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He's been taking more walks than usual pumping up the OBP.

Sox beat Rox 5-3. Thorpe looked good. Couple of trade candidates did well. Good game !

Winner winner chicken dinner !

Jinxsy

Soroka at times either looks like he's about to figure things out and return to greatness or be out of baseball soon. He does have real good stuff in sports. Don't know if it's a hot gun but he got the fastball to 97 98 a few times hasn't he ? His curve/slider/sweeper has good horizontal movement too. Who here knows where to find stats about his stuff ? Usually there's stats like that after every appearance somewhere online.

Hey we agree on something but that's only because it's too good to ever happen.

I don't think either one gets traded by the deadline.Doubtful anyone meets the asking price for either one. If I had to pick which one I think is more likely to be moved it's Luis mainly because Crochet isn't likely to still be effective in October for a long playoff run

A starting pitcher must pitch 5 innings to qualify for the win.After that since the lead was never relinquished I believe it's up to the official scorer to determine the winner. The scorer most likely determined that Schuster pitched the most meaningful innings after Kuhl since he pitched 3 shutout innings.

Happy Birthday!

Kuhl, Anderson, Schuster,Brebbia and Kopech combine to shut out the Braves 1-0. Robert's 8th HR and 12th RBI of the season in the 1st provided the margin of victory.

They won !

Anyone expecting the Sox to win this game and the series against the Braves ? A win means they take 2 of the 3.

Stone was subtle about it when he said Eloy was out by 4 steps.

Time to make up a rumor ! Noah Schultz for Jackson Holliday !

All your posts are very much appreciated.

You put quotes around " the only reason we are this bad is because all these bad things happened." Who is this imaginary friend of yours who said this ? You're quoting someone right ?

You don't know that.JR is the problem . Spend as much time talking about JR as you do his puppets and I'll start thinking you know what you're talking about. Otherwise you're just a guy with a platform to spit into the wind or like the attention of being the leader of the everything sucks brigade.

News flash 1st year of a rebuild.Budget was cut severely. You know all this yet still you talk about the GM as if he could just do whatever he wanted constantly. I know you understand this.

He's literally making up arguments no one ever said and answering them.And getting likes for it. Can't make this stuff up. Getz signs a bunch of roster filler because he couldn't sign much else. His best players who are injury prone get injured.No surprise there but they could've stayed healthy. Robert did last year.Moncada has had healthy years.So yes it hurts your record when they get hurt. It s like there's this imaginary person who said Getz didn't spend enough money to cover for the guys who usually get injured. NO ONE EVER SAID THAT. Why is he arguing with an imaginary guy ? Things were going to be really bad.We all knew that. Guys got hurt and things became really really bad. Ok great we know things are really really bad now. Am I telling anyone anything we haven't known since December or January ?

C'est la vie.

I had very realistic expectations which was exactly what happened. Of course when you dumpster dive you are going to have everyone complaining and it hasn't stopped. It appears your expectations were too high and unrealistic even though we all knew they would be terrible again this year. "Don't sign garbage retreads unless you think they are flippable ?" Do you even think before you write something like that ? Garbage retreads are garbage and the ones they got in trades or signed 75% of them likely weren't going to be tradable. It was painfully obvious that was the plan. I pointed it out to you in January. Take chances and maybe a few will work out and the others will save the young guys some innings. Especially the young arms. Fedde and Crochet worked out. Grossman worked out. Pham will bring something. DeJong too. Who else is a toss up. Brebbia had a decent career and relief pitchers are always a commodity at the deadline . They needed some major league talent that had a better than 50/50 chance of being flipped. He and Wilson were those guys. He can wait on Wilson when he pitches better . They have time on him. They lost their 2 best defenders for major amounts of time Robert and Moncada. DeJong has hit better but maybe fielded worse than expected. I remember a poster who said Fedde sucks. Posters always crap on low priced signings . That's the nature of those transactions. To continuously crap on the crap that we all knew had a high chance of being crap for months prior to the start of the season isn't particularly a news flash.

I'm not the only one telling you that an extension isn't necessary to trade him nor is it a knock on Getz. If he's not traded by the deadline the likely reason will be uncertainty over his availability to pitch in the post season. Besides that it's difficult to respond to you if you keep adding unknown hypotheticals in the argument. I already don't know the length or cost of an extension nor do I know the date of injury, type of injury , length of recovery that you just added to the equation.

The King of hindsight. Players cost money. You need 26 guys on an MLB roster and guys at AAA was Getz supposed to sign 50 guys to minor league contracts this off season ? What would that have accomplished ? Should they also have not wasted money on Fedde ? There's another $15M you could have saved JR.

That's better than him getting hurt after you trade for him after he signs an extension, isn't it ?