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Two excellent defensive plays prevented really game breaking inning there.

But can't afford no offense from that spot either.

Andrus has always been a Top 3 defender.

Have to extend Zavala lol. Shockingly both him and Mercedes fine at big league level this year.

Hasn't had enough time on the basepaths yet.

Would Leury have gotten that contract without the Astros playoff homer? Probably.

Might end up keeping Harrison next year since we can't really trust Hahn to find a real 2B.

A ton off topspin/top hand on that.

Is that a relative of Meatloaf?

Bill Russell died. Amazing career.

That route in RF wasn't even close to getting there. Foul.

Three homers almost...

Barely missed two homers. Seven this series. Traded for Laureano too late lol. Just nine homers in 112 IP for Cease. A's with thirty six homers for July, 4th place. Even Andrus is a power hitter recently.

Why couldn't Jon Adkins pitch like that with similar stats?? Only Sox opposition, not the guys acquired. Also after Judge, Seth Brown and Matt Carpenter Top 5 in AL homers post ASB. Judge already 12 and doubling up everyone.

WTP Pollock always first pitch hunting. Not a good combo with Anderson and Robert doing the same.

"Sox are a really good lineup on paper." Lol.

Anderson blown away by another starter with lousy numbers but off a huge win...his first, over Astros.

Vaughn actually playing where he belongs. Guardians somehow already scored three off McClanahan already. They also face Royals 6 of last 9 games of season. Sox and Twins same pattern final week. Adv Cleve.

They keep saying they don't have the minor league pieces to trade like it's the fault of other teams and not the Hahn Regime.

And Brantley's lack of power isn't as conspicuous this season with the ball not carrying for most of the league other than Judge. Definition of a professional hitter with competitive at bats and veteran leadership. Unfortunately, out of their comfortable budget. They got scared off because of the Melky Cabrera flop. But Brantley has always been a better, more consistent player.

What does Jay Cuda have, too much time on his hands or a quantum computer? Flip that 1-3 around and they're in first place.

Well Hahn hasn't been able to pull off a trade his entire tenure like that... Fwiw we need to buy out the Rays' front office. It's simply incredible they are contending with that starting lineup missing Franco, Ramirez, Margot and Kiermaier. Yandy Diaz is their best hitter right now. The bottom four might be even worse than the numbers for Sox bottom of the lineup this year.

Discussion being the key point. We would need to trade half our farm system for Pablo Lopez. Chisholm is right behind him. And they can simply trade Cooper away and sign him right back…they don't desperately need 1B types on their roster.

Pretty incredible they turned a Top 5 job in MLB into one of the 5-7 worst two years later. No payroll flexibility, overloaded with aging/injured veterans and under-performers, bereft of more than a couple of impact players at the minor league level to supplement the big league roster. Stuck permanently between rebuilding, retooling and running it back out there with no better realistic options.

This feels like that dead zone period for Sox prospects when we were pretty consistently a bottom 5-10 system under Williams (due to so many trades to fill mlb roster holes) and the #6-10 guys in the system got lot more hype and attention than was actually warranted. I remember a Latin American catcher being on the BA Top Ten for 2-3 years even, never made it to the big leagues.