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Nice Urquidy was pretty good a while, but got hurt and hasn't been the same. But that's a nice line tonight. Looks like Mason's line was in -process.

Dare I mention it again, but we do draft a lot of guys with funky deliveries and low slot. our 2 best pitchers drafted this century were low slot, but perhaps we are going to the well a bit often. Those guys often have control issues.

Retired with 5 pitches, 1 of which was a hit, and no double plays.

I think Gonzalez is a good player. Heck, I wanted to keep him and let him spend most of the time at DH instead of our still negative fWAR guy. I think he'll hit well; probably like Mead. But I don't lament it...I guess because I understood the trade and I don't think there's a huge risk. Speaking of Mead, it's okay with me if we call up the guy we traded him for and let him DH. In the long run, pretty impressive Sox development to turn-around 2 hitters so quickly.

He's had a rough year. I think we're better off going with Adams and/or Sandlin. In fact, with the apparent need for 2 starters, I would think at least one of those 2 should be up right now.

Sorry - double post.

I understand that, but it's still a reach. They could have picked a similarly ranked player who would sign for slot (see Tampa's pick in the same round). And there were several others. Great draft, yes, but how could it not be with the amount of money they had to spend. But in the end, Shirley did what he always does: he reaches and punts. And you don't have to - it's the way he runs the draft. But everyone (but me) is cool with it. And the other issue to me is that his pitchers are often either low slot and/or funky delivery guys. Is this in line with what Bannister wants?

It shouldn't take any of those guys to get anyone attainable who has been mentioned; that's what I was saying.

That was bad. I think Jr got $500K. And then Ozzie got pi$$ed when his sons didn't get the same insider treatment.

Singer has an ERA of 4.5, FIP of 5.21 and a WHIP of 1.38. His K rate has been falling. Doesn't really throw a FB. Is he even an upgrade? Don't give up Bonemer, Carlson or Hagen for any of these guys; nobody else does. We didn't get anything in that stratosphere for Cease who was better than everyone mentioned.

They need help, but they need to get better beyond a few trades. A lot of sloppy play lately. Judging by the ESPN pitching diagrams, it looks like Schultz was really getting squeezed - not getting any calls on the corners; I don't know whether those diagrams are accurate, but if they are, better framing and/or challenging could help..

will probably win it without doing anything. Moves should be to win in playoffs

It wouldn't surprise me if the Guardians do a soft punt like they did in 2021. (just don't trade with them Getz).

I suggested this one a while back, so I'll give it another go. Hicks to Seattle for Luis Castillo. I'll amend it: Hicks + Jackson for Castillo +$ ($10-$20 mill depending on vesting clause). Hicks has been great for a month. But we don't use him in leverage; heck we use Richard in leverage. But not Hicks.

Reid Detmers is the best pitcher that seems to be available and realistic. He’s not an ace, but he’s certainly been a top 10-15 pitcher this season (Forget the overrated like Alcantra or Webb). It’s his first really good year; maybe working with renown pitching coach Mike Maddux has made a difference. I also don’t like the idea of doing business with Mozeliak. But there is still no way I’m trading Bonemer, Carlson or Fauske. I’m also hesitant in trading Wolkow, Davis or B. Smith. We didn’t get a prospect ranked as high as Bonemer or Carlson for Crochet. Who I want to trade are Thorpe and Bergolla. Sandlin or Adams or H. Smith. And then a 10-15 guy?

The Baseball Prospectus crowd had a thing about Kenny Williams. KW did make some really questionable moves (sorry but renting Garcia for a top 20 prospect plus our starting catcher was ridiculous). But then they (and Michael Lewis) went on and on about how KW got ripped off by trading the situational lefty Chad Bradford; well that trade netted the catcher who became the starting catcher traded to Seattle to rent Garcia. And then there was the Carlos Lee trade: yes, on paper, the Sox took way the worst of it. BUT it freed up money to sign Iguchi (and Lee was one of those players teams wanted to trade away once they got to know him; sort of like Naylor today). Never gave KW the credit for the good (like winning WS) BP and Law have also matured over the years. They are no longer quite as dogmatic about things. Law liked Hahn; and Getz was his source for prospect analysis when Hahn was running the ship. I like law. I think he's pretty objective these days.

This is the fifth of 5 home series against the AL East. The first 4 have all been sweeps, and we're 1-3 in those series. Time to correct that. This is also the first of our 2 out-of-division 4 game series of the season; the other will come @ Houston. We also have 1 more in-division 4 game series remaining (Detroit in September).

They don't let Fedde go through the lineup more than twice. So he and Schultz can do a tandem. Also have Sandlin in AAA, who has had some nice starts and is doing fine in AAA (although, like seemingly everyone else, walks too many). And they'll make a trade of some sort. 6 man staff (or 5 +fedde/schultz) might make some sense to keep everyone fresh.

They have to bring up Hays, right? Play him for 4 days then trade him for a rental arm.

Big win. Didn't let the bad loss (friday) linger. Offense rebounded. Bring on the Yankees!

But he's not really a high leverage pitcher with his modest K rates. Hicks and Taylor throw 99 with high K rates - that's for leverage.

Man that was really good. Probably his best outing in a year.

I guess. But tonight was just baseball 101 that he got backwards.

Preller led Getz around by the nose (and I think we got lucky with Vargas; but I don't think the Dodgers tried to get on over on him either. That was Mozeliak, who I hope Getz has put on his ban list. Hopefully Getz has learned.

What in the world was Venable doing? Hudson was really the last pitcher in the bullpen to bring in to get out of a jam with good right-handed hitters coming up. Hudson has been good this year, but he's a soft-tossing control lefty. It's really bizarre. It's also strange how he closes 2 nights ago (instead of Taylor) and then now he's the first guy in. Well Venable earns his money here, getting this gang to pull themselves up and put this game behind them. And there is a general concern about the offense. Hasn't been great recently.