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Good jinx. Keep it going.

HR since 2022: Danny Mendick, 2. Tim Anderson, 1.

That's an error. And he was covering 1st Stone, he just threw it to 2nd for some reason.

On a good Sox team I'd probably like De Bong. He swings hard in case he hits it.

effectively wild, but bordering on just wild.

Yup. He has a hitch in his swing now that wasn't there a few years ago. I think he tried to gear up for more power and it's just screwed up everything.

That was something. 92mph fastballs, catcher wanted it up, it's right in almost every modern hitters' wheelhouse instead, down the middle at the upper shin and somehow he manages to pop it up? How do you even get that swing path as a MLB player? That's like a little league swing result.

If Gavin is really going to be taking late count outside fastballs into LF we might have a true talent jump.

Pham is in great shape. I can respect that.

Even when this team does something well the coaches try and f*** it up.

He's out.

hanging slider popped up. Come the f*** on.

Is that his 4th hit of the year?

lol, he missed that pitch by two feet.

I hope he asks him how it feels to kill someone.

Why is this ass clown Tony Stewart in the booth? f*** this franchise.

Swinging a dead bat. Jesus, I thought that was off the wall off the bat.

And get this: the race takes place in Paul's guest bathroom. He's got the room Stone Pony.

Having been in many PT rooms both as patient and observer, I can tell you yes, this is a lot of the times what happens. Doctors and therapists can do diagnostic tests and run scans, but only the athlete knows what they are feeling and when they are feeling 100%. There's a lot to rip on with the Sox. Not sure Luis Robert being injury prone (or Moncada and Eloy) is really on the training staff. At a certain point it's down to bad luck, the individual's ability to avoid injury, and not selecting injury prone players in the first place. Easier said than done.

As we noted in the other thread in Sox Drawer, he had no choice, well, he could have, but he would have thrown away 35 million or so by voiding his contract.

TA has a 15.9% FB rate. That has to be one of the lowest in the league. He's hit 41 GBs and 10 FBs. Amazing.

With all honesty, the fact you're employed by the Sox and make this post is disheartening as f***. It's like you took the chance to jump on a simple category mistake by the metric company and turn it into some big (long settled debate) on the validity and utility of metrics in baseball. It is utterly unsurprising that 1) the Sox stink as bad as they do and 2) they employ people that would go "metrics!" in response to a simple error in a tiny corner of the sabemetric universe as a "gotcha".

You are correct he has his 5 year rights to refuse the demotion, but then he would forfeit his contract and become a free agent. Nobody is going to give him a single penny, let alone the 35 or so million he is still owed in Houston.

Yea Chicago has been relatively healthy. The Ball bros are just made of glass and Zach had an injury history before even getting to Chicago. 90% I'd think would refer to basically an all out sprint not in a game. So on a treadmill or under supervision on the field. 80% I'd think would basically refer to doing hard on field workouts a tick below all out. It sounds like he's pretty healthy imo and probably just tweaked the areas of the muscle around the previous injury. Yoan's sounds much worse, like Robert's last year with more of the muscle coming off the bone.

I'd expect he'll be on a rehab assignment within three weeks and then if everything goes fine back in Chicago by first week of June or so. I figured this was closer to a 6 week thing than 10 so splitting the difference at 8 with early June.