Jose Abreu

Yeah he did a great job of grinding out a solid AB

Hernandez looks exasperated on the mound

Haha, over Engel? Give me Leury or Cordell, or pretty much any of those guys as 1 year stopgaps

Kiermaier is what the FO wanted Engel to become, pretty much

Even if it's not a cool stopgap guy, if Adam Engel is our starting center fielder in 2019, I swear to god I'm not watching or attending a single game.

If we get Machado (which I think is a 15-20% chance), that stopgap could be AJ Pollock on a 1-year, $20 mil, win-the-division-in-2019 contract

How did Avi hit that out? Seems like he barely got to it lol, is he juicing??

Wow, Hernandez's changeup is insane tonight. Not even mad at our hitters

Tim!! What a play

To be fair, Felix's change is looking really good tonight

Please never dive into first again, Moncada

I think he should be the #2 hitter for the time being. Him or Anderson

That's no excuse for called strikes on balls 6 inches out of the zone though. He shouldn't have to swing at junk because umpires can't do their job

Agreed. We should package him to get a slightly better return.

That would've been a 4 walk game for Yoan if those 3-2 pitches were called correctly.

That was a good AB though

Someone had to do it

This thread doesn't include the two called third strikes tonight: When it comes to things like this, I generally think that it all evens out, as the player also gets lucky with calls the other way around. But that hasn't been the case with Moncada, He has legitimately been screwed over by called third strikes 15-25 times this year, oftentimes on pitches not even close to the zone. Why does Renteria not complain, and why have the Sox seemingly not talked to MLB about this?

This may sound ridiculous but you could honestly argue that 15% or so of Moncada's strikeouts were due to horrible calls

Madrigal seems like a HBP magnet

Abreu

You can easily replace 7 of his strikeouts with walks this year. Ridiculous

Eloy is ready

I know someone said the other day how DSL stats are so weird since literally all we can do is look at the box scores. I wonder if bad umpiring is also a factor in pitchers sometimes having crazy walk totals down there.