JUSTgottaBELIEVE

It will. LONG season

But I thought he died on Sunday? You would think so reading this board the last two days.

There were posts making definite statements like the Sox have no one nearly as good as Buxton back in April. It was laughable…

I’m laughing because the board had him as the lock for AL MVP and a top 3 player in MLB a month ago…

Nice to have the panther back

He’s been fine this year. He doesn’t need to be an ace, just a respectable #5 will suffice.

What does luck have to do with Cueto? If the #5 is sporting a 4 ERA by year end I’d gladly take that with their top 4.

Which simply means ~70% remains. Long way to go.

Lynn should be back next week and with Keuchel now out of the picture the starting rotation is going to keep this team in games regardless of the offense.

I remember back in April when 90% of this site was fawning over the godly Byron Buxton and many saying the Sox didn’t have a single player on the roster close to his talent level. Flash forward a month and Buxton is hitting .203 with the same fWAR as Robert lol. Baseball is a LONG season and there’s still a ton of ball left to play. Things can look very different three months from now than they look today.

Sometimes it just clicks, sometimes it doesn’t. Too early to write them off. The talent is there.

Yea because the Twins are average at best and the rest of the division still sucks. It’s still the Sox division to lose imo. Just get in and anything can happen in October, especially if you have one of the best starting rotations in baseball when healthy.

Javy Baez is hitting .195 and no one trusts a player coming out of Coors especially one getting $140M. No team can prepare for their star SS getting hurt or their core players like Grandal, Abreu, Eloy, Robert, Moncada, etc. being hurt and/or ineffective. It is what it is. This team goes as those guys go. It’s certainly not too late to mount a divisional comeback considering the division is god awful and the Sox have the starting rotation to consistently keep them in games.

It’s incredible how weak that draft class was. Hard to blame them too much for the pick. I’m much more upset they drafted Walker over Thomas in the second round considering Allen Thomas was on the coaching staff at the time.

Continues to be a night and day difference for Sox pitchers when Reese catches instead of Grandal. Who cares if he can’t hit if the staff has a 2 ERA when he catches. Not like Grandal is hitting anyways.

Last season when he hit his dead arm period it wasn’t until July and he never recovered the rest of the season…

Dead arm and we’re only in May? That doesn’t bode well for him over the next 4 months…So much for him having built up a lot more innings and stamina than Kopech prior to this season..

10 baserunners allowed, 3 runs, and only 2 strikeouts in 5.1 innings for Rodon tonight against the Reds. It’s not even Memorial Day and he’s fading already? https://mobile.twitter.com/Tomapapa/status/1530379928121683968

Nah. I was really impressed with Martin earlier this month. I’d like to see what that kid can do in the rotation next season.

I don’t know man. Cueto giving me those old man Bartolo vibes. Let’s not forget, Bartolo was an all star at age 40 and 43.

All I know is there are going to be a few posters in meltdown mode if Cueto pitches 100+ innings with a lower ERA than Rodon this season. If that happens, they’ll probably want the Sox to extend him the qualifying offer this winter.

Lynn < Burnes Giolito > Woodruff Cease > Peralta Kopech > Lauer Cueto < Houser I’d give the Sox a slight edge over the Brew Crew

How could Lauer be the Sox best starter when Kopech would be the Brewers’ best starter?

…when healthy… I’ll take Lynn/Giolito/Kopech/Cease/Cueto over any other starting 5 in MLB this season. Who’s better?

I’m going to assume he makes 30 starts if healthy. He’s at 8 starts and 42 innings to date so he’s averaging just over 5 innings per start and this was with a very slow ramp up following a shortened spring, Covid, etc. so very conservatively let’s say he’s got another 22 starts times 5 innings per start. That’s another 110 innings or 152 innings in total. I think 120 innings is very light if he’s healthy.