Larry Cook

Did Gardner and hembree go to the same school?

It can be a long run from home plate to first base on one leg. Brings me back to the “Nunez crumble” during the playoffs last year.

Once benintendi puts it together, this lineup comes yes be deadly

Rusconi with his second tater today.

Beer in the first round and Connor pilkington in the second round and that is a huge start to rebuilding our farm system!

Nice win today! Outfield assist from benintendi.

Should we slide pedroia back into the 2 hole?

And just like that, the bottom falls out on Pomeranz.

Nunez is giving us next to nothing defensively with that bad leg. When pedroia is healthy, Nunez needs some dl time so the can determine if he needs surgery or not.

Very nice win today! Price was such a different pitcher today!

This team is dying. That locker room is screaming for a leader. Unfortunately all we have are zombies!

Since starting 17 and 2, we have not been a .500 team.

Dalbec with another tater tonight. When the next meet of homers you hit almost equals the number of singles you have had on the year, then you know your batting average is not going to be great.

Sturgeon with another tater tonight. Shawaryn threw a nice game tonight. As his secondary stuff improves, he is taking big steps forward.

We are really good at giving up tons of runs in the 8th inning.

We had three years of drafting in the top 15. We have one miss - ball One probable hit - benintendi And one tbd - groome We are not drafting in the top 15 for the next two years at least. So it is imperative that dave and what’s left of the baseball operations department deliver some better talent this June than last June.

It’s really a domino affect when it comes to the Thornburg trade. First, thornburg has provided us nothing since we acquired him. Second, I saw him pitch earlier this year and at the time, his breaking balls did not break, at all. They were just meatballs waiting to get smacked! I understand that he is improving his breaking balls as of now. So maybe one day Thornburg contributes. I hope so. Third, Once Dave traded Shaw, Dave went into last season with sandavol as the only non-utility third baseman in the roster. After sandavol imploded, which everybody and their mother was saying was going to happen, he rushed devers to the big leagues. Devers natural development was forever retarded because of that move. If devers career craters because he can't Define the strike zone or his defensive woes mentally hinder him, it is directly attributable to dave’s idiotic trade for a broke down sore armed reliever with decent numbers. Remember Dave, nothing beats getting eyes on a player before you over pay for that player in a trade! Your scouts are professionals, please listen to them before over ruling them. Hear what they have to say. It’s what you pay them for! This is why most of the baseball operations department deserted us for greener pastures.

Amen brother! Experience is the best teacher!

I understand why he had to trade for starters like sale and Pomeranz. Those trades make sense, even though everybody knows pomeranz’s ucl could snap at a monent’s notice. What I am perplexed with are the non closer bullpen trades and dave’s draft picks? 1.) Why overpay for two guys known to have bad arms? 2.) Why must he draft kids that other teams pass over? It’s like the other teams have scouting systems that have depth, purpose, research and team goals, Meanwhile Dave is drafting based on what he reads on the bill James website. Does he even listen to his scouting staff is telling him?

So much can happen over the next 4 months. Any team is one injury away from disaster!

That is an excellent point. You would think given the city and the medical facilities in the area, we would have a medical staff second to none. Yet, we seem to have a staff of doctor, All with mail order degrees. At this very minute something is wrong with price’s arm. Either circulation or ucl or the famous “something is torn in there”. What is the medical staff doing about this? How did this franchise wind up at the mercy of their medical staff?

Can we really afford to keep either one? I can’t see it unless we trade some salary.

Or we could continue to make trades and just learn to not overpay for sore armed pitchers who’s ucl is held together with duct tape and bubble gum.

I think Pomeranz and Kimbrel are out of here at season end. We have way too many untradable contracts. What would be nice is if we could develop a starting pitcher or two.

Thanks again Dave!