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Why does that matter? Players move around a lot in the minors. The Barons were 38-31 in the first half. They're 32-15 in the second half. A big reason for that large improvement is adding good players in the Sox top 30 to the roster.

That's not true. re: Birmingham. Braden Montgomery, Hagen Smith, Tanner McDougal and Sam Antonacci are all in the top 10 of Sox Machine's top 30 prospects and have a solid chance to make an MLB impact. William Bergolla (15th) and Shane Murphy (25th) are also in AA.

Relievers run hot and cold all the time. It's perfectly possible Kopech just rode a hot streak last year. Also, Kopech has made 8 appearances this season and hasn't pitched since June. People acting like he was saved by the Dodgers and he's some stud reliever now are just being ridiculous. The Sox have had plenty of known issues without inventing random nonsense to get mad about.

Vaughn might be coming back down to earth - last 7 games: .192/.300/.231/.531

Guess I should’ve waited for an off day

Definitely seems to have found something, but I'll reserve full judgement until next year, as his hot streak in Milwaukee has basically just gotten him back around his career averages.

Team: Individual: Quero - .304/.338/.491/.831 Sosa - .291/.336/.544/.880 Vargas - .286/.349/.455/.803 Robert - .303/.370/.461/.831 Baldwin - .268/.339/.518/.857 Teel - .306/.351/.472/.823 Montgomery - .212/.255/.538/.793 Some encouraging signs so far with the younger guys and a nice bounce back from Robert. Hopefully they can keep it up throughout the rest of the second half.

What the heck happened to Strider? He looked terrible.

See? Hit a bunch of homers. It’s easy.

That's the kind of bullshit I'm used to facing the Royals

Probably smart to stop throwing Manzardo low offspeed

Why don't the Sox hit a bunch of homers every game? Are they stupid?

This isn’t as fun as when they were winning all those games and scoring all those runs

Maybe some good news re: Hagen Smith:

Welp

Headed to T-Mobile park to see the Mariners and Rangers today. Pretty fun Seattle team with a TON of power now that they added Naylor and Suarez. Interested to see how that plays in their massive stadium.

Same, especially since he’s been good lately. Guessing the offers were all mediocre and I don’t think you move a guy who could end up around 2 fWAR if he stays productive for anything that isn’t going to contribute. Interested to see if any of the offers leak.

Robert is at .353/.441/.549 over the last month, so I’m not upset that he’s staying. Hopefully he keeps it up for the rest of the year and they pick up his option.

Montgomery is somethin man

He was very good for them until recently - his last 14 IP he's given up 13 runs. Guessing the Cubs think he's cooked.

Makes sense to me, if the Sox aren't getting any interesting trade proposals with at least one guy they can squint and see an MLB player out of, then why bother trading him just for the sake of trading him? Let him stay here, help the younger guys and maybe be a solid platoon outfielder again next year.

Maybe the leak on Vientos was less "the Sox want him" and more "the Mets are putting this out there to let teams know Vientos is up for grabs"

Trading any player on the MLB roster for scraps, or for guy who isn't likely to make it to MLB just isn't worth it unless you're doing the player a favor or setting up a relationship for future trades. If the offers for Robert are not providing any real potential assets they might as well keep him and exercise the option, or just let him go in the offseason. If the rumors are true and they can get something like a top 10 guy + a low level guy with promise, then they should take that. If not, don't just trade him for something that isn't likely to provide any future value.

The Sox could be completely stupid I guess, but I assume that if a package of prospects equivalent to or better than Vientos was offered, Robert would be gone by now.

I am not immensely enjoying the Guardians having a gambling scandal with a starter and their top tier closer no siree I do not exist solely for schadenfreude at all.