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You can pretty much post this every day and you'd be right.

Exactly. What actually happened is Covey was unable to throw a strike and gave up 3 runs he shouldn't have. Glad we're in agreement and you finally saw reason.

No, I'll blame the guy throwing the ball.

Yeah the walk on 4 pitches then going to 3-0 on Gordon is the fault of the fielders. Sometimes fielders make mistakes and you need to pitch over them. Covey can't do that.

Covey let Covey down by not throwing strikes

When the Sox are getting smoked again and Moncada is 0-3 with 3 strikeouts again just remember how he's looked tonight. That's what we're (hopefully) getting when he figures it all out.

Fulmer is setting down a pretty good lineup with just his fastball.

This is my favorite opening day.

Nothing on where Cease is starting? Assume A+?

Tie game on a monster shot by Gurriel. Kershaw in the postseason man.

Astros making the Red Sox look like they don't belong in the postseason so far. Red Sox have a pretty weak pitching staff so this isn't too surprising, though.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 08:16 PM) That trend continuing would bode very poorly for the Indians.Yeah, lucky for them Bauer threw a shutout. Indians v. Astros looks to be a hell of a series.

The starting pitching has been pretty bad so far this postseason.

I would want this to happen purely because Stanton is my favorite player to watch highlights of. Some of the bombs he hits dear lord... Rationally, it's not worth doing unless we give up A) no prospects or B) give up minor prospects or guys on down years and get Miami to take on some of that contract. I doubt either will happen (no matter what they say I doubt Miami lets him go for nothing) so I think this is a pipe dream.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2017 -> 03:10 PM) And this is why I quit saying it. Its all backup quarterback syndrome. I'm interested to hear what you would've liked to see done differently. I think I remember you were hoping for more younger position players to fill out the low minor leagues, but the Sox have quite a few interesting position prospects in A+/AA now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 02:02 PM) Even if they do, I get the feeling taking Eloy, Cease, and the trash in the rest of the deal with the Cubs will outweigh the Pirates deal of Glasnow, Keller, Newman, etc by a mile. For sure. Unless Meadows was in the Pirates deal and hit .350 this year like Jimenez did they wouldn't be able to come close to what the Cubs offered.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 01:54 PM) How is this for a time to revisit the deal that had been discussed both with the Pirates and then with the Pirates and Yankees involved McCutcheon. Tyler Glasnow is having another horrible run in the majors. 44 walks in 62 innings and an era in the Dylan Covey range. Kevin Newman put up a pretty mediocre year splitting time between AA and AAA putting up a combined line of .267/.311/.363/.675. Even Austin Meadows who we really wanted, but wasn't ever supposedly available put up a mediocre year. Mitch Keller was the only guy connected to the deal who really put up a good year for the Pirates this year. I know people have focused on the Astros for ire, but did anyone sacrifice more and get less than the Pirates turning down the offers for Quintana? They might regret it, but even with Quintana the Pirates weren't a serious playoff contender. There's also plenty of time for these guys to rebound - Glasnow might be better suited for the bullpen though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 07:16 PM) Carson Fulmer post Sept recall 10.2 IP, 2 ER, 5H, 5 BB, 12K 1.68 ERA, 0.937 WHIP. He's gotta get those walks down a bit but I really like what I've seen from him lately. If he's throwing strike 1 he's so hard to hit. A WHIP below 1 with 5 walks in 10 innings is crazy.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 03:30 PM) I'll be back to drag you guys down, especially since I quit before TTK. Invite sent!

If anyone is looking for a Destiny 2 group to play with, I've got a consistent group of at least six, and probably more. We should always be able to fill out a strike/nightfall/crucible/raid team or two. Send me your PSN and I'll give you a clan invite.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 31, 2017 -> 11:01 AM) My impression about how the sox are handling these players after this year is for their top prospects they say they will slowplay them, but have given those players something to work on. As soon as it seems they have put in the work to get around that, they get promoted and the team starts immediately talking them up as close to the bigs. Collins k rate went down to 18% in august. Kopech cut his bb rates down. Whether they actually do this is another thing. But I could see a case where this is real and they are reenforcing the idea that those items will prevent you from being a long-term big leaguer so take care of them first. This makes sense - "hey to be successful in the majors you need to do X, Y and Z. Once we see you make progress/hit these milestones, we'll put you on the fast track because you'll be ready".

Wow. Lopez has great stuff.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 11, 2017 -> 05:28 PM) After reading this asinine "preview" from RR I'm ready to sweep their asses: https://www.royalsreview.com/2017/8/11/1612...s-derek-holland What a royal jackass that author is. If you're going to be painfully unfunny at least don't be a Royals fan as well. Eh, just clickbait garbage trying to get a reaction out of people. Not worth even thinking about.

Why would you walk a guy to get to a guy who already had a HR and double?

QUOTE (Tony @ Aug 5, 2017 -> 01:22 PM) I'm going to say we see him as the #1 prospect in baseball on some lists in 2018. Having two different guys at #1 two years in a row would just be crazy. This rebuild might not be as successful as we hope but the Sox are doing just about everything right.