The deck is pretty stacked against them down the stretch, but by all means let them be deluded enough to not sell those pieces this weekend. Whatever benefits the Sox return in the market.
I was laying out how unlikely a Cubs playoff berth would be w/o actually responding to the poster.
The only Sox race I care about is a race to the bottom!
More than half of their final 60+ games are against teams ahead of them in the standings. 6.5 back of MKE and 5 back of a Wild Card with about 5 superior teams they would need to leapfrog. By all means let them not sell and then get their asses kicked by Cincy and ATL immediately following the deadline to knock them further back.
ESPN has the Sox rotation lined up as follows:
Tues 7/25 - Kopech
Wed 7/26 - Lynn
Thrs 7/27 - Cease
Fri 7/28 - Gio
Sat 7/29 - Toussaint
Sun 7/30 - Kopech
Mon 7/31 - OFF
Tues 8/1 - Lynn
Trade deadline is 5:00PM CT on Tuesday Aug 1.
Oh they are going to be very bad, intentional or not. We are in for a very long and ugly period of being very bad with every attempt at a quick fix thrown at the chasm they have dug for themselves.