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Would’ve rather had Bellinger than Schwarber if they were gonna spend actual money. He’s been a proper fit for this team since the offseason he and Beni became free agents. Schwarber would make this team better but he can’t play a position. He’d been even worse than Benintendi in left.

Wtf bro.

I like the batting order.

Lol. I know some kid that played on that baseball team and apparently Alek was the kinda guy to do stuff exactly like that.

Don’t need that energy. He was a high school bully.

Good game not to watch I reckon

2 for 5 with a home run is evidently a bad stat line. News to me.

I dunno, are you sure we shouldn't have paid more money for Jorge Polanco? I heard that's a thing great GMs do.

let's go edgar!

good baseball team

nice

I’m a little surprised Kopech hasn’t signed anywhere. He had like a 1.5 ERA as a Dodger. Solid in the playoffs.

also Getz is objectively better at this job than David Stearns

freudian slip?

Yeah. Dumb. Kinda like the Rockies cutting Romo and the Sox somehow passing him through waivers. Most of these people in charge of baseball teams are very dumb.

Our friend Martin Perez just went 5 scoreless against them. 2.22 ERA on the season. Wish we woulda kept him. Good player, good guy, probably a better LHP than Kay for a fraction of the price. Their lineup seems to be a lot of boom or bust, streaky guys. Greene and Torkelson specifically seem to go on a tear for a week or two then have several 0-4 games in a row.

Brooke seems a lot more well-rested this evening too. Shorty needed a cup of coffee last night.

Fast forwarded to the end. Maybe my favorite game of the season. Soriano and Martin were really fun to watch, especially the part where the Sox touched Soriano up -- his ERA increase to 0.84. My guy Romo made a Sox milestone, it seems like one of those is happening every game this season. Mike Trout still had a good game and I love that he's having a great season, playing center field, stealing bases...but still losing. I really like this team! Most fun I've had watching the Sox in years.

I'm on tape delay and watching during the 8th inning and Leasure just gave up a home run....but I just heard a bunch of fireworks go off. Talk about a spoiler alert......

I'm delayed....but I been saying this about Drew Romo. The Rockies are a poverty franchise...oh no, he only had .800 OPS at AAA!!!!

Jasson Dominguez or Spencer Jones seemed like more realistic trade targets than Rice. And still do.

Martin is a fucking beast

If he can play shortstop, and he's fast and has a good arm, I bet he can figure out center field. Wouldn't be the first guy. He has been quite bad, but he is just 24. Not that Vargas is necessarily an all-star, but when he was 24 and traded to the Sox, he posted a .387 OPS and racked up -1.0 WAR in 42 games. Now he looks like a competent third baseman and on pace for 30 home runs. His improvement has been incremental I'd give him more than a month, it's not like there's necessarily a rush. I'd like it if we won a bunch of games this year, but it still feels like a year to see what kind of players we have. If he ends up being totally useless, maybe you sign a guy like Varsho next season to play CF. I think Acuña still shows some promising underlying metrics on both sides of the ball, it'd be a shame to DFA him and let some guy with little upside like Peters or Hill play the spot every day. Off topic, but speaking of Vargas, our man has a .798 OPS with a .197 BABIP. It's likely he doesn't hit 30 dingers, but you also might expect the BABIP to even out to, like, .260.

ok cool