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Crochet (drafted for the pen) and Taylor, Burke and Schultz, who are all works-in-process, are pretty much the entire pitching yield since 2020 from this great drafting system. Should be able to fill more pen spots with mid-round draftees. And once again, Leasure was far from the worst pitcher in this pen.

.643 career OPS with over 1400 PAs. And since we constantly hear this complaint, he's 5-9. To what end?

But those aren't insignificant issues either.

Leasure gets a lot of grief but he hasn't been that bad and he's far from the worst reliever. He has the skills/tools to be better so that's frustrating and he seems to get rocked at inopportune times.

Montgomery needs to up his contact skills to go from a good player to a great player. He needed to get that run in in the 9th. He just Ks too much.

Sox need to take advantage of basket-case teams and whack the Angels two more times.

I hope they can work something with Murakami and some of our other young guys. But the key is a prosperous farm. Can't win without it. And that will require a willing FO (which we seem to have) and a willing JR to invest in it. I've never thought that JR's lack of FA spending was the major problem. Just make sound decisions. Yea, Murakami could have flopped, but the money and term were modest, and the potential upside huge. The list of flopped FAs is long (and the Sox are enduring one now).

I remember Ventura would have Sale throwing his 117th pitch in 92 degrees in July. Looked like Davis was getting a bit tired anyway.

The veteran relievers are starting to pull it together. I like Beckham in the booth. He's understated, which seems to temper Schriffen's schoolkid patter. Stone's style seems to exacerbate it.

Let Davis take this all the way. It's good crisp weather. We'll have full pen available for last 2 games.

Yuk Come on Getz.

See how terrible the Mets' have been since they traded him away?

You bring up Gonzalez to displace Benintendi and/or Acuna. If he can really hit, he'll be a big asset as a DH and a backup to give any of the other infielders a day off.

Trade him back to the Mets.

Well the big club could use a bat; several guys with utility/4th OF profiles. He can DH and spell various IFs once a week.

The idea is that the middle infield prospects should be athletic enough to play a good OF. Jackson Merrill. Robin Yount.

Boy you pretty much nailed this situation.

Although his production was modest prior to this season, he took his walks and kept the Ks down. He just showed no power and had a low average. Now he's producing while also walking and keeping the Ks down. As you said, they need to do something with him (and it really seems like they wrote him off). Maybe he's not athletic enough for OF, but how about DH? They need to see what he's got.

9th. That's how the first guy got on. Then 2 walks. Anyway, hopefully just a one-time brainfog. And he's still a work-in-progress. At least I hope so.

It's not the walks. It's being late to cover first..

The Angels ought to sign him: they already have Moncada and Vaughn Grissom; Kopech would give the almost the complete Sale return.

This board needs an Edgar Quero apology thread. And Grant Taylor needs a dressing-down by a team leader. Maybe Vargas. Don't need to see that lollygagging again. Nice W.

2 more hits for Gonzalez tonight. It really seemed like they had written him off when he was over-promoted to Charlotte. Not sure that's changed. But perhaps it should.

Roch was billed as a generational/transformational prospect. Lately I've been hearing he's a "high floor" prospect. That's quite a difference. So I'm wondering, which is he?

If the idea is that McDougal's injury has significantly set back this rebuild, then it was never anything more than a Hahn-style rebuild: little depth and will last until a couple of injuries or downturns in performance (if it succeeds at all). And any thought of drafting to help the current team is consistent with that style of rebuild. That said, it's pretty clear that the pitching is thin org-wide.