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Managed to end the big inning possibility. Romy actually got the job done. Shocking.

10-Day Il 4 days agoLopez (appendicitis) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday Sounds familiar...

Is it better to provide 4-5 really strong seasons and a WS or year after year of nagging injuries? Comparing a debilitating back surgery requiring life altering spinal fusion surgery versus never hitting your peak while collecting $24-25 million per year? The predictable decline over the last two+ seasons of Grandal's constant injuries? Jimenez constantly on the IL? Joe Crede will always to be remembered fondly and always have it everything he had for the good of the team. He more often that not played on winning teams as well. Ultimately, the core members of the rebuild will continue to be associated with unfufilled promise and questions about their willingness to put team over self. And at least Crede (and Uribe) could drive the runner in from third base and less than two outs on a consistent basis. These last two years of Sox teams are almost allergic to driving in RISP.

After that error last night, Scott Merkin is really really trying to annoy Sox fans. His head seems to be more off than on the field right now... and this basically just reinforces that perception. Kevin Durant he is not... at least has a LONG ways to go Good thing that TA didn't hear the Guardians' radio guys asserting that TA "really isn't a very good defensive shortstop" last night. TA on fashion/music industry/business ideas “The idea starts as like a business,” Anderson told me. “If I’m going to do something, I’m going to go all in and try to make it the biggest. It has always been a business plan. “It makes sense having the angles and thought process behind it and not just doing it. Doing it for a reason and having your target. How are you going to go about it? All the stuff has been talked about vs. jumping out and doing it. The things I do kind of make sense. They are pretty cool.” We did get a chance to discuss two of Anderson’s passions: fashion and music. Good fashion for me is when my Superbad McLovin fake ID graphic tee matches my jeans, but for Anderson, that real fashion connection started well before he was able to use his Major League earnings to improve his selections. “I put them on in high school,” Anderson said. “I’m just not getting dressed now. It’s getting better with the position I am in. I’m able to get more name-brand stuff. It’s really about matching. But you want to look good. “Your clothes are a big image of yourself and how people see you and how people view you. If you are looking nice, then people will respect you because you care about yourself. You represent yourself in the right way. You’re looking good, smelling good. That plays a huge role into image.” Anderson has his own brand, TA7, but hasn’t dropped any merchandise. He’s changing the angles because he wants to make it more fashionable for fans to feel like him when wearing something he created and not just a logo on shirts. As for music, some of Anderson’s inner circle already are making it. “I got a little brother that raps so it’s kind of already starting and rolling,” Anderson said. “Nothing has been stamped and labeled but it’s a lot of cool ideas and a lot of things I’m doing behind the scenes I don’t share but I just work on. “If they get big, then the world will see. If not, then just having fun. It’s a hobby but it’s also allowing people, helping people to better their chances to get in a better position for life. Just an opportunity. Scott Merkin MLB.com

$15-18 million doesn't exactly sound like an affordable rental when you're four years removed from his last really good season offensively...that was partially built upon beating up the worst AL Central pitching. That advantage for Yoan no longer exists.

Probably a little too early to declare Machado finished... unless you just throw out his entire career, especially 2022, up until now. Based only on 2023, sure.

This is exactly the opposite of how TB operates. Walls is a superior fielder, surprisingly pesky hitter and young/cheap. They'd want nothing to do with a one year rental... certainly not for Walls.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dane-dunning-6-strong-innings-rangers-beat-braves

The main point is they need a 3B for the next five years…it’s obviously not going to be Yoan Moncada. Any trade value is going to be mostly about simply offloading as much of his future salary as possible.

Chris The Dragon Devenski back in the majors with the Angels.

You realize the acquiring team would have to pay him at least $37.5 million guaranteed for July 1st 2023 through the end of next season (including $5 million buyout or $25 million guaranteed in 2025). 2024 contract already guaranteed at $24 million!!! Would be $56.5 million for 2.5 seasons at max contract.

Like the White Sox, held a team meeting after struggling (for wins and answers/solutions) with KC: What, exactly, does that look like? To a man, the Padres are adamant their work and game preparation are there. I’ve seen nothing to believe that’s not true. If anything, they’re searching too hard for those answers. It seems likely that all of this was discussed among the players in the home clubhouse on Wednesday afternoon. I thought Joe Musgrove gave an insightful answer on that front. The expectations around this Padres team were perhaps as high as they’ve ever been. But those expectations -- externally, at least -- were a bit too big-picture. Baseball cannot be played with the big-picture in mind. Baseball -- and I’m going to use a cliché that I can’t stand, but it’s the only way to describe it -- must be played one game at a time. “The expectations for the team, I think, have been in the wrong place, if that makes any sense,” Musgrove said. “The expectations need to be on the quality of work. The expectation of what you’re bringing to the team every day, making sure that you’re showing up and doing all these things right to be your best on the field. “The expectation shouldn’t be that we’re going to kick everyone’s [butt] every night, that we’re going to win 115 games. The expectation is for us to show up, do the work that we need to do, and then let it all translate out on the field.” AJ Casavell, MLB.com

Extraordinarily fortunate with starting pitchers. Perhaps Katz should receive some credit for that at least?

Odds of Moncada playing 117 more lol?

Well, exceept Ventura for 5 1/2 months in 2012...Ozzie was very good at beginning of his managerial career as well.

You do when you have to develop your young players for the next rebuild AND demonstrate his versatility to acquiring teams in order to boost his tepid trade value.

The way he was hitting this year it can't do much to hurt them because numbers with RISP have been historically awful. Beyond horrific. Two of least winning franchises in MLB history. Ozzie Smith Gwynn Trevor Hoffman basically it for stars going back to early 80s.

Alberto at least hitting well recently. Zavala has been merely another Colas Romy Sosa Andrus at the bottom...rally killer.

Bibee and Logan D. Allen, two rookies, keeping CLE in the Central race... and another journeyman Battenfield from Houston/TB at least eating innings while they wait for reinforcements. Who would those two minor league starters be for the Sox AFTER the now injured Martin? Scholtens and ?????

Reylo should be traded...FA at the end of the year anyway and they will never offer a QO in a million years. Zavala magic from 2022 gone. All the way down to .156. CLE now 7-20 when scoring three runs or less.

14/18 SV SO Equals last year's BS numbers in less than 1/3rd the season. Ks down. Gallagher only hit today by a Guardians catcher for the entire month of May. Gallagher had been something like 0 for 30+ something at bats. Former Royal lol.

Not unlike 2012... just trailing CLE rather than ahead of Detroit for almost the entire summer.

Kyle??? Liam Hendriks must be the most frequently misspelled name on the team, haha. Like Luis Robert(s).

Last Crochet MLB pitch Oct 2021...

Trying to emulate TA launch angle?