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Benintendi got an absolute cookie to hit and missed it.

Awful bunt. Blech.

Grab another run or two please

That one on Quero, but why even try to bury a slider there? He’s not going after low breaking stuff.

Way too long in there for Taylor.

This ump sucks man

That was a heck of an at bat. Taylor up to 30 pitches. Should be his last hitter.

Why don’t they just blast 5 homers every game? Are they stupid?

Gonna go out on a limb here. I like Murakami.

Battle of chokers

Antonacci loves swinging at that high inside pitch

Yeah just swing at every high fastball out of the zone

Colson only saw one strike in that at bat and it was a cookie

I mean I’ll take that He was hitting the ball hard into bad luck for a bit, now he’s under everything and popping it up.

Acuna can’t bunt either

Wow did the As ever blow that

Antonacci swings at everything

For sure. Trading Semien and Bassitt plus Tatis for basically nothing should also factor in this timeline. The Sox were trying to build sustained success with no LATAM or Asian pipeline, no top end free agents, and little help coming from their drafts. It's not surprising just trading for a bunch of top prospects and doing the bare minimum everywhere else wasn't sustainable, and ended up bottoming out as the worst team of all time.

I'd be pretty happy with a Dansby outcome if they get the Cubs version. He's been worth 4-5.5 bWAR each of the last 4 seasons, and 3.3-6.6 fWAR in the last 5.

I think Renteria not getting another MLB job tells you what you need to know about him. Firing him wasn't the problem, it was bringing TLR back instead of Hinch. Though I wonder about Hinch - Tigers absolutely collapsed down the stretch last year and started off really poorly this year, though they've turned it around recently. We pretty much all thought rushing Crochet up was a bad idea. Same with Vaughn. Treating Crochet like they're treating Hagen Smith and Noah Schultz would've been a much better idea. Imagine if he came up in 2023 or 2024 instead of burning 2 (or 3? dunno how the TJS year factors) years of control for basically nothing. Vaughn maybe would still suck but there was no reason to rush him up, especially after COVID killing the minors for a year. I've been beating the "not signing Harper was the biggest mistake the Sox made during their 'window'" since he signed with the Phillies and I stand by that. It was the first sign of impending doom. I would take everything Jerry says publicly or "publicly" with a giant grain of salt. Giolito is still holding out now and is basically wasting a year of his career and earning potential. Not sure there's anything any team could do that wouldn't piss off a guy like that. I get he thinks hes not getting what he's worth but dude MLB is TELLING you you're not worth what you want. Take a prove it contract and stop making terrible decisions.

The Rays certainly do

It really just amounts to the same problem they've had since 2023. When you can't score runs you put a ton of pressure on the pitching, and they do not have the pitching to absorb that pressure.

Oh lord death by a thousand cuts

Wow did Dominguez ever not have it today

Welp