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He's just another choice. Probably will get a shot after Sept 1st. Maybe not. Hard to tell what they are thinking. He's not a guy they expect to go 6 innings and if you're picking based or performance and ability to pitch 6 then there's not much to go on except a short minor league performance after TJ surgery.

It's more like pick your poison. Probably best to leave these decisions to the adults. They've done all right getting the team this far.

If that release him he sucks worked every time somebody on this board said somebody sucked or was a bust I could name another 3 guys who'd be off this roster and guess that someone at some point said another 5 sucked and it would mostly be from the starting pitching staff and our best hitter and our SS with 28 bombs. Castillo will either prove you right or wrong but it won't because of his 1st 5 starts. There's a middle ground between sucking and his 1 great start that proved he still has what it takes. He just needs the time to find it. It makes no financial sense to dump a guy without ever seeing if he could turn it around . That's what's dumb.

Probably should give Beni some love too since he had an RBI single and and RBI double. He's pretty goodd at getting hits with RISP.

You know they won't do that . It's 5 starts into a 2 ,possibly 3 year commitment. He could turn it around next start and go on a roll and pitch well in the playoffs. You just don't release a guy that you are already committed to, especially with their best guys struggling and he is one of them. Who's going to do better ? Sandlin, Thorpe, Urquidy, Cannon , Schultz ?

They have a young good hitting team . A lot like the Sox that Jenkins is going to be really good player. They won't back down.

Exactly what you wanted the 1st game. Season high (finally) 8 games above .500 and 2 games knocked off the magic number ! Mune single and double and started a gorgeous 1st to home DP. Colson also 2 hits, a single and a 3 run bomb in the 1st. Bullpen great job especially Taylor !

You're a trip ! A few days ago you were calling it a disaster of a deadline.

I'm not at all riled up. It's just a rebuttal. Hard to know if he actually believes what he says most of the time.

Worse how ? What metric are you using to come to this conclusion ? At the trade deadline the Sox had a 3 game lead. It's 2.5 now while Cleveland has won 7 in a row against 2 of the worst teams in baseball. Davis Martin hasn't got a single win since the TDL with an ERA of 14.63 in 3 starts 21 games since the TDL Murakami is hitting .141, 280 OBP and .372 slg. Colson Montgomery .566 OPS since TDL Burke in 5 games is 4.74 ERA and 5.60 FIP . Castillo 4 games 5.89 ERA but a FIP of 5.37 so while none of that is good the FIP is slightly better than Burke and much better than Martin Right after the TDL the Sox went 0-4 but since then 11-7 so maybe your early impression after the TDL skewed your thinking. So .500 since the TDL while their 2 best starting pitchers and their best HR hitter and 3rd best HR hitter all have slumped. Also Sox 1st reached 7 games above .500 July 21st and are still 7 games above .500 but they've basically been a .500 team for 3 months. They've done what they have done all year which is pick each other up. Highly doubt any of the acquisitions have made enough contributions for anyone to prove they are a worse or better team now . They were 18-10 in May. Since then 36-35.

Wedded ignorant bliss is preferred to always waiting or expecting for the other shoe to drop . Prolong the honeymoon as long as possible. When things go sour people will sign the divorce papers. Just seems an odd time time to yell " It's a mirage people" ! So what if some don't understand why Caleb Bonemer is playing CF , it's a very minority opinion and they aren't running the show.

Ok Foxx and DiMaggio ! Knew I didnt have the 2nd name right.

I'm super happy he's doing well but also when he slumped some people wanted to throw him overboard. He's certainly got a lot of talent and if you look at Baseball savant you don't see great things but he has an awful lot of extra base hits from finding holes consistently that yeah this could be a career year but he's been super valuable and doing things that are needed badly.

Rough 1st inning but otherwise did fine . His pitches always had decent movement and he'd shown a lot better control lately. Thought he was a good choice to eat some BP innings. He did and after a day off the bullpen should be much fresher and another day closer to winning the division and hopefully getting Martin, Burke and Castillo right. Tough road to hoe without at least 2 of them getting back on track. But they have risen to the challenges all year. Cleveland pretty much the only team the Sox haven't put out of their misery yet and that's because after a period of suckage they fattened up on the Angels and Colorado. Beating the Twins while Cleveland actually losses a couple and things will look better.

No one saw that coming but thanks for the update. Cannon after 3 innings was going to be replaced with a fresh arm . Benintendi will be back Friday assuredly so no Nishida.

I did call him the Saluki Sultan of Swat in the post game winner thread before I even saw that tweet. There's another tweet about Jimmie Foxx and is it Lou Gehrig out there?

Seriously the Sox are not in that stage anymore . But they still are doing what got them to that stage which is find middle of the diamond players who already play really good defense and see if you can get them to hit. The only time you can take a chance on questionable defenders is if at one point they aren't too far removed from a high ranking as a MilB player like Vargas. Sox just don't have the runway for corner OF's but they do have a little for a GG CF.

I'm not emotionally attached to losses but I am to the wins. That's why I don't point fingers at anyone in the organization except the man at the top. Like with the deadline trades . Didn't think they were that good but it's also exactly along the lines of what I expected. No waste of prospects on anything except multi year players. Had the potential to be an A grade this year but hard to get results from bad 1st half players right away especially position players who ride the bench for the most part. It sucks but somehow got a couple great performances from Urquidy and Castillo but there's also the potential to be an F grade. No reason to be mad when they don't perform well , it's how Getz has operated all along. The one good 1st half player we got is old and a RP so that fluctuation in outcomes is not totally unexpected but he was the one guy everyone liked because he had that good 1st half . You forget how many OF from the trash heap he tried before Peters and had some runway after Acuna failed. Mead failed in his runway. Vargas rose from the trash heap too . No one wanted Mune. Hudson rose from the garbage not in the way the other guys I just mentioned have but he's been part of a stronger bullpen and hasn't fallen out of favor yet. Colson was written off by a lot of people and he still drives people crazy.

The Banana Babe !

Well that's what happens when you all of a sudden become a somebody when you were a nobody for your whole career. It's not quite believable because they don't really believe that growth isn't always linear and the Sox can't win a transaction with Tampa Bay. He just can't be this good. He'll come down to earth eventually. I saw that today. People just can't enjoy a good thing for what it is. A crash is inevitable if not with Peters just apply it to the whole team. Trust the usual numbers not the anomaly.

Frank did it twice in '94 in April and May.

Vaughn never had any speed. That always wasn't going to work, Bonemer has speed or else they wouldn't be trying him in CF. Now it's just how quickly he gets jumps and his line to the ball. It won't be easy .

The Banana Babe ! The Saluki Sultan of Swat ! A HR in 5 consecutive games ! A triple short of a cycle for the 2nd game in a row ! 70 wins ! Sox win 10-4 ! Vargas on base 4 times ! Meidroth on base 3 times ! Doyle 2 for 4, HR 4 RBI ! Newcomb . Nuke ! 17.1 innings of no earned runs ! 3 clutch zeros tonight ! Antonacci 2 of 3 2 RBI ! Acuna 2 of 4 double and single ! Teel 1st rebab start 5 inninngs, 2 caught stealing at 2nd base ! Caleb Bonemer 1st start in CF !

Patience Padawan Panican