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Edgar would have stolen that without the drop if he hadn't rolled over instead of sliding lol

Braden Montgomery is 3 for 3 with 2 2B tonight. We have an opening in LF, come and take it buddy!

Everson is a guy who you can tell knows he's playing for his whole career for better and for worse

Everson my goat

Never seen this happen before.

Vargas with the best hit ball of the game but no dice

Can confirm from Statcast player tracking that Tanner ran in on that ball. Ball was well-struck but that's one that is usually caught unless it's in the corner or the gap.

Looks like a misplay by Tanner.

Ball hasn't found Vilade's barrel yet but he's 2 for 2. Baseball!

Occurs to me that the real problem here is Noah doesn't have his slider at all for some reason. That's really his comfort pitch usually. He's having to build the plane as it flies without it.

Love the brief look at Noah going into the commercial break as he did not look like a guy who had calmed down during the half inning lol

Noah got back on the schedule he should have been on at the close of the 2024 season. It's time for him to use his bullets against MLB hitters and take whatever lumps are necessary.

Nice job to finish the inning. Hope he can come back out and keep throwing strikes. No more need to fear failure as he already did it and lived to tell the tale! And also a nice lesson that if you're afraid of the strike zone, it doesn't matter because he never gave up solid contact the entire inning and still managed to give up 3.

Unfortunately I think the Sox are going to be sufficiently cautious that they may not let him finish this inning just due to the pitch count. Teams seem to operate under an assumption (that may be backed by data, IDK) that injury risk cranks up beyond 25-30 pitches in an inning.

Just overthrowing it, not too much to worry about yet IMO. He has a pretty long track record of strike throwing so I don't think what we're seeing here is some long-term issue for him. He's just got to calm down.

Buying low, you say. Smart!

The size info was out of date. That's probably how big he was the first time he played in a tournament sponsored tournament. He's being listed at 5'10" 170 nowadays and looks like he might be a tad heavier than that. Big enough to have earned a D1 football scholarship that he turned down to play pro baseball.

TBH, I am open-minded to the view that it is near-impossible to teach the skill that Lenyn lacks at the plate. If the goal when acquiring young players is to prefer players who already have the difficult-to-teach skill, that's cool with me. But once you're looking at MLB production, I don't see much reason to put much emphasis on exactly how a given player managed to reach X level of production if X level of production is good enough. I doubt this played a role in the decision to trade him, but I am aware of some data indicating some pretty brutal aging curves for contact/contact-quality on pitches outside the strike zone. That is, players do not get better at making contact at pitches outside the zone and their ability tends to fall off a cliff in the late 20s in a way that is sooner and faster than other hitting skills. So I guess one way to counterargue what I said above is that Lenyn, who really relies on production against chased pitches, has the type of game that is known to age really poorly. But I don't know how much I believe it and I doubt this was a deeply considered decision.

FWIW, Robertson was traded as part of a package with fellow expiring deal Todd Frazier and pre-arb Tommy Kahnle in a deal that brought back Blake Rutherford (who was then considered a top 50 prospect in MLB) and a couple minor leaguers who were less-regarded and ultimately accomplished little. Rutherford's stock fell not long after reaching the Sox and ended up getting a cup of coffee in the bigs many years later.

I find average exit velocity to be a rather useless statistic. Not much different between a 60mph batted ball and a 75mph one but they have quite different effects on your average. And that's setting aside the other things you might want to know about how the ball was hit, such as whether it was straight down, straight up, or somewhere in between.

You can put me on record as opposing this Lenyn trade but in his limited ABs so far this season, he has been very much a part of the problem

Kid clearly has his man body, so to speak. Looks muscular and strong. Presumably hitting against professional pitching is a very big obstacle at this juncture. He's got some time to start figuring it out but I think if you just put his name out of your mind today, you'll never need to know it again.

Not surprising a young-for-his-year, late-round HS sign didn't play any official games yet. Probably just not ready. Doesn't mean he can't be good but projecting anything from this kind of player is extremely difficult. He could be out of baseball a couple years from now.

Put me on record — this is stupid. Offense-starved team refuses to give a shake to a young cost-controlled player who can hit a little bit. Maybe the skeletons will suddenly fall out of the closet to make this make more sense but to me this is just Getz not liking Sosa's game on an aesthetic level and feeling unwilling to figure out how to use him.

Jarold Rosado: latest yips victim?