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Especially with games played. Truly, I probably am just whelmed by his offense - I expected a lot and he's providing a lot. But I really can't believe this dude looks as fine as any left fielder we've had for a decade or so. All you heard about him was "he only looks athletic when he swings", but he looks fine...slow, but there are lots of slow outfielders. I expected his arm to be weak but was corrected, it must be more they are just training him to get it in first as priority until he learns more of the position. Anyway A+ Andrew, good good good.

K hint not taken just gonna re-write history and hide the whole convo like I'm @ron883

oh I see this thread had more activity. Seems like we have gone full circle and learned our lessons please just discuss how Giolito is less aware of his performance than us.

I was listening to a tidbit of sports radio and benetti was on. He said he was texting with Katz this morning and Giolito had made some tweaks and felt like his slider was back on track. He didn't mention if this thread was the catalyst.

I have found it incredibly annoying how Kelenic coming up has been framed by baseball media as a new york story. Like, I get it, that's a bad trade for them, but that should be the side story here.

The only thing I wonder about is if college players are more expensive this year with juniors still having 2 years of eligibility in their pocket, vs high schoolers who would be looking at getting paid vs going to cash-strapped college baseball programs crowded with extra year of eligibility players. Could be a weird year of high school and college prices converging.

One difference to me though is mendick had really great performance and was showing up in things like Carson Cistulli's fringe five, and he always hung in there and improved when jumping levels. Romy was decent offensively in college, decent in Arizona, bad in Kanny - disappears - Amazing in AA.

Giolito, who has been very transparent on how much work he has learned to do to keep himself in sync, should really just click his "fix" button to correct the motion to get a 6 foot 6 guy to throw baseballs 95 mph accurately. Why doesn't he realize that?

I don't doubt it! It's more just funny to me because it seems like a collection of those college hitters that would crush great falls then be awful in full season ball and you'd never hear from them again. Then baseball disappears and they pop-up in AA better than they ever were in college or minor league ball. I'm rooting like hell for them, sox have been turning later round guys like this into real depth so not trying to crap on them at all. Just completely unexpected to me and the way I've followed the minors.

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And we get Kopech starting tomorrow.

The average age of Birmingham position players is probably like 26 though so maybe it’s that leading to greater than expected success. but Craig Dedelows power so far ?

That said, the offense out of Birmingham is crazy. That is like a whose who of college senior picks that I forgot about years ago all crushing it. Of course Jirschele puts together a competitive team out of the worst roster.

Holy crap Kanny lost lol

2017 was a pretty terrible draft, and Sox May very well have landed two mlb hitters out of it.

Here for the Vaughn love but I feel like we are also basically taking Yerm for granted. That 9th inning run was huge.

What an awesome day

No worries, vaughn's gonna make this 5-2.

HELL yes

It would be interesting if he uses Hendricks in the 8th for this high leverage situation then gives it to bummer for the 9th

Atta boy

I'm sure the twins is worse tbh.

that's why we paid him.

I'm going to claim victory for friendship regardless of what happens based on a 7 pitch at bat with 5 fouls.

Why would I pay for that when I can just watch this and jump through a wall