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He really needs to focus more on the slider. His only pitch with positive value this year. His fastball pitch value is scary bad.

You've even said it before, his fastball is just meat due to lack of spin rate. Good hitters will feast on it when it's over the plate. It was less obvious earlier in the year because he was so wild.

Hopefully we get to see Davidson tonight. He's far more interesting to watch pitch.

Hey but Cooper woke up at least.

The fastballs he throws are all meatballs

Fixed

So not surprising. What a freaking joke. Not facing the shitty Twins anymore Lucas .

Why in the hell is he pitching from stretch with runner on 3rd and no outs given his struggles from the stretch? More brilliance from Cooper.

As I heard someone on radio put it, a Sox fan could have moved to the North Pole immediately after Brian Anderson's diving catch and they wouldn't have missed anything on consequence if they returned today.

Sure I would trade Yoan if you can get a 5-6 win player that has five years or so of control left on a good deal. For example, I would deal him for Judge if that was possible (it's not). Main reason is you could have Yolmer play there two years and then Madrigal takes over.

Omar did nothing wrong. I'm sure it looked to him like it was going to be a tag play at home due to Davidson running to first. He had to adjust his body for a potential tag.

Is he healthy yet?

Reviewing fangraphs now, and mercy did some Sox players fall off a cliff defensively. Abreu now dead last at first defensively and 4th worst fielder in baseball. Yolmer went from 6-7 range at 3rd to 32nd.

Anyone know how fangraphs and their defensive fWAR works in terms of updating? Yoan went from 5th yesterday at 2nd base to 17th at 2nd base with a negative defensive value.

Moving away from the plate and then planting your foot to throw home when you infrequently play first is not an easy play. He made a great throw all things considered, but that's also because we know he's blessed with the best arm ever.

I totally see your point, but do you have confidence in JR to admit they need a new manager in a year or so?

You're up 2, you take the easy out instead of the difficult play 10 out of 10 times. Davidson doesn't play first also, so it's a forgivable sin. Bigger issue is how many dump plays the team consistently makes with no end in sight.

Kinda like my idea of firing Ricky and hiring Shields. Only concern is Shields might not do those god awful segments with Benetti and he might not be able to host cookie segments at SoxFest.

I know I overreact, but I typically check twitter after Ricky does something bad. Usually there's a few posts criticizing him. Tonight there are a ton of them.

Also don't forget that Jace likely isn't available because Rondon was so bad on Saturday they needed to bring him in. What a waste of your best reliever.

And it's also not knowing what you're doing with the ball before it's hit

Shame on this org if Ricky is around come next year. The players play like idiots and he has no feel for in-game strategy.

Haha you suck Ricky. He makes Ventura look like Bochy.

While also not letting Timmy steal 2nd with ease before you bunt

He took 3 steps to first. How is anyone defending that play?