TheFutureIsNear

Need to make Williams work to get him out early….and terrible job in the 1st

Yeah well obviously the playoffs are a different situation, but hopefully our manager will have the brains to manage the staff better. And hopefully there will be a better staff to manage as well. But I do fully expect at least 1, if not both Hagen and Taylor, to be tried as a SP next year. We are likely still years away from this organization acquiring legit SP so have to make due with what’s here.

Burke pitches a complete game 2 runs or less or season is over

Hicks-Kay-Fedde-Taylor and pray it works out perfectly tomorrow?

Well Venable has a lot on the line tomorrow. Feels like this was almost a “scheduled loss” based on his pitching choices. Let’s hope it pays off for him tomorrow….

Being afraid to use the majority of the pitching staff is going to kill Venable. Davis should have been lineup for this game after Newcomb…even if he had to use all of Martín, Sandlin and Schultz it would have been better than Hudson and going to Hagen this early.

Just wait for your pitch. This kid isn’t going to get ahead of you with well placed pitches

I get that it’s all hands on deck for a clinching situation, but wouldn’t be the worst idea to rest Taylor tonight if possible. And with that in mind I’d start Hicks and save Hagen for the backend. Get through the middle 5 with any/all of Fedde, Davis, Sandlin, Newcomb, and Schultz.

Call me crazy, but I love the idea of having both Taylor and Hagen as multi inning weapons out of the pen. Obviously easier said than done with the value/scarcity of SP’s, but sure would be nice to acquire/spend $ on proven SP’s AND have a dominant pen.

Does Hagen have an inning in him?

MLB needs to reevaluate their challenge rules. Stopping the game to allow the team to watch the replay before deciding to challenge kinda defeats the purpose

Well that sucked…but honestly could have been much worse. Bats need to come through and get at least 1 back

Kay(2)-Burke(5)-Hagen(1)-Taylor(1) That would be pretty ideal

Let’s hope Burke gets through some innings. Bullpen decisions are going to be a little scary without Taylor and Smith

Shouldn’t be in this spot. Get him out

He was throwing everything he had into the last 10 or so pitches. Very scary to put him back out there after he potentially emptied the tank already

I don’t like the idea of Hudson, but Taylor threw a bunch of stressful pitches there. Very risky to put him back in imo

It’s almost definitely going to be Hudson in the 9th. Need insurance run(s)

This is cutting years off my life

That’s a killer

Weird, What is about that fastball they can’t see? Doesn’t look like much movement and he left all of them over the plate

Got out of it without any issue, but Hagen has to locate better if he comes out for another inning. There were a few pitches there that could have been hit much harder/further

I think best case scenario in the future is the Sox have to decide between Meidroth and Antonocci for who gets an everyday spot at 2B. That would mean Mune, Vargas, Montgomery(X2), Bonemer, Roch, and Peters/Doyle are all performing as expected (and Mune gets locked up).

I think the best move would be for Bonemer to go straight to LF starting this offseason. Just let him get comfortable in 1 spot and don’t move him around. “(Until Roch)” SHOULDN'T be too far in the future and I’d rather not see Bonemer focusing on learning new defensive positions instead of mashing.

Am I the only 1 that wants to see Urquidy at this point? I don’t expect anything great, or even good, but if I had to bet on 1 of our options to give the team 5 innings and 3 runs he’s probably in the top 5.