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I really do like Bauer but I think this board has blinders on if they think Bauer won’t be frustrating. Hes a fascinating person. He has very low trust and it makes sense when you basically re write the book on what’s possible to develop as a pitcher, and prove the “experts” wrong. But he doesn’t have friendly disagreements. He’s like the friend who responds to any mild criticism with “well your parents didn’t love you”.

Watching him, surprised righties had success off him in college. Long left handers man, it feels like I’d think every fastball would saw me off

He had a short track record as a starter, so there are concerns about his ability to start due to motion, lack of resume. Which is fair, if sox had drafted a guy to be a bullpen pitcher at 11 you wouldn’t be happy. But his talent is undeniable and I’m happy they took a shot. Still has a long way to go and learn, but give him the ball for an inning and he’s ready now.

Maybe not but sixto sure looks like he can.

I can see why they drafted him.

I gotta say it’s been kinda nice just knowing what channel it’s on every day

No worries this may be the least important game of the season

I wouldn’t mind Odorizzi this year

I'd like to win the division because I hate the twins.

Not sure where the last night winner was but hey. Uh, congrats Reds

So the interesting thing will be to see how Crochet performs against Righties, but I'm pretty confident he can get out MLB lefties now. He had good practice with Vaughn down there though.

I can't remember did Crochet even pitch this year at Tennessee?

yes this is it. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats9.shtml

John Olerud?

Noice. It will be so awesome to have Bummer back.

This is so wild, a guy coming up who we've never got to follow at all in the minors.

Right, but not just back, hoping he is as good as he's been.

Aw damn Marshall has been awesome. Hope he comes back the same.

I'm a Burrow-Believer but after thinking Darnold and Mayfield were going to be good based off their first few starts, as well as how all over the place recent QB drafts have been, I'm kinda out on knowing who will be good. After Jackson, Mahomes I think I'd want a guy with a lot of starts/throws in college, but then like Kyler Murray looks really good still. So who knows.

I obviously knew because his first few weeks in W-S were so insane, but I did have a quick reaction of forgetting that both Cease and Eloy were still only in A+ ball when acquired.

He's been tremendous. Next year, I worry a bit. There was a fegan article on all the work he has to do to keep his shoulder up for the workload. Maybe that's just normal for any pitcher, but he'll be 32(?) next year. Really hope Bummer comes back as Bummer because you'd like that insurance if we re-sign Colome and he isn't the same.

FWIW this wasn’t intended as a gotcha bump. Though, there are some pretty bad posts on Abreu in here. Was more shocked that it was just 1 month ago we had this horrible DH, fell to one game under, then we ended up first team to clinch playoffs and are sitting with best record in AL for now. What they did starting with the 4 hr game was incredible

Really does. Crazy though, sox only lost like 6 times after this right? Just like a month of winning every day

I agree, especially Keuchel, though it’s kind of amazing how much success this team has had last two weeks on the Cease / Dunning / ReyLo / Stiever days

Awesome