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The gauntlet coming up is taunting 3 @ Philadelphia vs Phillies Record similar to Sox but hot since changing manager 3 @ Home vs. Braves Best record in baseball .677 Win Percent 3 @Home vs Dodgers 2nd best team in baseball .645 Win Percent 3 in NY vs Yankees +92 RD puts X W-L better than actual record 3 In Detroit 4th place in central 3 @ Home vs Guardians better on the road than at home atm 3 @ Home vs Royals last place in Central 3 in Baltimore vs. Orioles below .500 but better at home 4 in Cleveland vs Guardians better on the road atm Key is to keep winning at home and beating AL Central opponents Not get swept against anyone Get a series win a home against the Braves or Dodgers Need to win 1 series vs Yanks and Orioles Come out on top of the 7 games vs Guardians These things would be tough with Murakami Gonzalez has to find MLB HR stroke soon

Surely you jest . I'm actually glad that people show up to the game threads and there's a winners thread now too. There are still those that treat the Sox like the ugly step child and will never think of the 3 100+ loss season as a rebuild. To me they sound exactly like those Cubs fans who hate the Sox. I mean as far as rebuilds go it's progressing pretty well for having an owner who may never again approach a $125M player payroll unless they get 2M+ fans and even then I'm not sure if that goes very far now or even will influence his spending. He's basically a lame duck owner trying to pave the way for his sons to sell the team after he passes on. The less debts his sons have the happier JR is and that's how he's operating the Sox now.

LOL Yeah I think it's supposed to be step away from the ledge not off it .You don't exactly want to be plummeting to your death.

That's the way I look at it and Braden Montgomery possibly in June and maybe Hays and Pereira. Schultz can come back. Shane Smith can come back. McDougal is getting healthier. I wouldn't count on the TJ guys rehabbing now to provide much like Adams or Thorpe with his recent appendectomy throwing a monkey wrench into his rehab. Bergolla is still rehabbing too from his collision with Antonacci and he was hitting .457 the 1st 10 games of the season. That must've been some really serious blunt force trauma to his leg without a break to be out as long as he has been.

Stepping up , that's what's needed.

Losing battle amigo, fans complain. It's the nature of sports or people and game thread are the worst . If you DFA'd everyone since the beginning of the season that just 1 fan said DFA him or send him down, there'd be half the team gone and the whole front office narrative of fire everyone. You run into the mods who will tell your that you're complaining about the complainers , follow your own advice, gaslighting or don't tell me how to fan.

Hits a decent amount of doubles and has 1 triple, 2 HR . 4th on the team in doubles even though he's like got 75 less ABs than the guys ahead of him. His xtra base hit rate is above 33% maybe close to 40%. I think if he stays healthy he'll finish between 3 and 3.5 WAR. If his June can match his May he might have very close to 3 WAR at the end of June. He has great range defensively and already at 5 OAA.

Have you also started taking after your older brother on getting the last word in ? Butt the f*** out ! It's bad enough the board has to read mine and his s%*#. How the f*** is me saying "I'm going to be me" being a tough guy ? I did not throw the 1st punch but I'm not going to lay down and die either when Mr. Hypocrite insults me for the same thing he does. And my little nickname at least had historical baseball roots on a baseball message board. OMG what big crime I committed.

See I knew you wouldn't deny it was about me. So what now you want to remove my right to respond to an insult ? You're a fascist you've proven it over and over. You're the one who's been crying for 3 years while I support the rebuilding process. I cry about bullies and fascists trying to push people around here like you. My mistake for being supportive I suppose . You've managed to do that to a lot of people here. I got supporters and so do you so you can't make me feel bad. Why don't you just get your usual last word in so we can end this now so people don't have to chime in about the bickering ruining the threads. You took a shot at me I took a shot at you. Pretty damn hypocritical to insult my little thing about M & M pretending like you never used some kind of bad nickname. Oops didn't think I'd remember that did you ? Eat s%*#.

🤣🤣🤣 You're up to 3 . I didn't see you denying that you threw the 1st punch. You knew you were insulting my use of that term. You're the one who made it about me. Let's go bro. Gloves are off. Go ahead deny that you had no idea that I was the one who used M & M Boys. Go ahead deny it. You'll just throw another meme at me deflecting what the real issue is .

