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obviously Helmet=Guardian

Where's Reese McGuire now besides the parking lots somewhere? Guardians at least chose GG defense with Hedges the last 3-4 years, pick one or the other, offense/defense. Not neither.

She's basically lecturing Schriff lol. there was Hawk Harrelson homerism and then there's this chippy Katie Couric type vibe,can barely stand to listen

It's much less polished than McKnight. With all the charities side stories even choppier. Lots of NCAA softball players with big names are going to start following the Jessica Mendoza path too IMO. Days of getting by mostly on appearance are dead...see Sarah Kustok's skills across multiple sports as a comparison.

Burke very fortunate the Big 3 are all out. Bazzana looking like Beckham/Viciedo vs. letter high velo.

Bring back the ghost of Martin Maldonado...

Watson 0/12 to 2/14=.143

Blame Getz, errrrr Boyer/JR. This broadcast without Stone is quite the hot mess...feels like Spring Training after all the media has departed.

Messick has been a Top Ten AL starter this season, hard to expect very much out of a career journeyman

Whole different animal there...we shall see how it goes vs. McKnight's pretty vanilla but informed/enthusiastic too eager to please "Labrador puppy" approach. And no way Stone doesn't miss more games than Benetti this year, probably not even close.

Eckstein and Madrigal are also available...

Meidroth is right in between Sox peak Madrigal and MVP vote receiving Dustin Pedroia... (well three weeks ago he was) That said, players with low 700s or high 600s ops are often thought to be replaceable unless they play GG level defense...especially at the four middle of the diamond positions.

Isn't it then on Chris Getz to have more than just 2-3 reliable members of the bullpen? Right now, one can't count on anyone but Newcomb and maybe Hudson. Injuries, right? Did anyone actually believe Hicks could get sorted out or that Dominguez's career wasn't trending downwards due to overuse and now being miscast in the closer's role that Toronto and Philly largely shielded him from?

"After using Sean Newcomb for three innings on 42 pitches on Saturday, the Sox manager has used his remaining three proven leverage relievers to cover three leverage innings each of the past two games, and seen a lead spurned each time. Unless Venable is forgetting to press the "Make a Good Outcome Happen" button on his dugout tablet, the thin volume of leverage relief options seems like the bigger issue than their ordering." soxmachine Fegan

Formerly ticketed to be a perennial All-Star shortstop, he’s settled in at the hot corner, and if Machado can stay healthy going forward, some believe he has a chance to be a top five third baseman of all time.

Manny Machado? Although you also mean playing second and first and not just 3B? (Ofc Colson has never played second either) WestEddy simply defends/parrots whatever Getz and Venable do and say. Many seem to believe Venable doesn’t make those decisions in terms of the lineup and positioning…so it’s very hard to separate them in these theoretical arguments. “Acuna and Colson are considered within the organization to be equals defensively”? Okay…or it’s just Getz just trying too hard to justify Acuna’s role on the team? “Getz/JR are forcing Venable to play Benintendi”…which has actually worked out, sort of “Dominguez is our closer” (because Getz anointed and paid him as one?) Well, he is until Taylor or Hudson or god forbid Hicks replace him. Probably as soon as tonight’s game.

So when are they meaningful and when are they irrelevant? Keith Law said he could be an All Star based on what evidence exactly? Everyone in the world that knows baseball could have looked at Gonzalez's milb career up until now...two home-friendly months at Charlotte and now a 500ish mlb ops and predicted he wasn't suddenly going to go on a homer binge in the majors. Advance scouting will dissect every single weakness at the major league level that teams don't care that much about in AAA.

How was it an easy grounder? It was pulled right down the line...over the bag. It would have been a single regardless. If you fault him for not diving...who is to say if he dives and gets hurt then that's not even a worse outcome? Vargas isn't hitting now either.

So why even bother to utilize analytics? Let's just go back to TLR's hunches/intuition... We have numerous threads every year with Pecota and Steamer and FG and bWAR and fWAR. Most models said Meidroth would lead the team...and he's leading all 2B and yet thre are current threads about trading him. If it's meaningless to debate and discuss...why bother to predict anything?

When's the last time that actually happened where a ball that bounced in front of an outfielder resulted in an out at home? Still would be bases loaded one out and Hicks pitching. Probably get a walk or wild pitch walk off instead.

Over 162 games...they mean a lot. The more information provided, the more accurate they become over the course of a full season.

Yankees at home next. Huge opportunity for DETROIT with sellout crowds over the weekend to make some noise. Not sure if Skubal would see them the third game of the series or not.

Nope.

This is why statistical models have Sox Twins Tigers with basically same shot at WC (20-30%) and Guardians at roughly 70%. and now CLE misses Martin as well

There's nobody to trade. Gonzalez hasn't proven anything yet, trading Hagen or McDougal or Bonemer makes zero sense. Just super frustrating with three of Guardians' best hitters out now. There is a window...but desperately need Murakami to restabilize the lineup.