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I think he’s right. That tweet about the swing decisions is a meme, but the at bats generally look better. One might think it takes some time to “put it all together” when given new instruction and being expected to perform it to perfection while on the job. I think Vaughn is a lost cause pretty much for this reason. He never improves his game or tries to do anything different. Beats the dead horse, connects on the fastball for a month, inevitably goes back to being the worst first baseman in the league. Meanwhile, LuBob’s stats are dreadful, but he’s actually doing a new thing. He’s walking at an extremely high clip. We know he can hit, now he can walk, if he puts it all together he’s a top 5 player in the league. Cant trade him.

There’s definitely room for optimism with this team compared to last season. There are several young guys at the moment developing into real players before our eyes, whereas last season was entirely a wash at the major league level. Sosa, Baldwin, Quero look like actual players and are fun to watch and root for. this is actually the year to tank, might get a proper draft pick, but the difference between this year and last year is just another year of the youngsters’ growth with a more few players added into the mix; and it feels like some of them took steps forward. I’m still thinking this season and last were better than the previous year. Firing Hahn/williams was the ultimate bandaid ripped off.

You’re talking about the president, right? Or JJ Redick? I’m curious who you might be referring to.

With a crochet L today and a Smith win, the two pitchers now have the same winning percentage. I’m just saying.

luke buckner

the former top prospect in the system (free-falling in ranking) is ostensibly a shortstop. one mighta thought he would be up here by now, but he doesn't appear to be very good at baseball. I mean, he's better the last few weeks, raised his average from .059 to a blistering .169, so there's some optimism that if the trends continues, he'll be batting 1.000 by his 24th birthday.

10 hits and the 2 runs were scored on sacrifices. Quero has improved this team tremendously, time to replace Vaughn with Elko. there are some decent players in the lineup but there are too many complete non-factors. did anyone expect that last palacios at bat to go any different? Duran is showing his whole mix to every other hitter he faces, he gets back on track throwing Josh 3 fastballs down the middle. Why is Maton leading off? he would've been 0-5 if Buxton wasn't saving his defense for the 9th inning.

I can see the Sox converting one of these catchers into a first baseman to be sure. That movie was funny because they make it seem like the path to victory is through taking a walk...only the A's had the best rotation in baseball, I don't think they even mentioned pitching in that movie. how about moneyball except it's about giving good players lots of "money" to hit the "ball".

Are Benintendi and Thaiss more valuable trade assets than Robert? Imagine Benintendi continues to play like this for the rest of the season, he stays healthy and produces 4 WAR and only has two years left on his (still bad) contract. Some team might trade for him and the Sox might even retain some of the money. With Thaiss, guess who the 16-6 San Diego Padres have trotted out at the catcher position for 13 of those games? Martin Maldonado. I can't believe it either? For whatever reason, the catcher position is, like, really bad around the league this season. Both Thaiss and Lee probably look appealing.

shout out Chase going out and playing shortstop yesterday. sucks about Perez, he's off to a really nice start, they really need to think of a new term for "elbow inflammation" because "elbow inflammation" doesn't sound like that big of a deal but it's pretty much the death knell of a pitcher.

Sox are tied 2nd for youngest roster in MLB. Just DFA'd a 33-year-old and replaced him with a 22-year-old. Three 23-year-olds are almost certainly being called up. Seems like that they're doing just that, and if it was the reverse, the players would be "rushed".

in case anyone was wondering, rather than trade for Dylan Cease or Garrett Crochet or re-sign Corbin Burnes, the Orioles just gave up 24 runs to the Reds. Charlie Morton's ERA "improves" to a blistering 12. higher is better, right?

how did houck only give up the 2 runs? that guy is terrible.7 strikeouts. i think i can venture a guess.

because Colson Montgomery. and like 3 other guys on the major league team that can play shortstop. don't need another option, just need 1 fewer. speaking of Colson, the guy is starting to hit the ball a little bit. the average is above .100 now.

why is schriff constantly negging our girl brooke? nobody cares about your glass bottle, bro

tanner houck is terrible suddenly.

Holy cow, if those are supposed to be the marathon colors, they should’ve found a designer who wasn’t colorblind. The blue and yellow is actually a nice color scheme in that logo, the jersey looks nothing like it. Also they’re called the Red Sox, not the piss yellow sox, they really need to stop doing these city connect jerseys or whatever. It’s gonna be the Nashville Sox and they’ll still do the “south side” jersey and spell the two words wrong. edit: oh hey we lost in extras.

really liked that at bat. he attacked a really tough pitch that would've been strike 3 looking to a lot of players. Crochet is so good at pitching. We should've just re-signed him, it wasn't even for that much money.

they're terrible looking jerseys though. not only are they ugly, they have nothing to do with the Red Sox. It would be the sort of jersey I would wear to a Red Sox game if I wanted to insult Red Sox fans. watched a fun interview with one of those Mass pitchers on our team (I think it was Vasil, that guy is awesome), one of the things he was asked about was getting "comp" tickets for the Boston game. He was like "oh yeah, good point, there probably aren't enough of those tickets to go around" because like 10 guys on this team are from Massachusetts. Vasil (pretty sure it was him) said all his buddies already bought tickets, hope we see him in this series. Keep up the 0 ERA!

they do this neon, drunken piss jersey in honor of the marathon? seems disrespectful

oops. these guys are both called Shane, right? Never met a person named Shane but apparently it's a common name

hate seeing crochet in a (ugly) sox jersey. doesn't help these are the worst red sox jerseys i ever seen.

i turned this game on in the third inning and it's somehow not 10 to nothing. Crochet v Burke, right? Let's go, pitcher's duel!

the fact that he was wearing Rockies gear is pretty memorable/humiliating for the team. don't they do equipment checks? I feel like the Sox would be the only team in the MLB to not do that.

he's doing that because he likes money, not because he likes sports. if Bridgeport was gentrifying as rapidly as the West Loop is, that dumbass project would be a Sox-related one instead.