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OK let's take a lead!

Compared to Giolito he looks like Nolan Ryan, so he's got that going for him.

Hey look a nice fundamental play!

If you're going to play that shallow that better be the type of play you make. especially when you're supposed to be an all glove CF. Just DFA him. He's a AAA player.

JFC hopefully he didn't just shatter his patella.

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Is that really the case? Ugh

And good news we cannot be relegated!

Sweet. Welcome aboard. Glad you didn't become a Yankees fan. As noted that would be like a US fan adopting man u.

his strand rate will normalize (and balloon his ERA) but from the eye test he buckles down with runners on and isn't afraid to challenge hitters with any pitch in any count. I think he'll always be a guy that is at his best when he's "effectively wild", sorta like Contreras that way, but when he's got his good stuff (which is most nights) he's going to get a lot of swing and misses and that will help mitigate the damage from the walks. that said, he's gotta cut his walk rate in about half to be a TOR starter. if he never does he's still a really good 4 IMO. he's got three pitches in his mix now and any talk of "future closer" should be mostly put to bed. at worst he's a decent back end starter. at best he's a guy you pair with kopech for one of the best one two punches in the league.

So IMO there should be 3 actions possible for ratings: 1) Agree 2) Disagree 3) LOL we don't need a "confused" button or a "like" button. Just agree, disagree, and LOL. Having an agree and disagree button will cut down on a lot of unnecessary "yes I agree" or "I disagree" posts. Also, changing the default icons (which are awful imo) should be a priority as well. More Sox/Baseball related icons would be nice. Could just have like a baseball be the "agree" icon, a bat be the "disagree" icon and Hawk laughing could be the LOL icon. The default icons just feel middle school to me. I would also move the "quote" button to the bottom right by the ratings button. Most forums have them next to each other so you can rate and quote/respond without excess mouse movement. I'd also move the "drag files" area and "insert other media" up to the main editor as well. It's just wasting space imo having its own toolbar.

Tilson currently has a .497 OPS in AAA. He missed what, about 15 months completely away from competitive games? He's not the answer and needs at least 300-400 PA in AAA to get his feet under him. I'd just start Trayce 5 nights out of 6 and give Engel the other one for now. Leury is the odd man out at the moment although maybe he can get some IF reps. Trayce is quite a bit better than Engel. Adam Engel has never proven he's even a AAAA player frankly. I think his true talent is below replacement. He's shown nothing that proves otherwise.

I feel like they got clubbed 35-5 or something in one last year. This one was up there though, brutal.

anyways, this team is boring, frustrating, and not really any fun to talk about and I've fallen into that trap of ruining a good sunday afternoon watching a shit team and arguing online. go sox.

It was a strike I was wrong, my apologies. just rewatched it.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

pitchtrax had it not even close bro, so stfu with that nonsense. if you want to use pitch trax to tell me when balls are in the zone I'm going to use it to tell you when they aren't even close.

he's a senile old man and posts here as greg.

that pitch was two inches outside, I don't blame him for taking it. he sure gets rung up on a lot of questionable calls.

not even close to the plate. ffs.

that fastball has a lot of movement at 95-96.

I'm so ready to have a good defensive catcher. wtf.

lopez nice.

Nasty. Don't think we've seen a Sox pitcher work a hitter like that all year.

where did pitch trax have that first breaking ball to Springer? Looked good to me.