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Keuchel turns the average hitter he sees 3rd time through into peak Jose Abreu. The Sox have the deepest bullpen in baseball. There's no reason to push your luck with Keuchel in most situations he's out there.

Hitters are only hitting .316/.387/.495 of Keuchel 3rd time through. You can't expect a Hall of Famer to know that!

When there's a glaring very obvious in the moment mistake, rightfully so

no chance but at least it won't be an issue in the playoffs hopefully

That's without even including Tepera, Bummer, or Crochet. No team has close to this many resources in their bullpen.

You can't expect a Hall of Fame manager to understand times through the order splits

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Thanks Tony

Sano getting another look here at Keuchel is a bit scary

Cesar is a magician out there at 2nd

Can't wait for the automated strike zone

Every batted ball that inning was crushed. Jax is very fortunate not to have allowed any runs there

Feels like blown calls hurt Vaughn as much or more than any hitter in this lineup

Yoan can't stop hitting ~100 MPH line drives right at people

Abreu just loves hitting in the month of August, huh

I think everyone here just wants the Sox to win.

If you don't overextend him, Keuchel is still a perfectly fine twice through the order/5 inning SP. Ask him for anything beyond that and it gets very dicey.

I really hope Tony doesn't push his luck and let Keuchel start the 6th.

Even if he turns things around, for me at least, there's nothing he can do to surpass Cease as the playoff #4. Maybe he can steal a bullpen role but he's not someone whose stuff is going to play up in relief.

There's no reason for him to even be a once through the order guy with Cease as the #4 and an ultra deep bullpen. For a lot of teams, though, yes I think Keuchel would still have a postseason role but the Sox aren't one of them.

Not cool for the CSN broadcast to not mention the article on Fangraphs that covered this exact topic on Vaughn.

Nice to see Sox positioning finally taking that hit back up the middle away.

Even if he's pitching well I don't see a spot for him. Cease will be the #4 starter and he isn't ever going to pitch over Crochet or Bummer.

If Keuchel isn't getting the low & outside corner it'll be a long night for him

He had to be sitting on slider the first 2 pitches, right? It looked like he was auto taking both of those fastballs

Non competitive AB from Jose. That was brutal. Guessed wrong on every pitch.