SoxBlanco

**consults a mid-season top 20 list from this random guy on the internet** … Agreed! Definitely not in the top 25, that’s for sure.

Any chance we can change the thread title to Trade Deadline? I don’t know why, but “Trading” Deadline is driving me crazy.

Thanks, James. Good stuff. Not sure if you can edit it still, but you took your finger off the shift key too quickly in your paragraph on the #1 overall pick.

But they got their 27th win on July 10! 🤣🤣🤣 That’s pretty remarkable, actually.

It was honestly the worst umpiring I’ve seen the entire season in terms of balls and strikes.

In only four games, he raised his OPS from .622 to .741.

Regular ChatGPT couldn’t help me, so I tried the deep research feature. This is what it gave me. Trust at your own peril. Monday: 1-6 Tuesday: 4-9 Wednesday: 3-9 Thursday: 4-7 Friday: 6-7 Saturday: 5-9 Sunday: 5-9

Why do you hate it? You’re out if it’s hit right at someone and he fields it clean, but even if that happens, you need a hit from the next guy anyway. You can steal some runs if it’s not hit right at a guy or if the throw is slightly off.

His OPS is up to .708. I’m not saying that as a counter to the overall point you are making, but he’s not under .700 as of now.

Absolutely crazy that his OPS is up to .708. It was .622 three games ago.

Yeah, this is a great point. No way someone is willing to change their swing/approach when they are dominating every level.

Colson raised his OPS from .622 to .673 last night. Pretty crazy that can happen in one game. 3-4 with two HR and a BB.

Oh, the AJ play was luck, without a doubt. But I think they win that World Series with or without any luck.

Crede’s walk off against Cleveland on September 20 might have been the biggest hit of the entire regular season.

They had a dominating run through the regular season and post season. They had a great/reliable rotation and a lineup that had all the pieces you need to be successful back then (good lead off man, 2 hitter that could move guys over at will, RBI guys, and clutch hitters like Crede in the bottom half. They had a manager that everyone loved playing for. It wasn’t luck. It was a once in a lifetime “team” that you rarely see.

Fantastic summary. I’ve been following him closely this year as well, and the turnaround this past month has been awesome to see.

Nice to win the first game of the next 16 game stretch. Although for the last 16 games, they won 2 of the first 3 and only ended up 4-12.

Ok, Sosa.

I’ll take it. One less win, and I’ll have 420 less dollars.

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 Total: 25-55, on pace for 51 wins. Halfway there, and they’ve won exactly 5 out of every 16 games.

Charlotte was up 3-1 heading to the bottom of the ninth and Anderson struck out the first two guys in the inning. Then walk, single, single, walk, walk, walk. Game over.

And if he had a great first half, it would have been a horrible decision to move him in the winter. And if you were sure he’d be bad this year, then you shouldn’t have refused to give a prediction on his WAR this year when I asked you to make one.