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How do you know this is a 60 win team? Clearly no team with Machado would ever struggle Also I'm sure Manny would love being benched for not running out a ball when his team is 30 games out of first place and he's trying to stay healthy for a 300 mil contract.

Well at least Sox have a great reputation for developing young hitters. Oh well, Happy Fathers Day to all.

Yep, Trayce has to bat because Renteria made a stupid lineup.

Another awful at bat. Can Frank be his hitting coach, because Steverson is obviously not getting through to him.

Screw Reinsdorf, Gardenhire is the real owner of the WSox

Also, unless I'm missing someone, today's roster construction made it impossible for anyone to replace the trio of minor leaguers in the outfield.

Can they both lose please. One should go play football, the other basketball.

Awful at bat for Moncada. Really disappointing how much he's pulling off the ball without seemingly try to make adjustments. Gonna be a long series for him in Cleveland against Bauer, Clevinger and Kluber

Please let this be the last game we ever have to suffer with this exact trio in the outfield. Engel looks like he forgot how to hit once again.

Been real impressed with his knowledge of players around the league

The guy I talk about velocity the most is Lopez, who had question marks about his ability to maintain velocity as a starter due to his size. He's done a solid job of maintaining, but you still see games where he loses 3-4 mph from the first to sixth inning. That is not very common amongst starters. On the other hand, you have Rodon who starts games 91-92 and ramps up to 94-96. Problem is over last couple of years, he's been absolutely shelled when his velocity is low.

Smith swings a magic wand. Also Frank has been superb

Yay Yoan

Nice call by Frank on that homer!

Yeah some of the players in the minors have seemingly become way too overrated on here (Stephens, Adams, Henzman) Some of the same people saying Giolito was never a big part of the rebuild probably were proclaiming him a future ace after spring training

How about not hanging mediocre sliders?

Fielders shouldn't be allowed to block the base prior to the slide. Not sure how Anderson was supposed to slide there.

He's a low ball hitter that they refuse to throw high fastballs to

Did he become a headcase over the offseason, as he was incredible in those spots last year in a small sample size. I don't know if he's trying to be too quick out of the stretch (which isn't helping, as he's allowed 13 steals this year), but it looks like he's short-arming out of the stretch. It's causing lower velocity, bad command and hanging breaking balls (i.e..2nd homer to Castellanos)

In the parts I saw yesterday, his velocity was down 2 mph quite often from the stretch. With someone who has bad fastball metrics to begin with, that could make a huge difference.

Couldn't that be a physical issue out of the stretch?

Gonna guess Hansen is a far ways from having his stuff be 100 pct

Rutherford showing good speed, as game is on tv

Charlotte has had a hard few days throwing strikes...woof

Giolito was absolutely supposed to be part of the rotation for when they're contenders. Hopefully Covey becomes a member.