joejoesox

so tired of our C tier hitters blowing all the ABs challenges on obvious strikes, and guys like Vargas who probably has the best eye on the team never challenging anything

why is Nishida struggling to catch up to 92 when he has the matchup advantage, he looks late on everything

shocker, gilbert blows again.

Grant Taylor should be an all star

5 walks for Burke

they're gonna lose this one, JFC, all the momentum is on the phils now

Burke is cooked

starting to look like Colby Shelton's promotion might have been premature WS: 31 Games, .339 .464 .661 1.125 Birmingham, 21 Games .153 .240 .306 .546 0 for 5 last night, BB, K

I find it interesting that the Sox had Gonzalez playing more 2B last year than SS, I understand why of course, but that's good to know that they can move him probably across the whole IF I really wish they would be testing guys out in the OF in the minors, positions where they are comfortable with depth

John Kruk's casually telling a story about how the police came to his house as a kid because his parents were reported for child abuse

if Gonzalez is hitting 2 weeks from now, i hope they don't use him only as a strong side platoon, I know Venable is obsessed with matchups

Rikuu has a drinking buddy

Phillies broadcast question, two PHI/SOX all stars, I guessed Dick Allen, Thome, their booth guessed Luzinski and Thome, I was surprised Luzinski was not an all star for the sox

TLR still traveling with the team 😩

they gotta stop letting Romo call back to back identical pitches and locations, especially to sluggers

both have a 55 grade arm as prospects

I don't know why they don't have Vargas playing 1B and Gonzalez playing 3B, Jacob is much more apt to move from SS to 3B

dumb challenge up 6 honestly, but at least he isn't one of our chronic abs abusers

Painter kinda looks like BMac

just saw that Jacob Gonzalez HR, wow

let's give Nishida the same kind of rope that Acuña has been given and we can see which guy ends up being more valuable not saying Acuña doesn't have a higher ceiling but I don't think we can assume we have seen the final product of Nishida after only 10 games

another reason why I think drafting Vahn Lackey would be perfectly fine, it's not like Kyle Teel is a guarantee at this point, if they think Lackey is the BPA, take him no matter what

Braden had a BB, 3 run shot, and 2 Ks tonight also

I agree with this, but if you look on twitter, if getz picks anyone but Roch the pitch forks will be out, which is ridiculous given the type of talent you can get if you go with Lackey or Emerson

looking at his stats in Charlotte, if I had to guess on why he hasn't been called up yet, keep in mind this is a 27 game sample: 32 Ks in 27 games 2.4 GO/AO ratio, unusually high for him but he has statistically hit more ground ball outs than fly ball outs in the minors. his milb career he's grounding out vs flying out at a 3:2 clip, almost 5:2 in AAA dudes striking out a lot, and pounding the ball into the ground a lot his Charlotte numbers outside of that are pretty good: .299/.377/.486 (.863), 4 HR, 18 RBI