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Robert Bomb (27th) 4/5 OPS over .900 Burger Bomb (21st) OPS over .800 Benintendi on fire. BA .290 Cease 5 strong innings Lopez , Bummer and Scholtens 4 innngs of 0 runs, 2 hits, 6 K ,0 BB relief Great game ! ATL hadnt lost a home game since June 11 and had won 11 straight series. Sox busted both of those up.

Sox did well. Take the series tomorrow !

On most suicide squeezes the runner on 3rd is practically stealing home and usually gets home like a second after the ball is bunted. The run would've scored and the way the cards were playing defense they might've thrown home and not got the out there nor the out at 1st with the catcher trying to apply a tag. It wasn't a force at home situation.

Good man ! Burger had a good game , 2b, HR, 2 walks 3 ribbies. Got his OPS back over .800.

That was a short lived lead .

Remi too !

More Burgers !

Thank u Vaughn

Can anyone it anything but weak GB's ?

OPPO taco Burger bomb

Since the start of May 4th Robert has the most fWar among position players in MLB, 3.3.

Aking the wrong guy . I'm not going to pour through game logs to figure it out. He'll get pounded soon enough.

Helluva game Lance ! Do you have 1 more inning in you ?

A lot of that came in April maybe ? I can't pinpoint exactly when he started to pull himself out of the depths of that terrible start.

If all those guys are traded then I expect the Sox to challenge Oakland for the worst record. Might not catch them but we'd have a shot at KC.

Probably right but that means he has to play then. He think's he fixed his recent problems but then again Andrus thought he found something last year in the 2nd half too. In Andrus case it might've been just talk talk trying to get a new contract but maybe he thought he had found something. Hasn't carried over , thats for sure.

It's only 12 innings. Our guys had a nice streak for a few months. Now the starting staff is getting injured and the hitters a little better but for the most part if any reliever gives up runs in a close game the Sox likely lose. And also now the BP will be overworked with BP games and Toussaint making starts. The Sox are set up for a very ugly run that may see them fall to 20 below .500 pre AS break.

I think you're right. I mean people can say he's getting exposed and they could be right or the amount of MLB AB's may not be sufficient to determine his future worth. Schwarber was non tendered by the Cubs after a bad season with injuries after his age 27 season because they didn't want to pay him $8M. Schwarber walked a lot though and that helped his OPS . It sucks Burger has missed so much development time so now it might be hard to keep an .800 OPS without taking a good amount of walks and we don't know if that 'll ever happen. Also helps that Schwarber is LH and Burger has to do well against RHP if he's going to be any good.

Combined scores of todays games might be like 21-7

So that's who now on the IL currently Clevinger, Kopech, Hendriks and Kelly ? Am I missing any pitcher ?

Nope . DO not need to end. 2nd on team in HR .Not playing him accomplishes what exactly when the team sucks. Need his power.

When Robert hit that ball I let out a loud WOW . Knew it was gone instantly !

"Clearly wasn't ready" is pretty easy to say in hindsight. It's extremely difficult to assess readiness just as it is to assess which draft picks are going to become MLB players. Many players are brought up and fail multiple times all over MLB and then become productive MLB players, some never do. Some are coached into success and some are coached into failure. But he was 25 and torched 2 levels and starting to torch the 3rd when the season ended. Maybe all the time off waiting to be drafted hurt him more than anything. He also could have failed from lack of experience despite how old he was from the missed time. Let's just hope he does better this time around.

His BA should be a little higher but the main thing is he keeps hitting for power and improve defensively and take a few more walks. Lots of guys can be very productive with low BA and high K's like Schwarber. Has to keep his OBP, sluggling % , OPS, OPS+. WRC+ and WAR moving forward. ANd the K's moving downward. HIs BABIP is almost identical to his BA. Usually BABIP is much higher.

Thats what I keep saying dude has lost a s%*# load of time. To have as many HRs as Trout does right now tells me u don't give up on that or dismiss him so easily as another Palka type.