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Tanner Banks was extremely protected last year and undoubtedly would get absolutely smoked with a larger sample. There’s a reason he’s almost 32 and basically a career minor leaguer.

Whos Nunez?

An 10-2 laugher would be nice.

Series split @ Houston is nothing but a W. Yoan is hitting and Yaz has a pulse. Clevinger looked good. Cease looked like a Cy candidate and Lucas was solid. Pen and situational hitting needs work, but that’s a start all of us should be pleased with.

Andrus move was fine. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t let Romy play some 2B if Elvis isn’t going to hit. Also Luis - - wow!!

Sox ought to cut this Moncada stiff, eh @Lip Man 1? ???

Clevinger looked good. Soxtalk told me his arm looked dreadful in ST. He hit 96 a couple times and was sitting mid 90s.

Since mid July.

Well they paid him accordingly. Having Elvis around shouldn’t preclude the Sox from trying their other options. They have several tbh.

Sample size pretty small at this point with plenty of positive signs. Offensive execution has been putrid, but get the W today which is very much in play and a split in houston is a pretty strong outcome.

Rightfully so. And Sox should have a quick trigger.

I like Clevinger’s arm. Sue me. Dudes gonna be useful if his arm doesn’t fall off. Legit it tho.

Going to need alot more from Elvis. As Jason said, we’re gonna have to take our lumps with Oscar. But Elvis has to put a ball in the air there. Terrible.

Would have liked to see Romy get the start at 2B today. Elvis hasn’t made good contact with a ball yet.

If the dude could just limit the walks he’d be serviceable 2nd lefty in the pen. Of course he’s shown very little ability to do that in his career.

Id like to see Romy at 2B tomorrow.

Good post.

But let me cherry pick some dumb stat no one uses from a site no one but Lip has heard of to fit his narrative. Brilliance. Moncada is a disappointment as a former #1 prospect in the game. No doubt. He is now overpaid. No doubt. He has still been a well above average and very useful baseball player, even with the awful 2022. There is no logical debate otherwise. It’s also kind of a weird time to jump on Yoan when he’s hitting the ball pretty well so far.

Cut Moncada? My lord you’re such a blow hard.

Yah don’t buy this

There we go

I think the mistake was just not rolling with Lambert in the 7th. He threw like 5 pitches. Was no need to use Graveman in a back to back at that point.

I am not defending Graveman’s performance last because he was awful, but he was fine in 2022. And he doesn’t need to “elite” to be worth $8M AAV.

Yep. Let’s get today and tomorrow will be gravy regardless.

Man I gotta stay away from GTs.