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I can't wait for the day crapa and palacios are not in the team.

Montgomery just walks it off for WS with a bomb in the 9th!!

Main 2024 international signing Eduardo Herrera (signed for $1.8m as a third baseman but playing mainly first this year) had a disappointing first season in the DSL, hitting just .197/.323/.250. However he was 4-4 with 2 HR today and is now hitting a ridiculous .438/.690/.1000 for 2025 over 29 PA.

Split the season series, made Valdez work for his 5IP, made a top end closer sweat, and even then it took some plus defensive plays for the Astros to win by 1 at home. Can't expect much vs. DeGrom but hopefully Tauch and the youngins can stay reasonably hot until (hopefully) Baldwin and Sosa rejoin the squad for the homestand.

Vargas is a dude. Good thing Soxtalk doesn't run the Sox

Zach Franklin with 7K in 2.0 IP of relief for the Barons, his strikeout numbers in the minors are great, sleeper bullpen prospect

Meanwhile Brooks Baldwin hit his 7th home run in 3 weeks

What are the splits? .320 on base and -.003 slugging?

that was a nasty pitch. gotta hit the hangers at the MLB level or ur cooked.

At this point I'm not even concerned with what teams are interested. You aren't getting anything worthwhile enough to even look at team's prospects lists.

This is why drugs are bad, kids.

Where would the Mets have been prior to their current owner? Ishbia cannot take over soon enough.

Oh it’s 100% the owner. We got the best uniforms, Sox logo is iconic, it’s FN Chicago. On the flip side, the owner refuses to pay market rates, they don’t make serious hires, far behind the times of today’s game. JR is killing this franchise.

Elko deciding not to swing on fastballs down the plate is certainly a bad choice

Deserved, but WS will miss him.

Fire Sacamano 😉

Having left-handed Kyle Teel pinch hit for Slater would have been an all-time insane managerial decision. Slater has had a decent season but had a bad game against some of the league's best pitchers. Best not to overthink it

No reason for Capra or Palacios to play another game with the big league team. Wasted ABs taking away from Teel/Quero with Palacios. Baldwin should be up tomorrow. Slater may have played the worst game I’ve ever seen. Vargas is heating back up which is fun. Astros played out of their mind defensively, insanely unlucky game for the Sox.

A lot less writing the team off after the 6th.

SO close, Vargas

Man Meidroth robbed twice tonight

Great plate coverage taking practice swings before the actual pitch is thrown. Meidroth is going to have to start driving more balls to the gaps unless he wants the corner outfielders to keep crowding him...that's ONE way to do it, two tough luck outs tonight for Chase.

Starts rehab tomorrow so probably not long.

Tim Elko sucks.

YOU QUIERO QUERO

Nice bounce back inning from Dart there. Feels better if Meidroth's liner drops in right, but alas.

Dump Palacios. Bring up Fletcher or Baldwin.

He’s been bad. 4th worst defensive value at 3rd, -1 DRS

Elko is really good with the glove, a shame he can’t get it done with the bat.

Vargas Mr. Inconsistent at 3rd

You don't say ....😄😄😄😄😄

Did you know that Vargas made adjustments at the end of April? John Schriffen knows.

It's Spanish for Can't Hit For s%*#

Slider down and in versus down and away is something new for Robert...but you think he'd accidentally run into one against a LHP.

May need 3 catchers so Quero and Teel can be in the line up every day

? Vargas is good, its a good story, and the Sox haven’t had many of those.

This is where I’m at. I don’t want them to admit this year sucked, double down and pickup the option and try again next year.

Hard not to like a .317 OPS

Colson and Vaughn with nearly identical lines... Also, don't think there's been a game all season where Clevinger and Nastrini both didn't give up an earned run. And what did Getz see in this Baker guy again?

Good piece here on how risky Jace is. Also sounds like he's destined for a corner OF spot. I'm terrified at his profile. I think I'd prefer one of the college pitchers to him. An aside, he sure sounds like an Orioles draft pick. See Vance Honeycutt and Jud Fabian. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/could-this-one-2025-stat-hurt-jace-laviolettes-mlb-draft-status/

I mean what are we doing at this point? Bring him back.

I honestly think organizations get a reputation of "losers" and dysfunctional. That perception, which ins baseball's case is easy to confirm based on W-L records, gets around. Players that do come to the Sox know all about it and when they actually see what's happening that has got to impact them mentally, often to where if they go someplace else they just can't produce anymore.

God damnit, I bought an antenna for this s%*#

I’d be shocked if they took Tyler Bremner. He doesn’t get much extension and that’s a big Bannister thing. Steele Hall makes a lot of sense though and would likely be a discount.

Good post. I wonder what the long-term solution is. I bet those kids you coach don't watch cable tv either. A few years ago I asked my nieces in high school and jr high if they ever watch MTV and they looked at me confused. Outside of a few things like the NFL, there's no more monoculture and everything is becoming its own niche.

What doesn't make sense? Xfinity and all cable companies are losing customers at an accelerated rate. One of the biggest reasons remaining customers keep their cable is for live sports. If the customers can just get it for free over the air, there is no reason to keep or sign up for their service and cable will die even sooner. The NBA finals were over the air because they are the NBA Finals. The World Series will be over the air as well. CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox aren't airing random regular season NBA or MLB games on a weekday night. Back in the day, they always blacked out the internet feed during games and you had to buy the radio version of mlb.tv (mlb at bat?). I noticed a year or two ago they just began airing the games on the feed. Interesting that they are choosing to enforce that again.

I don’t disagree with this. I didn’t care about OTA, I didn’t want it, I just wanted CHSN to be a part of my programming again and knew that your closing sentence was true, and they were gonna pull the rug. I have Comcast because I need the internet for work and I get my cable for an extra hundred twenty or so. I’m fine with what I have but I understand Comcast doesn’t work for everyone. My entire gripe about the entire scenario was the Reinsdorfs and Wirtz went into the venture like a naive puppy and expected everyone to just give them what they wanted, and weren’t ready when NBC Sports went off the air. And none of this even addresses how bad two of the three teams (and the mediocrity of the 3rd) were lol Also noticed recently that mlb is no longer allowing Audacy to broadcast the cubs games on the score (and Sox games over espn.com) over the app due to broadcasting blackout rules which for some reason weren’t being enforced last month and last year. Some weird stuff going on with that

MLB Streams.

It's honestly absolutely amazing that what all of these networks and sports teams are doing is .....encouraging their customers and fanbase to pirate their product. Outstanding business acumen.

The Sox don't have a fan base anymore. Between the failures on the field, the substandard ballpark experience and the debacle that has been the new TV network there's not much to retain in their current location. Anyone objectively looking at the Sox right now would likely lean that a departure from Chicago(land) for a new location is probably the best course of action. Moving to AH would still likely lead to increased visibility and attendance, but the Sox are effectively starting from zero now.