fathom

His bat speed is gone. Every swing looks like he's having to push the bat through the zone. No fluidity to his swing.

Abreu again gassed by 89 mph. Only runs he produces these days are for the other team.

Yep DFA time

And then Engel bats in the 8th against a righty with Omar/Palka/Delmonico on the bench. I look forward to Benetti asking him about that decision, or what his favorite dessert is, tomorrow in his brief interview.

2 walks, 2 strikeouts. He's someone where you want them to be swinging out of his ass when it's 6-2 with 2 outs in bottom of the 8th instead of trying to work a walk.

Spaghetti!

I want to know exactly what Steverson is teaching these guys. Never seen a team that takes so many strikes and swings at garbage.

Another called 3rd after taking first pitch fastball. What an awful series for him and Anderson

Keeps missing arm side with his fastball. Missed his spot against Healy by 20 inches

Hard hit line drive to RF clearly only a hit at Coors East

The one thing Sox can't have it Lopez and Giolito have awful second halves and have both be question marks going into next season.

Yoan really needs to get out of the habit of taking first pitch fastballs down the plate. Not sure why he's doing it so much again, but Seattle is just pumping first pitch fastball down the plate.

and one of those rough innings is because he came out of the gate with nothing on his pitches and the other was because they rode him too long. Seems like he's given up quite a lot of first inning runs.

Well he sucks today. Everything tailing on him because bad mechanics. If he can't get swings and misses on his fastball, he's not going to be a starter.

Agreed, was a strike that you almost see always called

Against KC? He gave up 5 runs to a bad hitting team

Pathetic start to this game. He just hasn't looked the same since they used him so much in Texas.

If you looked at the side replay, Segura wasn't even halfway there when Abreu picked the ball up

I liked his awful scoop attempt on Segura's grounder. Looked like an 8 year old.

Not his fault not catching, but not sure why he didn't throw to third.

No zip on his pitches again. Missing arm side as he's getting under his pitches

If the zone is this tight, Lopez gonna have a lot of trouble.

Just let Avi bat 3rd. Abreu gassed by 87 mph fastball.

Just as annoying as the injuries this year has been the setbacks and reinjuries. Never seen that happen so often.

I do think Eloy is better vs RHP than LHP so far this season, but it's not like a Yoan thing where he's a switch hitter and his swing is different. To me, probably means he doesn't pick up changeups as good as he does other breaking pitches. Given his ability to drive the ball to right center, I'm confident he'll make the necessary adjustments.