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Roch also making his debut in minors today

Happy roch cholowsky debut day

Dave Sims is arguably the best play by play game in baseball, is black, and was hired by the Yankees to replace a legend and everybody cheered because he's great. Schriffen sucking has nothing to to with his skin color and everything to do with his background in baseball and broadcasting, which is extremely limited.

With the three pitchers we have going and as tough as the opponent will be, this feels like a playoff series.

I went with a C. They don't seem much better but they don't seem worse. Hopefully they can fix Doyle.

How does some advertising agency think "liberty biberty" is uproariously funny? It was stupid the first time.

he said, "bro manager literally told me I'm better than romo" on a live. What a dumbass. I'd be surprised if he's ever a Sox at MLB level again. You don't betray the club house like that, either he lied or it's true, both are horrible looks for a scrub.

White guy named Tarik strikes out white guy who wishes he was named Tarik.

Hitler strikes out Stalin - 1935 (Colorized)

Many people here have a bad feeling at most times as far as I can tell.

The calibre of beaver is less important after a dozen.

Anything is OK except a Red Sox sweep.

i don't think anyone had an issue with Smith or Adams leaving, the complaints were for what came back.

It's pretty wild to have this sentiment again after the past few seasons right?

If you had 1.6 bWAR for Derek Hill on your bingo card go ahead and collect. Again, having good players on the fringe of the roster is good, not bad. You and I agreed we probably had the worst outfield on paper in MLB back in spring, how did that work out for everybody? Just let'em cook for now.

Demon Sox vs Angelic Sox

Take two of three from these unclean Sox.

Win tonight and relative house money games next two.

At some point an adult has to be in the room and make the call that while we understand you like throwing to Romo, he currently puts the offense at a deficit. And let’s be honest here, he has not been helping with those challenges

Red Sox fresh off a 3 game sweep of the Dodgers in Dodger's Stadium. Still red hot. Hoping for a statement series for the White Sox that shows we can do to the Red Sox what we did the the Rays. Sox were early victims of the 15 game win streak and got swept. Before their blistering 28-5 run that began on June 25, 2026, the Boston Red Sox had a record of 32-46. The last time the White Sox had a winning streak longer than 3 games was in mid-May , when they won 5 in a row. So while the Sox have yet to lose 4 in a row they also don't often win 4 in a row. They've been very consistently playing barely above .500 for a few months, hovering between 4-7 games above .500. Winning 2 of the 3 would get us to a high water mark of 8 above.

As long as they don't get swept, I'll be satisfied. Then go beat Cleveland.

I wanted them to improve the current roster's biggest weaknesses and they did. I didn't want them to borrow too much too quickly from the future of a team that's arriving early and they didn't. Feels like SEA should have gotten Smith OR the Sox eating all of the money rather than both, but I've read that Smith had real approach concerns despite the flashy AA numbers so I get selling high if they see him as future LF/DH on a hot streak rather than a real C prospect. SEA was unlikely to eat all or even most of the contract and take Dominguez, so whatever I guess...Basically turned Houser + money into Luis Castillo (and Joey Bart), fine. Rather them flash a willingness to spend than add another/bigger name to get the dollars down. If Castillo gives them just Fedde-quality pitching but for 6-7 innings/start instead of 4-5, that's a healthy number of BP bullets saved down the stretch plus some playoff experience when/if they get to the dance. Any Fedde/Houser/Cueto/etc. style vet resurgence is obviously a plus. Watching the rest of the SP market play out probably made me higher on the deal. The pen, which has been solid as is, should be improved with the lower workload and Brazoban/Fedde replacing Ser and Schweitzer/Murphy. Don't love the Doyle deal, but more for the cost than the player. If he's a more reliable defender with a marginally better approach than Pereira, that could be helpful (though I find Pereira's hard contact and high motor intriguing to dream on). I'm also an Adams fan, who hates for his sake that he'll have to pitch at Coors (and it feels fated that we'll see him in that September series vs. COL...) I have other quibbles on the edges; I would have kept Quero up over Romo, and would have liked to see them resolve the Hays/Grichuk redundancy proactively. But not much overall that feels like something I'll look back on in two months with any real agitation. Overall happy that Getz didn't seem to force anything and very relieved they didn't try to get too cute in dealing from the current group. Could they have swung a bigger name with a top 10 prospect or two? Maybe, but it's not the time. Could you have done some kind of MLB for MLB moves with Newcomb expiring, Meidroth playing at a position of strength, etc.? Probably, but Getz talked about valuing and respecting the mojo the group has going, and I'm glad he stuck to that. The acquisitions having control gives flexibility to redirect them as/if needed. The Bonemers, Carlsons, McDougals, and Smiths of the org are more likely to have ceiling raising impact (and a team better positioned to capitalize on it) in 2027 and beyond compared to overpaying for the "bigger" names available this week, especially the rentals. And of course there's also the other bigger picture, where the deadline discussions that most expected a few months ago would have centered on whether a contender might come calling for Davis Martin instead of where the SP you acquired would slot in next to him in a potential playoff rotation...hard for me not to grade on a bit of a curve for even being here, especially when I'm not convinced there were realistic "A+" moves (from my perspective) available. TLDR: I'm content making some mostly floor moves to help this core start to figure out their ceiling. They're early, but they've earned a shot at the postseason, and they've got one. They took the offseason as a vote of confidence and can take this deadline as another. But any magic this year was always going to be up to those core guys rather than some mythical deadline savior coming in to make them a WS favorite, so I'm glad Getz rounded up some horses rather than go unicorn hunting.

