JUSTgottaBELIEVE

It’s situations like that where the only guys I want hitting are Abreu or Madrigal.

Tigers just took the lead in the 7th. Hopefully they can hold the lead.

Hopefully the Tigers can steal one in Minny. If they do, the Sox still control their own destiny heading into the weekend Cubs series even if they get swept in Cleveland.

Our public grade school is back in hybrid model as of last week. Two groups of kids, group A attends in-person Monday and Tuesday while group B attends in-person Thursday and Friday. Going well so far. My sister works for an adjacent grade school and I guess they are finally preparing for hybrid as well. Apparently the parents were quite irate at the last school board meeting and made it quite clear that they were displeased with all remote.

That early season Twitter post from pnoles about Sox recent lack of success with free agent hitters sure appears to be a real thing.

Thought he was on the 40 man. Guess he’s not

Not that it is going to happen but if Vaughn gets promoted in the playoffs does that start service time? No, right?

I was previously told by multiple posters on this site whenever the question of framing came up that baseball savant was the most accurate. Is that no longer the case???

Only because he’s caught more pitches. On a rate basis, McCann is better this season.

I guess I’m not the only dummy that prefers McCann this season

Based on what metric this season? And why is Edwin playing over McCann? That’s the biggest question. Despite the occasional home run, not a fan of DHing a guy with an OPS of sub 700.

And yet Jimmy has been the better framer this season.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PhilElsonPxP/status/1306250145579831299 SSS tho amirite?

No

You were lied to

Thought McCann couldn’t hit righties? @southsider2k5

Actually, that’s one of the reasons why I like a sac bunt here

Bunt please

Why is it so difficult to find a productive DH? And why is McCann not playing more?

Thankfully Buxton still isn’t much of a hitter and came up at the right time

Smoak had one good season, outside of that he’s sucked. It’s really that simple. I don’t care what his fWAR was the previous three seasons.

@Balta1701 A classic case where someone overvalues fWAR when comparing players. I remember this debate well and I couldn’t believe a Sox fan would argue Justin Smoak was comparable to Jose Abreu. How’s that working out?

And thank God he did!

This is going to be very close. Season is 75% complete and the Sox are currently on pace for 331 runs but the upcoming schedule is really tough.

Exactly. Not sure why everyone got excited a couple weeks ago when there were reports of Vaughn taking reps in RF. Was never going to happen this season barring a slew of injuries.