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Cease just has to keep challenging, no walks.

Well thatll do. That pitch shouldnt have been near the strike zone, but well take it.

Terrible thought process on the 1st pitch.

Seems he does it 3x every pitch, too bad Sox wont be aggressive.

Isnt the pitcher balking? I didnt think you could lift your front foot like that.

That was a terrible strike call.

Anderson cant swing at that 3-1

They dont screw up a 4-2 lead in game 2 they would have stolen it from Astros. Just have to focus on the games in front of you.

Cease just has to challenge and not walk anyone. So far walks have killed the Sox every game.

They were stopped short on a few short yardage 3rd downs. With the Raiders being pretty ineffective on offense I can understand why the Bears were playing it safer.

Im pretty sure Tony wasn't the one asking for another closer. It goes against his entire philosophy of having 1 guy finish games. This was all Hahn.

They were never going to let Kopech start this season. The best they could do was limit innings until the very end and then try and get him 2-3 in each relief appearance. Even if you thought bullpen was a need, Kimbrel was a terrible option. I know I got yelled out of threads months ago but his stats were really poor in 2019 and 2020. In addition it usually (although may be anecdotal) seems that closers who are moved to set up underperform. Had the Sox traded garbage for him it would have been worth the risk. But Heuer actually outperformed Kimbrel after the trade. So the Sox actually made themselves worse. Just for comparison; Heuer in 2020: 3 0 1.000 1.52 21 0 4 0 0 1 23.2 12 4 4 1 9 0 25 Kimbrel in 2020: 0 1 .000 5.28 18 0 11 0 0 2 15.1 10 9 9 2 12 1 28 You basically were giving up on the younger cheaper player who was having a bad 2021, for the older more expensive player who was having a good 2021. I really hate being negative about trades because hindsight is easy, but when I first read it I actually felt sick to my stomach because of how brutal it was. It reminded me of something @Steve9347would do to someone in OOTP. Convince them to take the old player who is having a good half season and grab the younger players who are having a down year. Sorry to bring you into this Steve, hope youre living the good life.

I was one of the few who liked Madrigal. I also hated Kimbrel. It wont be one of the worst, but it definitely backfired. The biggest issue was Kimbrel was not great last year so you were buying him extremely high and he wasn't a perfect fit. Had they dealt Madrigal for a major offensive weapon it at least would have made sense.

The best trades are sometimes the ones you never make. The Sox would be in a way better position next year if they had just done nothing.

It never made any sense, but its what happens when GMs get too cute.

Well thats why you dont pull Engel.

Yeah Sox positioning on 2 ground balls is still strange. Especially when they were up 4-2.

Yeah with a fastball coming SS should have been more up the middle. 2 DP balls have resulted in runs today.

Huge strike there.

Gio cant walk him here, just keep it outside half and let him hit it.

Sox were hitting him hard. 2 outs were crushed. He could have been pulled a batter earlier.

Grandal needs to get this run across now.

Take 2 haha

Where was Anderson playing that should have been a dp.

The ground looks slick and the roof is closed. No idea what the field crew did here.