Butt out Robin. This is between me and your Batman . You know as well as he does he was taking a shot at me . He didnt deny it. So who's being the jerk 1st me or him ? I never said a thing about him using Dutch for Schultz until now.

I'll give you a double for that one🤣🤣 You have lost your mind again ?? Of course that was you insulting my use you that M&M Boys multiple times, a historical baseball reference to the great HR race of 1961 between Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris which was just a way of saying I believe in Murakami and Montgomery . That kind of thing is what a baseball message board is supposed to be about and as a Mod you should encourage that kind of thing. Baseball is a historical game. Supporting and having belief in your team on that teams message board is a good thing. Your nickname for Schultz stunk worse than mine. You named him after a 1930's crime boss and used it probably more times than I did M & M Boys. Are you going to cry because I counter punched your jab with a right cross to you jaw ? SOOOOO fragile !

Nice jab at my baseball reference to Mune and Montgomery as a great home Run duo that was used for NY Yankees greats Mantle and Maris However people who live in even bigger glasses houses should not being throwing stones. I give you the nickname that you bestowed upon Noah Schultz, the even older corpse from the dead, non baseball related, crime boss name of Dutch Schultz . Good one 🤣you really got me there.

I love it when you analyze .

I understand where you're coming from . His Statcast Batting isn't exactly the Red Sea. I only know what I have seen and am happy with it. I am not a projection model. I do know his fielding , speed and base running is legit. If his batted ball luck runs out I still know he can rack up positive War in other ways. A Red Sea in Batting didn't do Kelenic any good in other aspects of his game which was the main reason he was dumped. He may not be a .303, .376, .487, .863 , 143 wRC+ hitter like he was in May but getting a fool's gold month out of a few unexpected players is what you hope to find and let any future performance determine his true value.

Peters has actually been amazing . Yesterday he posted his 5th multi-hit game in a row. With this heater he's on he's now up to 119 wRC+, 1.5 WAR. He's a positive offensive and defensive player . 1.5 WAR fWAR and 1.6 bWAR . How cool is it that Peters could play a full season and be close to a 4 WAR guy if he continues being this consistently good. At this point you just take him for granted. Not bad at all for a 26 yr old rookie who doesn't depend on power to be a very good baseball player and was a part of the preseason narrative of the worst OF in baseball history. He doesn't face LHP at all and when he has he doesn't have any hits. He had a great May and his War has been skyrocketing. If the Sox kept Robert and he had a 1.5 fWAR at this point of the season we would be saying He's Back to 2023 form ! Despite the arguments over the Robert trade the Sox have also benefited if only for the opportunity for Peters. And he still has 2 options. He's a bargain when Robert was an anchor.

If you're talking about Kay. He's been solid . Not sure how much value you're going to get with the buying team that could possibly get 2.5 more years for him. The question is would a serious contender overpay? Probably not unless they are in dire need of a 3 or 4 so is that really a strong contender ? With the Sox trying to incorporate a couple of young arms in the rotation and also waiting waiting waiting for Hagen Smith, Tanner McDougal , Noah Schultz, Shane Smith and even David Sandlin to find some consistency in performance and health that's a whole 5 man rotation that all have a way to go before anyone can deem any of them as a for sure part of a future rotation. That's without counting Oppor or someone like Thorpe who are even father away since Oppor was still in AA when he had his struggles . We still don't know if Thorpe can ever be an MLB pitcher because he's had quite the injury history ever since his debut with the Sox back in 2024. That makes Kay more important to the Sox. I'd be surprised to see the Sox trade any starting pitching depth.

Got a good month + before you even should be thinking about it. And it's all without Murakami. They're not buying . This team still has a lot of roster churn in it .They've had too many injuries and the young arms have not progressed as hoped. Love the progress but no reason whatsoever to sell off your minor leaguers unless it's for other minor leaguers. They might sell off Dominquez , Hays if they can or even Grichuk or Kay but not many starting pitchers to call up left. Kay signed 2 years with a $10M 2028 option . He might be worth keeping.

Pretty sure they tried. He was having none of it.

He seems to have no qualms with using starters longer than they should be in. He famously hung Kay out to dry in April during a poor start.

2 batters too late taking him out . Counting the last start that's like 6 times through the order.

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Var-Gasssss !! Right back in it. 1st HR to a RH batter all season from Ryan

Ex Sox Gray Grannie. 2nd grannie of the year.