Look at Ray Ray Run

Can you help me understand why it would be a good thing to trade a 26 year old who is mashing and successful? This obsession with trading for more assets has become a disease.

Think the k rate is what scares scouts with Montgomery, not what he does when he hits the ball. Would like to see the swing and miss improve.

His Velo was fine yesterday. He had one start where it dipped (Twins start where he got crushed), but he said no injury. Probably just a dead arm. That start going to hurt his numbers for a bit, but I'm sure he'll get it back in line. Zero doubts from me. The sinker usage is a little inflated. I have his pitch mix very similar to last year.

There's a lot of terrible use of data in this thread. Anyone citing general save % is being dishonest, or naive at best. Blown saves account for pitchers who will never get the save: Example; I come in during the 7th inning and lose the lead, that's a BS. Even though I'm not the one who is closing the game. The intention of this argument was discuss the expected save % of an actual closer (not a set-up guy who is almost always in line to blow the save, but almost never in line to record one). How can we actually account for expected save % of a closer? Remove all times that the reliever entered in a hold situation because those bring down numbers, and only account for pitchers who are expected closers (50% or of their appearances come in the 9th/save opps). Last year, the average BS % for that group was 30%. If we look at the past 5 years, it goes down slightly to 28%. Meaning the average closer should be converting on around 72% of their opportunities. 66% is 1+ Standard Deviation below, so I'd certainly argue that's bad. Obviously you need to account for things beyond save %, as that is ripe for small-sample variance. Your Mason Miller example being a great one. I'd also argue we should do more work to get a true expected save % - such as build some weights that account for run-leads of the group to determine who had to be more perfect (Maybe Miller came in during 5 1 run games while someone else had 5 3 run games). Either way, Dominguez has been terrible. His FIP is over 7, AND he's not converting saves. Comparing his conversion to other relievers who don't have the save opps is absurd.

Coaches are clearly telling them to not do it. Makes me sick.

When Colson and Murakami hit, they win.

Murakami doesnt miss mistakes

Ignoring your Antonacci slander, shocked you were first one to say this. No idea what veneable is doing there. As obvious a coaching decision as you'll see late game. It's like he didn't know.

Severino home/road splits last year were unlike any ive seen. They should really just pitch him on the road.

Man of my word. #WeWantTheIsh

Think Colson will always look bad when he's struggling, just the nature of his game and swing. Then it clicks and he carries an entire team for two weeks!

I'm a positive fan! I'm not at all worried about Colson, he's a great athlete and will adjust. I think Taylor is a complete star. I think Teel has a chance of being a perennial all-star. I think Antonacci is going to have an 8+ year career with some 4+ WAR seasons in there. I believe Schultz will be an actual 1. The problem is, the team in general sucks and run by someone who simply isnt good at this.

#WeWantJustin campaign has kicked off.

I'll start my first and last game thread just so I can say... Sox fans should come together to overwhelm the stadium and media with "We want Justin" chants and merch.

Things have gotten so bad that the positive fans that were left have run for the exits. Edit: Last time our pal WE "visited" the site was Sunday! He was here 24 hours a day during the off-season, and now there's baseball and he's MIA. Look how Getzy has massacred my boy!

Guys never had good command. Think he led baseball in wild pitches last season.

No one on this team winning any MVP a awards, and more talking about his general time here and not just that season.

Hitterish, no doubt. Someone predicted he had a Carlos Quentinnnn type season. I'm starting to see it.

watch it over there!

Would have preferred top for 7-8, but if he goes 6-7 with top it's not terrible. Simpson just doesn't swing and miss, guys hands are amazing.

Grant better be in there for 2 innings.

Not true at all. I literally sang the praises of that move and Bradley himself last year after the Twins acquired him and when he was struggling. "Gotta say for the division in the dumps crowd... As a believer in Taj Bradley and still a believer in Zebby Mathews and Mick Abel, the Twins rotation has a ton of upside."

The Twins turned Griffin Jax into Taj Bradley. Meanwhile, all I hear about with the Sox bad returns is that there's nothing Getz can do about that.

At least I know there are people out there watching and are... happy we're better than the worst team ever. Progress!

He read the ball in the dirt. Catcher made a great pick and throw. Big league catchers are different