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Well Lynn and Rodon will be Free Agents. Even if Jerry were to want to shell out the money there is no reason for them not to test Free Agency. Jerry will have to bid against all the other teams.

I feel bad that Steve Stone's dog Layla passed away.

Ok so you lose Kopech and Lynn and Rodon ? Have you thought this through ? All the Sox have to do is tread water until Eloy and Robert come back. You have to think beyond this year. Most teams get good enough to win a World Series but sometimes it takes a couple of years to actually win it. 2005 was fluky , 1 year in and they won and never went back.

Sometimes it's just a matter of the month changing as silly as that sounds with all the other points I made. He definitely has to be much more selective against righties, but when a guy like Mercedes is also slumping against lefties you know something is off. You know that crossed my mind but I can't really say that has much to do with it. Of course it's a possibility since even a little change in confidence can be detrimental. But LaRussa hasn't benched him at all and has left him in the fifth spot. Those actions should also tell Mercedes LaRussa believes in him.

Well for one he is being a little more selective at the plate, he's taken a few walks, he's hitting the ball better , harder, just at people, he's not popping up as much, he hit that one fly ball about 8.5 feet up against the wall that was caught. He's hit 3 scorchers to SS all of them were outs in the last few games. As with anyone with a leg kick timing is crucial. Usually it involves not getting the foot down soon enough.

He'll start hitting again. There are signs he is coming around.

I dunno didn't our posters think he should be off the team when Engel returns ?

Wugly !

Abreu comes back from 0-2 to work the count to 3-2 then gets the big sac fly after the big SB by Hamilton. Then a big walk by Mercedes followed by a HUGE HR by Eaton and a GIGANTIC DP in the bottom of the 8th !

Yes I saw the hammy problem . Missed the IL thing because there was no thread on it on it was done today and I'm barely awake.

Thanks . I guess Lynn is going to pitch on short rest then unless they go with ReyLo. He's the only one left who could do it and that's probably not going to happen.

Plesac is on the IL . Civale and Hentges pitched yesterday. We are going to get Bieber for sure but the other guys will probably be McKenzie , Elijah Morgan and Quantrill.

It would ve been Kopech in the 2nd game is not for the bereavement. Cease pitches tomorrow so maybe Kopech is back to pitch 6/2 and Lynn won't have to be used on short rest.

No I'm talking about the DH Sat., the game Sunday and todays DH which involved Keuchel, Lynn , Giolitio and today is Rodon all on their normal rest except Keuchel. The rainout gave Keuchel an extra day for the 5/29 DH. I thought Kopech would be pitching the 2nd game today but he went on bereavement .Is that Lambert now? Then Cease would start tomorrow on normal rest . June 2nd is when you would need someone on short rest or Kopech if he is back.

Hopefully Cespedes follows real soon.

Jace Fry has pitched 1 inning so far in his rehab assignment in Charlotte 5/27/21 , 0 hits and runs , 2 K , 1 BB. Should be pitching again soon.

It may shock a few of you that Lamb has a .362 OBP , .487 SLG , .849 OPS , .138 OPS+ , .141 wRC+ .256 ISO ,14.9 BB% .4 fWAR on the season. In the last 28 days which includes 6 games started and appearances in 2 other games .286 BA, .348 OBP , .762 SLG ,1.110 OPS Early in the season when he wasn't hitting he was taking walks. Now that he is hitting he has only 1 walk in those 8 games he's been in. He isn't going anywhere with the way the Sox struggle against RHP . In fact you may see more of him in the OF even with the return of Engel. Mendick is the odd man out and that's probably as it should be. Leury will sit more. Eaton may also sit more until he is fully healthy.

Ronnie, Ronnie Ronnie bless your heart. I wouldn't trick you , you're my boy .

Yes I made a post in the winners thread 4 hrs ago then came directly here read the game thread and made my post here 3 hrs ago. I already said it took me 45 minutes to an hr. to make that post with the research I had to do 1st so that does correlate with everything I said. But you should also notice that no one said anything about the post game comments until after I made my post in the winners thread congratulating the team on the victory. So game thread comment, then research and 1st post here about the Lynn going 5 innings posts and all my follow up comments on it . Then went back to the winners thread and read the rest of the comments there .

Did you want a parade ? 1 emoji for another , don't they all count the same ? LOL you asked me for a thank you , now it's not good enough ? Honey I don't know what you want anymore, don't be upset

Yuli and Lourdes Gurriel. They are separated by 9 years and Lourdes is having a bit of a down year so far but his 1st 3 years were pretty good and lots of time for Lourdes to get back in a groove. Yuli didn't even get to MLB until he was 32 but has put up some nice stats in his time with the Stros in his mid 30's. I'm pretty sure he was a monster in Cuba before he got to play MLB. I had always hoped the Sox had gotten Lourdes.

I like jomboy just for the lip reading abilities. Gives great insights on how a guy like Lynn amps himself up in a game. And make no mistake you cannot compete on a high level and be a pussy. Some times you have to be a dick . Ask Michael Jordan's team mates about it. He did what he felt he had to do to get guys wanting to win as bad as he did. On your friends softball team guys like that are assholes. All you want to do is get some exercise not look too foolish or incompetent and stay uninjured so you can work the next day.

Cool I don't ever use the radio stream. Once the TV broadcast is over I like to post in the winner's thread and read through the game thread.TLR isn't going to say much I didn't already know unless he announced if Engel was coming back on Monday or Lopez or someone was being called up to start a game.

If they get to make clueless comments which may influence other posters do I not have the right to make corrections to better educate our posters ? I consider what I did a service . But yes shame on them for blaming TLR for everything that they perceive is wrong when they have no clue. I've criticized TLR on plenty of his moves but that doesn't mean I can't stick up for him, when there are legitimate reasons for not criticizing him especially such a simple reason as 2 DH's in 3 days.

Tit for tat bro. Gimme a like and I will thank you.