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If making the play at home plate is right, than I don't want to be Wong.... I'll let myself out.

Then it's a big L for the Sox.

Might as well..

I had that concern. Tolle tossing his best career game in Rogers' first start has temporarily alleviated some of those concerns. lol. Maybe it's an overblown issue. Here's hoping the whole staff never misses a beat.

What a team. When we need to come back like 7 times in a game, we do it. When we need a dominant start, and/or a nice early lead, and we get both.

A's back-up RF in for his 8th relief-pîtching appearance of the season. Ooof.

He's a starter. That shouldn't be a problem as long as he doesn't completely melt down.

You're an inning late. 🤣 But yeah, I think erring on the side of caution was the move there. 20 K hunt woulda been fun tho.

Oh s***. we might have to let him go for 20..

So, we all wanted Tolle to go deep, but now with a big lead, at what point are we comfortable handing it over to Burgos to take it home, and not add innings on Tolle unnecessarily? Genuinely curious. Only 65 pitches, but Burgos is a starter so he can go 3 or 4 if we trust him to not get smoked.

Rogers, a career .569 OPS hitter coming in knocking 2 dubs in the first 2 AB's of his first start, is this run in a nutshell.

Holy s***. I went to bed after the Meidroth Homer. lol. Just realizing now what happened. Unreal. This team is a movie.

I find "immature assets'" to be a weird term, When it comes to this trade, those assets are worth what they are worth today. It doesn't matter if they all completely bust, we still traded a #2, #4 and #5 prospect in a pretty decent system. That's what we gave up, and those chips could have been used for other impact players instead. Which means Rut needs to play at an all-star level, help us win something meaningful(at least 1 pennant, bare minimum), and/or sign an extension that doesn't cripple us in a few years, or this trade will be a fat L.

Yeah, that crossed my mind. Story coming back does have the biggest chance of ruining our mojo of any IL guy. I was hoping he'd feel like he needed to prove something and be willing to help however he could, since he was trash before the injury and a big part of why we sucked. But he could be a bitch about it, too. Good point. Maybe he needs another appt with the Sox med staff for re-evaluation, if you know what I'm saying.

Oh, haha. Didn't notice. Thought maybe we rostered Sogard due to the Mead acquisition and subsequent IL'ing or something.