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Pereira nowhere close. Same with Hays.

They have a lot of RHB, but Toronto is bottom 5 in team SLG and not much better in HR. Just need to avoid giving them free bases to cash in on.

Calling the black guy a dog is definitely not cool, but whatever... I have come to expect some of that from sports fans.

Kay's splits are not providing much hope against a very powerful line-up with 8/9 hitters batting Right handed. If he makes it unscathed through 3 innings, Venable may be able to play match-ups with the bullpen and keep the game competitive.

I miss Harry and Jimmy.

They played at a 70-win clip, I believe, from July 1 on, last year. I thought that was the baseline, and they'd add 5+ wins to it.

The recent golf series with Owen Wilson was actually fairly decent...Judy Greer and his podcasting co-star helped it along.

Probably somewhere in between for SEC/ACC. For Big Ten, much closer to Low A, though.

Is college baseball closer to low A or high A?

Organizational ranking overall out of 30? Between 6 and 8?

Romo sent down? Perez? Pereira?

Volchko and Cam Johnson are definitely going to be overslot. Segura maybe a bit...?

According to this video you are correct:

You're also talking about a player whose father was a legendary beisbol hero/Olympic champion in Cuba...survived the trying defection process, was a #36 prospect in the entire game with nearly a 900 milb ops coming up in one of the best if not the best organization...his faith and belief in his eventual success is going to be a lot higher than someone like Jared Kelenic or Nick Madrigal. And it's not like they have a miracle fix for everyone...or they would now have Curtis Mead now at DH instead of Benintendi, at least if they were a typical large market team stuck with a sunk cost contract like that. And some players just need a fresh start with a new organization, like Andrew Vaughn last season.

I might be in the minority, but I liked the drunk uncle version of Plesac better than the toned down version we're getting this year. Would have gotten old if he announced the whole season, but I thought it was fun for a three game series. Bill Walton vibes without going off the deep end. But I get why they told him to tone it down. Probably shouldn't be saying Louie Roberts the Second or whatever he called him haha

You will get Aaron Civale and fucking like it.

Wouldn't mind the Red Sox knocking the Rays/Yankees down a peg or 2 so we get homefield advantage for the ALCS

Right the comment I made about liking Getz too much was the perspective from yours and mine critics. I just thought he had to be given a chance instead of automatically hating him or accusing him of incompetence based on his position in the previous regime and his early work as a GM. And I was with you regarding the early nothing trades or who you were dumping and keeping got blown way out of proportion for what was normal roster churn while you try to trim the fat and work on your team philosophy and build the infrastructure. I didn't have the stamina to fight the fight on all of them. Once in a while I'd say they are nothing trades and its a waste of time to spend much energy talking about them. I preferred to talk about the direction I saw him moving which I figured would lead to better results. In the meantime it was just try to be patient on the main trades and draft picks. 2024 hardly has any surviving players. 2025 the core position players started to arrive. 2026 was supposed to be another year of improvement but we'd deal with some regression and some unexpected arrivals and improvements . It was supposed to be a year that some of the pitching would advance to the MLB. Hasn't been much of that . If you were positive you thought the improvements would outweigh the regressions and quite a few including me used the pythag number of wins from 2025 that was 70 instead of the actual win total of 61 to project the number of wins for 2026 . I figured a 15 game improvement was logical, just a little less than the 19 game improvement from 2025 . I realize a lot went right in 2025 and there was nowhere to go but up, so I didn't want to get too carried away in my 2026 prediction . So often you can't say who will increase or decrease production but it did seem like the player development side was starting to work but it was just the 1st year seeing it in action. Would it hold up ? So far so good with 12 more rookie faces and 2 of them (both 26) and acquired in the off season making the All Star team. Another in Antonacci playing like he's been in the majors 5 years. All Rookie OF now and not nearly as bad as some suspected it would be. Even after regression from Shane Smith and Quero and season ending injuries to Vasil and Baldwin and a 3 month injury to Teel they have exceeded all but the most optimistic viewpoints to this point in the season.

Hammering Tampa in the first game of a DH today in Boston so that will make it 10 straight and I think 14 of 16.

Remember Kenny famous quote where he said the first person JR calls is him not Rick Hahn on Sox matters.

Literally makes me sick just watching it on TV. Can’t believe these guys actually do it.

Crazy. Baseball America debuts Roch as number 5 on the top 100 list. According to him there are only 4 better prospects in baseball and he hasn’t even played a single minor league game.

What are you expecting?

Toronto RHP Spencer Miles isn't a true starter (3 starts in 26 appearances) but a swing guy who can go ~4 innings if needed. He has a heavy sinker that generates plus ground ball rates. The hope is that our lefty heavy lineup can get to him before he settles in too much and put some pressure on the Toronto pen for the rest of the series. The Sox saw him in the April series, where he pitched 2 scoreless innings (2 H, 2 K) in a 3-0 Sox win.