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Looks like the best lineup of the entire season (from an offensive perspective).

I think there’s a difference between being dumb and lacking baseball instincts (particularly on defense and running the bases). In high school, the valedictorian was on my team. Smartest guy I knew, and best hitter on the team. But I’ve never seen a worse base runner in my life. I think there are certain instinctual things you can’t teach in baseball. You either have them or you don’t. Sure, you can teach base running and defensive situations, but some people will never have the ability to just react without thinking about it as it’s happening.

Love the no-stress 9th inning. Nice win, fellas.

The eye test certainly hasn’t been great for him on defense. What do the advanced metrics say about his defense at 2B?

Baldwin has dropped at least three fly balls this year. I have zero trust in him out there. But I really like the potential of his bat.

Keep it close and let Colson and/or Benintendi be the heroes late when Cleveland brings in a righty.

Can we break the losing streak?

I’m pretty optimistic on most guys, but I’ve never been sold on Cannon, dating back to last season.

You missed the “probably” in there.

So we shouldn’t be surprised they haven’t used him in a while, right? Maybe it’s better to invent an injury.

Wrong Taylor

Is he on an innings limit for the year?

Whenever I’m watching on my TV and want to watch a replay, I pull up the app on my phone and you can rewind to any spot.

Wow, that ball was murdered.

Is Sosa the one who tended to struggle when first getting promoted to a new level in the minors, and then always found a way to adjust? Or am I thinking of someone else?

For those who would have to look it up, like me: Shelton was our 6th round pick, DePino was our 7th round pick, and Brown was our 12th round pick.

Swap Rojas out for Meidroth once he’s healthy and I love those 9 guys as a lineup. (disclaimer: I’m using the word “love” loosely. You know, as much as you can love a lineup for the second worst team in baseball)

Even if they had gotten rid of many more players at the deadline, they’d still finish better than last year’s team. It’s really hard to be that bad.

It probably depends on WHY he was getting injured. Was it not taking care of his body in terms of preparation, stretching, etc.? Or was it just because he is an injury prone guy and will always be that way? If he made actual changes this year that has led to the mostly healthy season, then that’s encouraging. I have no idea what the answer is, but he does seem to look better running to first and stealing bases. It could easily be my imagination, but it looks like he’s running less gingerly. Maybe that’s simply because he’s not nursing an injury.

Update: At the start of the year, I told myself the Sox need to win 5 out of every 16 games to get to 50 wins (and then they’d still have two games to spare). So I will break the season into ten different 16-game chunks. I’ll update every time we finish another 16 games. Here are the results: 4-12 5-11 5-11 7-9 4-12 7-9 10-6 Total: 42-70, on pace for 61 wins.

This was my takeaway also. I was still pissed about the game a couple hours later. I haven’t experienced that feeling in a few years, which has to be a good thing in terms of the progress of this team.

Yeah, I’m usually not one to second guess decisions like that, but I don’t understand it. I said “What are we doing here?” as soon he he brought him. Even if he gets the lefty out, he has to face Trout/Ward. Does Alexander have decent splits against righties perhaps? I don’t get it.

Wow. With the way Burke was throwing and with the 5-0 lead, I thought there was no chance we’d lose this game. But not over yet. Let’s see if they can battle.

You and me both. I might not have posted it, but I certainly thought it. And as I’m typing this, he drives in another run.

I was just thinking about this and bumped a post by @Chicago White Sox from June 26 in the Sosa thread. And I didn’t bump it to call him out. Most of us felt the same way. Crazy how things have changed.