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Just a terrible development year for Kopech. I think the hamstring injury really screwed with his progress this year.

He was in decent shape before the 4th. Then the Red Sox made him throw 30 pitches.

JOSE!

Thanks for proving me wrong Los

He has bad control sometimes.

Carlos sitting 91-93 after 8 days off is not a good sign. I wonder if we'll ever see him throw upper 90s consistently again this year.

Bogearts and Barnes could be back this weekend. Pivetta, Perez, Arroyo, and Duran probably won't be back till later.

I think the first outbreak might still be going.

Well maybe that's why MLB told the Red Sox to stop testing.

I agree, that bye really isn't beneficial in baseball. You get to skip a round, but you also risk coming out really flat in the 2nd round.

Their proposal last year before the pandemic season was 7 teams make the playoffs in each league. Top team in each league gets a bye from the wild card round. Wild card round ends up as 6 teams, 2 division winner and 4 wild cards. The top 2 division winners get to pick who they play and the top wild card team plays the team the 2 division winners didn't pick.

I was watching that. I think he had 4 straight walks, a wild pitch, and then gave up an RBI single. Padres had one hit and got 7 runs off it.

I don't think they'll go to 16 teams. At most I think they go to 14.

What's funny is that the Rays are first in runs but like 6th in OPS and wRC+. It just seems like this team is really bad at situational hitting. Especially recently. Need a fly ball with a guy on third? We always get strikeouts and ground balls right at people. We really like making it hard on ourselves when we have a high probability of scoring runs. I know the sample of guys on third and less than 2 outs is real small, but I fear that our inability to get the job done in those situations is because we're such a high % ground ball hitting team. It's almost burned into our hitting philosophy.

Yeah I was thinking Leury should have pinch hit for Billy. I'm thinking Billy's triple bought him an AB there in Tony's eyes.

They know how to situationally hit and don't hit into double plays. We're the exact opposite. Edit: I read this as the Rays lol. The Jays are a lot like us, they have a bunch of guys on paper who are good but don't put up runs.

I can't believe they let him play and run the bases on that knee after he got hit.

How many times have we won the first game in a series, only to lose the last 2 with an absolute horse shit lineup in the last game? It's gotta be more than 5 series since the ASB at this point.

lol letting Hamilton hit there is a joke.

Romy only gets hits in the 9th.

Vaughn hitless in the series at his hometown. Pretty disappointing.

No, you're not wrong. I think we score most of our runs in the first 6 innings. We're one of the worst teams at scoring late in games.

Oakland's bullpen had been awful heading into this series. We have 2 runs off them so far.

I'm surprised that's the difference right now.

I think had we hired Hinch like Hahn wanted to, we'd probably have Grossman as an everyday corner OFer. But we might also not have Lynn or Hendriks had we gone that route.