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Orioles up by five early on Indians, still hitting bottom of second. Make that 7-0. Only four outs recorded so far by CLE, Quantrill already replaced by Sandlin.

In a survey of baseball executives and scouts, there are seven teams that could be involved in a bidding war for Bryant’s services: the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox and Washington Nationals. source: Nightengale, yahoosports.com

Please don’t bring that up, lol. It would be one thing if Archer actually was productive for the Pirates. Glasnow worth around 6 fWAR, Meadows 5.5...then Baz. Archer worth around 2 fWAR over two seasons. Tatis 8.8 in 185 career games. Shields with a negative overall with the Sox.

The intimation here being that Stone has a similar trend of going after non-white players in his most pointed criticisms...

Cooper didn't see eye to eye with him...fwiw.

The trend in the minors though is back towards more steals...the new Moneyball niche, playing like 2014-15 Royals on offense, manufacturing runs unless you have big bopper sluggers on your roster.

BDacks on a 5-27 slide, haven't won on the road in ages. 15-13 to 20-40.

Some overly sensitive people these days are even triggered by the word triggered...but maybe getting rid of the smiling/laugh emoji would help at least somewhat? Probably not easy to do as it sounds. Then some will be upset they can't mock others, I suppose.

Yeah, but he was piling them up at a faster pace. 5D Chess, right there. He wouldn't have been a joy to be around in high school debate or Model UN, on the other hand. Reminds me of one of the stars of the documentary Boys State.

So if you're not banned you still feel compelled to come here and post? I've never seen SoxTalk referred to essentially in terms of being a reckless addiction, lol. Almost a compliment.

Juggernaut though? Not without Jimenez, Robert, Giolito (the ace version), another outfielder and a veteran RH bridge reliever to get the game to Hendricks. And quite possibly not with this manager, either. Wiping out other teams would be disrespectful to the game.

Sheets back to Charlotte, 0 for 2 tonight so far. Burger 1/2 with an RBI. Stiever 6/3/0/0/4.

He might not even have played in any minor league games by then, and Robert/Jimenez will be nearing returns. Something will have to go (even more) terribly wrong to see Cespedes at the big league level this year.

Everyone should act like Paul O'Neill and George Brett if they really care about the game.

Goodbye any chance of keeping Giolito around longer than 2023.

Alexei Ramirez can coach them up, that oughta do the trick! Haha...

That will definitely shorten games. Not.

10.05 ERA. Guess Holland was marginally better when he pitched for the White Sox, but TLR must have been confused with the multiple World Series version of the guy in his prime with the Rangers to take that particular approach....

Definitely NOT more sacrifice bunting to keep games (especially at home) closer than they need to be.

Giolito not pitching like an ace and being loose with the change-up doesn’t help. We knew coming into today that Schoop and Haase were their hot hitters. Plus, Skubal has good raw stuff, but Sox hitters also 50% responsible for getting themselves out...well, in addition to the sac bunting.

I guess TLR can more conveniently be blamed...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance 11,078 average after today, good for 14th...Cubs at 12,924 over one more game in comparison.

7-1 Indians now...

Because of last year...

Giolito and Rodon recently have really gotten hurt with their changeups...