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He really needed that quick inning.

If Hahn can dump Keuchel's contract on another team and not have to eat a bunch of money, he can win executive of the year again.

He's definitely open now. Weird because I'm not sure how he's gonna cover the outside slider with an open stance.

I'll take Wheeler + Dunning > Lynn + Keuchel any day of the week.

Could have been a lot worse, but he can't be walking 3 guys an inning.

That ground out by Astudillo was clobbered.

Even 2020 Dylan Cease wasn't this bad.

I would have rather given Ryu $80 million.

He's got absolutely no control of anything.

3 walks. I think he needs a mound visit.

He'll be lucky to go 5 at this rate.

Well this isn't going so well.

With Eloy and Robert back, our lineup is scary vs. lefties again, but we're gonna struggle against righties with good sliders.

Keuchel with bad command out of the gate.

Jax had 2 strikeouts in his last 2 starts combined. We just don't see him very well and his slider just mystifies our hitters.

Probably. He just guessed very very wrong.

Not sure what Abreu is looking for there. You got 2 fastballs at 91, you were definitely gonna get a slider on 0-2.

Nice hustle by Adam

Jax threw his slider a lot more vs. the Sox than any other team his last time out.

Damn TA almost did it again

He's no longer Gio's personal catcher after last night I'd assume. Yesterday was the perfect day for him to get a start and he didn't get one.

I guess TLR saw that Jax has reverse splits and stacked the lineup with righties.

FanGraphs has us at a 99.9% chance of winning the division. I think that's the highest it's been all season.

Jax in his last 3 starts: 14.1 innings 1.88 ERA. He struck out 6 in 4 innings against us the last time he faced us, but only struck out 2 in his last 2 starts combined.

He got placed on the covid list on August 2nd so I think he's eligible to come back on the 12th. With the way their rotation is lined up though, it looks like he should be back on Saturday.