fathom

They’ve played him far too much. He needs days off, not just DH days.

Can we not talk about how much payroll the Padres might have available ever again?

The DH contributions are laughable. I’m sure some NL teams have a higher average from their pitching staff than the Sox designated hitters do.

He really is just a waste right now

98 on the sinker was impressive

Yep, some type of sleeve

These at bats are just horrible. Swinging at pitches not even close to the zone.

Cease had 4 good innings, 1 bad one. Just really has to work in that fastball command, as well as keeping that velocity up

Something I believe Cooper and the Sox organization does poorly is work too much on pitchers becoming well-rounded and not focusing on perfecting their best pitches

Welcome to the big leagues Cease. Too bad you were rushed. If you can’t throw your fastball near the plate, you’re going to get killed.

He’s Rich Harden

Not even close on these balls. This is the stuff he needed to master in AAA.

His issue is when he misses, he misses by a huge amount. Not going to get a lot of swing and misses if you’re 18 inches off the plate

Command for Cease is bad again today. If he’s throwing 94-95, he needs to command it better.

No concept of the zone for far too many hitters

Funny thing is you could have told me that was Cease and the stuff would have looked similar

Whew!!!!

Buried that cutter, nice job. Does seem his velocity on everything is down about 2 mph.

Colome’s stuff just seems to have lost all zip

There’s a reason he has a very good base running WAR despite the lack of steals

That was awesome! Electric speed

Nice job by Yoan.....now steal 2nd against the righty reliever. Also I hope we see Reed instead of Castillo.

The guy throws something like 85% fastball....just another dumb at bat

awful, just freaking awful. No wonder these guys have such a terrible K to BB ratio.

Nice turn, good to see an accurate throw to the 2nd baseman