JoeC

....the first 1.5 of which would be spent NOT on the IL.

Luckily it bounced off his shoulder first.

Sheets in now. Love that we get to give up the DH.

Holy shit. There's an entire, complete, coherent sentence from TLR that I agree with.

I'll take it a step further. I miss Robin Ventura. There. I said it.

THAT is efficiency. Another way to spin the stats is to look at wins per analytics staffer. How's THAT for advanced analytics! Turned that around on you all....

Why not Vaughn - Pollock - Engel (+ Eloy DH)? Rhetorical question.

Why? That would encourage people to watch.

#MenechinoMagic

No, you can't tell a player's future by a short stretch, but if you see a player's performance dip at the same time as his velocity dips... that is more troubling and indicates to me that there's something more than just "noise" happening.

What is it about Romy and Sosa that makes you think they're going to be productive at the big league level?

I mean, the definition for "success" of this signing is literally "Andrus doesn't completely suck." He can be below average (or even moderately suck), and I'd consider it a success. The replacements (Sosa, Romy) are not viable ML players at this point, given the circumstances.

By this logic why have a AAA team at all? It’s not just an overflow roster.

Well with today’s offensive explosion (the most all series!), it’s safe to say Menechino is safe.

It's an interesting strategy the Astros are employing.

Harrison since June 1: .287 / .342 / .432 / .774 (AVG / OBP / SLG / OPS) 53 hits in 185 AB's April + May: .172 / .255 / .263 / .517 17 hits in 99 AB's To say he's "woefully bad" is to ignore everything from June 1 onward.

I vote Crick.

Basically. My understanding is that whatever the Sox pay him will come out of what he's owed from Oakland... so a prorated portion of the league minimum is what the Sox would probably pay, and the prorated portion of league minimum is just subtracted from what Oakland pays him for the rest of the year.

I see Leury in the thread title. Maybe I should have added a "sarcasm" label.

TA, Mendick, and who's the third one?

The more I look at it, the more I like Andrus. Fully expecting the Sox to make a run at Andrus, then have Leury play ahead of him anyways.

Especially "with." You'll see some unprecedented shit that's the baseball equivalent of trying to feed a hot dog to a mailbox, and the Sox front office will be pointing to that as some sort of innovation.

Me too.

https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength Per this, the Sox have the easiest schedule (26th most difficult) of the three (CLE = 22, MIN = 15). Sox have 15 head-to-head against Cleveland (6) and Minny (9). Cleveland has 14 (Minny 8, Sox 6) Minny has 17(!) - Sox 9, Cleveland 8 SoS is close enough that it will really come down to head-to-head.

No, I’m not going to the Guardians game either.