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Leasure had a really solid August, carrying over into September! No extra innings, no Bryse, maybe this means No Clevinger.

looks like defensive substitutes. the defense has been killing us. And Meidroth has been limping all game.

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Mead's had a pretty good week. Not willing to be replaced by Ramos.

Speaking of the Rays: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/09/braves-claim-ha-seong-kim-from-rays.html?utm_source=twitter Braves Claim Ha-Seong Kim From Rays Tampa signed him to a two-year, $29MM pact in the winter. He is making $13MM this year, with just under $2MM left to be paid out. The second year is a $16MM player option. They could've just eaten $2mil and traded him. He's probably picking up the option. He's a good player who lots of teams would want. Didn't make it very far through waivers, ATL is the 6th worst team and might expect to be good next year. Definitely don't need him this year. Orioles might be good again but their former #1 prospect is a 2B and their best player is a SS.

Outman has a cannon(92nd percentile), Benintendi does not (37th). Keaschall is fast (82nd percentile), Colson is not (41st). The problem is 2 runs scoring unearned. And everyone running on Teel.

busted his ass on an infield single too.

His out of the zone stuff looks good but he doesn’t throw enough strikes that good hitters bite on it

Wtf

Booser made “out, man” look ridiculous. Not so much buxton.

Stands to reason they won’t be giving Fraser Ellard a statue any time soon

That slurve is a crazy pitch.

Fair enough lol

Nasty pitch. Wikelman’s been good though? Out of that inning several batters ago if Mead wasn’t a terrible defender.

Thought this started at 1:30. Missed another Colson bomb and a Chase bomb? Right on time to watch Mead boot one.

I was definitely irrationally optimistic about Colson. Some of the negativity was fair (not 'bum' talk which is baseless and mean-spirited to say about a nice kid). The concerns about his back are still real. I still question his ability to hit a four-seam fastball and his bat speed could evaporate if the oblique continues to bother him throughout his career. The Crochet chatter was a different story. I recall a lot of the discussion was "how can he start, he's only thrown 73 inning in his MLB career across 3 seasons, no player has ever done that and transitioned to a starter". I think was a mis-assessment of the the new ecosystem pitchers find themselves in where there's a very good chance they have a serious injury before they even reach MLB. More subjectively, I think it was a misread of his spirit and desire to be the best.Realistically, it was probably beneficial that he threw so few innings. I read a good point a while ago about pitchers from the Midwest projecting well because it's too cold to play baseball all year round and so they've accumulated less strain on their arms trying to throw as hard as possible with little league mechanics. We'll see about Braden, but the injury talk seemed overblown pre-draft and he has an 80 grade, heart of the city, personality. Same as Wetherholt (maybe not the same personality, I dunno). Wish we could have had both, JJ is killing it. To your second point, c'est la vie indeed. I sorta like the Bundesliga model, the 50+1 rule that states a single entity (person or company) cannot have majority control over a team. Better prior to 1998 when teams were required to be run as not-for-profits. Bundesliga is an excellent league, although stars often leave to go play in other leagues where they'll make more money, so it isn't as competitive as the Premier League or La Liga. Evidently Bundesliga draws the largest crowds on average of the 'Big 5' leagues. Less branding. Cheaper tickets. Not perfect, Bayern has a considerably larger budget than every other team, their payroll accounts for like 25% of the whole league, but a decent model to take inspiration from. Or the Green Bay Packers obviously, a small town that nobody has ever heard of is a perpetual powerhouse. Even England has a ton of cooperatively-owned teams at the lower levels. There could be potential for that in the minor leagues, instead one singular private equity firm owns 45 MLB-affiliates which is just sickening to me. Happy Labor Day!

They skipped his start yesterday in Charlotte, it was Civale's turn to start today, seems like today would be that day. Ellard is now listed as the probable starter and he's never started a game in his MLB or MILB career. Just seems like a weird situation all around. Maybe Clev missed his flight or is hungover or something.

Awesome! So not Clevinger? Or was there another corresponding move I'm not aware of? Wishing Ramos luck. Might be his last shot with the Sox.

Missing @South Side Hit Men right about now.

reminds me: MILB gamecast said Clev was supposed to start for Charlotte yesterday. He didn't. His ass is starting for the Sox today isn't he?

tbh yea I did. he passed the vibe test. Garrett "he's never thrown 100 innings" Crochet passed the same test. so does Braden. Fauske is trending in that direction.

I know what you mean. Looked like he could've been a serviceable starter last year. I'm just looking over the game logs, he started 5 games with Charlotte in March/April, pitched to a 9 ERA with 9BB/9, went to Arizona, came back a month later and had an excellent June as as a reliever. July started off well, brought the 9 ERA down to 4.50 then things really went off the rails starting July 29th. I guess the good news is that a few really, really bad outings are doing a lot of the heavy lifting, so maybe he just needs to be more consistent. But some of the scouting reports say his stuff is just diminished. Pipeline wrote in, presumably, 2024: Then our guy @Y2Jimmy0 wrote more recently: Haven't watched him play this year, so I don't know what his velocity is at. But that doesn't sound promising. I agree with you in that we might "hope" he is just dealing with some injury. But not in, like, a painful way. I'm not sure how else you might account for that.

Looks good for both teams, but who can really say? Crochet could get injured, Montgomery could bust, etc. All four players performing at the major league level would make it a big success...but Crochet is one of the best pitchers, if not the best, in the league for a while if he doesn't get hurt. I think as it stands, both teams got what they were looking for. I liked it at the time and still do. Really like Teel, but didn't love getting another catcher because Quero might end up a better hitter and neither guy looks like an elite defender/game caller. Plus Korey Lee is more than serviceable as a backup. I liked Mayer and obviously Anthony as the 'big' piece. Getting Anthony would've been a huge steal whereas Mayer probably would've been an overpay (Kyle is at .779 OPS in 205 PA, Mayer at .674 in 136 and keeps getting injured). I might've wanted Bleis too, but he's had a really tough year, .550 OPS at AA. Getting Braden was awesome and I don't think Boston knew what they had with him. Still could bust, but I think he's going to show out like his brother from another mother, Colson. Wanted to draft him in the first place. His injury was overblown and I think we got a steal there. Meidroth and Gonzalez were basically just 'some guys' but really nice tertiary pieces. Meidroth has been up and down but has been better defensively than expected and still looks like a potential leadoff hitter. At worst, utility infielder who puts the ball in play and actually looks very good at both SS and 2B. tbh, I don't think it would have been crazy to send him down at some point or even start him at AAA next season depending on how spring training goes. His command of the strike zone hasn't been as good as advertised. Wikelman has also been pretty good in limited time. He's looked better in MLB than in the minors which is interesting. That seems true of several Sox players. I think he'll start striking more people out, his stuff looks good, but the walks are a little scary. All in all, I like the trade and I'm happy Garrett is doing well!

Iriarte walked 3, gave up 3 runs, out after a third of an inning. his ERA is up to 6.92. What happened to him? 33 walks in 40.1 innings is brutal.

Vasil is a keeper. Him and Shane were such great pickups off the scrapheap.