hankchifan

GRF is not the park for Groundball City. This is home run city. Poor roster construction with incompetent hitting coach and manager.

Stoney mentioned tonight that Sox need Lefty power at trade deadline but that it probably won’t happen. He expects more like another reliever or two. Ignoring position player needs both on power and defense once again.

TA gets three game suspension, now on appeal. Could have been worse. Get ready for more Leury time.

GRF is the 3 rd most homers stadium in MLB. In other words, very homer friendly, apparently for everyone but the Sox. If we don’t hit homers at GRF we normally lose.

My wife didn’t agree so I had to edit.

Right field grass needs some weeding and other maintenance provided by Sheets.

With the exception of Grandal. Sevy would be a hitting upgrade.

Grandal hitting 5 th again is not a good idea.

I don’t think the Sox will trade TA. They tried to make him the face of baseball in the South Side. It would look bad for them to trade him.

I was leaning to Gavin, but after that flop in RF last night when he was eating some grass before the ball arrived tilted me back to AV for now.

He can’t be worse than Sheets in RF.

I would keep A J hitting 3 rd where he has been doing well. Vaughn to hit 6 th. Grandal hitting 7 th if at all, he has been horrible.

Any chanceTLR gets suspended along TA? That would be good.

TLR figures we didn’t need defense in right field, because most balls hit there with Lynn pitching would probably be home runs anyway. Oakland hit 5 homers on Friday at GRF while we hit only one. A sure formula for losing. At GRF we need homers, so we need guys like Vaughn in the lineup.

But so has Grandal, who keeps playing, and with a far lower batting avg. than Vaughn.

Exaggerated upper cut swing with a lot of popups instead of homers. No adjustments.

Was-he sent in economy as well?

He closed his eyes before the ball arrived……

Guardians will take the Division by default. Francona will outfox TLR and Baldelli.

Can managers go on the IL? Preferably 60 day IL.

Except for the Sox.

Enough of the Yaz experiment hitting fifth.

1-2 is below .500 rate.

A’s embarrassing us tonight. Just squeezed bunt another run after Sheets couldn’t makes play in RF. We are looking as the 2 nd worse team in MLB instead of the A’s.

They will probably go with more relievers when our main problem is not scoring enough runs and not hitting enough homers.