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That's one way to score. If Teel was all the way past third, would have been another run there.

Uh oh 11/48 inherited runners scoring is pretty crazy if he gets out of it now.

First inherited runner to score in two months. 10/45

FRI with the jersey giveaway and Yankees should be a pretty big attendance night...

Robert and Perez decisions will be two big indicators of JR's interest in offseason spending. Can't see them giving Perez that much after missing over half the season. Who knows...

Perez will be 35 years old next year on OD but looks like he could pitch forever...

Montgomery at 850 but still just 233, Tauchman 794 ops Teel 786 ops are next closest.

The dreaded bullpen jinx...

What is this. the 2005 ALCS with the starting pitching right now? Royals look dead in the water.

Mac: Is Colson Montgomery the riskiest player considered to be a first round talent? Keith Law: Him or Benny Montgomery. Benny for his swing, Colson for his age/position. KLaw 8/21 Interestingly, Benny, #8 pick to Rockies in first round hitting .530 in AA right now. Too many Montgomerys lol.

Laureano would probably turn back into a pumpkin if they signed him...as long as they don't bring back Michael A Taylor.

Pulled up lame running to first on a grounder to Witt.

What happened to Robert? Left hamstring soreness...to be?further evaluated.

Dan Evans went to the Dodgers…but he was just Asst GM. Real Midwest kid with Chicago/Iowa roots and ties. Long career across five organizations, but Dombrowski was arguably the best to get away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Evans_(baseball)

Fulmer just never seemed to get back that same explosiveness he had at Vandy. Or maybe a pedestrian 92-94 mph with a deceptive delivery just didn't work with mlb hitters. And/or he seemed to lose his confidence once he started to get hit around and couldn't recapture that pinnacle. Crazy thing is that's he still been pitching quite a few times in the majors in 2024-25...so points for resiliency and not giving up on the game despite all the adversity he experienced.

Ng is running that new professional women's softball league that debuted this year in coordination with MLB. Baseball-adjacent. Like the relationship between the NBA and WNBA.

In the end it doesn't really matter. Ishbia is likely to replace Getz. In fact, he might move on even if he thinks he's an average MLB GM if he still believes there's someone even better out there that can lead his new organization back to the post-season. Personally, I think Getz is closer to 22.5 in a ranking out of 30 MLB GM's, you might think he's actually #15/16, but it's not up to SoxTalk to decide quite obviously. If we broke it down to quartiles or quintiles and polled the entire board, Getz would probably get 80-85% of votes between #13-30 and 10-15% in the #7-12 range. I'd love to hear anyone make the case he's one of the six best GMs in the game today already.

Even with Cease this year, the Orioles wouldn’t even be a .500 team. He already has 10-11 losses and about half that number of wins and nearly a 5 ERA, much like 2023. As of August 2025, Dylan Cease has a 6-11 win-loss record with a 4.71 ERA for the San Diego Padres and has made 26 starts in 2025. His most recent record update, with a 5-10 standing, was reported around August 21st after a win against Boston. Dylan Cease's 2025 Season Wins-Losses: 6-11 Team: San Diego Padres (SD) Starts: 26 ERA: 4.71 Strikeouts: 178 (6th) He doesn’t miss starts, walks a lot, strikes out a lot, pitches 5-6 innings pretty reliably and simply can’t beat the Dodgers since last post-season. 14-12 in games started by Cease overall. But the games SD lost…9, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 3, 4, 6, 2, 3…well, except for three games, he kept them relatively close but the offense was Bottom 6-7 in the majors until the trade deadline and they took off again. 3.75 earned runs per game in those games they lost sounds closer to a 2/3 starter that someone who will be a Top 7-8 free agent on this year’s market. 8/26 starts didn’t even go 5 innings. 7 more outings either 5, 5.33 or 5.66. So 11/26 starts of six innings or more. That’s just not good enough to be considered an “elite” starting pitcher.

If everyone looked at the glass as being half full instead of half empty and refused to be realistic or objective…that would be a really dull world. It’s like the two sides of love and hate. They can’t exist without the opposite emotions to fully appreciate the high points in life.

Last year their Pythagorean was 48-114…they somehow managed to play even seven games worse than expectations with the following season’s Cy Young winner under Grifol. In fact, to the worst record in history. This year, statistically, they should be 58-73. Instead, they are a full ten games worse at 48-83. They should be finishing the year at 72-90 instead of struggling for barely 60 wins. Average out the two Pythagoreans over 2024-25 and they’re 60-102…which very well might be where they end up this season. Differentials of 8 and 10 wins to the negative/positive over two consecutive seasons is almost unheard of.

Labeling Devers as a “malcontent” who earns too much money at his age to be nothing more than a designated hitter, Heyman believes the move was necessary for the Red Sox’s chances of making it to the postseason this year and for the long-term health of the organization moving forward. “From the Red Sox standpoint, it was a godsend. Let’s be honest about it. I mean, I know Devers was doing well, but they didn’t have a ton of teams in on him. This was a DH for them,” said Heyman. Conspiracy theory quickly debunked… Brendan Dargan “They already spent more than half of it on two soccer players for the Liverpool team Henry owns. Literally two days after they traded Devers they signed one guy for over 100 million and another got like 30 million…” Rick Collins “Being spent in Liverpool. Maybe NESN will start broadcasting them on all the nights that NESN doesn't carry the Red Sox games ( 2 out of 3 this weekend alone).”

As long as they make the playoffs, season has to be considered a overall success after the last three years or so. If not, it will be expressing disappointment over the lack of a big move at the deadline and likely losing both Devers/Bregman in the span of six months.

Alex Call has longest Dodgers’ homer of the season… https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/mlb-rumors-dodgers-beat-yankees-163804674.html

His TB pedigree was second to only Andrew Friedman, and he didn’t really get a fair shake…a lot of it was Fenway Sports Group acting they were a mid-market team like St. Louis or Seattle all of a sudden. Also Getz 100% on board with Grifol due to time in KC together. Brought in Gene Watson as well as their contracts guy as well to replace Hahn/Haber in that area of expertise.

100% JR decision to save money or mitigate risk. He just makes his own GM look unreliable or untrustworthy…in the end. No way this is Getz’s decision to make alone.