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He did follow up with “but seriously,” indicating to me that he was joking with the Hansen comment.

Vaughn with a pop out and HBP so far.

I missed the error. What happened exactly? Nonchalant and dropped it?

I didn’t get to see a single pitch of Cease’s second start. How was his fastball command? Any better than his first start?

Abreu wants to stay here, even if we don’t sign him to an extension in the next two weeks. I don’t think it’ll take much to sign him to a 1 or 2 year deal in the offseason.

I believe he’s talking about Abreu.

But wasn’t that because all of the lefties they happened to face after he got called up? Seems to me that the plan was to back up McCann while getting some starts at DH in the process. Then a string of lefties happened to be on the bump against us, so he didn’t play much. Then, unexpectedly, a guy they’ve wanted for a while became available, and they decided they’d rather give the DH at bats to him (Reed). Just seems like a series of unfortunate circumstances for Collins.

Another HBP

Do people who complain about bunting realize that a bunt for a hit and a sacrifice are two different plays with two different signs from the third base coach? Or that sometimes players choose to bunt for a hit on their own? Obviously we don’t know what was called in that last inning (I’m guessing Cordell did it on his own and Leury got a bunt for a hit sign), and I’m not arguing for or against it, but it seems like some people here don’t understand the full concept of bunting.

Still a solid outing, but I believe he gave up 3 earned.

This is exactly why you are wrong in this argument. You are using hindsight to guide your narrative.

I was just thinking the same thing. No need to rush him. The last 50% of games he’s played in AAA, he’s averaging only one extra base hit per game.

Is it just my imagination, or has Medeiros been pitching well lately?

I would guess Reed.

Damn. My joke went from “possibly funny” to “zero funny” since you snuck this post in before mine.

Ground out back to the pitcher for Robert in his final AB, but judging from my vantage point (watching GameDay updates), it sounded hard hit.

I think the key question is how much more would we pay at the end of next season if he kept this up for this year and all of next year? Let’s just assume he hits like this for the next year and a half. What do you think it would take to sign him at that point? And what do you think an extension would look like right now?

That was my first thought. I’ve always expected him to get the bump up as soon as Robert does.

I figured it was a no-brainer that Collins would be going back to AAA

Completely agree. I’m very confident in Madrigal.

I don’t think it needs to, and I’m certainty not an expert on BABIP, but I’m just picturing a guy protecting with two strikes and never striking out. Most likely, those balls are not going to be hit hard. But I admittedly was not thinking about the high ground ball rate that could cause a high BABIP. I just didn’t understand how you were claiming that a low K rate would cause a high BABIP. Seems like a low K rate would cause a higher batting average, but not a higher BABIP.

When you strike out so infrequently, isn’t your quality of contact going to be lower?

I was thinking the same thing. I’m a big Madrigal fan, but I always assumed his high contact rate and lack of strikeouts would produce a high batting average but not a high BABIP.

Because “nobody outside the Sox organization thinks Collins can stick at catcher.” That became the company line around here and most people jumped on the bandwagon.

Sheets just went deep again.