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Greg, what age was the kid (best guess if the video didn't say)? J&J vaccine not approved for anybody under 18. If the kids was under 18 and the state they live in was identified, you need to report the video to the state health department so they can investigate who is illegally giving the J&J vaccine to kids under 18. Lives could be at stake if you don't do it.

As we await news on Grandal and fear the worst, Rodon is tasked with stopping the losing streak, with Berrios trying to keep the Twins out of last place.

If Grandal is out for the season, the Sox need to get Tony's old buddy Yadi ASAP. He still hits lefties well and would be a good platoon partner for Collins.

Right, but my point is that he didn't even swing at it. It was the most hittable pitch of the at bat and he didn't swing.

The pitch Moncada took 2-0 for a strike was an exact copy of the pitch Kiriloff hit to the wall for a double.

I don't know if the data backs this up, but Lynn and Rodon seem to get more swings and misses on pitches in the zone than the other three. They are more reliant on getting guys to chase outside the zone and when they don't do that it's trouble.

I don't disagree, but there's no reason to have both Sheets and Lamb. One of them has to go when Lamb's IL time is up.

Why wasn't Goodwin playing deeper? I can't wait until Engel is back.

I think Burger goes when Engel returns and Sheets goes when Lamb returns, but I wouldn't mind keeping Sheets up and DFA Lamb. Goodwin probably sticks around until Robert is back.

No, the only games that are ESPN exclusive are Sunday night.

I don't want to see him out in LF once he gets back this season, but he's a very good athlete and I have to think that if he gets some specialized instruction during the off-season, he can improve at that position. That's one advantage he has over Vaughn, with speed limiting how much he can get to no matter how good his fundamentals are.

Zunino has a slightly better fWAR than Grandal plus TB has to have one guy so that got him the nod over Grandal.

If you aren't physically able to get into it with an umpire to defend your players, then you have no business being a major league manager and whomever hired you has no business owning a major league team.

Last 10 games: CLE 2-8 DET 6-4 KC 2-8 MIN 3-7 Of those 13 combined wins, 9 of them were while playing each other. The Sox don't need to make any acquisitions to win this division by several games. The only acquisitions should be to bolster the roster for the playoffs after all the injured guys are back. A 2B and maybe a RP.

If the 45% who aren't getting vaccinated were only putting themselves at risk, I wouldn't care, but the longer we take to reach herd immunity, the higher the chance that we get a new variant that is more resistant to the vaccine than the delta variant, thereby putting all the vaccinated people back at risk.

Injuries gave Hamilton this opportunity and he did not throw away his shot.

Wow I really fat fingered those numbers. Anderson 6, Vaughn 7.

When Engel is back, he should be the RF vs all LHP and even a few RHP. Hamilton is the only one good enough defensively to consider taking the LH half of the platoon away from Eaton but now that Billy isn't batting from the left side the job is Eaton's. Lamb, Goodwin and Sheets have all had their moments but in the end we need Eaton in RF.

Burger was already on the 40 so he could be brought up without DFA anybody.

Yeah, both Heuer and Ruiz allowed 1 baserunner and people might be surprised to learn that a 1.0 WHIP is actually good.

Anderson 7 Moncada 5 Abreu 3 Jimenez DH Grandal 2 Robert 8 Vaughn 5 Eaton/Engel 9 Garcia/Mendick 4 Lynn SP

Yermin, who has a burger named after him, was replaced on the roster by Burger.

1] let's wait and see after 3 more months of sticky stuff crackdown if Keuchel is still the worst of the five. 2] guys who can have a sub 4 ERA, give you 6+ innings nearly every start and never get injured are impossible to find.