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I'm not sure "who the guy we thought he was" is. Over the last 2 weeks he's got a .280 BA, around a .545 SLG and .850 OPS. He's been carrying the load while Abreu, Grandal and Moncada slump without Eloy and when Tim was out. Plus we lost another good bat against lefties with McCann and he has been way better than EE. He still leads the team in many offensive categories. Against RHP in the last 15 days he is 3rd in BA behind Madrigal and Robert . He's 1st in SLG. ( wouldn't exactly call that weak contact) and 2nd to Eaton in OPS. Hopefully when some of the others start to hit Yermin can continue just at his current clip which should be good for no worse than 6th in the batting order.

It's not the nature of baseball anymore to expect deep starts. I'd guess half the games so far the starters have gone 5 or less. That means a lot of BP usage. Long season after a short season already lost Fry and Cordero , Lynn on the IL . I prefer the kid glove treatment, there's a long way to go.

Hmm it says the back end of that April 23rd home stand. Interesting. Kind of coincides with the start of the minor league season if true. So if true, I have to think that if that's when Engel is coming back it's also when Vaughn is being sent down so Vaughn's got about 10 days to show more than he has even though Lamb and Hamilton might take some of his AB's.

Yea your stance on Vaughn kind of shocked me. Normally we think a lot alike. I was really surprised so many wanted him to play every day and thought he was going to get an extension before the season started. I was pummeled on here for going the opposite way on both.

April 30th ? Last I saw was the start of the next home stand April 23rd . Where did u see 30th ?

It's 8 AM baseball here !

Funny thing is I liked Hawk a lot and I like Jason too. He's very quick witted and even makes Stone laugh which seems pretty hard to do. I don't even care that they sing. People like to sing and it's just once a game. If it helps keep Nationwide as a big sponsor great !

Yea a few people didn't like that he seemed farther away from the plate but I actually did. If he is too close to the plate he's chasing outside pitches off the plate. You back him off the plate and those pitches look too far away to swing at. Also closer to the plate and you get jammed too. Ideally you want Robert extending his arms and getting the sweet spot on the pitches. It forces him to use CF and RF more while still using his quick bat to turn on pitches on the inner half and down the middle. You have seen him using right and right center a lot more . And right now we need hits and contact from him.

Yea nice heckling when you're about to get swept and down 5-1. I would've been chanting 5 to 1, 5 to 1 and double header sweep, double header sweep right back at him.

Wahhhh ! Maybe you haven't seen a bunch of people lately questioning Vaughn in the lineup so maybe not so idiotic.

Robert, Mercedes, and Vaughn all going deep . Not just 1 HR prediction but 3 !

Its the 1 out with RISP that really sucks. I guessing the Sox have about a 50% K rate in those situations when just a ball in play is usually needed..

Au contraire !

Pretty difficult in a 7 inning game.

You win !

SURPRISE !

Hopefully there's spaghetti in the clubhouse to get some carbs between games.

Yep. Time to start the streak against lefties again and Tim is a big part of that.

I agree . If there's no extra innings it's only 14 innings and it's not hot outside, plus he's got his stroke back. Do some stretches between games , do a whirlpool and good to go.

With the way the Sox have been giving up the lead in the 8th inning, I love 7 inning games.

Yup the fanboys go crazy for sure when a few guys are out of the lineup especially Vaughn fanboys. Do not play the bottom 2 positions players on the 26 LaRussa WTF are you doing you senile old drunken fool . Doesn't sound like panic at all.

I hardly ever watch the games live. I usually wait an hour to start the game. Then I can just FF through commercials or let them play or pause if I have to do something between innings . In the case of the no hitter I had to speed my way through the Sox AB's once the 7th inning started and watch Rodon pitch until I caught up to the game live. Had to see the ending live !

Please do not create Terminators.

If you have a smart TV just type Carlos Rodon into the search engine.