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Might be time to skip one of Reynaldo's starts. He's had a consistently big workload all season. This is a really disappointing effort by him.

Ricky and Cooper on hugwatch? I will take a bag of baseballs for Ricky.

Lopez on just an awful run right now. Regression catching up to him. He's definitely pitching himself into a question mark. He needs to come into the games with more focus and for the love of god develop a better changeup

I also think talent development with coaching is becoming even more important

The rebuild got pushed back in the mind of a lot of Sox fans who naively thought Machado was a lock to sign here this upcoming offseason .

https://mobile.twitter.com/scotgregor/status/1022954913935056896

Well said

IMO, it was always going to be Monday if they promote Eloy and/or Kopech. Day off and allows more tickets to be sold.

Anderson, Riley, Pache and Contreras for Rodon and Cedeno

Fine, Tatis Jr for Rodon straight up

And has already said Mejia, Urias and Quantrill aren't untouchable apparently

In the other thread on it, I listed Padres, Brewers, Yanks and Braves. I would say Phillies also.

But then if you look at him as a future platoon 1b, those guys don't get ranked very high.

Not surprised by this, as he's looked wonderful of late. If Hahn got a Q-like package for him, I say do it. We still have no idea if he can stay healthy for extended periods and with Boras as his agent, the expectation is he jumps when he's a free agent. WSD has suggested in the past that the Sox haven't cared for his offseason preparation. Brewers, Yankees, Braves and Padres seem to be the best fits.

https://mobile.twitter.com/pgammo/status/1022861214739783680

Was thinking they should make him closer rest of the year. Could be interesting to see how he does as well as possibly enhance trade value in offseason.

They also had a strong connection to Kodi due to him being a first round pick and him finally showing progress this year.

Yep exactly. It's not like we got a top ten from the Braves system. This is about what I expected

And don't forget that Blake's stock was plummeting

Theo probably offered Daniels a job once Texas fires him

Traded for Marcus Stroman. Kenny always gets his guy

Couldn't agree more. In the games I've watched, if a pitcher throws a sinker, he just hits it right into the ground. Rutherford has similar issues as well. As for Sheets, I'm not a big fan of his batting stance.

Something that is interesting is 3/4 of Cubs postseason rotation likely to be LHP. Dodgers suck vs LHP, but Machado will help. Atlanta destroys LHP.

Walker and Sosa both playing tonight

Yep that's what one of the BA writers predicted (Avg leader and GG defense). If Yoan plays to his potential, he would be the greatest number 2 hitter imaginable.