Look at Ray Ray Run

WhY dOeS YoLmEr PlAy!

Plesac pitching out of his mind this year, he's no where near this good. He's due for a big blow up start.

And Yoan, by all accounts, hasn't been 100%. That's a 38-40 game total for a regular 162 game season.

I'm so confused by the guys pandering for Ross Detwiler. Citing his 3.2 ERA this year at 34 years old, through 19 innings, while completely ignoring the entire duration of his career before then.

What are you even complaining about this time? Jaysus. Rodon is the 26th man on a 26 man roster and you're crying about him being on the team... because no team sticks with a highly regarded 1st round pick who has shown flashes of success sprinkled amongst a plethora of injuries over a few years. No team would ever put a lefty with an 80 grade pitch in their bullpen for a playoff run. SMH

yeah, how will we ever no what kind of pitcher **checks notes** 34 year old 12 yr veteran Ross Detwiler is without a few more one inning relief appearances.

The front office is going to dictate the starting pitchers in the post-season. If Ricky wanted to start Rodon, and the Hahn wants Dunning or Cease, guess who is going to start?

Yes, the manager is deciding who the SP's are in the playoffs. ?

When I made this thread, it was Ozzie and Chuck every night. Ozzie talked about himself 24/7. Frank has made the show much better, and has made Ozzie better, but when it's still just Chuck and Ozzie it's trash.

Getting Aaron Bummer back is HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. What a boost to the pitching staff. Moves everyone up an inning and gives you absurd depth from the left side.

One added bit; a position player has to replace a position player, and a pitcher has to replace a pitcher. A reliever getting hurt couldn't lead to the Sox activating Vaughn for example.

Vaughn is a part of the final 40 man pool the Sox had to submit for the playoffs. Vaughn can only be placed on the roster in the playoffs for injury/COVID related reasons (I believe). If a player was called up in the month of September for an injury related reason, they are automatically eligible for the playoffs even if no injury occurs within the playoffs. Both rules are related.

It's not about who you are replacing; the person is irrelevant. Rule is just written for this year if an injury forces a player onto the roster in the final 30 days, then said player is now postseason eligible.

Ruiz is gone too, the order didn't really matter. Sox had three lefties with Fry, Bummer and Crochet all ahead of Detwiler.

It's not about who you replace, it's about an injury forcing a guy onto the roster making him eligible for postseason play.

just now

Bummer just activated as was Rodon. Cishek and Detwiler gone.

He has never pitched in MLB; him getting some experience before the playoffs matters. Aaron Bummer has been one of the 5-8 best relievers in baseball over the past 1 1/2 years. He can come back for game 1 of the playoffs and it wouldn't impact him any differently than coming back on Saturday of this week.

You might be right, but I think Bummer will be back for the playoffs. I think Rodon is done.

How many game reps did Crochet get before he made his MLB appearance?

Or they have no interest in using him before the playoffs, and he'll be activated for them. No chance in risking a reinjury in the close to the regular season.

Roache, no one hits good pitching when it's going good. That's just how the game works. As for the pain; when you lose on a walk off, you're going to be bummed. It doesn't matter what level you're playing at. That said, I can say the majority of these guys woke up today and don't give a damn because that's the only way you're going to succeed in this game. If you treat baseball like other sports and get down and out after a loss, you're in trouble. It's so easy to have an 0-16 or 0-20 weekend at the dish with just a tiny bit of bad luck. You just can't let the game get you down like that otherwise you'll never succeed. The fans take most losses a lot harder than players. I think you know I appreciate your thoughts, or I wouldn't continue responding to you all the time, but I just think you're allowing the down period of the game to impact your opinions too much; just as people allow the upswings to impact their opinions too much as well.

This is really where my issues arise. Tired of reading that nonsense every night. This year amplifies it and makes it worse to me; this treatment of athletes as if they were solely existing to entertain me. People hold athletes to a higher standard than they hold themselves.

lol you get what i mean.

The similarities are there. Sox fans wanted to quit on the team in September of 05 too. Does that mean yo walks it off tonight to take division lead and never look back?