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The Shane Smith numbers tell the story. Without an offense, a guy with even a Top Ten ERA is all of MLB has a team overall record of 1-7 in his first eight starts. Smith Schultz and Taylor aren't all going to replicate that success right?off the bat...and without a bullpen and solid defense behind them, pitching does nothing unless we're just going to be a farm system for the rest of baseball like the Pirates or Marlins. They need breakout stars on the position side...not a bunch of 1.5-2.5 fWAR producers if absolutely everything breaks right, which it almost never does.

For? Baty is off the market. Alvarez is not a need. We have a handful of Luisangel Acunas...

The problem is it's almost all on the pitching side until at least next June/July...and it wouldn't be shocking to see Braden held back until 2027 for service time reasons. He still has to conquer Birmingham at the very least...and that's a very tough league for hitters. Teel was one of the Big 3 in Boston until Campbell tore through their entire system last year...and we've yet to see that type of impact hitting yet from him. 760 in Charlotte feels like 660...because of how inflated the numbers are there historically. Finally, at least one of Vargas Baldwin Quero Meidroth or Sosa needs to finish the season as a 700 hitter or better, or it will be a pretty big disappointment imo. Because we won't have any surefire projected future starters other than Quero/Teel, Braden and maybe Bonemer (2027/28), and they pretty much are going to have to take another college outfielder in the first round of the draft...or get one back for Luis Robert.

Why would you bail out the Red Sox?

1. Max Fried 1.05 2 Tyler Mahle 1.48 3 Hunter Brown 1.48 4 Kris Bubic 1.69 5 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 1.80 6 Garrett Crochet 1.93 7 Nick Pivetta 2.01 8 Nathan Eovaldi 2.03 9 Tarik Skubal 2.08 9 Shane Smith 2.08

https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/stat/runs-per-game White Sox and Rangers battling for 27th/28th in runs scored per game Pirates and happens Rockies at the bottom

Who's REALLY left though? Teel and maybe Ramos...who's struggling early on AND coming back from injury. Obviously the Big 3 starters, but all indications are they're going to hold them until next 2026/May for service time. Then Fletcher Julks DeLoach types...no more real position candidates until you get all the way down to Braden and Bonemer.

20-0. 13 runs surrendered last night...two weeks of production for Sox. Last time I saw a starter give up 12+ was James Shields.

All the attention on Monfort Bryant etc. in Colorado right now.

19-0 Top of Five in Colorado mlb needs mercy rule Sheets 292/841 5 hrs 20 rbis

24,264 Reinsdorfs profitable tonight

Palacios has to go back down...

Quero and Meidroth both scuffling...defense perfectly positioned.

Foul ball into the Elko Family section...

Giving the high strike but ump didn't give Smith low strikes at all.

Eisert is trailing the weather in save percentage...Leasure/Clevinger too.

Another pitching change...

White Sox about to be 2-16 in one and two run games lol. Brutal.

They're not cutting Sosa but Rojas is superfluous on the roster...and Tauchman will soon replace Palacios. Imo Baldwin really needs to improve his defense and fundamentals, but learning on the fly in the big leagues. Finally Amaya has to go down as well...maybe for Workman.

Shane Smith and Tarik Skubal tied at 9th in mlb ERA...a scintillating sizzling 2.08.

You can't win many games with 7/9 starters at 550-650 ops and clearly lacking a Witt Judge Ohtani type of impact hitter.

Leasure Booser and Freeman all throw hard, but their results have been mixed too.

Rockies losing 15-0 after giving up 12-13 last night...

Too much money.