chw42

Inning has to be completed.

You just listed 2 guys who put in no effort to better themselves after signing their initial contract. Leaf stopped giving af even before he was drafted. He got fat before the combine. Manziel basically stopped caring about football after his first year at A&M. Both of those guys were un-coachable because they just wanted their one pay day. Caleb already made his money through NIL yet cared enough about not winning a Pac 12 title in college that he did what you posted in that GIF. He's shown that he wants to be prepared and wants to win at the NFL level by working with his coaches to adapt to Waldron's offense even before being drafted. Those points alone should show you that his problem will not be the same that caused Manziel and Leaf to fail at the NFL level. Those guys didn't care about what happened after they got drafted. Caleb Williams has not shown me he doesn't care. If he fails at the NFL level, it won't be for the same reasons why Leaf and Manziel failed.

Eloy has never seen a low sinker he doesn't like when the situation calls for swinging at anything but that.

Eloy is such a rally killer in late and close situations.

Of course Eloy manages to hit a grounder on the first pitch.

The Sox have managed to singlehandedly turn the Twins season around. 6 of their 9 wins in their winning streak are against us. What's even worse is that the Sox could easily have won 5 of those games.

Good luck against Duran

Good thing they didn't throw through this time...the last one was idiotic.

If you want someone to bunt, put Ortega or Shewmake up there.

Oh great, Kopech has no fastball command.

He doesn't even hit the ball hard enough to get it through the infield.

If anything you pinch hit there to bunt Mendick to third.

Grifol masterclass right here. Instead of using Grossman for Maldonado, he makes it easy for Rocco to line up 2 lefties vs. Thielbar. Idiot. lol then he wastes Ortega just to play matchups again...

I'm pretty sure all of Benintendi's homers are on cutters.

Please pinch hit for Maldonado.

And that's why you don't play Pham in center. He just doesn't have good enough range to get to that.

Soroka looks like he's sort of lost it.

Abreu has somehow been twice as bad as Vaughn.

Santana probably should have caught that, but they've gotta cover 2nd on that.

Imagine how good the Astros would have been if they didn't have a pitcher hitting at the bottom of their order these past few years.

Pham and DeJong missed homers by less than 5 feet combined.

I remember Vaughn went on a pretty big hot streak in 2021 when he steadied his hands more during his load. It sapped some exit velocity, but he was hitting the ball hard more consistently. I don't think Vaughn's problem was that he didn't hit for enough power, it was that his approach never improved. If he improves his approach, the power will come eventually when you start swinging at better pitches. Just another example of poor development by the Sox.

Soroka lost his command.

I'm astonished at how Vaughn manages to hit pitches that should be pulled hard to the opposite field this year. Like that's not a bad thing in certain situations, but he's doing it on almost every one of those pitches. It feels like he's late on the pitches on purpose.

We've seen Gavin produce for a whole month before, so I'll have to see him keep hitting like this for a bit longer before making a judgement. But he's clearly made some adjustments to how teams were attacking him, especially on outside pitches.