Jake

Rodon has been very lucky today. Lots of very well struck balls for outs. Meanwhile the Yankees are coasting on the cheapest home run I've seen in a while

Absolute pitcher's pitch he hit out too

So far this one is a shoulder shrug from me. You can only learn so much from 11 innings of baseball. Yankees are a really good team and you're not supposed to beat them. Doesn't mean you can't, of course. Hopefully we see some life from the bats.

Two straight nights that the Yankees clearly know what pitch is coming at times. Caballero clearly knew when Kay was throwing over, even (as soon as he came set). I'm guessing it's just scouting/tipping. I first noticed last night when I saw Bellinger on second base signaling to the batter.

I knew this team was cooked after the Milwaukee series!

In case you were wondering, Michael Turner's Statcast numbers look bad. I do not expect Chris Getz to be fooled by that.

Nah just pulling the core guys to keep them from getting hurt in a blowout, I think

Umps haven't done the Sox any favors today.

You look at the pitching staff and the org pitching depth chart and you just don't see much investment there. And not too surprisingly, the talent and production aren't jumping off the charts. You have a couple first round picks in the form of Schultz and Hagen. Book is out on them. Thorpe was a major trade return. After that, not much money or trade capital spent on any of these guys. And I think in the past couple years, Getz has made a philosophical shift against spending much on pitching while you're in a rebuild. I actually agree with that, quantity over quality is probably the way to go with pitching. When your team is finally good, that's when you can change your focus to getting guys who are good right now.

Yeah I just doubt it means anything besides the small sample sizes for each and possibly some unrelated things like better road opponents and things like that.

Noah never really had control problems until last year when the knee issue popped up. Then this year he came back and had fantastic control until the knee thing came back again. Of course, if the knee is always going to bother him then he has to figure out how to play through it.

Tried to save the pen but Davis was really cooked after last inning. Chris Murphy is here to be cooked so just let him do whatever he's gonna do. FWIW, I don't have any interpretations of the home/road splits. Just noise for the most part IMO. Most players are marginally better at home. Yankees were clearly stealing signs with runner on 2B so that might play into things a little bit here.

Guys you can't judge anything after a guy throws a 40 pitch inning. He's totally gassed from here onward today. He looked fine until his defense gave up 2 outs. Was always going to be a tough matchup with so many good lefties anyway so not going to be a lot of margin for error. He's taking it for the team right now.

I'm thinking he must have thought the ball was going through for a single and he decided to get lined up for a cutoff

Feels like replay officials made the same mistake Plesac did and only looked at the players' feet

It's crazy because you can see the ball isn't touching the glove at all and Vargas's foot is on the base. How do you overturn that

I think Rice bobbles the catch a bit and that should make him safe IMO. Not sure how the rulebook handles that though.

Already need to bring a starter to MLB, he's on the 40-man, and I bet Davis is soon coming due for another bit of extra rest. Hagen dead, Tanner dead, Shane dead, Noah maybe dead, Davitt + Schweitzer demoted to bullpen duty. Sandlin is first man up, but we might need two men

This probably seals the deal that we're going to be seeing Jonathan Cannon in the MLB soon

This inning should have been over a long time ago. This number of pitches in an inning is putting Davis's health at risk though so it needs to get over with ASAP

Don't know why someone would want to write Shane Smith off. If the shoulder injury isn't serious, wouldn't surprise me at all if he comes back in 2025 form. The time away might even have helped him get out of whatever bad habits he was in. Of course, I won't say that I'll be totally shocked if he melts down upon return either. That's baseball for you.

Was likely to happen before too long. Timing is interesting though. He hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire for the past several weeks. Since May 21, his wRC+ is almost exactly the league average and the BB/K numbers are not much different than usual. There was a stretch in there when he went 0-fer for 6 games. The past week was good, although not remarkable by his own high standards. Hope to see him get off to a hot start in AA...I'll be watching the K rate with interest.

IDK, it's not that clear one way or another but when I read it, I just assumed it was something they were doing targeted towards guys who were earlier in their development timeline. Not so much that they invited all the cool kids, but not him. I am speculating though.

He's just not ready. Maybe someday he will be ready, but he's not there. Certainly feels like the type of player who might just get things to line up one day and start dominating. But this is not the day and it may never come.

Yeah it's almost a gift that they're letting him play rather than Peters. Shows they are still prioritizing development (which is fine by me)