almagest

https://x.com/FutureSox/status/1917623390535352461

Just under that one.

Don't take away the laugh emoji it's all I have

We all knew a GIDP was coming

Because he swing first pitch on a pitcher's pitch two at-bats in a row and hit the ball on the ground, which is absolutely not what the Sox needed at the time. The second time was also right after a 4 pitch walk.

Sosa is just a dumb ballplayer.

Good pitch to get Quero after a very good at bat. About 700 left on base today.

Safe - looked like the sweep tag was late

Sox should get a bonus "pity pool" of at least $5 mil.

If Cleveland can't make something out of him I think our odds are short. Still worth a shot, even if just to eat some innings.

We wouldn't be so harsh on 6 IP 4 R from a starter if this team could score runs consistently. Buehler has done a good job getting out of trouble and making pitches when he needed to, but there are just too many black holes in this lineup that we know if the "good" players don't get it done then there's no shot.

Whoops, I meant "compared to Baltimore". They're at -20, Sox at -26.

We were telling those posters from their forum that not every prospect would become great, that their pitching was weaker than they thought, and that they needed to use some of those prospects to acquire some premium players before the luster wore off. It's still early, of course, but they basically did none of that and are now 3 games below .500, 12th in the league in runs scored, and second worst in runs allowed by 1 to Colorado (Sox have given up 24 fewer runs than Baltimore). Our run differential is only -6 because we can't hit.

I’m not gonna say I’m happy to see Baltimore struggle, but, uh… yeah I totally am.

I was just getting ready to s%*# all over Vaughn for having no chance after waving at a slider. Sometimes I like being wrong.

I REALLY like what Quero did!

Not a bad outcome I guess especially with their struggles scoring runs, but I'm not really a fan of that bunt.

They’re promising changes. Good in theory. We’ll see how that shapes out over this season. They need to draft some position player studs and see positive growth from multiple guys throughout the minors. Also would like to see at least one of the non-Meidroth guys in the majors show something.

No they wouldn’t, because it’s too early to know. It’s potentially promising to us, who are looking for reasons to be hopeful. It’ll be picked up around the league if results start showing up.

Not really. Ten teams didn't receive votes, and some of those teams are pretty good, have been pretty good recently, or have been known in the recent past as having quality front offices.

Probably because they don't. I think ~5 teams would only really qualify by objective measures. The rest of the teams are average at best. Having a good to great front office is the best advantage you can have.

Not really, no, because the team is still in the dumpster, and it takes a while for that progress to reflect positively enough to make its way around the league to a point where it would make a difference.

Sounds like it's not so bad to be forced to drop to 10 this year, besides losing the extra draft pool $. Hopefully next year is much stronger at the top, when the Sox are basically guaranteed a top 3 pick.

Walking Meidroth there was smart

That’s a real funny looking ground out to short, Andrew