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AL leader in HRs now. HR 4th game in a row. Arenado hit hit for his 5th game in a row tonight.

That was an oppo taco-burger !

Shurger !!! That's Sheet and Burger together , that's they call themselves for those who don't know.

Especially the Earl Weaver Special

That a boy Gavin !

How are you supposed to drive the ball on a pitcher pitch ? The very definition of a pitchers pitch is one that's designed to not allow you to drive it. It's usually on the black.

He would have been gunned down if he attempted to get to 2nd and he also wouldn't have scored on the following single even if he had been on 2nd.

I sure hope that this isn't one of those 10+ hits 1 run games for the Sox.

If you're going to be as open as some of our guys you might as well get on top of the plate.

Sheets hits a lot of shots foul. I wonder if he can just re position his feet to a slightly more closed stance so he can get them fair.

That 0-1 cutter to Arias had a lot of movement.

If the game is close late. I'd avoid Naylor . He was smokin hot in late innings against the ANgels and he's a huge Sox killer.

For those who wanted Robert 3rd you got your wish. There is however the fact that his most productive spot in the order has been 5th this season. But he's been pretty good hitting 3rd too. Batting 3rd : 5 for 16 .313 BA 1 HR, 1 2B , 1 RBI . 476 OBP, .563 Slugging Batting 5th : 10 for 26 , 3 2B , 4 HR , 9 RBI, .448 OBP .962 Slugging

Because when all players suck it has to be the manager and coaches fault because of well just because ! And when players are good it's the player's natural ability. Sometimes the player won't listen to coaching or the player listens but the changes won't work/takes too long or a player doesn't feel comfortable after making the changes. Or the player will just never take the next step because of injuries piling up or the natural progression from thrower to pitcher or AAA star to MLB player takes longer or never happens. A coach can suggest try choking up a 1/2inch or try a short/longer/lighter/heavier bat and a player could look at them like they are crazy and say cmon now that's little league advice.

Maybe it was a rhetorical question but it was actually the last game that he had a hit to the left side. He put one in the hole between 3rd and SS .

Thanks for changing the title. As usual all the wild hot takes come early and the more reasonable ones come later. I did come back to thank you and to say just how strange the internet is to have someone start a controversy just by suggesting that if TA said he hated this place ,they wouldn't blame him. I don't know if that's the tweet that started it. It seemed like the tweeter knew that's not what he said but only suggested that if he said it he would be right. How that got turned into he actually said he hated this place, I have absolutely no idea. But then to see people arguing that it made more sense that he said " place" rather than " pitch clock" based on the game situation blows my mind. Dudes you're arguing that something made sense to be true from a starting point of something wasn't even true to start with just to pile more controversy onto a player who really doesn't need falsities created to his already controversial persona. We get it. The Sox are in a very bad place and TA hasn't been the TA of 20??- 2021 for a while, but really ? This never should have become a thing. It's literally putting words in someone's mouth and attempting to argue that it could be true because of how you think that person must be thinking because you'd be thinking that way if ,instead of being a fat slob on the couch watching sports and fantasizing of being him, that's exactly what you would say, instead of pass me the cheese dip. SMH.

When he hit his 9th HR a few days ago I incorrectly called it his 10th. 1/2 hr. later when I realized it, I re-entered the game thread to correct myself. When I saw that someone had already corrected me. I responded that I was getting ahead of myself and that he would hit another one later in the game. That prediction failed but he did hit another one the next day for his 10th and the day after that for his 11th.

I hadn't heard that . I know I read that Burger really liked whatever it's called and brought up that it wasn't available for road games. I wondered if that's been resolved ?

Thank you kindly although I was tempted to say he'll get injured some time around the time Eloy is due back, either slightly before or slightly after. But at least that would give us another 3 or 4 weeks of Robert. Maybe Eloy can come back sooner. Was good to see him in the dugout yesterday.

I was perusing the fWar leaders and it seemed only a week ago that Robert was at 1.1. Now he's at 1.7 after a scalding last 2 weeks. That's 14th in all of baseball. The only thing preventing him from winning AL player of the Week award 2 weeks in a row was Anthony Rizzo. Marcus Semien is 4th with 2.1 Surprises: Yandy Diaz 5th 2.0 Emerging as a big talent the last couple of years with the Rays since they acquired him from Cleveland in December 2018. He's now 31 years old. Jonah Heim 7th SH Catcher TX. 1.9 . Could be 1st half flash in the pan or just another late blooming catcher. I once suggested that the Sox trade Zach Collins for Heim before the trade deadline in 2021 when they both sucked. James Outman Dodgers unranked LH Rookie OF 17th 1.6 NL Rookie of the Month for April . Most of you know how much I wanted him on the Sox from the 100 times I mentioned him the past off season.

Bryan Shaw has pitched the same amount of innings as Hendriks and given up nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if the Sox found a place for him on the 26 soon too. Hendriks' been getting hit hard which is understandable so I wouldn't put any expectations on him to be instantly good.

Just should've signed Correa and moved Tim to 2nd base.

I was hoping for a break out year from Vaughn this year. There's still hope for that but he's got to boost his batting average by getting more hits which in turn will boost his slugging, OBP, OPS, WAR, wOBA wRC+, etc.. He's probably the best hitter this year with RISP by far so that's something. Unfortunately when he was needed to do that more it didn't happen against Houston . The Sox are facing a ton of RHP. Already Vaughn has over 100 more PA against RHP than LHP which seems like a lot after just 25% of the season. It also seems odd that in 16 games against LHP he is only averaging 2 PA per game . That tells me that any LH starting pitchers aren't lasting very long in the games and some of those PA come against LH relief pitchers but so far ,in that small sample, he isn't producing. Maybe it's bad BABIP luck but I haven't checked his peripherals to check his Hard hit rate against LHP to support my BABIP bad luck theory. His BABIP against LHP is only .217. Against RHP it's .304. For now he's not a problem but rebuilding around him, no. At least he is one of the few Sox players who doesn't have an extensive injury history.

Maybe asshole is right maybe it's not. I think he's certainly being judged hard based on the whole cheating on his wife and baby mama stuff. He gets on Garfien and the fans about how we should all be pulling from the same rope. He's being judged because now more than any time in the past there is fan backlash and meatball takes from every lunatic with a Twitter or Instagram. We scrutinize every incident , even non incidents. s%*# storms must be a b**** to deal with. I feel for them sometimes but then I don't if they are going to be their own worst enemy. Sometimes Tim reminds me of Hahn opening his mouth about parades then blaming everyone else. If you talk the talk you better walk the walk because it catches up to you real fast when things go south and you show that you can't take the heat.

Are people reading his lips and able to make out that he said "hate" and filling in the rest of what they think he might have said ? Even after witnessing him over sliding 2nd base , I realize the guy isn't at 100% but if you can run hard once you make the turn at 1st ( like he did ) what prevented him from running hard to first in order to get a double rather than an out . Run hard from the start and you have an easy double. He got picked off bouncing on his lead towards 2nd the other day. Base running mistakes can be avoided by running hard . Don't bounce , shuffle on leadoffs. Fundamentally TA isn't good. Hustle is just effort and people can see lack of effort especially when replays show you not running that hard to 1st base and then turning on the jets so high that you slid past 2nd base. Leaders lead by example. Tim will never be a leader. He appears selfish in much of what we can see. He shouldn't wonder or be bothered by boos. Sure fans misinterpret things but when the chips are down leaders set an example and Tim's play is not exactly inspiring.