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Almost impossible to win with just three legit hitters on the entire team... all stacked 3-5. Have to feel for Grifol's limitations. That said, no intuitive sense about bullpen management like Ozzie once had at the beginning of his career.

Giolito and Bieber could both suffer the same fate of being very good but not great pitchers sacrificed to the budget or payroll gods "out of financial necessity." But, to be fair, Guardians' fans are showing up in the low 30000's each and every game recently...at least on weekends. Really tough call for GM in that particular market.

Just like the Dodgers ordered their rookie second baseman not to swing throughout the spring. Of course you have to have talent to make contact with two strikes if you get behind in the count like an Arraez or even "prime" Madrigal lol.

56 pitches for two innings no bueno. Still tied... but boy do starts like this end up taxing the bullpen.

Apparently nobody noticed his velocity was down almost 3-5 MPH on average... or just thought he was still ramping up from inactivity/leukemia. Had to have seen this one coming a mile away. Joins Benintendi and Lynn on the unmovable (without sending money back the other way) contracts list...unfortunately.

We definitely have a fair amount of bad contract Strasburgs... just not in the form of one miserable contract in the hundreds of millions. Are you arguing the WS-winning version? Because he's now almost 100% sunk cost. But at least the Sox will save money pushing Giolito and Anderson out. Pretty soon the team will be basically unrecognisable except for Robert and Cease/Kopech.

Balta?

https://sports.yahoo.com/it-took-reds-phenom-elly-de-la-cruz-5-games-to-go-full-pro-wrestler-030632597.html Elly de la Cruz bravely declares himself "fastest man in the world," lol. https://sports.yahoo.com/listen-to-yankees-announcer-john-sterling-getting-nailed-in-the-forehead-by-a-foul-ball-044323267.html

Carlos Perez being projected at 0.8, that's kind of a head scratcher. Also goes to show how little value we're getting out of the pen per dollar invested.

One of, if not the last remaining links to their contention window guys... Always seemed to get the most out of his ability.

To think, one of the biggest complaints was Vaughn's lack of power. Not to mention with the aforementioned Big 3 that Sheets and Eloy aren't exactly setting the world on fire when they are in there.

Up to 29 RBI's...half the Astros' runs.

Abreu with homers now in back to back games against CLE. 3 on the year. Still decent RBI numbers considering how awful he has been.

You can't win with your entire offense underperforming expectations other than Burger Robert and maybe Grandal... And you're still playing with fire not backing up your rotation with any quality depth.

https://www.mlb.com/video/nick-martinez-in-play-out-s-to-mike-moustakas

Seems they are still protecting him... rightfully so. About 85-90%.

Crazy that Blue Jays are almost in the same position as Sox odds fighting NYY Baltimore and Houston/Texas for WC.

Correa just hit a GS... sigh. 5-3 Twins.

Bump. Move on from Anderson Lynn Grandal Giolito Middleton (UFA) Kelly Bummer and Lopez. If not willing to trade Cease Kopech or Robert... they're going to need to hit on nearly every single move to have a prayer of competing next year.

0% revised.

Does anyone actually believe the Sox are going to win meaningful second half games with CLE and MIN when it really counts? Not sure Liam has enough stuff right now facing the really good lineups, either.

The biggest shocker with Anderson isn't even defense.. it's the 64% ground ball rate and the fact he can't hit breaking balls to safe his life all of a sudden.

Kelly not being a closer and being afraid to throw fastballs and going to changes and knuckle curves...

And do what with Volpe Donaldson and LeMahieu?

There was no reason not to at least try Middleton. Crochet isn't even ready to be back up in the big leagues...control has (not so) shockingly been awful coming off TJS.