instead just decides to lean on Criswell, or another Criswell-type acquisition, he knows and we know just what the inevitable burnout to the pitching staff will mean...

Every year Eovaldi was in the postseason he was excellent.