Davis Martin going against Patrick Sandoval….lets keep the streak going boys!!

Apparently, Teel didn’t notice it until the 6th inning. 🤣

maybe put Fedde back in the rotation for Martin I'm not sure really what to do with Martin but I am worried we just did moves to do moves at the deadline and we didn't really get better besides the bullpen add

maybe Davis needs an opener going forward

No, it is more frustration that they think Martin is good enough to be in the top three of a playoff series if we get there

That's even worse than chairman of the board.

Agreed. IMO he's not a platoon player. Give the kid a chance.

Got that playoff feeling. I need some nervous pills.

I really don't like benching Sam against LHP but it seems Will is gonna. Will help him stay fresh down the stretch I guess.

Gonna take 2 out of three against these stiffs.

He's been bad this year but there's def some talent there. The Sox clearly don't want Braden in CF or Perieria and probably not Acuna either. Not saying that's a great idea, he seems redundant with Acuna imo, but that's what they are thinking, a glove first platoon mate for Peters. Paying a "premium" is a Hawk like get on back there stretch. Nobody wanted Adams as anything more than waiver wire bait, Vielma 90/100 never makes any MLB impact. It's not a deal I'd have done, but it's a pretty big nothing burger unless Vielma turns into a MLB regular, and that is a long shot.

Feels like we have been off a week. Time to play ball.

He has a blue checkmark. How dare you question him???

Gonna he honest I don’t see a chasm between the two of them. I see two bad catchers and I like Quero better

I really like this Bart trade. Given he’s under control next year, I think you go to camp with a battle for the backup spot but consider Bart the favorite. Honestly, given Quero is only 23 years old, I’d be ok with him opening next year in AAA and trying to regain some form & value. I’m also open to trading Quero, but I think he’s a guy who could improve quite a bit with a focused offseason plan.

They are all fat and out of shape

About a week ago, Romo made a challenge later in the game that looked ridiculous. But the way he made it looked exactly like he was just trying to buy Davis Martin a breather, and I think it's possible he's the most on the same page with his pitchers out of the bunch.

Hogan, is it possible that the Sox pitchers collectively want Drew Romo to stay because--- for lack of a better term--- he's good to work with? In other words, that he makes them feel more confident somehow? And although the bat hasn't exactly been on fire, maybe this catcher-to-pitcher rapport takes precedence. Or, maybe that theory is "out in left field?"

I predict Joey Bart's bat alone will lift the Sox historic low combined offensive output at the catching position in an upward projection.

I think the plan was to hide Hays on the IL until this all washed out and they see what they have. They can send Doyle to AAA and bring up Hays for a run. If Pereria clears waivers he can go to AAA for the rest of the year.

If Bart gets most of the playing time, sending Quero down is fine. He can get consistent playing time and work of improvements. Romo shouldn't play more than a couple days a week.

RF has been a black hole for years, thankfully Braden has resolved that problem. CF has an All Star, Peters might be running on fumes, but he had an awesome first half. LF has Sam patrolling and learning on the job. In the preseason I thoughts these 3 positions were the Sox biggest weakness and the catching with Teel & Q was rock solid. Let's see what the last 1/3 of the season brings.

I think the fact that Periera wasn’t traded for literally anything before the deadline speaks about his value around the league. Im sure a bad team will give him a shot to stick the rest of the year, but fringe hitting corner OF’s that are out of options aren’t easy to keep on a contending team.

Agree on the catching, just about anyone would be better the the tandem of Quero and Romo though I do still have hope for Quero down the road.

I gave them a B, but it's probably a B-. I think the rotation got a little better, possibly more than a little if a change in surroundings helps Castillo. The bullpen addition was really good. Big improvement over Dominguez for a fraction of the price. I'm not sure about the move for Doyle. I wonder if that move was in anticipation of an outfielder being moved, and a deal fell through. But, replacing Pereira with Doyle seems like a wash. I think Bart was a smart move. He's an improvement over what we had going on, although that's not saying much. And they gave up essentially nothing for him. As someone else mentioned, the ask for Stephenson must have been ridiculous considering he didn't move. The best part of all of this is the team got better, and they didn't trade any top prospects. We'll know in a few weeks how much better they got.

https://www.mlb.com/news/brenton-doyle-hoping-for-bounceback-2026-season?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share Some explanation in here for the 2025 down season. Apparently his wife suffered a Miscarriage in May of that year. He basically says in the article that he found it hard to focus on baseball due to that.

I actually kind of like the move for 2027 and beyond, but I don't like it for 2026. Doesn't offer enough as a hitter to PH late in games. That said, a Peters-Doyle-Montgomery outfield in 9th innings with a lead is pretty dynamite

@HeGetzUs get a game thread up before Ronald fucks it up again. Need a good start in Boston