Rowand44

So great to see the offense have a break out game, needed that badly. Obviously Eloy is a lineup changer when he’s right and he looks about right. And how freakin good is Andrew Vaughn?! Just can’t say enough about that kid.

AV is absurd

Ya the production value has been real bad so far.

WHY ARE WE STARTING VAUGHN AGAINST RIGHTIES

Dude has been killing righties for almost 2 months now. Not sure if he kicked your dog or your mad he has a bigger shoe size than you but your bias against Vaughn is super strange.

By the way I’m not campaigning against bringing Los back. I’d LOVE to have him back, it’s just a very tricky situation given his past and what he is this season.

I have 0 idea where you even start in a contract negotiation with Rodon. So many variables there.

Crappy opponent or not it’s nice to see a semblance of what this team is supposed to be. Great start from Los, dominant bullpen and Jose and Yoan bringing the bats. Good stuff.

Eloy’s got a double in his last 2 games. He’s certainly not all the way there yet but he’s starting to get his timing back. I’m not messing with him at all, throw him out there everyday and keep him batting cleanup, he’ll be all the way back in no time.

In general I agree but I’m ok with sitting AV out this one. Goodwin has been mashing righties and is coming off the heroics yesterday. With Azolay and Goodwin’s splits, Brian should be out there. And I don’t think giving Eloy a random day off here is going to help him get his timing back while it’s not going to hurt AV right now. Leury in there instead of Engel I really don’t get though.

I get Azolay sucks sucks against lefties but Leury sucks as a lefty. I understand load management and what not but it’s not like this would have been 20 games in a row for Engel, it’d be 3. Not the biggest deal in the world but at some point we have to move Engel passed 2 in a row is too many.

We do and that’s the beauty of it being early August and not late September.

Also, it’s still a stupid small sample size but Engel has been better against rhp in 2020 and 2021. I agree that I wouldn’t have moved Cesar down at the moment with the way he’s been hitting but I’m not shying away from it being Engel against a rhp either.

Got 2 months still until the playoffs. Yes, if our offense is playing like this in October we’re not going anywhere but we have plenty of time before that’s an issue.

Ya, literally every metric will show how much he has improved. Despite his era, he was bad last year, this year he’s good. That simple.

I’ve been talking up Seby’s defense the last few days but hasn’t been his best day so far today.

Who is Collins pinch hitting for when everyone is healthy? And I don’t think we’re ever starting Collins over Grandal based on a right handed pitcher starting. For a full game Seby’s glove behind the plate is more valuable than Collins bat and I don’t see where Collins bat is even used off the bench when Robert and Eloy are back.

He’s 8 billion times better behind the plate than Collins. All Collins brings to the table is he’s ok against rhp.

I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you as I have no idea what the Sox opinion on both guys is at the moment. I personally just don’t see the point of keeping Collins over Seby.

Yes. Especially with Goodwin destroying righties this year. I think we’re all happy with Sheets first impression here but he’s the logical one to go down here. Also, is there any reason to keep Collins over Seby? Is it cause he hits right handers ok? I just don’t get that at this point.

Cleveland just handed that game to us and I’ll absolutely take it. Also, I think Rick fired up Liam in the best way possible. That dude was jacked up tonight lol.

Nick was polarizing til the end here. Wish him nothing but the best and think he’ll be a good(not great) player for a long time in this league.

And we got Cesar for next year too if we want so no it didn’t open another hole, at least not until 2023.

I'm a fan of Madrigal and I think Codi eventually in the next year or two goes back to what he was last year but I'm happy we're going for it this year. Trading Nick and Codi doesn't kill anything going forward and acquiring Kimbrel really helps with our chances this season. I'm all for it.

I like Burger but I don’t think he has as much value as some people seem to believe he does.