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mune tore the cover off that ball.

wow, lucky twice on one play.

that's the best stuff he's had in at least a month.

she's the bog standard sideline reporter, male, female, alien.

schultz looks ridiculous, of course, just when I was writing him off for now, what a game baseball is.

Not bad.

Mariners lose 3/4 to Texas. That's good for us as it might push the Mariners into stand pat or sell mode even. If nothing else it puts them 3 below .500 and helps us in the WC race for now.

Finally can break this one out.

Castillo could help us but that contract is bad. Not sure we'd even need to send Hicks.

Hays has a career 123 wRC+ against LHP. That's why the Sox paid him what they did. I actually can see the vision Getz had and why he gave him 6 million: we need corner OF that can hit LHP. Someone will want him at the deadline, he's clearly an above replacement level strong side of a platoon.

Quite the lineup.

Forgot to add it in my roundup of the stats this morning, but for the first time FGs basically think's it's a coin flip between us and Tribe to win division, 30% odds for us, 32% for them. Overall playoff odds are 45% for us, 48% for them, closest it has been all season although Sox did have slightly better odds (46%) back on June 29th. We've basically been around 40-48% the last 6 weeks. Be nice to go on a run and get that up over 60%.

Problem with that is Noah has no platoon advantage against LHP. Hate to agree with Ron but I think Adams or Sandlin gives us a better chance to win right now. Adams' velocity reports are good right? IMO it would be hard to be worse than Noah, although you never know.

I see now this is a 4 game series. Man, we need a split. The Yankees seem built to hammer LHP. I am concerned. Maybe Kay will somehow put one of his once a month 6 inning 2 run starts together despite traffic most innings. One thing about Kay is he can get whiffs when needed. Helps limit the damage with RISP.

think you guys are saying the same thing. he just needs to showcase he's healthy. someone will take a flier on him as a trade piece if so. Sox should be willing to throw in his remaining pro rated salary.

I'm not sure he's going to be a stud but they clearly need to work on his delivery. If it's giving him chronic knee pain at 29th percentile extension, at his size, something needs to change. I don't think he's going to be a stud; I don't see the TOR talent, but certainly 3rd or 4th starter. One big problem for him is that (granted small sample size) lefties having a .358 wOBA against him. He gets no platoon advantage, as a LHP that's not great, Bob. I'd rather he go down and work on things in AAA. I think Sandlin gives us more of a chance to win now. Or, if they think someone else can of the candidates, I'd rather them come up.

8th in fWAR for position players at 14.5. 10th in wRC+ and 7th in xWOBA. So maybe a little bad BABIP luck last month. Defense has slumped the last month, back to -12.5 runs below average. Vargas and Colson the main culprits there. 17th in fWAR for pitching. We have moved up slightly in FIP, at 18th as well. I don't really rate xFIP anymore but we are 21st if you think it filters out some batted ball luck. So yea, a .530 team feels fair. We need to get Colson playing like an All Star again and get Mune heated up to make a push for 88 wins.

Thanks, that makes sense. I'd def do a shrimp roll. On a related note, salmon skin really is the bacon of the sea. Surprisingly good as a roll.

TBH, ontologically I've never agreed with Trade Winds as a sub forum of Pale Hose Talk.

Opened forum on the shitter this morning "trade haul reflections" is first thing I see and think oh boy we made a bunch of big deals! Nope.

What exactly is in the rolls they are selling of his sushi? We talking like standard spicy tuna? They look pretty good. I am a big fan of pretty much all Japanese food other than natto and sea urchin. I f*** with a lot of fermented s%*# and seafood but those are too much respectively.

Or he stinks and Sox don't want him to keep getting battered around. Probably a bit of both. Maybe he makes one more start and is replaced however and whoever at MLB level. He can go work on some things in Charlotte the last month of the year and work towards next season without so much pressure.

Gonzo rough day, 0-4. One for his last nine in Pitt, but it did leave the yard. Vaughn last 30 days: 222/288/370. Clock might have hit midnight there.

He did OK for what was asked of him. Nice to have some depth.

Sox lead AL in RS at 501. Incredible.