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Can't believe that dude spent 30 million of his own money to finish with less than 10% in a primary lol.

Basabe was 2-4 with a GW (in my book) double last night, and a walk. Almost up to .260 in Birmingham now.

Pitchers are what make baseball so fun/weird though. The Giorgio that succeeds will look very different than the one we acquired, and I mean unrecognizable from what was drafted.

Madrigal 2-4 with a BB, Rutherford 3-5 with 2 2Bs.

It’s not like it hasn’t happened to him before.

Listen, Minaya isn’t my fav but every manager looks trash with crap bullpens. We could have had Avilan there or Hamilton, instead we have a bad, old single a pitcher and Burr up. Burr could be good but it’s the 8th.

It seems like this is what happens when you purposely hold one hand behind your back. Hope this is last year of this

Love how versatile Fry is.

So, I do hope sox re-evaluate offseason plans for these guys. A lot of our pitchers were clicking at end of last season only to return completely out of sync.

Right, and 37 wins above replacement is a borderline playoff team.

For instance, I just looked up this article that went around in the offseason talking about how good of a team you could put together with remaining free agents in february. That team was projected for 37 wins, by my count its only projected to hit 21. It's crazy the sox basically built a world series team out of over 30 talent, now it just seems destined to fail. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/could-a-team-of-remaining-free-agents-compete-in-2018/ Sorry it was here.

This is true but unfortunately hasn't proven to be unwarranted either. It has even felt like the over 30 pitchers have been better than the bats.

What makes me nervous is Hahn's "plug some holes" 1-2 year guys have been absolute failures during his entire tenure. Outside of bullpen, hard to think of any that have been productive. If he's going back to that well he better hit and hit fast if we're to expect him to be the right GM for the job in getting them to a championship.

Wish I could have seen this one. Looked fun.

Madrigal was 2-3 with a BB and 2 SBs

Phew, maybe it was just due to blowout then

The pitcher had just walked in a bases loaded run on a WP, too, maybe he wanted pitcher to show him he could.

Luis Gonzalez was PH for ?

Yeah this was confirmed on Twitter. Jammed thumb or something.

Palka walked which is good, but was hoping to use this great phrase: More like Smolka

Down on the farm, the elusive Gavin Sheets HR.

We got lucky there.

That was an amazing jump from Engel there.

He’s gotta learn how to pitch with his weaker end of game stuff. We’re up 4 runs, tigers lineup is bad. Let him try some different sequences and gain experience.

YES!!!!!!