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So are we only supposed to believe a .400 BA, .700 Slg. and 1.300 OPS ? Last time I checked there are still 9 fielders out there and a pitcher trying to get you out .

I'll take the over.

HA ! Yonder and his putrid ,anemic, paltry, pitiful, distressing, pathetic , wretched, miserable and woeful numbers against righties is batting 4th again.

I'll answer my own question . Palk スマッシュ Sumasshu

How do you say Palk Smash in Japanese ?

It also might be a matter of time before the Sox are closer to 10 games under .500 than 2 . The starting staff is being glued together right now,

Probably because the Charlotte starting pitchers outside of Cease have been terrible He has had 8 starts with Louisville in the same league as the Knights and has a 3.92 ERA . That is great compared to Roach, Stephens and Guerrero . Of course this guy might get lit up just as much in that ballpark. Probably time to bid Roach a fond adieu.

All 3 HR's were oppotacos.

Literally

I thought 1 myself and it's not being negative. On the road against 2 good teams . Having a bullpen game and Covey will surely tax the bullpen for the rest of the games. Verlander , Cole , you see a win there ? Peacock tonight and he's been really good his last 2 starts. Maybe a win today but i wouldn't bet on the Sox in Houston with the bullpen starting. Berrios makes Sox hitters look drunk. If we don't get Perez and Ordorizzi might have a chance for another win. I'll go with 2.

35 AB's after he was hurt in Spring training hardly seems fair to say what you just said , We all know by last year that he can hit HR's and Alonso has been putrid against righties , His SLG. is right around .250 . 250 !

Better at what ? Hard to be a worse hitter than Alonso has been . Better HR hitter than Delmonico Tilson and Cordell .Better as a baseball player not so much but he is getting a ton of walks at AAA .

Seems strange to me that people suggest the Sox are going to part with Alonso, The Sox have played 44 games Alonso has played in 42 of them. Only Moncada and Abreu have played more games. He is also 3rd on the team in plate appearances, He is also making $9M a year a fact that others have pointed out. I have no idea why the Sox play him so much . He's at 0 WAR. Even Engel had a .2 WAR. They seem to be trying very hard to justify trading for him. There's really no point in playing him so much. Chances of getting anything at the trade deadline seem remote and it would be idiotic to give him enough PAs for the Sox to be stuck with him next year. I can only hope those who want him gone are right but right now there is no indication that this will happen. So far he's just a younger version of Adam LaRoche. The crazy thing is Yonder has been even worse against RH pitching and pretty good against lefties but he's getting the bulk of his AB's against righties. BA .153 OBP ,254 . SLG.252 . OPS .506

If he's really valuable enough to get a 4/5 year contract surely giving up a draft pick for him seems reasonable but no one did it. 3 max and even then he might be useless for the rest of this year considering the very late start. I''m thinking 2 years and whoever ends up offering the most for those 2 years or anyone willing to go to 3 years gets him. Contract somewhere in the $25-$40M range.

We are ? No one told me.

So you're saying you think Reinsdorf had something to do with the train's scheduling Just to have people drive and park in the parking lots ? Wouldn't it make more sense to have more fans buying more tickets and then also buying concessions ?

You actually think he would dare bite the hand that feeds him ?

Is Palka playing any 1st base at Charlotte ?

A log jam? Really ? 2 guys coming off TJ ( Kopech Dunning), Giolito, Lopez, Cease a guy who will be a rookie . Nova will be gone, Do you want Banuelos or Covey to be the fifth starter ? Rodon can't really be counted on for next year at all. That's way too many young,untested and guys coming off injuries . Don't expect the Sox to compete with that do you ? Need a lefty. Keuchel is a lefty. Perhaps 2 years (this year and next year) $25M is enough to get him after the draft, That's nothing compared to someone like Bumgarner.

⚾ Lucas Giolito gave up 1 run on 3 hits , 2 walks and 4 K's in 5 innings to lower his ERA to 3.35 for his 3rd straight win. Leury Garcia led off the game with a HR. Yonder Alonso was 2-2 with 2 RBI. Charlie Tilson had a hit and has hit safely in 10 of 12 games since being recalled. With the rain starting to come down harder Giolito struck out the side in the 5th on 11 pitches and that made the game official. The game was called and Giolito gets credit for a complete game. It snapped a string of 382 without a complete game, the longest such streak in franchise history. Sox record is now 21-23 with Reynaldo Lopez going tomorrow to finish the series with the Jays. ⚾

No they will either wait for the rain to stop and resume it or they can call the game over and official because of the rain since the visiting team got 5 innings . That's when it becomes an official game so we just squeeked in.

5 run inning now please.

I like the South Side Buntmen. Very creative reference to the South Side Hit men of 1977.

Yeah when he is good he is really good , multiple hits, extra base hits, and stolen bases.

Well technically Castillo is UP to .189 since a 1 for 4 raised his average. Yonder at least got 2 walks.