JUSTgottaBELIEVE

On the bright side, the back end of the bullpen with Leasure, Wilson, and Kopech has been excellent this season. Too bad they rarely have a lead to protect.

Leasure

Leasure is a beast. That dodgers trade might be the best Sox trade since the Eaton trade.

Pitched well against a decent offense

I’ll repeat once again, how the f*** did we get Leasure and Nasty Nick for Lynn and Kelly lol

Jesus nasty Nick is dealing

Gonzalez has his OPS up to .848. Now outhitting everyone on the Dash and also everyone’s favorite draft prospect that the Sox passed on, Enrique Bradfield.

They’re average now after losing their top two defenders in Robert and Moncada. Obviously can’t count on those two but if they were even semi healthy this season the defense would be above average.

Maybe the swing adjustments are working?

Don’t look now but Gonzalez has a higher OPS than Zavala

💯

Crochet is a legit cy young contender. Pretty remarkable.

You know, you might be right about Kopech after watching him pitch the other night. If he turns himself into a dominant closer, that could very well return the Sox two 40/45 prospects in July. I have to see more still but so far so good outside of the occasional lapses in his control.

Here’s one: most games started by a pitcher in the modern era. That record belongs to knuckleballer Phil Niekro. He started 44 games in 1979. Garrett Crochet gets his 4th start this Saturday in the Sox 14th game of the season. If they maintain a 4 man rotation, maybe Garrett can match Phil’s 44 this season.

Hopefully Fedde can give them two more innings. I really don’t want to see the bullpen try to cover more than three innings tonight with the work the high leverage guys got in yesterday.