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Mize is pretty good. Constantly getting ahead.

Need better from Burger there

Can't wait until Anderson is back

Every series is a playoff series

What was that....

God damn it

Boy I thought Harrison smashed that and it was a medium depth flyout to LF.

Bummer looks really off. Hendricks time?

More soft contact hits. This one in the air at least.

Bummer making me uncomfortable again

They're going to call a late slide like that every time. He wasn't able to hold onto the bag after the slide.

Dude has had negative value for like 6 straight seasons and is still right at 100 bWAR. Unreal how good he was in his prime. Also never saw a pitcher get ruined as hard as quickly as Brad Lidge after that bomb Pujols hit in 05.

Some nice work by Olson. Had the Padres really off balance.

Good move getting Kopech out. Not the time to worry about working out of this. Let a minor leaguer come in and take some lumps. Get Kopech back out there next inning.

Yeah that's why Sheets shouldn't play RF. Thank goodness Pollock is here.

Kopech really off with his command right now

Not sure why you're being so hostile, but yes. There's potentially a book on Sheets now. We'll see if he can adjust.

He will, but I want to see if there's a book on how to pitch him now (seems like there is).

I noticed this too, and called it out a few games ago. Looks like the book is out on him.

At this point put Vaughn in RF, Burger at 2B, Sheets DH, Leury/Engel IF/OF subs and roll with it. At least it'll be interesting and/or hilarious. Watching Harrison hit .220 with an average 65 mph exit velocity will not be.

Sheets pounding the ball into the ground today. I think we're seeing how they're going to attack him.

Bellinger was HORRIBLE last year. One of the worst players in baseball. It makes some sense that LA would look to swap his $16m for Kimbrel's. Their outfield is then likely Taylor/Betts/Pollock. From the Sox perspective, if Bellinger sucks again, he's arb eligible after this year so you just don't offer. If he's good, they can keep him until 2024. This makes too much sense to me, so it cannot possibly be true.

What an asshole

Seems like no one is going to 4 years with Conforto, otherwise he'd have signed elsewhere already. 4/80 <-> 4/100 seems like a fine place to settle, though. I also don't get that, unless he has serious injury or productivity falloff concerns. He'd be 32 at the end of that deal, so age shouldn't be a concern.

The biggest miss of their rebuild, to me. Harper might have said no thanks immediately, so maybe there was no shot and Machado was the only option, but Harper was a perfect fit.