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I am so surprised he got out of that after 12 pitches. Whew.

His control is WILD

Quero couldn’t touch the fastball. Yeesh.

About the best you can hope for from Benintendi right now

Could it cost the Sox a win or two pitching Taylor in the first? Probably. Does that matter if they’re trying to give him consistent work to hit a certain innings count and prep him to be a starter? Not in my opinion.

I have to imagine when Ishbia takes over he's going to clean house with people like Boyer.

"Don't do what I did"

Just like we all expected - sweep the AL World Series pretty easily.

I'd be fine with that. He threw 36 innings last year so that'd get him into the 70s. Maybe have a few 2 inning outings to get him close to 100 innings.

I'm not an Acuna fan but I'm surprised people are like "OMG we could have gotten Vientos!". Guy is 26 with one solid season under his belt two years ago and is arbitration eligible next season. He'd be swapping CF Robert for 3B/1B Robert. At least Acuna is younger and can maybe possibly play CF.

Need to get to a Jumbo Shrimp game when they play the Knights.

Yeesh. Looks like a good thing I forgot about the early start today. Hopefully Smith gets back to at least 4th/5th starter quality or this is gonna be a really rough year.

Real rough loss. Brewers are real good, at home, and seem hot at the start of the season. Let's see if they beat on the next team they play like this too. Hopefully just ran into them at the wrong time. Nice to see the offense wake up. Hope they can keep that momentum.

Well, the bullpen is a big issue this year again so far

Eh I’m ok if they decide to hit 3+ homers a game

Murakami can just hit a homer a game. I’m fine with that.

See right before that grand slam I said “boy a grand slam sure would be cool here”

20 strikeout game woo

Cubs getting shelled 7-2 in the 4th. Boyd chased.

Yea he's not, but he's got a pretty reckless playing style so I wouldn't be surprised if he starts getting injured.

That's why I said he's a 3+ WAR guy even if he's not hitting. The issues I have with him are more potential injuries and his personality running thin.

Guessing low/mid 70s. Offense should be better than last year with Murakami and with some more experience for the young guys. Bullpen should be better. Starting pitching is the weakness and is where win variance will come from.

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I can see why they did it, because even if he's not hitting PCA is still a 3+ WAR player from defense alone, but also $19m a year for 6 years is a lot of investment for a volatile guy like him. This could very easily backfire and it sure would make me sad...

McGuire must be somewhat useful and liked in clubhouses otherwise he wouldn't continue to find work after getting caught jerkin' off in a parking lot. Is Cal Quantrill still pitching? Hope we get a repeat of this https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/1816215259537105089 Otherwise I guess I'm not shocked to see this extremely minor news get to 8 pages knowing this board.